Learning is as close as a look around the neighborhood. Practice observation and sorting skills among the faces and places that keep a town going.

Learn about workers who serve the neighborhood. With coloring, cut-and-paste, and I-spy pages kids will be busy having fun while exploring social studies topics of community, jobs and needs.

Introduce kindergarteners to the people who play a key role in the health and safety of their community — and reinforce important literacy skills along the way.

Build spatial and directional skills, practice directional words, and create maps of common places in the neighborhood with cut-and-paste activities.

Learn about the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. Explore ideas of citizenship, constructive action and community while building on literacy skills and historical knowledge with your child.