Service Learning Project with Puppets

1. My Service Learning Project
PowerPoint Created by:
Pakou Vang, Iris Esteves, Trishelle Anderson,
Daisy Reyes, Erin Williams, and Brittany Miner
Date: 12.17.2014
Drama 136S Fall 2014

2. Investigate
What is Service Learning?
It is many scenarios all in one, that you do or are involved
in, put together to create the rewarding feeling that you
get from giving back to the community. When you give
service to the community and the world around you, it
teaches you something meaningful in return.

3. Investigate: Visual of Service
Learning
Source: http://www.fresnostate.edu/academics/cesl/programs/jumpstart/become.html

4. A Community Organization I Researched
This semester : Reading and Beyond
A Major Issue related the Organization:
This organization is dedicated to prepare young children for
Kindergarten, tutoring school-age students to grade-level reading,
and teaching parents to support their children in school.
Source: http://www.readingandbeyond.org/

5. With the Fresno Unified School
District
The Fresno Unified School District has
renewed its commitment to the arts. The
Board of Education recognizes the impact
that dance, music, theatre, and visual arts
plays in the development of the whole
child.

6. Prepare
How does your SL Project address the needs
of the Organization?
● Our service learning projects provides assistance for teachers
who need puppets to make learning interesting and fun!

7. Preparing Students for the Future
with Arts Education
Three things to know about the organization:
1. They assist the community in planning and providing a high quality
arts education for every K-8 student.
2. has a goal to improve the arts education program in Fresno
3. Overall helps students achieve higher grades, better attendance,
improve test scores, higher engagement, and helps students gain
self-confidence

8. Action - What I Did
- Baa-Baa Sheep -

9. 5 Little Monkeys

10. More puppets

11. 5 Little Ducks - went out to play!

12. I’m a Little Teapot, Short and Stout...

13. Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star, How I
Wonder...

14. Flower Pot Puppets… We used our
Green Thumbs!

15. Five Fat Turkeys

16. The Wheels on the Bus Go Round and
Round

17. Chrysanthemum- children’s book by
Kevin Henkes

18. Three Blind Mice

19. Thomas the Train
Thomas the Train

20. Organizing

21. Who I Worked With
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22. Highlights
The finishing products were satisfying

23. Challenges
● Hot glue guns
● limited materials
● creativity
Major challenge: The huge gap between your imagination
of how the puppet you are making should look like and how
you actually made it.

24. Inform - Accomplishments
[VIEW VIDEOS HERE}
OUR PUPPETS HAVE STARRED IN ACADEMIC VIDEOS FOR TEACHERS!
The Kindergarten videos are part of a new Dance and Music curriculum that
will be used by ALL 278 Kindergarten teachers in the Fresno Unified
School District! That means they will reach over 7500 kindergarten
children in just this year alone!
We view this as a HUGE accomplishment!

25. Inform - Share Your Work
Source: http://m.fresnou.org/students/
http://teacherstraining.com.au/tag/teacher-training/
http://www.noozhawk.com/article/122511_transitional_kindergarten

26. Reflect
What we Learned: Everyone has their own
unique styles in art!
What we Discovered: Making puppets is time
consuming but rewarding at the end.
What we Will Remember: The cool experiences
we had making puppets and seeing it being put
in good use! The simplest things can make a
difference in other people’s lives.

27. Reflect - How Did We Do?
We Make a DIFFERENCE!
We are a part of a new and exciting
curriculum for Kindergarten students in
our area! This is so amazing and
rewarding for us!
We have also helped organize the supplies in
this room for future students that take this
course!

28. Reflect - Future Goals/Next Steps
Source:
http://hollywoodhillshigh.browardschools.com/index.php?option=com_c
ontent&view=article&id=20357&Itemid=31495

29. Works Cited
• "Jan and Bud Richter Center for Community
Engagement and Service-Learning." Become a Corps
Member.N.p., 02 June 2014. Web. 11 Dec. 2014
• "Reading and Beyond | Building Foundations for Children
and Families." Reading and Beyond | Building Foundations
for Children and Families. N.p., 2014. Web. 11 Dec. 2014.
• "Fresno Unified School District." Student Portal Login. N.p.,
n.d. Web. 11 Dec. 2014.
• "Teacher Training International." Teacher Training
Conference Reflections. N.p., 15 Aug. 2012. Web. 11 Dec.
2014.
• Magnoli, Giana. "Adams School All Ready for Transitional
Kindergarten’s Early Start." Noozhawk. N.p., 25 Dec. 2011.
Web. 11 Dec. 2014.

30. Work Cited Cont.
● "Hollywood Hills High School." -Future Educators of
America. N.p., n.d. Web. 11 Dec. 2014.
● "Any Given Child." Ensuring the Arts for Any Given Child
in Fresno CA. N.p., 2012. Web. 11 Dec. 2014.
● Ramirez, Alma. "Pinterest." Pinterest. N.p., n.d. Web. 11
Dec. 2014.
● Morris, Wayne. "Leading and Learning." Creativity – Its
Place in Education. N.p., 02 Apr. 2013. Web. 11 Dec.
2014.
● Antonelli, Susan. "Is Creativity as Important as Literacy."
Wonder Teacher. N.p., 02 Oct. 2014. Web. 11 Dec. 2014.