Intensive Learning @ MFS
The World At Your Fingertips
Today we took a trip to the historical Ronald McDonald house. It’s a place that houses families from around the world whose kids are undergoing procedures in Cooper Hospital and four others. It provides food, comfort, and a safe place to stay when needed. When we arrived we were given a tour through the...
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Thursday, March 30 For our last trip, we went down to the ReStore warehouse in Maple Shade, where we were welcomed by a staff member named George. Habitat for Humanity is a nonprofit organization that uses its profits to build homes and give people the opportunity to afford decent housing. When we arrived at...
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On our fourth day of Intensive Learning, the South Jersey Service Group was at Urban Promise in Camden. First, we worked on cleaning the perimeter and getting rid of trash lying around nearby. Then a group brought items like chairs to the art room at another building. Before lunch started some of us picked...
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Today, we started off by heading to the playscape to do some landscaping work. We got to spend time raking leaves and pulling weeds to make the playscape cleaner. After we finished cleaning, we got to play with the preschoolers and Prekindergarten kids on our newly cleaned playscape. Lots of the kids pitched in...
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For our second day of South Jersey Service, we walked down Main Street to the Perkins Center for Arts. We were welcomed by Kahra Buss, the executive director of the Perkins Center, who taught us about the historical importance of the building. Initially owned by Dudley and Alice Sullivan Perkins, the building was eventually...
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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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