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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