Day Five-and-a-half We started the morning with Cole’s pancakes. We completed and fixed up the rockets from the first grade classes. We spent the last hour of the day with the first graders helping them to launch their rockets. The week went wonderfully. Thank you to all of the students for their positive, can-do...
Continue readingHabitat for Humanity: Finishing touches @ ReStore
Today was the last day of our Intensive Learning experience at the Habitat for Humanity ReStore. Today we put the finishing touches on helping them move to their new location. We demolished some walls, shredded (again), removed letters from a door and did some final packing. While this was going on, there was a...
Continue readingAnd in the end … here comes the sun!
A discussion of aggression, a personality inventory, a list of possible college courses for prison populations, and chocolate chip pancakes were followed by an assessment of learning over the course of the week. Bon appetit!...
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Working on final projects …
Students are working in groups today to create final presentations. Summary of our IL: The Bayshore project was an overall success for the A.J. Mirwald and restoring the building. We started the week by taking a tour of the site, learning what we would later be doing on the ship. The boat didn’t...
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Exploring Art: Barren Reflections
Today our Exploring Art group spent our time in the Pine Barrens of New Jersey. After we arrived in the Pine Barrens and had a quick tour of the lake, students began working on their individual or group projects. Regardless of the 30 degree weather, we were able to get a lot of unique...
Continue readingGardening @ Habitat
Today, in our fifth day of Habitat for Humanity, we went to the Perkins Center of the Arts and helped them build raised planting beds for their garden. We built the frames out of 2 by 8s and filled them using dirt from a large pile that the Perkins Center had delivered last Friday....
Continue readingMulticultural Philly: Around Chinatown
We started out the day by going to the Peking Duck House. The food there was really good and everyone had a good time. For appetizers we enjoyed wonton soup and spring rolls; for the main course we had duck, General Tso’s chicken, vegetable fried-rice, white rice, ginger lo mein, and string beans; for...
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Exploring Art: Synergies
Today everyone worked on completing a project for tomorrow’s trip to the Pine Barrens. These projects consisted of creating either an abstract or realism sculpture. Some people worked together, others chose to work alone. The students were offered various options on the type of sculpture they could create, or there was the option to...
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First day in the village
By Sarah Henig, Vanessa, and Kendall On the first full day of service we ate breakfast with our families. Then, we went out to work on the playground at the local school. After a morning of hard work, we took a siesta and had a delicious lunch provided by our family. With the extra...
Continue readingCosta Rica: Lots of fun pictures
Here are some pictures. More pics and video to come when we can find a stronger Internet signal....
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Snow on deck!
Today was a fun yet wintery day. When we got to the Bayshore Center at Bivalve, we immediately went to the boat. There was snow on the deck, so Kiera, Harvey, and Ian shoveled it off. While they shoveled, Mrs. Van Meter, Caroline, Kelcie, Natalie, and Aparna cleaned the living quarters under the deck....
Continue readingThe Quilt Shop: Adding bedding and seams
At the Burlington quilt shop we finished our large quilts by adding bedding onto them. We used a giant machine to make seams all over the quilts and to make designs and doodles on the quilt squares. After that we made personalized logos along with our names, the date, and title of our quilts...
Continue readingSouth Jersey Food Bank: Foxes Pack Boxes
Today, Service in Camden traveled to the South Jersey Food Bank to sort, pack, and ship food donated from a variety of sources. Here is what we did today:...
Continue readingHabitat for Humanity: The Warehouse Was Be-Squeegeed
Day Four Our day at the Habitat Warehouse began with Steven, Anthony and Peter taking down an office space by removing the windows and doors, preparing the area for demolition on Friday (hopefully by our group). While this was happening, a number of students, plus Mr. Thomson and Mr. Newman, started the long practice...
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The Neighborhood Center, Part Two
Today, the Service in Camden group went back to The Neighborhood Center to finish some projects and begin some new ones. We pulled roots out of garden beds, created garden beds, scrubbed some chairs for kids to use, cleaned chairs and tables for neighbors to eat from, organized books to be ready to go...
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