The mission of the Academic Service Learning Club is to connect meaningful service learning to the community with classroom instruction that enriches learning, teaches civic responsibility, and fosters personal growth.
In our ASL club, we talk all year about "How can you impact the world?" Students get excited to see how they can directly impact fellow Wildcats. Last year, we identified creating totes with age-appropriate activities to help incoming kindergartners as a need in our school community. After interviewing, observing and having experts (kindergarten teachers) speak to our classrooms, students added items in the bag that they found to be most beneficial to incoming kindergartners. Our hope was that the age-appropriate items in the bag would help students get ready for kindergarten. This is how we helped others build confidence and made them feel more comfortable. It is not the action of the giving of the bag but rather the thought that went into them. As part of this project 5th graders worked on making a claim, supported their thinking with evidence, and researched and reported on a topic using appropriate facts. During this project, our students also sought to understand a range of perspectives including an incoming kindergartner, a kindergarten teacher, and future Franklin Elementary parents.
Franklin ASL Club meets in Mr. Costanza's Room #210 from 4pm-5pm on Thursdays.
