Sunday, November 29, 2015

Service Learning Updates

The Giving Tree
First Grade will be hosting their annual Giving Tree Service Project this year. Please click on this link to learn more about this opportunity to donate. 

Canned Food & Turkey Drive
Thank you so much to those of you that donated canned foods and/or frozen turkeys the week before Thanksgiving. Town Center collected 1,087 cans and 83 turkeys for those in need. 

Holiday from the Heart
This year, we will be having our annual Holiday from the Heart celebration during the school day on December 16th. Holiday from the Heart will be a day centered around service learning and cultural awareness. During this day, we would like to highlight traditions and holidays celebrated during the winter in different cultures. If you or your family would like to share about traditions and/or holidays that you celebrate during the winter, please email your child's teacher.

Social Studies Connection
In Social Studies, our fourth graders will begin a new unit on European Exploration and Colonization of Texas. Throughout our unit, we will be analyzing the reasons why people might leave their home and search for a new home in another place. We would love to share real world examples with our learners and give our Fourth Grade families an opportunity to share the story behind why they moved from one place to another. 

If you and/or your family has relocated for a particular reason, we would love to hear from you. (This includes families that moved from one country to another, one state to another, or even from one city to another.) 

If you would like to participate, please click on the link to share your story. (It's just a few short questions.) 

As always, thank you for participating in our on-going service learning projects!