Service Learning Projects

Grade 4:  Food Pantry:  students learned about poverty and homelessness in guidance classes; in social studies they chose to visit the food pantry; in reading they read books such as The Lady in a Box ; in math they counted, sorted, and made graphs of food items collected; in computers, they made a powerpoint presenation about their visit to the food pantry.  In the spring, students will collect pennies for the pantry, go to a grocery store and purchase groceries for the pantry shelves.

Grade 3:  Waunakee Neighborhood Connection:  students learned about poverty in guidance; they read about poverty in such books as The Lunch Thief and Fly Away Home. In math, they counted, sorted and made a tally graph during their drive to collect diapers and laundry soap for the WNC; in reading, they made posters and wrote announcements to be announced daily.  They also volunteered at the WNC.

Grade 3:  America/Student Corps:  during computers, they Skyped with America Corp volunteers;  in social studies, they collected seeds at the Bolz Conservancy to grow plants for the Prairie;  in reading they made table decorations and  served a Thanksgiving luncheon to senior citizens. Cite Solei Schools feeding program

Grade 2:  UNICEF: in reading, students made posters and announcements about UNICEF; in computers, they made a powerpoint about poverty and homelessness  and showed it at an all school assembly; students read the book Every Child Deserves A Better World; they also did a math lesson counting and sorting the money collected. 

Kindergarten and Grade 1:  Pennies for the Pantry: students made posters and announcements about the food pantry; they counted coins

ALL SCHOOL:  Ronald McDonald House:  Collecting pop tabs for the house in Madison.  Our goal is one million and we are more than half way to the goal

We are proud to say, 100% of our students are involved in service learning.