“Americus kids go back to school with a bounce” plus 1 more |
| Americus kids go back to school with a bounce Posted: 27 Aug 2010 03:43 PM PDT Kids in Americus went back to school Friday. They celebrated at the park in Americus with inflatables donated by the Kansas Land Bank. The kids are joined together at school for the first time after Admire Grade School closed down. Team building games and ice breakers were also a part of the day to help the kids get to know each other. They will officially be in the classroom starting Monday. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php |
| Califon Kids Care Club helps many causes Posted: 28 Aug 2010 06:59 AM PDT CALIFON -- Students in Califon Kids Care Club took on a year-long schedule of community service projects to solve real world problems and to take active roles in communities they are members of. The club started started in 2004 with the mission "to promote volunteerism in the entire student body on the local, state, national and international levels." They have put their motto "Caring, Pride and Service" into action. Advisors, first grade teacher Cynthia Behrens and school nurse Linda Patterson, have seen the rewards of community service learning for their students during the 2009-2010 school year. In February students raised funds for "pop-up" tents for SOS Children's Villages in Haiti after the January earthquake. The school hosted a Hasbro Play-a-thon, where students collected pledges and spent an evening coming together to play games with their classmates and families. The group also collected donations from the student body to support "Christmas Trees for Soldiers" that supplied fresh, decorated Christmas trees to soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan. The group was able to send four trees. The projects have required active learning on the part of the students, as well as the integration of the schools' academic subjects. Baking bread and selling the loaves was a service project that had students practicing math and science skills in the bread making process, and also involved the student in a higher level of personal engagement. The proceeds from the bread sale benefited the Open Cupboard Food Pantry in Clinton. The Califon Kids Care Club has initiated other projects this year such as a One Hundredth Day of School Can Collection to collect food items for the North Hunterdon Food Pantry in Lebanon Township; a Clean Ocean Action Plastic Cap Collection to promote clean water environment for our ocean friends; an annual Spring Sock Hop where the cost of admission was a pair of new socks for the Open Cupboard Pantry; and a Pennies for Pencils project that collected donations for schoolchildren in Ghana, Africa to purchase school supplies. Behrens said the support of the school community of parents, teachers, and administrators has contributed to the success of the Kids Care Club. "Parents generously contribute their time, energy and talent to all our projects and we always have enthusiastic support from our teaching staff," she said. Plans for the future include gathering more student-generated ideas as well as the inclusion of projects integrated into the schools' curricula that supports community and global issues. "It has helped us to realize how great things can happen if each community member, school or individual contributes their time and talent. Children are rewarded by the feeling they get when they help others. They realize that they, together, can make a difference," said Behrens. The Califon Kids Care Club will be featured on an International Kids Care Club Web site as "Club of the Month." The following are comments from the readers. In no way do they represent the view of recordernewspapers.com. We encourage your feedback and dialog, all comments will be reviewed by our Web staff before appearing on the Web site. RecorderNewspapers.com requires readers to register with an e-mail address to leave comments. Registered users: This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php |
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