~   My Town Is Important 2003-2004 ~
Mrs. Potter's and Mrs. Crouches' First Grade
Waterford Elementary School
Waterford, VA

 

  Waterford is a small rural town in Loudoun County, Va.   It is a National Historic Landmark located about 50 miles NW of Washington, D.C. and about 5 miles W of Leesburg.   The Waterford village had a  population of 1,071 in 1999.  It is located at 77.8° W Longitude and  38° N Latitude.

The most important thing about Waterford is that we work hard to take care of Waterford and each other.

We learn stuff at Waterford School. 
Some of us live here in the village.
There is a lot of space around Waterford.
The teachers at Waterford school are good.
There are very kind people in our town.
It is one of the truly old towns left in our country.
We have a Waterford Fair where we have olden crafts.

We have trick-or-treating in the village and
the school decorates the houses.
We have many friends.
We have an old school where the students do a play
and dress up like students long ago.

But  the most important thing about Waterford is that we work hard to take care of Waterford and each other.

 

Waterford Elementary

2nd Street School

Waterford Elementary School.

Our old one room school house - a living history museum

mill

Corner Store with model houses

The Old Mill

Our model houses in the window of the General Store

When our class studied Waterford, we made models of some of the historic houses and, with the help of our fourth grade buddies, laid them out to make a big map of Waterford.

Visit the Waterford Website

Visit our school Website

Sylvia Parks, Technology Resource Teacher,
Waterford/Hillsboro Elementary Schools, contributed this class project.

 

 Standards

Language Arts
SOL 1.12 Write to communicate ideas

Social Science
SOL 1.12 Recognize the diversity of communities

Technology
C/T 5.5 Retrieve & Transmit electronic information

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My Town Is Important 2003-2004