Short on time? Here are 3 ideas to boost your service hour grade:
From time-to-time, students are unable to fulfill their weekly service hour requirement due to scheduling, illness, or other commitments. When this happens, it is best to try to make up any missed hours with the organization that you regularly serve. After all, they are the ones completing your evaluation. However, if you still find yourself short on required hours, students may complete any the following service options to earn up to 2 hours towards their service hour grade.
1. Bring in aluminum cans
The PSL Green Team collects aluminum cans to help the environment and raise funds to support PSL programs. According to some estimates, Americans throw away $1 billion worth of aluminum cans each year. In addition to saving space in a landfill, recycling also saves electricity. Recycling an aluminum can takes just 5% of the energy it takes to make a new one. Please consider doing your part to reduce waste, conserve energy, and save the plant by bringing your recyclables to PSL at the end of each grading period.
How it works: Take a tall kitchen (13 gallon) garbage bag from the recycling room in the PSL Center for Civic Engagement or use your own. Fill it with empty aluminum cans and bring it to the PSL room. Mr. Soeder or Mrs. Trentanelli will verify your donation and credit you up 2 service hours for the current grading period. Bags that are half full will earn 1 service hour.
How it works: Take a tall kitchen (13 gallon) garbage bag from the recycling room in the PSL Center for Civic Engagement or use your own. Fill it with empty aluminum cans and bring it to the PSL room. Mr. Soeder or Mrs. Trentanelli will verify your donation and credit you up 2 service hours for the current grading period. Bags that are half full will earn 1 service hour.
2. Sign up to prepare a meal for homeless families in the PSL Kitchen
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PSL is partnering with Project Hope for the Homeless to provide meals for families staying at the shelter. To help make sure every belly is full each night, especially the smallest of them we are seeking volunteers to donate and prepare 15-20 meals on the second Wednesday of each month during the school year. Volunteers would arrive at the PSL kitchen at 3:00 p.m. on their assigned date with all of the required groceries, prepare the meal, and deliver it to the shelter by 5 p.m.
How it works: If you would like to help in this way, please sign up by clicking here. You plan the menu with the other volunteers, you bring the food, you use the PSL kitchen, and you drive the meal to Project Hope. Mr. Soeder and Mrs. Trentanelli will work with you and credit you 2 service hours for the grading period during which you prepare the meal. |
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3. Hospice Collage Project
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The purpose of this project is to maintain a variety of words/images for Hospice patients and loved ones to use during their time in art therapy. The images are also utilized for various grief activities during the children’s bereavement camp in the summer. A great example of how they are used would be memory boxes. At camp each child is provided with a plain box and asked to decorate it in honor of their deceased loved one. The kids sift through all the images and find things that are meaningful to them. Some kids will cover their memory box with foods that they shared with their loved one, or activities they did together. The categories that we typically divide the images into are below:
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How it works: Find old magazines, 8 large envelopes, and a pair of scissors. Cut out images and words that corresponds to the categories listed below. Create envelopes for each category.
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Bring in the envelopes full of images/words to the PSL room and hand them to Mr. Soeder or Mrs. Trentanelli. Depending on the quantity turned in, they will credit you up to 2 service hours for the current grading period.
