Students joined together to make a difference on the Lower School’s first ever Community Service day on April 16, and their efforts achieved tremendous success.

All of the grade levels designed their own projects, which were as follows:

Junior kindergarteners

Junior Kindergarten - Held an activist march throughout the LS and neighborhood with homemade posters and signs related to taking care of the earth.

Senior kindergartners

Senior Kindergarten - Decorated gift-wrap paper to donate to participants in the Little Brothers Friends of the Elderly organization.

First graders

Grade 1 - Picked up garbage in the park and neighborhood.

Second graders

Grade 2 - Adopted families through the Heartland Alliance organization, donated clothes and organized for Peapod to make a grocery delivery to their homes.

Third grader

Grade 3 - Wrote letters to the troops in Iraq.

Fourth graders

Grade 4 - Collected batteries and cell phones.

Fifth graders

Grade 5 - Launched a “Go Green” campaign for Latin.

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