Students learn with hands-on activities

Students at Campus Canyon School are participating in a variety of hands-on activities through the Service Learning Enrichment Program.

Service Learning is standardbased lessons in a handson environment in which the students accomplish a service project. The program consists of students volunteering for one lunchtime recess a week to come to classes for a 10 to 12week session taught by the service learning enrichment teacher Marsha Bunch.

The students become Service Learning Ambassadors and take the information they learn in the sessions back to their classrooms in the form of a weekly Service Learning Brief.

During April the ambassadors will host mini open houses in the service learning classroom and garden during lunchtime recess, welcoming students from each respective classroom to visit and participate in service learning activities.

First-grade ambassadors learned about horticulture by planting a school garden. Secondgraders learned about community helper jobs and helped prepare the garden area while also doing garden observations. Thirdgraders learned about nutrition and healthy eating, using the food sources in the garden.

Other projects include the fourth-graders' Legacy of the Wild Mustang project, in which the students learned about the horse's role in the history of the American West.

Fifth-graders enriched their knowledge of family heritage through "Finding Our Families, Finding Ourselves." Students participated in field trips and heard guest speakers from the community.

The public is welcome to visit the school during Open House on April 24. Service Learning Projects and Awareness Newsletters can be viewed in Room 27.

Campus Canyon is at 15300 Monroe Ave. in Moorpark. For information, call (805) 378-6301.