WEST CHESTER, Pa. — Twenty-seven second grade students at Penn London Elementary built and donated bluebird boxes to the London Grove Township open spaces initiative.  These students participated in a 4-H School Enrichment Program which focused on the bluebird through nonfiction writing, measuring, and animal adaptations and habitats. The 4-H Youth Bluebird Project is designed to help youth become careful and knowledgeable observers of bluebirds and other cavity-nesting birds in our area. Youth learned to create a habitat that promotes the health and safety of local cavity-nesting birds. The students’ projects were guided by their teacher, Mrs. Laura Barton, and 4-H Extension Educator, Mrs. Audrey Reith, with the assistance of three classroom volunteers.

The 4-H school enrichment projects are designed to enhance classroom education with experience-based learning, the hallmark of the 4-H youth development program for decades.  Classroom ready projects teach life skills as well as specific subject matter.  School enrichment programs can be tailored for classroom or homeschool use.

For more information about the Chester County 4-H School Enrichment Program, please contact the Penn State Extension Chester County 4-H Office at ChesterExt@psu.edu or by calling us at 610-696-3500.

–Penn State Extension