Service Learning Projects

Each year the different grade levels at our school take on service learning projects. In seventh grade this year, our topic was health and we were partnered with a sister school here in town that we were to help out. We spent the first part of our project teaching the kids lessons on different aspects of nutrition. Then we spent the next half of the time having the kids come up with a little workshop with an activity to teach a small group of students from our sister school their lesson on nutrition. The kids worked really hard and got really into it. They all had penpals that they had written letters back and forth to and were looking forward to meeting the kids when they came to our school. Well, due to the glorious SWINE FLU, our school decided to cancel all outside activities with other schools, all sports events, all academic activities, including our service learning project! So the week of, we had to tell the kids that we weren't going to be able to host the other school to participate in their workshops. The kids were pretty disappointed but we ended up inviting elementary classes to come and go through the workshops so that the kids felt like their hard work was for something! It was still fun.