This year students in the 7th and 8th grade resource classes have chosen to do a service learning project that involves working with the Wilmette Park District and the Backyard Nature Center to improve a local park. The students are particularly interested in learning about and helping to eradicate invasive species of plants, so some of our reading and writing will be focused on that. Today students began a classroom blog about their service learning project. We will use the blog to discuss the project and read and write about what we are learning. While the blog is private right now (so we can work out the bugs and get comfortable with it), we look forward to sharing it with you in the future.