Town Mouse
Words by Lanise Jacoby
Sharing Arlington, MA with our "country cousins" in Berlin, WI
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Town Mouse Words by Lanise Jacoby Sharing Arlington, MA with our "country cousins" in Berlin, WI |
 Town Mouse, Town Mouse, What do you see? I see the Menotomy Indian Learn about the artist of this |
Photo credit: Wikipedia |
Town Mouse, Town Mouse, What do you see? I see Uncle Sam's statue, Learn a bit more about Uncle Sam |
 Photo credit: Tracy Marks Photography Gallery |
Town Mouse, Town Mouse, What do you see? I see the Robbins Library Find out what's happening at the Library here. |
 Photo credit: Nancy White |
Town Mouse, Town Mouse, What do you see? I see the Town Hall Learn more about our Town Hall here. |
 Photo credit: Windermere Photography |
Town Mouse, Town Mouse, What do you see? I see Turkey Hill Water Tower, |
 Photo credit: Nicole and her Mom |
Town Mouse, Town Mouse, What do you see? I see the Bike Path, Learn more about the Bike Path here. |
 Photo credit: Arlington Studio |
Town Mouse, Town Mouse, What do you see? I see Menotomy Rocks Park, Learn more at Friends of Menotomy Park |
 Photo credit: Wikipedia |
Town Mouse, Town Mouse, What do you see? I see the Old Schwamb Mill Take a tour of the mill here. |
 Photo Credit: Old Schwamb Mill |
Town Mouse, Town Mouse, What do you see? I see the Peirce School, |
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This book is part of a collaborative Internet project, Town Mouse Country Mouse. Based upon Jan Brett's book Town Mouse Country Mouse, and inspired by Susan Silverman's Mouse Tales, this project brings two second grade classrooms (Mrs. Coats and her class from Berlin, WI and Ms. Jacoby and her class from Arlington, MA) together to learn more about each other and their communities. As part of our work for the project, the children were asked to identify Arlington landmarks. (This was given as optional homework). Then... 1. Landmarks were discussed at school. A list of about 14 were agreed upon. 2. "Study Buddy" teams were formed (two chldren working together). 3. Each team chose ONE landmark to research. Children were assigned the research for homework. The assignment was to find two interesting facts about their landmark. 4. Meanwhile, I looked for images of each chosen landmark online. These were put into a folder for the children to access in our Computer Lab. 5. I met with each Study Buddy team to decide which two facts to include in our book. Each child would be typing one fact in a Kidspiration page. 6. In Computer Lab, each team opened a Kidspiration page, deleted "First Idea", imported their image and typed their facts. These were exported as graphics (jpgs). 7. The children's work was inserted into the tables above. The text was written by myself (time constraints), but if time is not a factor for you, your students could certainly write the text, based upon Brown Bear, Brown Bear.
Please feel free to email me with any questions or comments. Read
Country Mouse, Country Mouse from our Berlin, WI friends Owl graphic courtesy of Jan Brett's site - be sure to visit it!
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