Princeton Day School Lower School students are set to participate in a Morning of Service Jan. 17.
Morning of Service is organized in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Each grade level, from pre-k to fourth grade, is set to take on a community service project.
The pre-k class will be collecting and assembling personal hygiene kits for the Trenton Area Soup Kitchen.
Kindergartners will be making no-bake dog biscuits to help animals in local shelters, including the West Trenton Animal Hospital and SAVE.
First grade students will be making bird feeders for the resident PDS birds during the cold winter months.
The second grade class will be making Rainbow Loom bracelets to donate to the Pediatric Unit at the Princeton Medical Center at Plainsboro.
Third graders will be working at the Nearly New Shop in Princeton, a used clothing store, which, since its inception in 1944, has been run by PDS families for the greater Princeton community. Students will be sorting donated items, putting clothing on hangers, setting up displays and creating signs to help direct customers, as well as donating a gently used item of their own.
Finally, the fourth grade students will be spending time at Elm Court, a senior housing center, conversing with and interviewing residents about their life stories using their PDS iPads. The students will film the interviews as the first step in their production of a short film, which they plan to share with Elm Court residents in the spring.
