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Circus Beach

From City Island · 2022

Circus Beach
3 minPre-KK1st2ndSocial StudiesScience
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Summary

Watt and Windy head to Circus Beach and find the boardwalk run-down and littered. They pitch in with the community to clean it up and bring it back. A concrete example of people noticing a local problem and doing something about it.

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Discussion questions

Discussion

Three quick questions to run after the short.

  1. What problem did Watt and Windy find at Circus Beach?
  2. Who helped fix it, and how did they do it together?
  3. What is one place near our school that people take care of?

Quick work-a-long

Vocabulary: community, litter, volunteer.

Try it: List two things your class could do to take care of a shared space at school.