I really like where we live. It’s a college town with three schools, but
it doesn’t have a “big” college feel. It’s
an urban area yet there is enough land and rural areas to make it less “big
city” and more small town feel. We have
a mall, Kohl’s two Publix’s, and a Wal-Mart.
More than that we have a lot of family history in our little town and I
love feeling connected to the roots of life.
In our homeschool we’ve been working on a community
unit. I found this unit study from
Enchanted Homeschooling Mom and let me tell you, it is amazing! Seriously, this
was the unit study to end all unit studies!
HA! It was all FREE (my kind of price), and so well written, adaptable,
and detailed, that we have all enjoyed working on the community unit. Within the study we have learned about the
history of our awesome town, the important landforms, historical sites, and fun
aspects that many people might over looked.
We have studied traffic signals/symbols.
We have studied community helpers (like fire fighters, police officers,
mail carriers, etc), and even learned about maps and compasses. We have had
daily vocabulary lessons with our word wall and so much more! More than that, today we got to get out and experience
the awesomeness of our community by planning a fire department field trip, a
brief stop off at Spook Hill, and then ending with a trip to the play
park.
Our word wall.
Working together on our community unit.
Our goodies for the fireman.
The gang's all here, ready to go see the fire station.
The boys wanted to go down the pole too!
And Cole is now happy! HA!
They let the kiddos spray and hold the fire hose.
Even Jacob "climbed" on the fire trucks.
Next stop, Spook Hill, an infamous landmark!
Another beautiful landform, our lake. It's funny how the name was misspelled for the city on the plat books.
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