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Pre K 4: took a tour of the SFX food pantry and learned how it is currently serving approximately 130 families, representing about 400 individuals each week. While there they learned about the mission of the Pantry, thank you Mrs. Freeman for having us. During collections week PK4 gathered and sorted 200+ non-perishable food items and delivered them to the Food Pantry. By gathering and helping with their little hands they cared for God’s Creation.
Kindergarten: The Kindergarten class is learning about Caring for God’s Creations. We adopted a polar bear named Hope for the year. We made 40 polar bear ornaments and met at the Brookfield Zoo with our families to decorate the SFX Kindergarten tree. We also got to see Hope while visiting the zoo. The donation of the tree provides many needed resources to all of God’s creations at the zoo. Today, they went to the Palos Children’s Farm and acted out a Nativity with real animals, sang Christmas carols and saw many of God’s creations.
1st Grade: went to Bethlehem Woods to meet with our Older Friends for snacks, bingo and caroling. We made and distributed 22 blankets to residents there, we sang 7 amazing Christmas Carols with the help of Ms. Faris, played Bingo with 20 friends and made 41 Christmas cards!
2nd Grade: went to St. Catherine & St. Lucy Elementary School in Oak Park to do a joint Service Project with the students there and they together made 53 Christmas wreath ornaments to donate to The Mission of Our Lady of the Angels in the West Humboldt Park area of the City. They will give these wreaths out to the food pantry customers during the holiday season. They read a book with SCSL children which was donated afterwards and played Bingo with their new friends. During collections Week 2nd Grade collected 52 lbs of White Rice and 74 lbs of Pasta! Thats about as heavy as two 4th grade children! All items were delivered to the Mission of Our Lady of Angels. When they got back to school today they wrote Thank You Cards to their new SCSL friends!
3rd Grade: Went to Marillac House, on the West Side where they found out about the organization & programs, they observed the programs and met with the Outreach Team. At Marillac they sorted all of the donated items from collections week and brought these items across the street to the Outreach office.
During Collections week 3rd grade collected for Marillac House: ■ 45 Kids Coats + 42 Adult Coats & many hats, gloves, snowpants. ■ 19 boxes of Dipers ■ 12 containers of Baby formula ■ 40 packages of wipes ■ 50 containers of baby food.
4th Grade & 7th grade both went to Feed My Starving Children and packed 71 boxes, they made 15,336 meals. The work they did will feed 42 children for a whole entire year! In addition before they left, our 7th graders packed 70 personal care bags for our own SFX Food Pantry.
5th Grade: went to American Legion where they made 72 care packages for the patients and Veterans at Hines VA Hospital, wrote many many letters and thank you cards.
6th Grade: went to Suburbanite Bowl and bowled with 58 SEASPAR friends. 128 games bowled, countless high fives and endless smiles!
8th Grade: - Went to two different locations, the Greater Chicago Food Depository and St. Mary Star of the Sea, Big Shoulders School on the Southwest side. At the Greater Chicago Food Depository they packed 127 boxes of beans which equates to 3,048lbs of beans and they packed 2,540 meals which
works out at 77 meals per volunteer! At St. Marys Star of the Sea we brought 32 playground toys for the children there. Our 8th graders worked with the students from pre-school through 4th grade and helped them with math, reading, played games, sang songs and created a special art project. They also helped unload a special food and gift donation for all the families in the school.
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