By Paige Potter–Over 700 Morningside students packed Eppley Auditorium as the annual “Into the Streets” took place Wednesday, October 3. Fifty-one groups helped as they went out into the Siouxland community to volunteer for the morning.
This was my second year volunteering with Into he Streets and I love the opportunity to give back to my community. Last year, I went with my passport class to Dakota Dunes to remove sandbags from the flooding during the summer of 2011. This year I went with 13 other members of the CHA CHA (wellness group) and campus ministry groups to the third through fifth grade elementary school in Sergeant Bluff.
Each member of our group was sent to a separate classroom, where we worked with the teacher and the kids in that class one-on-one.
One of the members from the CHA CHA group, sophomore Drew Nolan said, “It was great to take a break from schoolwork to give our service to people who really appreciated it. All the teachers at Sergeant Bluff School seemed very grateful. It was also fun to be able to go back a few years and play with kids for the morning in P.E.”
I worked with a fourth grade classroom where I aided a teacher with some busy work. I laminated sheets of paper and cut them out. I also sorted box tops for education and put them on sheets of paper. I never really had much interaction with the students but the teacher seemed to really appreciate my help.
I was grateful for the opportunity to help someone who needed it and seemed to appreciate it. After we got done, it was fun to be able to discuss with the rest of our group what they all experienced.
Even though our group all went to the same place each of us had a different story to tell. Some listened to the students read, some graded papers for the teachers, and others did busy work for the teachers. Overall each of us had a great experience working at the Sergeant Bluff elementary school.
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