In the spring semester, College School third graders visit several neighborhoods in St. Louis to learn more about communities. They discover that all communities, no matter how unique, have several things in common. Each neighborhood has places where people work, live, play, eat, worship or reflect and learn. Click on any of the neighborhoods below to see what third graders have discovered about communities. Our neighborhood field research is filled with adventure and learning.
Children become more confident in their ability to interview adults.
Their questions become more focussed and sophisticated. Their writing of articles that explain their experiences become more detailed and better organized. Their analysis of neighborhood dynamics blossoms and their undersdtanding of what makes a neighborhood comes together. We have visited ten different neighborhoods in St Louis this year. We processed this information into this website and into a bulletin board outside our classroom.