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Communities
By Marilyn

I have taught lessons on communities in my second grade class for the last 11 years. When we study the city community we do two projects. The first is to make a skyline picture. We do this by taking a 12 X 18 blue piece
of construction paper (students need to place it horizontally. We glue on that a large rising sun (use yellow, orange or a combination)with rays. Then we take black construction paper fold it several times vertical (you might need to use several pieces of paper to make enough skyscrapers) and cut the sections apart. Next, we cut the top of each skyscraper differently. We also cut of

the bottoms off to make the skyscraper different heights. Finally, we glue the skycrapers right next to each other the length of the blue construction paper. We then display the skyline pictures.

The second project is to have the students build a skyscraper. This is an at home project.
Some of the guidelines are that the base of the skyscraper has to fit on the desk top, the skyscraper cannot be any higher than 24 inches.
Any materials can be used to build the skyscraper. Kleenex boxes, cereal boxes, pringles containers, wood, other boxes all can be used to make the skyscraper(I do not allow legos to be used in the actual building. The students then need to decorate their skyscraper. They can use pain, marker, alumium foil, stickers, etc. I do allow the students to use matchbox cars and lego people and trees to make a landscape around their skyscraper. Finally, each student has to give a skyscraper talk. They need to tell about their building, what materials were used and any other information they want to share. We display the skyscraper for the whole school to enjoy.