Supporting+Your+Service+Learning+Projects

Thank all for a wonderful experience with service learning. I have enjoyed working with all of you and seeing the students as they worked and learned was a joy!

Amy Graff and Denise Boucher: Wonderful landscaping at Mitchell on a 94 degree day.

Laura Peterson and Ronda Nell @ Pershing: Fifth graders decided to warm up the welcoming vibe given off by their school's entryway. They designed and built a bench with the help of Home Depot, made pictures of their best memories of Pershing School and learned how to turn them into a lovely quilt, bought new signs for the entrance and spiced up the color scheme with a sculpture.

[|Film of Jill Ponzi working with a Pershing 5th Grader]



Bridget Halverson @ Walker: The landscaping of the interior courtyard is well begun. 1st graders drew pictures of their ideas for a cool new look to the courtyard. A professional landscaper met with them to look at the ideas and come up with a plan. Accomplished this year: a flower garden, garden and bird feeders. Wait until next year to see phase 2 of the plan!

Michelle Tahtinen @ FLW: Michelle's students have done these projects: 1) fundraising and designing for a new school mascot, 2) surveying the school populations on their cafeteria menu and what students would like to change, 3) investigating a healthy choices vending machine, 4)

Gina Holtz @ FLW: Natural vs. fluorescent lighting and the effects on students. Brightening the interior of FLW.

Sandra Brick @ FLW: Students are working on creating an outdoor classroom space at FLW.

Lynn Rappis @ FLW: 1)Students put together kits for patients at Childrens Hospital--they wrote the directions and measured and cut to include all the needed pieces. 2)Students worked with the LaFollette Park Friends group to spruce up this local park. Picnic tables and benches were painted, a fence was painted, flower beds were planted and many trees were mulched.

Jenny Statza @ Lincoln: Students and senior citizens were paired by interests and met three times. Through interviews, shared interests and students teaching the seniors about technology, students found that their ideas about senior citizens were changed. One student said that her only experience with senior citizens had been that they are cranky and mean to teens. She no longer believes this is true of all older people!

Deb Tryggestad Phone: 608-625-6633 (home), 262-894-9503 (cell) trygd@wawm.k12.wi.us