Service Learning: Proposal

Candidate
Name/s:__Shanna Dos Santos______________________________________
Teacher/s:____Ms. Kristi Sorenson________________________________________
School:_Nibley Park Elementary___________________ Grade/s______First Grade___
Project Name: ___Service Garden______________________________________________
A Paragraph Explaining the Project:
Through in-depth discussion, reading, poems, addition, and media exposure students will
learn of ways in which others are of service to their community. Students will then make personal
efforts to be of service to their family, community, and school (yard work, carrying bags, opening
doors, etc.). As a way to track the deeds and services students are providing student will, with the
teachers help, construct a classroom representation of the ways in which they provide service to
their family, community, and school. The representation will be in the form of a flower garden
made of construction paper.
After reading Ordinary Marys Extraordinary Deed, and Cliffords Good Deeds. The
class will discuss how to be a community helper, family helper, and school helper. Students will
begin to keep track of what good deeds/services they provide to others. The deeds and will be
recorded on paper flower petals, stems, and leaves. As deeds/services accrue on the paper shapes the
teacher will start gluing and taping the pieces together to hang in the classroom window.
As a link into other content areas student will practice reading poems about community
service, and will also use their counting on mathematics strategies to count the deeds/services
completed by the classroom in order to tally the number of deeds the classroom is preforming.
This project is meant as an introduction to community service younger students, and as students
move from helping out at home, they will gain an awareness of how to help at school, and in the
neighborhood.
Social Students Core Curriculum:
Objective 2
Identify and list responsibilities in the school and in the neighborhood.
c. Demonstrate respect for others in the neighborhood
d. Participate in responsible activities that contribute to the school and neighborhood.
Common Core Connections:
Language Arts:
-Reading: Literature Standard 2
Retell stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central message or
lesson.
-Reading: Literature Standard 3
Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.
-Reading: Foundational Skills Standard 3
Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.

-Reading: Foundational Skills Standard 4

-Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
-Speaking and Listening Standard 1
Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about grade 1 topics and texts with
peers and adults in small and larger groups.
a) Following agreed-upon rules for discussions (e.g., listening to others with care, speaking
b)
one at a time about the topics and texts under discussion).
b) Build on others talk in conversations by responding to the comments of others through
c)
multiple exchanges.
c) Ask questions to clear up any confusion about the topics and texts under discussion.
Mathematics
-Add and subtract within 20.
Relate counting to addition and subtraction (e.g., by counting on 2 to add 2).
Add and subtract within 20, demonstrating fluency for addition and subtraction within 10. Use
strategies such as counting on.

Supplies Needed:_Construction paper, glue, tape, scissors,

Books on community service/good deeds:
Ordinary Marys Extordinary Deed
Cliffords Good Deeds
Poems:
One Good Deed

**This list is a work in progress. Im still looking for other readings**

Budget (if
needed):_____$0.00__________________________________________________________
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