Thursday, March 1, 2012

Middle schoolers (in Battle Creek) learn the impact of service at Community Action Warehouse

As she hoisted canned food into the cart of an elderly woman this afternoon, 12-year-old Elizabeth Calderon said she’d learned something new about her community.

“There are lots of people in need that we need to help out,” the Northwestern Middle School sixth-grader said.  But she also learned this: “It’s great helping people out.”


That’s exactly what Melissa Hatmaker said she wants to hear.


Calderon and 19 of her classmates were at the Community Action warehouse today as part of a service learning project organized by Hatmaker, a sixth-grade math teacher at Northwestern. Hatmaker said she started the project this school year to expose students to volunteerism and show them they can make a difference.

www.battlecreekenquirer.com/article/20120228/NEWS01/302280032/Middle-schoolers-learn-impact-service

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