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Grade Level: K-5
Academic Areas: Language Arts
Duration of service: Year Long
Character Virtues: Giving, Caring, Responsibility
Service Areas: Education/Tutoring, Human Services
Service Learning Project:
Participants and partners: Second- and fifth-grade students,
parents, a local homeless shelter, and community members. Location:
School and homeless shelter Timing: Year-long project to take
place during school. Students partner with a younger student at
the homeless shelter and meet once per week for 30 to 90 minutes
as needed.
Activities:
1) Meet weekly to establish a bond between partners
2) Collaborative writing of the fairy tale
3) Authors’ Tea at homeless shelter
Academic Connection: Donation of books that demonstrate student
understanding of the writing process and story elements.
Special Materials: Book binder and laminating machine.
Goals and Objectives
Academic
Learning Goal: Students will demonstrate an understanding of
the writing process (brainstorming, writing, revising, etc.).
Standard: ELA 1 and 2
Learning Goal: Students will demonstrate an understanding of the
elements of a story and specifically those of a fairy tale.
Standard: ELA 1 and 2
Service
Community need: Students living in homeless shelters have limited
access to materials to reinforce literacy skills outside of school.
Possible Community Partners: Homeless shelter, library
Objective: Students will make books to donate to local homeless
shelter or other family organizations.
Objective: Students will increase their awareness of the needs
of their community and will return to the shelter to participate
and help with read aloud time.
Character
Virtue: Responsibility
Objective: Students will demonstrate their commitment by working
consistently with a younger partner for the duration of the project.
Virtue: Caring and Giving
Objective: Students will gain compassion for those less fortunate
than themselves and will extend themselves to help those with
fewer resources.
Key Activities
Key Planning Activities
1. Teachers at the school and the homeless shelter will collaborate
to determine materials, grouping of students, prior knowledge
needed for both classes, and time frame of the project.
2. Student partners will meet with their assigned partner and
engage in activities that will promote the formation of a bond
(e.g., ice breakers, literacy activities, etc.).
3. Teachers will invite representatives from the homeless shelter
to discuss issues students will face when they visit.
Key Service Activities
1. Students will donate completed books to the local homeless
shelter.
2. Students will travel to the homeless shelter to participate
in read aloud time and book sharing.
Key Reflection Activities
1. (oral – caring/giving) Student partners will read their
fairy tale to a large group and ask for feedback from the group.
Positive responses will be modeled and demonstrated by all.
2. (written – responsibility) Students will write about
their experiences while working on this project by responding
to any of the following: visiting the homeless shelter, being
responsible to their partner, being respectful of others while
working, meeting deadlines, etc.
3. (performance – responsibility) Students will role play
difficult and successful situations they encountered at the homeless
shelter..
Celebration Activity
Culminating activity will be hosting an Authors’ Tea celebration
at the homeless shelter. Parents and community members will organize
refreshment and provide support for the Authors’ Tea.
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