Sunday, November 11, 2012
New Photos.from Uganda
Here are new photos of our friends in Uganda. Tiffany, the director of the program, visited the children at New Victory School in Uganda and took some of the children swimming. She also visited the school and their homes.
Sunday, October 21, 2012
Our Friends from India
Here are new photos of some of our friends in Eluru and Andra Pradesh, India.
Our Haitian Friends
A couple of week ago the two ladies who founded the program in Haiti visited the orphanage and returned with new photos of our friends. The children received medicine and gifts from some of their friends in the US and other countries. Here are some of the photos.
Information and Ideas/Common Core Standards
Hi Teachers,
Here is the information that was sent earlier today. Although this blog is specifically for the Pennies Project, we can use this to post our ideas.
These are just some ideas that we can try as we implement two of the service learning projects this year. These two projects are related to poverty and involve the school wide Canned Food/Socks Drive that will be coming up soon and the Pennies for Haiti, India, and Uganda Project. This information will also be posted on our First Grade Blog and I will update it tonight. There will be videos related to our Pennies Project available on the blog for your reference too.
http://penniesforourfriends.blogspot.com/
Remember other service projects may also be implemented during the school year like the wonderful Butterfly Projects!
Here are some ideas and please feel free to share suggestions/ideas. We have to align our projects with the Common Core Curriculum and some of the standards that can be correlated with our projects are at the bottom of this page. I only listed the numbers as listed on the Common Core Flip Chart. Here are some ideas that we can think about and as I shared, I will try to develop a lesson plan that we can implement throughout the year. The school wide canned food drive is specifically for the holidays but we can also extend it beyond the holidays for needy families in our community, if you’d like.
These service projects can involve a discussion of wants, needs, and poverty. It can also involve a discussion of citizenship in caring for one’s community, specifically people in communities who may need help in having their needs met.
Ideas:
Children can brainstorm wants and needs, record these on graphic organizers, find pictures of things that we want and need, compare and contrast wants with needs, share the importance of having things we need.
Define and discuss poverty. Children can view pictures, books, websites that show individuals living in poverty. I have numerous photos of the children that we will be helping with our Penny Project and links to their websites which show the conditions of homes, clothing, schools, and other areas.
Graphing the number of cans/socks/pennies collected, make tally marks, make groups of tens and ones, do comparisons of groups, trading pennies for nickels and dimes and so on, do simple problems like estimating and finding out how much money we would need to buy 3 or 4 toothbrushes or bars of soap ($1 or $2) each.
We could do a classroom or hall competition to see who can bring in the most cans, set goals, compare and contrast, write letters/cards to the class that brings in the most, have certificates or other forms of recognition to the class/hall and also for individual children who donate.
Read books and create booklets that contain pictures and simple maps that show where the countries for the Penny Project are located, locate our country and these countries, include pages about the countries such as their flags, important or significant plants, animals, food, customs related to the countries. Answer questions, write about what we are learning.
Make card/letters for the children and read letters received from them. The children in Uganda will probably write more than the other children. There is another school in Zambia that is looking pen pals and we could sign up to write to some of these children. Each class could write to 3 or 4 children, if you’d like.
We can have our children do activities on the computer by having them do simple polls on a Yahoo group that I can create or type in what they have been doing or learning from these projects. We can set up albums for each classroom and we could take pictures of what we are doing in our classrooms for the projects. I could upload them into the albums and the children could see, compare, contrast what each class is doing and make comments on the Yahoo group.
Okay, please send additional ideas! Thanks!
Common Core Standards
*Service Learning Projects can be alignment with these common core standards
Math
Standard 1.0A.1
Standard 1.0A.2
Standard 1.0A.3
Standard 1.01.7
Standard 1.NBT.1
Standard 1.NBT.2
Standard 1.NBt.2c
Standard 1.NBT.3
Standard1.MD.4
ELA
Standard RL.1.1
Standard RL.1.2
Standard RS.1.3
Standard RL.1.4
Standard RL.1.7
Standard RI.1.2
Standard RI.1.3
Standard RI.1.5
Standard RI.1.9
Writing
Standard W.1.2
Standard W.1.3
Standard W.1.7
Standard W.1.8
Here is the information that was sent earlier today. Although this blog is specifically for the Pennies Project, we can use this to post our ideas.
These are just some ideas that we can try as we implement two of the service learning projects this year. These two projects are related to poverty and involve the school wide Canned Food/Socks Drive that will be coming up soon and the Pennies for Haiti, India, and Uganda Project. This information will also be posted on our First Grade Blog and I will update it tonight. There will be videos related to our Pennies Project available on the blog for your reference too.
http://penniesforourfriends.blogspot.com/
Remember other service projects may also be implemented during the school year like the wonderful Butterfly Projects!
Here are some ideas and please feel free to share suggestions/ideas. We have to align our projects with the Common Core Curriculum and some of the standards that can be correlated with our projects are at the bottom of this page. I only listed the numbers as listed on the Common Core Flip Chart. Here are some ideas that we can think about and as I shared, I will try to develop a lesson plan that we can implement throughout the year. The school wide canned food drive is specifically for the holidays but we can also extend it beyond the holidays for needy families in our community, if you’d like.
These service projects can involve a discussion of wants, needs, and poverty. It can also involve a discussion of citizenship in caring for one’s community, specifically people in communities who may need help in having their needs met.
Ideas:
Children can brainstorm wants and needs, record these on graphic organizers, find pictures of things that we want and need, compare and contrast wants with needs, share the importance of having things we need.
Define and discuss poverty. Children can view pictures, books, websites that show individuals living in poverty. I have numerous photos of the children that we will be helping with our Penny Project and links to their websites which show the conditions of homes, clothing, schools, and other areas.
Graphing the number of cans/socks/pennies collected, make tally marks, make groups of tens and ones, do comparisons of groups, trading pennies for nickels and dimes and so on, do simple problems like estimating and finding out how much money we would need to buy 3 or 4 toothbrushes or bars of soap ($1 or $2) each.
We could do a classroom or hall competition to see who can bring in the most cans, set goals, compare and contrast, write letters/cards to the class that brings in the most, have certificates or other forms of recognition to the class/hall and also for individual children who donate.
Read books and create booklets that contain pictures and simple maps that show where the countries for the Penny Project are located, locate our country and these countries, include pages about the countries such as their flags, important or significant plants, animals, food, customs related to the countries. Answer questions, write about what we are learning.
Make card/letters for the children and read letters received from them. The children in Uganda will probably write more than the other children. There is another school in Zambia that is looking pen pals and we could sign up to write to some of these children. Each class could write to 3 or 4 children, if you’d like.
We can have our children do activities on the computer by having them do simple polls on a Yahoo group that I can create or type in what they have been doing or learning from these projects. We can set up albums for each classroom and we could take pictures of what we are doing in our classrooms for the projects. I could upload them into the albums and the children could see, compare, contrast what each class is doing and make comments on the Yahoo group.
Okay, please send additional ideas! Thanks!
Common Core Standards
*Service Learning Projects can be alignment with these common core standards
Math
Standard 1.0A.1
Standard 1.0A.2
Standard 1.0A.3
Standard 1.01.7
Standard 1.NBT.1
Standard 1.NBT.2
Standard 1.NBt.2c
Standard 1.NBT.3
Standard1.MD.4
ELA
Standard RL.1.1
Standard RL.1.2
Standard RS.1.3
Standard RL.1.4
Standard RL.1.7
Standard RI.1.2
Standard RI.1.3
Standard RI.1.5
Standard RI.1.9
Writing
Standard W.1.2
Standard W.1.3
Standard W.1.7
Standard W.1.8
Tuesday, October 2, 2012
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