Intensive Learning @ MFS
The World At Your Fingertips
We started off the morning by making placemats and centerpieces for Cathedral Kitchen. We used construction paper and markers to decorate over 100 placemats to donate. In addition, some students read to kindergarteners, while others played on the playscape. Later in the morning, the group met up in Ms. Jefferson’s second-grade classroom to revise...
Continue readingToday, we started off by writing letters to the Lower School students who we visited earlier in the week. We got to spend time making individualized cards thanking each student for their time. After we finished making the cards, we headed down to Ms. Temple’s fourth-grade class where we helped them write and revise...
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Today South Jersey Service traveled to the Ronald McDonald House in Camden, NJ. We kicked off the day with a trip to Acme. There, we were able to pick up all of the ingredients for lunch for the House residents. We also had fun picking out some snacks and stuffed animals for us to...
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Today, we ventured to the Lutheran Home in Moorestown. Some students spent some time interacting with residents suffering from dementia, while other students interacted with the other residents at the home. To get the most information, we (Nicholas & Charlie) split up. From game playing to storytelling and piano playing, both us and the...
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For our second day of Intensive Learning, we went back to Bayshore at Bivalve to help out with some more service. The first thing we did once we arrived was help out with some administrative work upstairs, since the weather was pretty chilly in the morning. They gave us a stack of letters, envelopes,...
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Today was the first day of Intensive Learning, and our group had the pleasure of visiting Bayshore in Bivalve, NJ. We had the opportunity to help paint the outside of a boxcar that was renovated into a bathroom for the museum guests. After painting this boxcar, our tour guide Ken took us through the...
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Today, we spent the day helping out at the Paws Discovery Farm. We split up into groups and did a lot of different tasks throughout the area. Some of us cleaned the play area, while others helped make Easter eggs for their egg hunt, and some of us picked up trash around the farm....
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Today was a day filled with a variety of activities at Lutheran Crossings in Moorestown. Everyone got to do something different to suit their own interests. We all got to interact with many different residents during our time there. Some highlights are: “Some of us danced the Cotton Eye Joe several times today for...
Continue readingWe left for the Camden Neighborhood Center at 8:15 in the morning. Ms. Valerie, the volunteer coordinator there, was nice and gave us a tour of the Center. It was very large and contained lots of activities for children, adults, and seniors. After the tour, she assigned us different chores that we did (cleaning...
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The day began with a short bus ride to Newton Lake where we were met by Michael and Phil of the South Jersey Land and Water Trust. They explained the history of the river and the importance of keeping the lake clean. We were then given trash grabbers with the task to clean up...
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Our day began as we boarded the bus to Woodford Cedar Run where we raked and collected leaves to clean up the trails around the animal enclosures. Although it was cold and windy, we were able to work as a team and clear out more land than we could imagine! We even got to...
Continue readingToday South Jersey Service Learning took a trip to one of New Jersey’s hidden gems, Camden’s Children’s Garden. While there, the team met the enthusiastic staff who is ecstatic for their opening Saturday. The volunteers from MFS assisted with various tasks such as raking, collecting trash, and planting flowers throughout the garden. While working,...
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In Collingswood, NJ, South Jersey Service partnered with South Jersey Land and Water Trust (SJLWT) to pick up trash around Newton Lake. We collected beer bottles, takeout bags, wrappers, plastic, and more among the leaves and mud surrounding the lake. Afterwards, an organizer of the SJLWT collected water samples with macro-invertebrates to educate us...
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Today we went to the Woodford Cedar Run Wildlife Refuge in Medford. We started off the day by seeing some of the animals up close and going on a tour of the area. During the tour we learned about Cedar Run and what they do. Many animals that arrive at the hospital there are...
Continue readingToday our day started out with testing and making prototypes for Youth Engineering and Science (YES). YES travels around to different recreation centers in under-resourced neighborhoods of Philadelphia to bring children opportunities to experiment in the fields of STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics). We repaired carts to test safety features that can be...
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