Feb 07 2009
Service Learning Launches This Week!
On Wednesday, we will be going to the Court Retirement Center for a Valentine’s visit with the residents there. We will be presenting skits, poems, and playing some Valentine bingo. This is the first of 4 visits that we will be making there. The next few will involve interviews of the residents, with a focus on World War II, and we have been building up our background knowledge of this fascinating time in history. Our final visit will be a presentation and celebration of student projects about the era.
After this first visit we will be practicing interview skills, and we have wrangled my mother into coming up here to serve as “fresh meat” for us to practice on. She is looking forward to sharing stories about life on the homefront.
We value any memorabilia your family may have as well as the resource of any family members that were alive during that time. Please contact me if you would like to be involved in any way. You are welcome to travel with us or contribute to our research.
I am in need of tape recorders that have a built-in microphone, so if you have one and will be willing to loan it, let me know.
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I had a great time going to the nursing home. I can’t wait to go back. Tell your mom to get ready to be a guinea pig!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!YEA!!!:)