Community Service

6th Grade

Students in sixth grade are involved in a service-learning project concerning homeless youth. Students first focus on this issue in their English class, where they read a novel based on the experiences of a homeless youth. As the year progresses, a guest speaker from Women's Care Cottage, a local agency dealing with homeless mothers and children, comes in to educate the students. Students then volunteer on a Saturday morning, working to enhance the shelter's facility by planting flowers and organizing center supplies. In December, the sixth grade class adopts three homeless families for the holidays. Near the end of the year, students organize a drive for materials the shelter needs, such as personal hygiene items.

7th Grade

Students in seventh grade participate in service-learning projects surrounding the area of veterans. First, after reading a novel in English and studying World War II in history, students attend a Veteran's Award Ceremony and interview individual veterans. They then write reports about the veterans that are later presented to them. Other veteran's projects are also held throughout the year.

8th Grade

Students in eighth grade participate in a service-learning project concerning the environment. As part of the eighth grade science curriculum, students learn about native plants and the local environment. They then become stewards of the Buckley Nature Trail working to maintain and further develop the trail. Students also fundraise to help develop nature trail exhibits and buy plants and seeds to enhance the trail. They also create displays and mini-lessons for our elementary students which tie into the nature trail and science curriculum.

See Inside Buckley, Publications and Forms for all Community Service forms.