Kindergarten was so excited about earning money to help people. It was gratifying to have so many individual students running up to me with little bags of coins telling me how they helped sweep or clean up after dinner or wash their dog to help people who didn’t have food. In service learning at Trinity, teachers offer guidance, but it is the students who decide who they will help based on their knowledge and interest. Once they express what they know and choose who to help, we build on that to increase their awareness and empathy. Kindergarten was interested in people who don’t have enough food. In our initial discussion, we helped expand their thinking to people in other countries. We talked about different ways to help and suggested that there might be ways to help where people could keep getting food instead of only getting food one time. After generating some great ideas including fruit trees and cows, we looked at the websites of World Vision and Heifer International and were excited to find some of their ideas were there, along with some new ones. Students picked several items and because Kindergarteners were such hard workers – we were able to support all of them! Kindergarten helped buy some vegetable seeds, fruit trees, a beehive, part of a fish pond system, support for a goat, and some chickens! Great job Kindergarten! We continued our learning by drawing pictures of the items and students coming up with sentences explaining why these things helped people keep having food. Finally, students shared their pictures and words in family chapel. To see all pictures and read their words, please visit vidigami: https://www.vidigami.com/trinityschool/albums/239105/media
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