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Grade Level: 2
Academic Areas: Language Arts, Math, Social Studies, Art
Duration of service: 6 weeks
Character Virtues: Giving, Caring
Service Areas: Education/Tutoring, Human Services
Materials Needed: writing materials, crayons, markers, construction
paper, wrapping paper
Total Cost of Project: Under $50.00
Time Needed for Project: 6 wks
Time Needed for Teacher Preparation: 10 hours
Experience Needed in CE: Moderate Training
Experience Needed in SL: Moderate
Service Learning Project:
Children will be introduced to the writing process in English
Language Arts. Students will develop a book drive for the Christmas
Bureau. They will write letters to solicit book donations from
family, community bookstores, and the school community to help
children who might not be receiving holiday gifts. They will write
a short book review for the recipient. In Math, students will
create graphs to show the genres of books and the favorite books
received. The children will also hold a bake/popcorn sale to provide
a monetary donation. If possible, the children will visit the
Christmas Bureau to deliver the books and money or present them
to a representative at a school assembly. It is suggested the
collection be completed by December 1 to present the gifts and
money to the Christmas Bureau for the holiday delivery. The students
will present these books and money in place of a gift exchange
in our classroom.
Goals and Objectives
Academic
Learning Goal: Students will learn how to write friendly letters,
using correct grammar and punctuation. Students will learn to
alphabetize to the third letter.
Standard: ELA #1.#3
Learning Goal: Students will learn how to create and interpret
graphs. They will also learn to add money to $1.00 and recognize
the different coins and their values.
Standard: MST #3
Service
Community need: Our local Christmas Bureau has a real need for
Christmas gifts (both books and money to buy gifts) for children
in our county. We have many families who are unable to provide
holiday gifts for their families.
Possible Community Partners: Christmas Bureau, class, school community
Objective: Each child will donate a new book for children in need
as designated by the Christmas Bureau. They will write letters
asking for book donations. They will write a book review for the
donated book.
Character
Virtue: Caring
Objective: To show concern and interest to children in our community
who receive no gifts for the holiday.
Virtue: Giving
Objective: To donate books to children in our in area in place
of a gift exchange in our classroom
Key Activities
Key Planning Activities
1. A representative from the Christmas Bureau will come to the
class at the beginning of the program to give background information
about the Bureau to students.
2. Children will think about and plan different ways to hold a
book drive and plan for a bake or popcorn sale.
3. Students will create a sequence chain to show steps and events
to be taken for the project (i.e. 1. Discussion of community needs
2. Devise plan to assist the children not receiving gifts. 3.
Collect books. 4. Write book reviews. 5. Present books to the
Christmas Bureau).
Key Service Activities
1. Students will plan all procedures necessary for a bake/popcorn
sale, including asking parents to come in and do some cooking
projects with the students for the sale.
2. Students will develop and organize a book drive including writing
or dictating letters to families and local bookstores and school
community members.
3. Students will sort and organize the books. They will write
a book review for the donated book.
4. At the end of the project, students will place books in alphabetical
order by author’s last name and create graphs by genre and
favorites.
Key Reflection Activities
1. (oral) Objective: To have students try to understand what
it is like to have no gifts at holiday time.
Students will bring to school one small gift previously received
that has special meaning for them. Children tell why it is important
to them and how they felt when the received it. Children would
then discuss how they would feel if they had not received any
gifts for the holiday.
Additional: Reflect on feelings during the holidays.
Student observes his/her reflection in a hand held mirror and
chants, “I look in the mirror and what do I see?”
An explanation is then briefly given on how they would feel receiving
and not receiving gifts.
2. (written) Objective: Show feelings during the holidays.
Students and teacher will collect advertisements from newspapers
and magazines of gifts people might receive at the holidays. On
1/2 sheet of drawing paper, students glue pictures of gifts they
might like to receive and write why they want the gift and how
it would make them feel to open it on their holiday morning. On
the second half of the paper, they draw a picture of a holiday
decoration and no gifts presented. They would then write their
feeling on the second half of the paper.
Students and teacher will collect advertisements from newspapers
and magazines of gifts people might receive at the holidays. On
1/2 sheet of drawing paper, students glue pictures of gifts they
might like to receive and write why they want the gift and how
it would make them feel to open it on their holiday morning. On
the second half of the paper, they draw a picture of a holiday
decoration and no gifts presented. They would then write their
feeling on the second half of the paper.
3. (performance): To recognize feelings of self worth having
helped another child.
Procedure: Collect a large ball of red or green yarn. Pass the
ball to make a web while children discuss feelings having helped
others in our community. The web will then be raised to show there
is strength in numbers when we work collectively to help others.
Demonstration Activity
Students, parents, school community and Christmas Bureau representative
will celebrate success at the December School Is A Feeling Assembly.
The superintendent and members of the Board of Education will
be invited to join us.
Second Suggested Activity: Several children in the class will
be selected to present our project to the Board of Education in
the SPOTLIGHT portion of their monthly meeting.
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