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In the first grade, social studies revolves around the concept of what a community is and how people in a community interact with each other. Children love learning about the different places you can find in a community and the professions that people have to support their community. They are filled with curiosity regarding the interesting places that may be located in their own neighborhood, and are dying to know what happens in these places. For several years I’ve kept a box of random LEGO blocks that my students can play with before/after school and during recess. I’ve never established any expectations or guidelines for using the LEGO blocks, (aside from behavioral expectations) aside from “have fun kiddos.” What I’ve frequently noticed is that my students will work to meticulously recreate some aspect of their young lives: their parents' car, abuela's house, the park, their favorite store. They are already making connections to those parts of their community that they cherish the most. I feel that providing them with an ongoing, community-themed, group-based LEGO project can only help to truly reinforce these crucial early education social concepts. The LEGO project would be tied back to related reading/writing/video assignments. I would also want to incorporate basic design elements into the projects, having the children plan (with drawings and sentence writing) their designated part of the community before starting to work on it. I can also see filmed portions of the students presenting and discussing their portion of our LEGO community.

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In the first grade, social studies revolves around the concept of what a community is and how people in a community interact with each other. Children love learning about the different places you can find in a community and the professions that people have to support their community. They are filled with curiosity regarding the interesting places that may be located in their own neighborhood, and are dying to know what happens in these places. For several years I’ve kept a box of random LEGO blocks that my students can play with before/after school and during recess. I’ve never established any expectations or guidelines for using the LEGO blocks, (aside from behavioral expectations) aside from “have fun kiddos.” What I’ve frequently noticed is that my students will work to meticulously recreate some aspect of their young lives: their parents' car, abuela's house, the park, their favorite store. They are already making connections to those parts of their community that they cherish the most. I feel that providing them with an ongoing, community-themed, group-based LEGO project can only help to truly reinforce these crucial early education social concepts. The LEGO project would be tied back to related reading/writing/video assignments. I would also want to incorporate basic design elements into the projects, having the children plan (with drawings and sentence writing) their designated part of the community before starting to work on it. I can also see filmed portions of the students presenting and discussing their portion of our LEGO community.

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