Food Girl to the Rescue!

                                               

Students from the Gardner Pilot Academy in Allston designed soccer crests to indicate ways they could help their local community. Casting themselves as superheroes like Food Girl, Water Girl and “Super-Powered Nature Infinity Beyond”, the students identified needs and tasks that could be undertaken with the objective of bettering their community.

One student indicated a desire to “Build any shelter for any four legged thing”, while another hoped to encourage recycling and make signs saying “Clean It Up!”

Donald McKay Community Walk

                               Donald McKay elementary students pause for a photo during their community walk.

The Donald McKay elementary team did a community walk in East Boston and recorded everything that they saw. They discussed the things that they noticed and whether it was good or bad for the health of the community.

They are getting to know their community to determine how they can best make a positive impact.

                                         Students gather information and record their ideas during the walk.

Marshall School Projects Underway

John Marshall students busy at work on their projects.

Students at the John Marshall School in Fields Corner Dorchester, were excited to share their writing as they kicked off their community service project.

Students responded to a creative writing prompt and shared their ideas with the group.  The students were asked “If you could be any object what would you be and why?”

                            John Marshall student Star J. reads from her paper describing her object of choice.

The lesson culminated with students imagining that they landed on earth as “space aliens” with the task of making a difference in their community.  What issue would they tackle?

Topics that have already been discussed include: homelessness, violence, world peace and what it means to be patriotic.

Great work John Marshall team!

 

Spring 2013 Kickoff

America SCORES Boston is happy to announce the kickoff of the spring 2013 season!

Check back here over the next few months to find out about the service projects that our BPS students plan.

 Check out the new blog here:

http://americascoresbostonservicelearning.blogspot.com/

Thanks,

America SCORES Boston

Summer SCORES Service Project

Summer SCORES students went on a community walk and noted everything they saw.  They then decided which aspects were positive and which were negative for the community.  Soon they will determine what community issue they will focus on and how they can turn that negative into a positive.

Campers also wrote poems about their community and made beautiful displays to decorate the community center.

They wrote down some goals on postcards to themselves.  

We will send them out as reminders of their personal and group goals.

SCORES students focus on helping the environment and preventing bullying

Summer SCORES students worked in 2 groups.  Each group did a community walk and observed some assets and some problems in their school community.  The groups chose to work on bullying and helping plants around the school yard.

Some ideas for how to help fix the dead plants students saw on their community wall

Students researched their topic online and came up with a plan for helping to end bullying and save plants.

The Anti-bullying group came up with rules for addressing bullies assertively and acted out situations where different students had to address various forms of bullying.  Their creativity was very impressive and powerful. 

Reminders for role play

Some research notes on dealing with bullying

Summer SCORES Students Perform at Poetry Slam

The student gave a final performance.  They selected a "red carpet" theme.

Waiting in the wings

Awards were given to each camper.  Students came to the microphone to accept their award and instead of a thank you speech, they recited their poems.

2012 Summer SCORES Poetry Awards

Jacob: Best 5 Senses Poem for “Grandma’s Oatmeal”

Noel: Most Beautiful Imagery used Throughout Poems

Danny: Best “I am” poem

Nye: Best Haiku

Nakia: Best Range of Poetic Form and Devices

Brielle: Best Simile throughout One Poem for “Swans”

Jenisys:  Best Couplet Poem for “Chirping, Chirping Everywhere”

Isaiah: Best Use of Rhyming Throughout Poems

Melissa: Best Nonsense Poem for “Maddog”

Jeremy: Best Animal Poem for “Turtle”

Dean: Most Creative Poetry

Pedro: Best Poems about People for “Mohammad” and “Jake”

Amaya:  Best Olympics Poem for “Olympic People”

Nivea: Most Magical Language and Images in Poems

Students also presented the work they did in community service class.

SCORES students presenting the community that they designed

Many families attended the potluck and end of the season performance.

The audience enjoying the presentation