Sheboygan Visitors Guide

The Story of this Website

The unit began with the exploration and defining what a community is. Communities, they discovered, begin at the core with ourselves, our families, and within our homes. Enlarging the circle of self and family, they also learned about our school community, neighborhoods, and the city of Sheboygan. 

Guided by thinking routines, students generated a vast list of places within Sheboygan which they wanted to visit and explore. The location criteria was that it needed to be affordable, located within the city of Sheboygan, a public location, and accessible. 

Students documented their journey around Sheboygan through thinking routines, note-taking, and photography.  They were asked to think critically about the sites and focus on whom this location might be enticing to. For the final product of the unit, students helped create this website which includes thinking routines, photography, and persuasive opinions which will help anyone in the Sheboygan area find the amazing gems around this community.

Sincerely,

Étude First Graders

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Along with photography, Étude 1st graders explored community through the art forms of music and movement. They used see, think, wonder routines to improvise movements at all the destinations. To create movements in class, students choreographed a piece defining what is a community, a lyrical moment, as well as a hand jive, all representing working together. 

Please enjoy this video as we “can’t stop the feeling”.