Arts Created Together -- Help Launch Our Box City!

Architecture, Design & Enrichment 2003 - 2004

Thanks to support from LEF and Hastings families,
Box City is taking place at our school & we need your help. 
Get involved & help our children begin an exciting exploration of architecture & design.
Art Room Volunteers  9/22 - 10/22
Before children design their buildings, they will paint landscape bases and make trees in art.  No experience needed -- wear paint-forgiving clothing!  Help wanted in all classes!
Classroom Volunteers: Citizen-Making 
10/7 - 10/17
Parents are needed to help students create figures to be the citizens of Box City. 2-4 parents per room to help teachers facilitate the learning process. (Times & days vary by class.)
Classroom Volunteers: Building Sessions
10/7 - 10/22
Students will design and build structures in their classrooms.  2-4 parents per room to help teachers facilitate the learning process.  (Times & days vary by class.)
Set-up Day in the Gym
10/20, 9:00 – 10:30
4 Volunteer parents will assist 5th graders with layout of roads, green spaces, river, etc.
Box City BIG EVENT & Walking Tours
10/22, 4:30-8:30 
Student structures will all come together as one city in the gym.  We need volunteers to help at this special community celebration.
Documentation of our City
10/7 - 10/22
We need a team of parent volunteers to record this wonderful event as it evolves!
Special Guest 
Are you a builder? Landscaper? Developer? Architect? Urban planner?  Would you be willing to talk with students about an aspect of home or building design?  Let us know!
Architecture Resource Collection
We are collecting books, maps, blueprints and other resources that will travel from class to class throughout the year. Please donate or lend any books on the following topics!
  • Architects
  • Architectural Details
  • Architectural Styles
  • Boston
  • Bridges
  • Cities of the World
  • Community Buildings
  • Construction
  • Earth from above
  • Gardens
  • Homes
  • Landmarks
  • Lexington
  • Mailboxes
  • Maps and Mapmaking
  • Modes of Transportation
  • Monuments
  • Moving to a New Home
  • Parks and Playgrounds
  • Shelters
  • Urban Life
  • Vocabulary of Architecture
  • Windows and Doors

Name _______________________  E-mail _________________ 
Phone __________ Teacher _____________________

Contact A.C.T. 
Jessie Steigerwald
jess@shininghours.com 		Tina Jaillet
tkjaillet@yahoo.com

Thank you!
This project is supported by a grant from the Lexington Education Foundation.

Last update: 10-03-2003/jh