Places in Town
A community has places where people live, work, learn and play.
A town or city has many places: a school for learning, a library for books, a grocery store for food, a park for playing, a hospital for getting better and a fire station ready to help. Which places are near you?
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Did you know?
- A library card lets you borrow books for free!
- Fire stations are ready to help every hour of the day and night.
- Some towns are small and some cities have millions of people.
- Neighbors are the people who live near you.
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Talk about it
Questions to ask while you read, play or walk.
- What places do you visit every week?
- If you could add one place to your town, what would it be?
- How do you get from home to school?
For teachers
What this topic supports:
- C3 Framework D2.Geo.2.K-2: use maps, graphs, photographs and other representations to describe places
- C3 Framework (K–2), Civics: places and people in my community