RMCS second graders spent their third week of school exploring community on the ecological level by discussing the inter-relationships (or web of life) between all living and non-living things in the forest. In an effort to bridge the “web of life†concept from the forest to society, they brainstormed the people and places needed to make a town function. Afterwards, they read a beautiful story about children creating their own town called Roxaboxen. Then, with great enthusiasm, the second graders created their own models of Roxaboxen, complete with village characters made of clay. By week’s end, a whole imaginary village appeared on the school’s deck for the wider RMCS community to admire and enjoy.
