Making Community: Part 1

Third graders at Kaler study our community of South Portland, and I thought this was a perfect way to introduce a maker project connected with literacy. We are two weeks into this project and it's going well so far.

Week 1: Brainstorming for South Portland

Read: The Curious Garden by Peter Brown

Guiding questions:

• What was the city like before?
• What was it like after?
• What happened to the people in the city?

Vocabulary to highlight:

• Dreary, using the illustrations -- which go from dreary to cheery -- to highlight the meaning.