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Denyse Fiero
ECED 341
December 3, 2011
Service Learning Project: Providing additional resources
The service learning project was implemented at Sussex
Elementary in two of the kindergarten
classrooms. First, we meet with the Service Learning Project
Advisor to learn about school wide
initiatives. One of the biggest needs is how to incorporate
families i nto their students learning.
There was also a need to assist the families with resources to
help reinforce skills at home. I and
another student teacher decided to take both of the initiatives
and incorporate them into our
service learning project. We then met with our mentor teacher to
discuss the biggest needs of the
students in our classes. The needs that we decided to focus on
were literacy and math. We
decided to create 3 games for the children to play at home with
their family. Two games were
math based to increase their knowledge of numbers with counting
and number order. The third
game was a sight word fishing game. The game included all 40
sight words that the students are
required to know. The student fishes for a sight word and must
say the word to keep the word.
This game helps with the kindergarten objective to learn all
sight words introduced. We also
gave the caregivers color print-out of all the sight words in
alphabet categories to help with
emergent writing. Another resource that was included in our
resource packet was a page of
different math activities that the family can do together to
increase the students knowledge of
math. A page of sight word activities were provided as well to
give different fun way to learn
sight words. All of the activities in math and sight word
resources were ideas that they could
recreate with house hold items.
To reach our second initiative which was to connect with the
families we decided to implement
our service learning project during American Education Week. We
attended American Education
Week and demonstrated the games to the parents and reviewed the
resources with the parents
that attended. Then the families were able to play the games
with their students during center
time. This was a great way to connect with the families and
teach the parents how to use the
materials. We also wanted to get data from the families about
what resources they needed at
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home and get their assessment of the resources provided. We
wanted to see if the resources
provided were beneficial and if we needed to include other
materials that will help them assist
their children in learning. We provided a pre-survey for the
parents to fill out during American
Education week. We also included a post survey to find out if
our resources were beneficial and
how we could provide additional materials. We received a few
pre-surveys from the parents
which all welcomed additional resources. We asked three
questions on the pre-survey. The first
question was if the parents felt they had enough resources at
home to enrich their childs
education. We asked if they felt comfortable helping their child
with homework? We also asked
what your childs favorite academic home activity is. We only
received three pre-surveys but
their information was helpful. The caregivers welcomed
additional resources and one survey
stated they would like help teaching their child sight words.
This pre-survey helped us to learn
that our resources were beneficial. Unfortunately, we only
received one post survey from both of
the kindergarten classes. The survey stated that all the games
were beneficial to their child. The
said that the Go Fish Sight Word game was the game their child
enjoyed the most. They felt that
this game helped their child recognize the words more easily.
The parent said that their child will
use all the provided resources in the future and would welcome
additional resources. This
information was helpful to know that the resources were helpful
and to see what type of games
worked the best. This data also helped with the decision to
continue using the Go Fish sight word
cards as a year round resource. The mentor teacher will print
out future sight words to add it to
the game to extend the students learning.
