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| A beautiful day for our walk! |
Our first graders have been busy this
December engaged in projects to help bring hope and joy to members of our community for the holidays. On Friday, we were
joined by eight of our parents and walked to the Breathing Room Foundation in
Jenkintown to work on a holiday project. The Breathing Room Foundation
provides care and support to local families affected by cancer. They
reach out to families in many ways to give them 'breathing room' while dealing
with very difficult circumstances. Holiday baskets are one way they reach out
to these families. It was an honor to help make special decorations and
cards for this year's baskets. The students created snowflake ornaments
from colorful, sparkly beads, decorated greeting cards and the posters for the
holiday party. We greatly
appreciated all the parents who joined us for this wonderful project. To learn more about the Breathing Room
Foundation, please visit their website.
Our
next service project had the first graders and their fourth grade Meeting
partners decorating and filling holiday gift bags for homeless men at the
Whosoever Gospel Mission in Germantown. As we readied ourselves for our
project, Susan read the moving Langston Hughes poem, Mother to Son, to give us a context for our work. The Whosoever Gospel Mission is a
Christian nonprofit organization, which serves all people, whose purpose is to
provide shelter, food, clothing, education, counseling, rehabilitation and
other assistance to homeless and/or needy men, women and children in the
Philadelphia Metropolitan Area. The gift bags will provide snacks and a variety
of personal items that are not readily accessible to individuals helped by the
mission. To learn more about their amazing work click here.
The
first graders truly enjoyed their time working with their partners creatively and
thoughtfully designing the 56 gift bags and were delighted to know that their work
would brighten the lives of others in our community.
Our first graders have been busy this
December engaged in projects to help bring hope and joy to members of our community for the holidays. On Friday, we were
joined by eight of our parents and walked to the Breathing Room Foundation in
Jenkintown to work on a holiday project. The Breathing Room Foundation
provides care and support to local families affected by cancer. They
reach out to families in many ways to give them 'breathing room' while dealing
with very difficult circumstances. Holiday baskets are one way they reach out
to these families. It was an honor to help make special decorations and
cards for this year's baskets. The students created snowflake ornaments
from colorful, sparkly beads, decorated greeting cards and the posters for the
holiday party. We greatly
appreciated all the parents who joined us for this wonderful project. To learn more about the Breathing Room
Foundation, please visit their website.
Our
next service project had the first graders and their fourth grade Meeting
partners decorating and filling holiday gift bags for homeless men at the
Whosoever Gospel Mission in Germantown. As we readied ourselves for our
project, Susan read the moving Langston Hughes poem, Mother to Son, to give us a context for our work. The Whosoever Gospel Mission is a
Christian nonprofit organization, which serves all people, whose purpose is to
provide shelter, food, clothing, education, counseling, rehabilitation and
other assistance to homeless and/or needy men, women and children in the
Philadelphia Metropolitan Area. The gift bags will provide snacks and a variety
of personal items that are not readily accessible to individuals helped by the
mission. To learn more about their amazing work click here. 
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