The last of the service-learning projects!

Cowell Elementary
The boys team at Cowell Elementary used the Heifer International Read to Feed curriculum to learn about the organization and how and who they were going to be support through their fundraising efforts. They learned the difference between buying a man a fish and teaching a man to fish. Through the money they raised they bought an animal for a family in a developing country.

The Cowell girls team learnt about pet and animal awareness. They had a guest speaker from the Denver Dumb Friends League who spoke to them about pet-care, spaying & neutering and the adpotion process. The girls held a school-wide campaign to raise awareness about taking care of pets.

My community is a safe place. It is Denver SCORES. They are nice some can be mean. The team kids are cool. They help me with a problem and they are good sports. The teachers are helpful too. We work together as a team.
~ Cesar M.

My community is already special but it could be more special if all of us were helpful and helped the community out. We could help by cleaning parks, streets, and outside. My community has a lot of cool places to live and to go. Some places are nice. We have to work as a family, together to make it a better place.
~ Maricela C.


Munroe Elementary
The team at Munroe Elementary worked on keeping their school beautiful. They implemented a grounds keeping campaign to keep their new playground, garden area and trees clean. Each day during SCORES the students went out and cleaned up the grounds area to contribute to their new community the "Butterfly Garden."

A community is something that unites. A community is full of people that help each other. Sometimes my community is trouble or happiness. When my community is trouble is when my neighbors are fighting or using other people’s stuff. But when my community is happy is when somebody helps one another when they share stuff. This is my community.
~ Pedro S.

A community is a place were you live. A community is a place that has a lot of different people. A community has parks, playgrounds, and families. I live in a community where people care about other people and people sometimes help poor people that live on the streets. I wish more people would try to keep the earth cleaner and better.
~ Yulises E.