What would be a geat community service learning project for 2nd graders?

Question

If you know of an actual organization or website, please let me know!

Answer 1

Perhaps reading at a local nursing home or making cards for the residents. Any nursing home in your area, I am sure would love to have visitors. It would teach them a lot about community and give them a chance to practice their reading and presentation skills. Best wishes!

Answer 2

Wow, are you following the Houghton Mifflin curriculum? We did this exact same section, only it was during the Fall quarter.

Anyhow, my kids really enjoyed fixing up the courtyard at our school. It was abandoned and kind of rundown from disuse.

The kids just swept it up, gathered up all the trash, cleaned off the picnic tables, pulled up the weeds, etc. I took a lot of pictures and after it was cleaned, we had a little ceremony in which parents were invited. It was nice.

Answer 3

Try planting flower bulbs in your town park. I did that when I was in 2nd grade with my class and everyone liked it and understood the message. Also, you could have them decorate pots and plant a flower in it and give one to each of the elderly people in your senior center.

Answer 4

Check out:

actsofkindness.org and

payitforwardfoundation.com

I am a big supporter of service projects.  So far this year my third graders have made fleece hats for donation to a children's charity, raised money for a soup kitchen, and made pens into flowers for a local senior center.

Some other ideas:

collect school supplies to send over seas - put them together in small pencil boxes and let the kids decorate them with stickers to send

playground clean up

park clean up

read to kindergarten students/pre-school students

sing to seniors

spend an entire week doing good deeds "Random Acts of kindness" for others without being caught doing them

send pens to kids in third world countries (they love pens!)

collect change for a week and donate it to a charity

purchase pet supplies for the local humane society with $$ kids earn doing special chores at home

write letters to seniors/soldiers/hospital long term stay patients

Answer 5

where are you from?

there are many things that you can do such as community clean ups, volunteering at retirement homes and hospitals, etc.  i think a good place to find information about local community service is the public library, the one i live near (in queens, new york) takes part in a lot of community service activities.

Answer 6

You could collect items for recycling.

Answer 7

Almost any community has public areas with plants in them and volunteers are always needed for planting.  Especially the flowers at this time of year.  contact your local Chamber of Commerce or Tourist Bureau and they should be able to direct you.