Skylar Holder & Stashia Arthur
Valentine's Day cards for the Eatonton Health and Rehabilitation Center
Content: Letter writing, Character Education, being a good citizen, giving back, nursing home.
Service Needed: Wishing the elder a Happy Valentine's Day. All residents of the Eatonton Health and Rehabilitation Center do not have family and/or friends that visit often. Nursing homes are sometimes frogotten about so making the students aware of them will provide community support.
Service Idea: Have students create Valentine's Day cards.
Preparation: Students will learn about nursing homes and how we can help others in need. Students will be prepared by meeting the Activities Director, Sonja Picher, who will explain to the students the purpose of a nursing home, residents, and activities that she plans for the nursing home. Before she arrives, we will discuss Valentine's Day and its purpose. We will also ask the students if they know what a nursing home is and if they have ever visited a nursing home or have a family member in the nursing home. I will then ask the students what we could do for the people in the nursing home.
Action: Read the book Arthur's Valentine by Marc Brown. The students will then create their own Valentine's card for a resident at the Eatonton Health and Rehabilitation Center. The students will decorate their card and write a message in it.
Reflection: Students will view photos of the Valentine's Day cards being delivered to the nursing home. The students will discuss how this project impacted others, good citizenship, and how they feel about their actions. The students will also discuss what they have learned and experienced through the service-learning project.
Demonstration: Students will inform, write and illustrate what they learned through their experience with the nursing home and how it has affected others as well as themselves. The students will also report orally their experience and service to their parents.
Curricular Connections:
English/Language Arts: Listening/Speaking/Viewing- The students demonstrates and understanding of listening, speaking and viewing skills for effective communication. The students listen critically and respondes appropriately to oral communication in a variety of genres and media. The student speaks in a manner that guides the listener to understand important ideas. (Listening to Activities Director, Sonja Pilcher) (Reflecting and demonstrating information learned from service learning project)
Writing: The student begins to write text that develops a central idea or tells a story. The writing begins to show consideration of the audience and purpose. The student's writing begins to reflect the conventions of written English. (Creation of Valentine's cards)
Comprehension-The student gains meaning from orally presented text. (Arthur's Valentine by Marc Brown)
Art: Creation of cards
Social Studies: Government/Civic Understanding- The student will demonstrate an understanding of good citizenship.
Skill Development: Civic understanding, responsibility, writing/creating cards, purpose and understanding of nursing homes and the residents.
Books: Arthur's Valentine by Marc Brown
Community Contacts: Sonja Pilcher, Activites Director of the Eatonton Health and Rehabilitation Center
Valentine's Day cards for the Eatonton Health and Rehabilitation Center
Content: Letter writing, Character Education, being a good citizen, giving back, nursing home.
Service Needed: Wishing the elder a Happy Valentine's Day. All residents of the Eatonton Health and Rehabilitation Center do not have family and/or friends that visit often. Nursing homes are sometimes frogotten about so making the students aware of them will provide community support.
Service Idea: Have students create Valentine's Day cards.
Preparation: Students will learn about nursing homes and how we can help others in need. Students will be prepared by meeting the Activities Director, Sonja Picher, who will explain to the students the purpose of a nursing home, residents, and activities that she plans for the nursing home. Before she arrives, we will discuss Valentine's Day and its purpose. We will also ask the students if they know what a nursing home is and if they have ever visited a nursing home or have a family member in the nursing home. I will then ask the students what we could do for the people in the nursing home.
Action: Read the book Arthur's Valentine by Marc Brown. The students will then create their own Valentine's card for a resident at the Eatonton Health and Rehabilitation Center. The students will decorate their card and write a message in it.
Reflection: Students will view photos of the Valentine's Day cards being delivered to the nursing home. The students will discuss how this project impacted others, good citizenship, and how they feel about their actions. The students will also discuss what they have learned and experienced through the service-learning project.
Demonstration: Students will inform, write and illustrate what they learned through their experience with the nursing home and how it has affected others as well as themselves. The students will also report orally their experience and service to their parents.
Curricular Connections:
English/Language Arts: Listening/Speaking/Viewing- The students demonstrates and understanding of listening, speaking and viewing skills for effective communication. The students listen critically and respondes appropriately to oral communication in a variety of genres and media. The student speaks in a manner that guides the listener to understand important ideas. (Listening to Activities Director, Sonja Pilcher) (Reflecting and demonstrating information learned from service learning project)
Writing: The student begins to write text that develops a central idea or tells a story. The writing begins to show consideration of the audience and purpose. The student's writing begins to reflect the conventions of written English. (Creation of Valentine's cards)
Comprehension-The student gains meaning from orally presented text. (Arthur's Valentine by Marc Brown)
Art: Creation of cards
Social Studies: Government/Civic Understanding- The student will demonstrate an understanding of good citizenship.
Skill Development: Civic understanding, responsibility, writing/creating cards, purpose and understanding of nursing homes and the residents.
Books: Arthur's Valentine by Marc Brown
Community Contacts: Sonja Pilcher, Activites Director of the Eatonton Health and Rehabilitation Center
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