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MFS News January 14, 2010 MFS CELEBRATES MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. HOLIDAY WITH DAY OF SERVICE
For the tenth consecutive year, Moorestown Friends School students, faculty and parents will perform community service work together in observance of the national Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, Monday, January 18. There is no school that day, but the school community comes together to celebrate Dr. King through service from 10 a.m. to Noon. Activity 2 — Holiday boxes: Storage boxes are filled with easy crafts for a variety of holidays for the Devereux Foundation. Activity 3 — Health Kits: Students organize and fill two-gallon plastic zip lock bags with toiletries for homeless people who come to New Visions in Camden to shower and get a hot meal. Bags contain toothpaste, toothbrush, soap, shampoo, disposable razor, deodorant, shaving cream, hand cream, washcloth, comb, and socks. Activity 4 — Computer-generated Coloring Books: The 4th Grade Service Club is organizing students to copy and collate pages and bind them into coloring books for the Birthday Bags for Devereux and New Visions. Activity 5 — Knitting and crocheting scarves: Participants make scarves for a women’s shelter. Activity 6 — Project Linus Blankets: Fleece cuddly blankets are made for hospitalized children. Activity 7 — Sewing soft stuffed toys. Activity 8 - Wooden Toy Kits: In the MFS woodshop, the Middle School Kids for Peace club direct volunteers to cut pieces for simple wooden toys. Parts are sanded and bagged into kits with instructions provided to Devereux homes, Samaritan Hospice and New Visions. Activity 9 - Casseroles for New Visions: Casseroles will be prepared and cooked to go to New Visions Community Services of Camden. Activity 10 - Take Action: Participants will respond to action alerts on the websites of organizations working on issues of interest, and by Senators and Congressman. This is the tenth year that MFS has scheduled community service activities as part of the King Day observance. In previous years, over 200 students, faculty and parent volunteers have prepared dozens of casseroles, pans of brownies and decorated cookies, and assembled hundreds of health kits, birthday boxes and birthday cards. In addition, some MFS families elect to spend the day on community service work organized through their own houses of worship and other organizations. Service learning is a longstanding part of the curriculum at MFS. It is an MFS graduation requirement to complete 50 hours of community service during the high school years. Community service is taught through every level of instruction, beginning with three-year-olds, who bring in canned goods for holiday meals, through the Upper School, which has an active ongoing program of community service including tutoring students, serving meals to the homeless and providing companionship for senior citizens.
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