Considering the Community - BEFORE

My group is going to visit restaurants, Paradise Park (putt putt and go-kart racing), and grocery stores. We chose restaurants because our students often talk about their favorite restaurants around Novi, so we know that students frequently go out to eat. Paradise Park was one of our choices because in the past two weeks we have seen multiple students write or share stories about how much fun it is. We chose grocery stores because I already ran into a student and parent at a local grocery store. These places are all areas that we know our students visit often and we hope to find out what they are learning during these visits. We expect to find that our students are being exposed to different literacies than they are being exposed to in school. We hope to learn ways in which we can incorporate these various literacies into our lessons to better engage our students!