Service Learning. This is truly my favorite part of every year.
Teaching my children how to communicate, collaborate, create, critically think, and problem solve. Not only with each other, but out in the world in different settings with different people. Real world situations. And the opportunity to be teachers themselves and for them to see themselves that way. What joy!
Here are my plans for the year on our service work. I break it down into kid language and we will work on these plans each time we serve our preschoolers.
Enduring Understandings:
- Parts impact the whole
- Interaction impacts community
- Roles impact order and responsibility
4C: Communicating in Diverse Environments: Understands that different learners can have different ideas
21st Century Skills: Civic Responsibility
- Demonstrates awareness of personal role in the school community by following rules and expectations
Learning Targets:
I can communicate and collaborate with a teammate.
I can understand what it means to serve
I can solve problems that arise by critically thinking
I can understand that I can make a difference my community/ world
Here is what we did on this first visit:
- Read the 5 Little Pumpkins Poem and worked on some simple math problems.
- We taught them one of our morning greetings: Hello Neighbor. We made eye contact and we were gentle in our first meeting.
- We read to our buddies. (this one always makes me tear up...to see them ALL feel so successful as readers!)
- Created: Each group was given a bag full of items that they then used to create something. This was so cool!
Click on this link to enjoy some precious photos.
