Neighborhood walking tour — places that make our community

Daily Calendar Circle. Then introduce: 'Today we walk our neighborhood. We will see places where neighbors gather, work, and learn. Bring your clipboard.'

• Review safety rules for the walk (stay with partner, hold hands at street crossings, listen for teacher whistle)
• Show route on MG-4 map and trace with finger
• Set behavior expectations for community spaces ('quiet voice at the library')

M-K-S-GEO-11-A Manipulative Physical / non-image

8.5x11 clipboard with laminated 4-place photo-checklist taped on top: each place shown as a 2x2-inch real photo (library, park, grocery, post office of the school's actual neighborhood) with checkbox below. Pencil attached by string. Sentence-frame card 'At the ___ I see ___' clipped at the bottom.

MG-4 Map

Neighborhood Map Anchor — teacher-drawn 24x36-inch watercolor aerial map of the school's actual neighborhood within a 4-block radius. Shows the school at center, with library, park, grocery, post office, place(s) of worship, fire station, and 6-8 named streets in clear watercolor. Includes a 5-element key: school icon, library book icon, park tree icon, grocery cart icon, place-of-worship dome/cross/star/crescent icon. Compass rose in upper-right corner with N/S/E/W and 'NORTH IS UP' label.

M-K-S-GEO-11-B Map

24x36-inch hand-drawn watercolor map of school's 4-block neighborhood. Today's walking-tour route highlighted with a transparent yellow path. Stop numbers 1-4 marked at library, park, grocery, post office. Compass rose visible upper-right. Used at warm-up and again at closure for sticker-placement.

Before we walk, let's review what we look for: PLACES. The library is where many people read books and meet. The park is where neighbors play and rest. The store is where families buy food. The post office is where letters travel from. The fire station is where firefighters wait to help. We'll visit at least 4 places today and put a sticker for each on our map when we come back.

• Notice: the library is West of school; the park is North.

  model Today's route: school -> library -> park -> grocery -> back to school

  prompt Review the route on MG-4 map

• What 4 places are we going to visit?
• What rule do we follow at the library?

• Walk the route with partner; at each stop, check off the place on the clipboard and snap a class photo

  scaffold Adult chaperones 1:6; pre-walked route by lead teacher
• At each stop, observe and name 1 thing using sentence frame 'At the ___ I see ___'

  scaffold Sentence frame card clipped to clipboard

M-K-S-GEO-11-C Photograph

Tablet (with case + lanyard) configured for adult-assisted photo capture at each of the 4 stops. One class-portrait at each location. Used in lesson 13 for matching photos to places on the map. Photo-release permissions confirmed for all children prior to walking tour.

• Back in class — place a sticker for EACH place we visited on the MG-4 map and name it.

• Print walking-tour photos for next lesson
• Read excerpt from Last Stop on Market Street (CJ and Nana noticing their neighborhood) as exit hook
• Preview: tomorrow we'll meet map SYMBOLS

• Tonight, with a family member, name THREE places in YOUR home neighborhood. Bring back the list tomorrow.