10-23 Southwark The past two Tuesday afternoons were full of excitement for me and for the students at Southwark. We started off our semester on Tuesday, October 23rd with some weather-related projects to coordinate with what the kids were learning in class. But before the fun started, we helped them …
This week at Fishtown Recreation Center, we got to celebrate Thanksgiving! We started off with a very exciting class learning activity. We cut out fruits, vegetables, and a cornucopia from construction paper, and we asked the children what fruits and vegetables they enjoyed eating. The children were then able to …
This week at Fishtown Recreation Center, we continued with our fall theme! Our first activity was making landscapes. We cut ovals for trees, brown strips for the ground, and white paper for the moon out of construction paper for the children to glue onto blue backgrounds. We then showed them …
You can read what several of the youth who are involved in ASI have written about themselves. This is a simple, but efficient, way to get to know the kids and learn a little about their personal life, what they like, and their aspirations. From 4 to 12 years old, …
Today aside from our usual class, we also made some crafts with a 6th-grade class. Our crafts for today were centered around fall and the upcoming Halloween. We started out making spiders with a yarn wrapped around black construction paper for a web. After this, we passed out the parts …
Continuing with our October theme, we made sugar skulls to celebrate the Day of the Dead! The children colored in and decorated their skulls, while they learned about the history and meaning of the sugar skulls and the Day of the Dead. They were very engaged and had lots of …
We had lots of fun celebrating the month of October and Halloween again this week! We started off by making ghosts out of construction paper. Each child was given a moon, a ghost, a bat, and black circles for the mouth of the ghost. They then glued the ghost and …
Penn Treaty’s first talent show has come to a close. We arrived to help decorate and set up which included: blowing up tons of balloons, decorating the photo booth, and lay out props. After this, the students started drifting in and it started getting chaotic, but there was so much …
