Community Helpers and Builders

Welcome to Playtown, where the Local Area Builders are planning places to have fun in their community. In this cheerfully designed volume, young community members suggest new facilities that would improve their neighborhood. Readers follow along, considering what a park, playground, sports club, and more add to their area. They also practice map skills and learn community-centered vocabulary as the town grows. A final activity suggests that readers create a map of places to play in their own community. This entertaining book with accessible language and fun illustrations is a great companion to the early elementary social studies curriculum.

Welcome to Shoppington! In this friendly community, the Local Area Builders are open to ideas about new places where people can buy the goods they need. Readers can join along on the journey as community members who look just like them request places to get clothing, food, art supplies, toys, and more. They discuss the roles these locations fulfill. As the town's shops are built, they're added to a colorful map. Readers are encouraged through a concluding activity to consider their community and the places where they shop by creating their own map.

The Local Area Builders are ready to create new places in their community, specifically places that young learners love to explore. Readers are invited along as the builders plan to plant a forest, construct a museum, make a beach, and much more. After each location is built and its important components considered and described, a map of the town is updated. Young builders and planners will love learning how community helpers improve their communities. A concluding activity encourages them to make a map of their own town or city, or even a made-up community with their favorite sites to explore.

The community of Learnville needs new places for its inhabitants to, you guessed it, learn, and readers of this entertaining and informative book are on the planning board! They'll follow along as young community members work with the Local Area Builders to create different places to learn, including a music school, a sports club, and more. They'll discover what happens in these facilities and consider how they're a valuable part of communities. A final activity asks readers to make a map of their own community with the locations of places to learn nearest to them.