Eighth Grade Works With Students From the Urban League

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CCES Service Learning Director Elizabeth Jarrett and Grade 8 Service Learning Coordinator Joy Baker have the eighth-graders hooked. Together, they have partnered the eighth-grade students with a group of children from the Urban League.

CCES students help with homework and play games with the elementary school children who are brought to the campus by the Urban League on Thursday afternoons.

Each advisee group participates four times a year, and many students are returning on their own to volunteer after their turn is completed.

The CCES students work with the visitors, helping them count to fifty, find letters in a word puzzle, and color shapes.

As students finish their homework, the board games come out, with much excitement over a game of Trouble or Connect Four.

Perhaps the biggest thrill of the day for both groups is time on the playground.

Both groups go home having learned from each other.

The Service Learning program at CCES begins in Primer and continues through Grade 12. Each grade becomes involved with different community groups, and individual students often continue to volunteer with these agencies on their own.