Birds in Copiague will remain well sheltered, as the Copiague School District continued its partnership with Home Depot and its Kids Workshop Program to build birdhouses. Fore more than ten years, Home Depot associate Jim Gilchrist has traveled throughout the District visiting second-grade classrooms to construct birdhouses.
Home Depot provides the tools and materials that the students use to assemble and complete their houses. The program allows the students the opportunity to practice following instructions, further develop their hand-eye coordination, and work cooperatively in small groups. Under the careful supervision of the adult volunteers, the students, all wearing their own bright orange Home Depot aprons, the students sanded, glued, and nailed their individual pieces of wood to make their birdhouse.
On one of his last visits to the District this year, Mr. Gilchrist went to the Deauville Gardens Elementary School. During this extra-special visit, a few seniors from Walter G. O’Connell Copiague High School and graduates of Deauville Gardens returned to help the second graders build their birdhouses and reminisce on when they built their own.
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