Today we continued our discussion on types of communities. We first read, City Dog, Country Frog by Mo Willems. In this sweet story, we read about a city dog learning how to live in the country by spending time with his new country frog friend. We got a nice review of the four seasons as well as the characters move through the seasons together. Danny then completed a picture sort of items that belong in the city and items in the country. He did a great job, scoring 12/12. Next, we watched a Brain Pop Jr. learning activity on the subject. Annie and Moby told us that an urban setting has a lot of people, noise, tall buildings, and uses trains, subways, and buses to help transport people. They reported that a suburban community is close to a city and offers many of the same services, but the homes and businesses are more spread out. They added that some people live in the suburb, but travel to the city for work. Finally, they showed us rural communities, which are big open spaces. These areas often have farmers who raise livestock and grow crops. We saw that population means the number of people in an area. Urban areas have a high population, while rural have a low population. We worked through the easy quiz together. Next, we examined these further by working in his interactive notebook. In a flip style format, Danny wrote facts about urban (big city, a lot of people, and tall buildings) and rural (farms, spread out, and not as many people). We also tackled a Florida Studies Weekly packet entitled, Are We There Yet? We learned that distance is the word for how far one place is from another. We saw a map of Florida and read about the distances from the capital, Tallahassee to places such as Tampa, Orlando, Cape Canaveral, and Miami. We learned about places within our community such as libraries and parks and discussed how we have those near our school. Additionally, we practiced directional words like above, right, and left. For the conclusion of our session, we continued to work on our The Knight at Dawn project. He finished typing the description of a castle in which he added that it has a tall wall and a moat. We searched the internet and found a picture of a castle to insert in his project. We then used the children’s dictionary to look up the word moat. Danny began typing that a moat is water around a castle as our time expired for the day. We will continue on in our next session.