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Frank Elementary students collaborate to provide meaningful service to their school and community.
Frank Elementary students collaborate to provide meaningful service to their school and community.
Frank students contribute to a better world and develop their service ethic by organizing and engaging in service, community partnerships, and events that reach out to our community. Many of our families rely on community services for food, shelter, and clothing. Traditionally, they are recipients and but not the providers of community service. We believe that individuals should never feel shame for needing support but also benefit from reaching and helping others.
"We make a living by what we get but we make a life by what we give." -Winston Churchill
Serving the Community to Contribute to a Better World
Serving the Community to Contribute to a Better World
Better World Day 2018 in Kenosha
Better World Day on May 4, 2018 was a day where EL Education schools across the country participated in service projects to make their schools and communities better while also teaching students that if everyone does a little bit how beautiful our world can be.
- The fifth grade students started by cleaning up trash and pulling weeds out of the planter boxes then ended by going to nearby Pike's Creek with Harborside Academy students to clean it and help maintain the health of the ecosystems that live in the creek.
- The fourth grade students planted a memorial elm tree and aided in planting flowers around our school welcome sign.
- The second and third grade students planted the prairie boxes near our school building with the help from students from the Kenosha Montessori School and Harborside Academy 12th grade students.
- The kindergarten and first graders helped to spread mulch around the planters and welcome sign.
- All of the students designed a rock that they painted to represent each of them. The rocks were set around a tree in Washington Park.
For our second Better World Day on May 3rd, 2019, students at Frank Elementary School participated in many different service projects throughout the Kenosha community.
This year we aimed to reach higher on Better World Day and accomplished our goal. Here is a summary of some of the events that took place:
- We partnered with Harborside Academy, Vernon, Jefferson, Wilson, and City of Kenosha for a project at the city Parks. The 4th and 5th graders from each elementary met a crew from Harborside at a local park (click here). The city provided mulch, paint, bags, and gloves and parents donated tools. The students picked up trash, painted benches and equipment, and spread the mulch under the playground equipment.
- Each student decorated a lunch bag for guests at the Shalom Homeless Center for them to use when they pack lunches for the guests. Staff also donated food items. A small group of 5th graders created tissue paper flowers and they took the food and bags to the shelter and the flowers to the KUSD central office to decorate their desks.
- Crews in 2nd and 3rd grade created appreciation cards for our first responders and delivered them to the fire and police station.
- First grade crews created instruments as part of their Music to My Ears expedition and taught residents of a nursing home songs and they played them together.
- Kindergarten Crews are working on performance as part of their expedition and went to the nursing home where they gave a well received vocal performance.
- Prior to the day, 4 students in 5th grade traveled to 4 elementary schools and shared with the the purpose of Better World Day and invited them to join us. Brass Community School cleaned up parks and made lunch bags. All four schools pledged to participate in our "Say Hello" campaign.
- All of the EL schools kicked off "Say Hello-It All Starts with Hello". We are promoting being friendly and kind in our schools and community. There are weekly challenges for the community to try out!
- Students in 5th grade packed bags of books that were delivered to porches for families as well as packing bags of books for our Head Start staff to deliver to their families during home visits.
- Students in 3rd grade made cut outs of birds to be placed in windows to prevent live birds from flying into windows.
IMG_0816.movBeautiful Spaces at Frank
Each vertical crew was given a location in the school and given the task of making it a beautiful space. One vertical crew was given the vestibule area, which is where all visitors enter the school. As a crew they decided to make a colorful welcome sign using their hand prints with a bulletin board underneath to hang up important information for visitors and families. They also decided to paint a garbage can with their hand prints on it so visitors had a place to throw away garbage before coming into the school. Other vertical crews made “welcome” and “thank you” signs where the teachers and pre-k students enter the building. In the lunchroom and gym, vertical crews made banners each with a different character trait on them. In the hallway a vertical crew made a poster with the quote “bloom where you are planted.” Every student in the school is participating with their vertical crew to improve computer labs, hallways, lunchrooms, bathrooms, and entrances! This is a bright school that is now beautiful!
UNICEF Kid Power Program
The fourth graders in Crew 210 participate in UNICEF kid power school program. The program describes it in this way: “Students go on Missions to complete standards-aligned lessons and activities, where they learn about different cultures and UNICEF's work to help children everywhere survive and thrive.”
The students are given wrist bands to wear at school. They earn points for moving, each time they complete 10 Kids power Pack Videos or accumulate 12,000 steps they unlock a therapeutic food packet that is sent to a child in another country.
Service Projects that Contribute to a Better World
Service Projects that Contribute to a Better World
K/1st Grade Expedition: Farm to Table
Students learn about the journey their food takes from the dairy farm and apple orchards to their plates. As part of the culminating activity, students made recipe cards that they sold to friends and family. The money they earned was brought to the local grocery store where they purchased canned and dry goods. They walked those items to the local food pantry to donate to the community.
1st Grade Expedition: Music to My Ears
Students in first grade learn about the science of sound and how sound is produced during this expedition. Students used their knowledge of pitch, vibration, and how various instruments produce sound to build their own maracas. The students took their instruments to a local nursing home and gave one maraca to each resident. The students demonstrated how to play the instrument and how to play a steady beat (also a music standard for first grade). The students sang songs they learned in music class and played their maracas with the nursing home residents.
20190510_133027_001.mp44th Grade Expedition: Wisconsin
Each summer a farm in Kenosha County opens it gates to serve breakfast to the community and showcase the farm and its contributions. This event is attended by thousands of people. Fourth grade students researched and created products to be handed out in the gift bags to each person that attends. The product had a fact sheet and QR code to a video the students made about the dairy farms and products in Wisconsin.
Some other notable service projects:
- Students created brochures for the community regarding the erosion of Pike's Creek that are handed out at Hawthorne Hallow to visitors.
- Students created magnets with tips for conserving water that are at the front desk of the Kenosha Water Utility's front office.
- Third graders made fact sheets about Kenosha that are available on the Kenosha Trolley.
- Second graders made their own app for visitors to downtown Kenosha that showcases area businesses and attractions.
- Students made Valentines for residents of a local nursing home, Character Leaders delivered them.
- First graders made animal fact cards that are displayed in our local museum.
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