Blissfield Elementary School's Community Service Projects!

During the past five years, Blissfield Elementary School's staff has implemented six strategies that focused on the school improvement goal that "students will demonstrate an understanding of responsible behavior by making appropriate choices."

We have assessed and charted the progress made within each strategy. Because of these strategies, good things are happening. Students have shown growth in the areas of responsible behavior, respect and safety. Students are learning about good citizenship by doing service learning projects in their school and community and, for the outside world.

The students of Blissfield Elementary School are winners because of the valuable experiences that teachers provide for them in these six strategic areas and because they understand what it means to make responsible choices in their lives. We hope they will continue to remember to "Be responsible, be respectful, and be safe" always.

After the 5th grade students finished the Blissfield Downtown Community Service project, they were asked to do a responsive writing. The prompt was: "As a fifth grade we just finished a community service project of growing plants for the city of Blissfield within the BELL. Reflect back on your part of the project from planting of seedlings, caring for them and planting them in Blissfield's urns downtown.

Relate how the planting project made you feel as in relationship to being responsible, respectful and safe as stated in the Blissfield Elementary School's Pledge. Please write at least three paragraphs of how this project made you feel."  Read a writing in response to the project at the Downtown Writing icon.