The Community Parent Manual presents a comprehensive nine-week, literature-based homeschool curriculum. Each unit weaves together science, social studies, and language arts, promoting a holistic educational experience. Children will immerse themselves in activities ranging from creating 3D community maps and inventing new community services to constructing miniature habitats and exploring the significance of citizenship through biographies of notable figures.

Key Features:

• Creativity and Expression: Through crafting a community mobile and designing their own inventions, students express their understanding and vision of community dynamically.
• Critical Thinking: Activities like the Experimenting with Labor Division and Food Chain Tag prompt students to apply logic and reasoning to real-world scenarios.
• Hands-on Learning: Building a miniature habitat or planting and observing bean seeds deepen understanding of ecological principles.
• Interdisciplinary Connections: Students will write diamante poems and create biography books with social studies and science concepts

The Community Parent Manual equips parents to teach the concept of community through engaging activities that build creative thinking, critical analysis, and active participation. This curriculum inspires young learners to appreciate the interconnections in our world and encourages a sense of stewardship for their communities. This unit is commonly used for second-grade homeschooling.

This parent manual will take nine weeks to complete. It includes the following units:

• Unit 1. Communities Around the World (3 weeks)
• Unit 2. Citizenship (3 weeks)
• Unit 3. Plants and Animals (3 weeks)

Note: This Parent Manual cannot be used without the accompanying Student Activity Book and all required literature.

This item includes free online access to Beyond the Page Online for 18 months. This includes Learning Gates, Portfolio and any curriculum or student activity pages that you have purchased.