City Planning

Continuing with our theme of City Planning, George and I emphasized our lessons off the importance of city zones. We tried to explain to the class that there are residential zones, multipurpose zones, commercial, and agricultural/farming zones. We described what entails buildings such as City Hall, a factory, school. grocery store, farm, and restaurants,  Each of them have their own purpose to a city and society. We realized that most of the lessons planned by JA were a little complex for our 2nd graders. However it must be noted that our lesson plan was intended for 3rd grade. Even so, we adjusted well and stuck with activities that took up a majority of the time.

To keep the entire class from losing control at times, we focused playing games. In general our main focus was to encourage creativity. We split the class in 4 groups and tried to get them to think of any building and what explain what the importance of it was. This was a very different experience than I had in elementary school. It is honestly my first exposure to any sort of public school system. This was also my first time volunteering with this sort of program. Because the kids were so excited to see us each visit, it felt very good to give back.