6th Grade First Friends Experience

Anne-Barton Carter's 6th Grade Servant Leadership Class visited the food pantry at First Friends Meeting the other day and had a great time. They received some great feedback. Check out the visit and the feedback below:

From Sheila to all at First Friends involved with the food pantry:

Just wanted to share with you about how amazing yesterday was in the food pantry!

Here are some of the reasons:

A class of 14 students from Canterbury, their teacher Anne Barton and two adults came to learn about the pantry and then they set up several activities for our pantry friends to partake in while they waited. It was AMAZING! There were valentines, coloring, pictionary, cookies being decorated, extra helpers and even some video interviews going on! Folks seem to love having the kids there and the kids were loving on our friends. CAROL WHITLEY and FREDRICK JOHNSON came in to share with the class as well and they were wonerful speakers.

From one of the couples that volunteers each month:

The Canterbury students who worked at the food pantry were some of the most amazing young people we've encountered. They were so engaging, engaged, warm, compassionate, positive (I could go on!) imaginable. Thank you for sharing them with First Friends. The food pantry clients loved being with them and the interacting with them. Fellowship Hall felt like a warm reunion of friends having lots of fun!

We went away truly optimistic about the future!

Podcast: Themes of Romeo & Juliet

Check this out. One of our 8th Graders completed this podcast with the iMovie app ($4) on her iPad:
 

Update: Meet the Middle School Night

If you weren't able to make it to Meet the Middle School Night, check out the prezi presentation below.

SPENT: Incredible Simulation Game for Empathy Building

Anne-Barton Carter shared this website with our 8th graders to begin to build a sense of empathy for the working poor. It is an incredible interactive website that tugs at the heartstrings and forces you to be in another's shoes. Check it out:

http://playspent.org/

How Are Students Using Their Smartphones

I found another infographic I thought you might like on how students are using their smartphones. Some warnings on this particular study:

1. It was administered by STUDYBLUE, a mobile and online study service, so there is some self-interest involved. 
2. Despite #1, they did collect data from over a million users of their app and website. 
3. There is still a lot of "other" things students are doing with their Smartphones during the study time, but an interesting conclusion that studying is happening more, overall with mobile technology. 

History of Technology Infographic

Found this infographic last night on Twitter (via Phoenix University courtesy of teachthought.com) and thought it was interesting.