Help a locally owned restaurant by boosting their SM accounts #lovelocal

Please continue to order take out and purchase gift cards from our locally owned restaurants – but also plan for the future. Go to their social media pages and write an online review, repost to your timeline, and invite a friend to like the restaurant’s page. This will not only help these restaurants now, but will help them as we emerge from this new normal – hopefully soon.

Who should I add to the list? Where should I go eat when we can go out again? Add to my list and write reviews today!

Brothers Pizza

Dairy Queen Harmony Square (offering free Wi-Fi on their patio if you need it)

Bar B-Q Ranch

Bella Gelato

Bella Luna

Benny Sorrentino’s

Beyond

Billy Jack’s

Black Sheep Coffee

Boboko Indonesian Cafe

Bowl of Good

Brothers Craft Brewing

Clementine Cafe

The Cracked Pillar

Cuban Burger

Dayton Tavern

El Charro

El Paisano Bakery

Food Bar Food

Friendly City Food Co-op

The Friendly Fermenter

Golden Pony

Grilled Cheese Mania

Heritage Bakery & Cafe

Indian & American Cafe

Jack Brown’s Burger Joint

Joshua Wilton House

Kline’s Dairy Bar

La Morena

Latin’s Flavor

Local Chop and Grill House

Lola’s Deli

Magnolia’s Tacos

Mashita

Mr. J’s

Pale Fire

Restless Moons Brewing

Rocktown Kitchen

Ruby’s Arcade

The Shebeen Pub

Strite’s Donuts

Sweet Joy’s Cakes and Desserts

Sweet Nola’s

Taj of India

Taste of India

Three Notch’d

Town and Country Restaurant

Tropical Smoothie

Urgie’s Cheesesteaks

Vine and Fig

Vito’s

Free Architectural Coloring books – another assortment

The first two batches of architectural coloring books were very popular and I had some requests. So here are a few more options. Hope you enjoy them. Feel free to share your creation in the comments or on our social media pages.

Proposed Daycare Building – View 1 and View 2 – First Draft (it has changed a lot since this version)

Harrisonburg Rockingham Day Care

Church Addition

Eastern Mennonite Elementary School

Eastern Mennonite School

Traditional Virginia Home

Indoor Basketball Court

Help a small business by boosting their SM accounts #lovelocal

I have heard the suggestions to order take-out from local restaurants and to purchase gift cards. Those are both great ways to support the local restaurant community and maybe some of our local retail shops. I have seen local music artists sharing their gifts with options to make donations to help them make it through this challenging time. Here is one more idea to support local businesses – like their social media pages, share their posts, write a review!!!!, and build them up. This will help them when we come out of this dark time and come back together as a community. Here is a list to get you started, add more in the comments below and I will update the list.

LOVE LOCAL with an ONLINE REVIEW!!! #lovelocal

SERVICE

Gaines Group Architects – Facebook TwitterInstagram

Appeal Production

Balzer and Associates, Inc

Bank of the James

Becky Bartells Massage

Blauch Brothers

Blue Ribbon Nursery

Brandy Somers Photography

Cardinal Care, LLC

Citizen

Classic Kitchen & Bath

Coleman Engineering

Dance & Company

Dancing with Karen

DBE Photography

Digital Minerva

DJ Fit

Eddie Edwards Signs

Engineering Solutions

Farm Credit of the Virginias

Farmers and Merchant Bank

Frame Factory

Green Solutions Carpet and Upholstery Cleaning

Harrisonburg Downtown Renaissance

Julie Yoder – Integrity Home Mortgage Corporation

Mark-It

Park View Credit Union

Rocktown Hot Yoga

R.S. Monger & Sons

Seams Like Home, LLC

Shenandoah Yoga

Shenandoah Valley Regional Airport

Speech and Language Center

Valley Engineering

PLACES

Brethren & Mennonite Heritage Center

Eastern Mennonite School

Explore More Discovery Museum

Park View Mennonite Church

MUSIC

Ben Kunkle Music

Blue Ridge Threshold Choir

Clymer & Kurtz

Hackens Boys

Judy Chops

Midnight Spaghetti

Red Wing Academy

Spectator Bird

Steel Wheels

Strong Water

Walking Roots Band

Who Shot John

RETAIL

Blue Ridge Dog

Bring Your Own, LLC

Elk Run Mining Co.

The Frame Factory & Gallery

Gamer Oasis

Gitchell’s Photography

Glens Fair Price

Heartworn Vintage

James McHone Jewelry

Kassy Newman Ceramics

The Lady Jane

Larkin Arts

Laughing Dog T-Shirts & Gifts

Lineage Goods

Midtown Market

Mossy Creek Fly Fishing

Oasis Art Gallery

Red Root & Co.

Rocktown Bicycles

Rocktown Gift Shop

Shenandoah Bicycle Company

Shirley’s Gourmet Popcorn

Ten Thousand Villages

The Yellow Button

Timeless Toys

Walkabout Outfitters

Water Street Vintage & Bohemian

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I need to do some billable work now – I will continue to update this list and will work on restaurants later this week! Send me your business listing to add or businesses you support please.

Architectural Resources for Primary School Teachers

Architectural Resources for Primary School Teachers

As you look for new and fun things to do while kids are out of school, here are some resources. These were created a few years ago, but I think it is still relevant.

Here are several architectural coloring books with houses. Just download the pdf and print out the pages you want to color. Click the link here: Architectural Coloring books

More Architectural Coloring books

Office Building Coloring Book

Glenmore Coloring Book

Commercial Building Coloring Book

Apartment Coloring Book

Architectural Bingo Sheet

Vocabulary Challenge

Want to challenge your student with new vocabulary? Here is a list of Green Terms Defined.

Have a young one learning shapes – get them to find the shapes in these architectural photos: Architectural Shapes

15 Week Architecture Construction and Engineering Course

When I was in Charlottesville I taught a 15 week course to introduce high school students to the construction industry. Here is the syllabus for the program. ACE Mentor Program Design Challenge

harrisonburg architect

Class Activity – Draw this room to scale

Gather supplies of a ruler (or any straight edge), graph paper (paper with squares on it) and a pencil, or a pen if you are desperate.

With the paper on the table, use your FEET and measure out the length and width of the room where you are located by walking from one wall across the room to the other side of the room.

Using the squares on the paper, where one square equals one footstep, mark the paper, and use the ruler to make straight lines. This is NOT easy for some people, so make sure that you are using the straight edge to make straight lines and ask for help if it keeps getting messed up.

Origami House

Build and decorate a quick house. Make a few and you can have a small village full of Origami Houses

Our friends at NEED.org always have cool resources. Here is a list of Distance Learning Resources that are hands on. NEED.org

If you know of links I should include, let me know by adding to the comments below.