The third grade visited Belmont Center on Tuesday for a field trip. We walked down the hill to Town Hall, where we met with Selectman Matt Taylor and Brandon Fitts, who works with community outreach. The students asked questions about how local government works in Belmont.
Next, students went in small groups to interview local businesses, including Belmont Books, Bellmont Cafe, The Belmont Voice, Champions Sports, and M&T Bank. Each group also had a focus area such as accessibility features, utilities, types of businesses, public art and space, signage, and transportation. They were responsible for taking photographs, which were put into photo collages for the whole class to explore.
This field trip blends our study of mapping with our new unit on communities, local government, and economics. We will combine what we’ve learned so far with discoveries based on our field trip to design our own communities. We will then build models of our communities with cardboard engineering skills in collaboration with the innovation team.
– Larissa Rochford, third grade teacher
