Service learning is one of the ways early childhood students become Community Contributors, an ASFG Learning Goal.
Our youngest students and their families participate in many school wide initiatives such as ASFG Helps, the ONI sweater and blanket drive, our Appreciation Box collection, Empty Bowls, and more. These annual projects offer children the opportunity to learn more about service within and outside our school community. Students get the opportunity to be part of something bigger than early childhood - they learn their contributions help a school wide effort to better our world. Projects are explained in more detail here.
Students also explore their surroundings from the very first day of school and are taught to respect and care for our natural environment. By having pollinator, herb, and vegetable gardens, our butterfly sanctuary, and different recycling stations around campus, we learn how to care for our environment. More about our pollinator project and our school's recycling efforts are explained here.
Our youngest students and their families participate in many school wide initiatives such as ASFG Helps, the ONI sweater and blanket drive, our Appreciation Box collection, Empty Bowls, and more. These annual projects offer children the opportunity to learn more about service within and outside our school community. Students get the opportunity to be part of something bigger than early childhood - they learn their contributions help a school wide effort to better our world. Projects are explained in more detail here.
Students also explore their surroundings from the very first day of school and are taught to respect and care for our natural environment. By having pollinator, herb, and vegetable gardens, our butterfly sanctuary, and different recycling stations around campus, we learn how to care for our environment. More about our pollinator project and our school's recycling efforts are explained here.
In 2023, we asked early childhood faculty to list the top service learning projects our section. These were the responses. Fernanda Alcantara used a Ritual Life Planner to map out early childhood's different service learning activities helping us see how the different projects can take place at different times of the year. Fer then tied these activities to the United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals highlighting the importance of the work we do through service learning.
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