Pictured: Residents play "Plinko" with fourth graders during a carnival that students created for their friends at Clover Hill Adult Residence.

Service Learning is a comprehensive teaching methodology that involves the desire to make things happen both in the school and in the community. Projects center on cross-curricular study, and for total success require equal participation from students, teachers and community.

Some of the projects and activities that elementary students worked on last year:

* First graders visited with senior residents at Orchard Manor Nursing Home in Medina.

* Second graders helped beautify Camp Rainbow and raised money for the camp through their annual spell-a-thon.

* Fourth graders expanded on a Kids Guide to the Cobblestone Museum Complex that gave a brief history of the many different buildings at the Complex and then designed fun activities around each building.

* Fifth graders learned about the diseases of leukemia and lymphoma and educated other elementary school students about the disease by holding a "Pennies for Patients" drive.

For more information regarding the service learning program at the elementary school, please call Sue Starkweather at 589-2087.

To view the NYS Education Department Service Learning Leadership Institute's website (created by Albion Service Learning Staff), click here.