Friday, May 7, 2010

Saint John's 2nd Grade Knitting Service Project

Mrs. Martinek’s 2nd grade class undertook a year long service project in 2009-2010. The 2nd grade class learned the skill of knitting. Using this skill each second grader knitted a partial square to one or more squares during their free time to make a beautiful afghan that was donated to the McKee Cancer Center. The title of the afghan was “On Eagles Wings”. The children were encouraged to pray as they knitted and to remember the people that would be benefiting from this project, cancer patients and their families need our prayers. Each person at sometime in their lives if they have not already, they will be affected by cancer in their lives or someone they know. We wanted to share our love with those in need.
This project was cross curricular as it not only focused on our religious curriculum of service by the students; it reinforced basic number sense skills such as counting, adding and subtracting, and measurement.
The culmination of our project was on April 30, 2010, when we delivered our completed “On Eagles Wings” afghan to the McKee Cancer Center. The students were welcomed with a reception and were given a tour of the new chapel at McKee Hospital. And as one student said, “The best part of this project was learning about how to help and pray for people with cancer.”

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