This year Goodrich Elementary is broadening our focus to include community service projects. Second grade has decided to help make the holiday season a little brighter for pediatric patients hospitalized during the holiday season at Loyola’s Child Life Center in Maywood, Illinois. Students are decorating fuzzy slipper socks by sewing on colorful buttons. Using a needle and thread students are learning how to first thread a needle then sew on a button, a basic life skill that will certainly come in handy throughout their life. Students will also make holiday cards for the patients.
Having children participate in this project is helping them learn to…
- think more broadly rather than just about themselves
- respect others
- be helpful and kind
- become more patient, sewing on a button for the first time definitely requires a lot of patience!
- gain a better understanding of good citizenship which ties in perfectly with our Social Students unit on Community
Here are some of the comments expressed by the students:
- Melanie – “my heart has grown bigger and I feel kinder knowing that I’m doing something nice for others.”
- Harper - “It feels better to give rather than to get.”
- Liam - “I feel less selfish about myself, not like the way I used to feel and act.”
- Evelyn – “I feel like I’m making the world a happier place.”
- Mikayon – “I think learning how to sew is going to help my future.”
By taking an active part in community service projects at an early age, it will hopefully become part of our students lives — SOMETHING THEY EXPECT AND WANT TO DO!
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