Grade K Lesson at a Glance: Unit 3, Lesson 5

Houghton Mifflin Social Studies
The World I See

Lesson at a Glance
Unit 3, Lesson 5: Building a Community (pp. 80-83)

The Big Idea
Framework Concept: Community Students discuss what goes into building a whole community and then use blocks to build their own community.

Display Big Book page 16. Have students complete this sentence for each of the four illustrations on the page: If I was a child in the picture, I would ____________. Invite volunteers to complete the sentence, telling what they would do to help build a model community. Discuss with students their opinions about the town the children in the illustrations created.

Check for Understanding

Have students each contribute lines to a class poem that describes a city they helped build with blocks or one they would like to build.
Have students make a three-dimensional city mobile using various containers such as empty milk cartons.

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