Kindergarten class meets their baby cow

Heni Sirchi Roundup Reporter

A kindergarten classroom raised money toward the feed and care of the animals on campus, in a fundraiser started by Haynes Elementary teacher Mindy Levine.

The children donated the money that they raised by doing chores for the agriculture program, presenting it at this semester’s Farm Walk.

More than $600 were donated Sunday toward the feed and care of the animals on campus.

The children were also able to see the animals they were helping to feed, visiting the cow and goat pens that were set up for the event.

Three years ago, Levine, an owner of several animals including horses and donkeys, heard that they might need to close the Pierce College Farm. Because of her huge passion for animals, it was unacceptable to her.

“I wanted to do something that would make a difference,” said Levine.

She also wanted to involve the children in her class, to teach them the values of hard work and community involvement.

“I think it’s important children realize that there are things even five years old can do and make a difference in the world,” said Levine.

Since the kids were so excited about the idea, she contacted their parents to set up a chore system. The first year they raised $800 for donation and $500 the following year. “They do chores for their parents to raise money for animals so that we don’t have to sell them. It makes me cry,” said Shapiro.

The children did household tasks like loading the dish washer, addiction but addiction covers a wide range of both behaviors and substances and in general mental illness and mental health challenges,” Glass said.

The certificate program consists of 36 units. Upon completing those units students are then eligible to take the state certification exam.

“Once they complete those 36 units of the program and pass the exam and they complete 2,240 hours of fieldwork experience they become certified counselors as recognized by the state of California,” Glass said.

The fieldwork requirement can be fulfilled by things such as record keeping, group counseling or individual counseling, discharge planning, screening, assessment, and treatment planning.

“It’s very similar to what you’d be required of the Board of Behavioral Sciences for a social worker or MFT (marriage and family therapy) license,” Glass said.

Another little-known class teaches broader, less technical skills. Mia Wood, an associate professor of philosophy, teaches symbolic logic, whose subject is not as obvious from the name alone.

“Symbolic logic is a course devoted to the study of language in relation to deductive modes of reasoning,” Wood said. “The general goal is whoever comes out of the class has, among other skills, developed the skill of reasoning in a strategic and logically correct fashion.”

A majority of those who take the class, are pre-law and computer science majors but being able to reason well is something useful across all disciplines, said Wood.

“Studying how to reason in a very technically correct and sophisticated way is going to aid you in anything you do,” Wood said. “I wouldn’t want a surgeon who couldn’t reason well.”

Registration is open for summer sections.

Oceanography: OCEANO 001

Automotive technology: AST 001, 002, 041, 044

Addiction studies: ADDICST 001,007

Symbolic logic: PHILO 9

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They also refused to buy candy with their earnings and instead saved the money for the Pierce Agriculture department.

“They are learning to volunteer and to be a part of community,” said Kristina Roman, mother of fiveyear-old Haily.

“It is a huge learning experience for all of us and I think the kids get so much out of it and what can you do better than paying forward and doing it with animals?” said Levine.

Levine plans to continue her efforts with her class next year.