Our first adventure to Glenside
We are the Glenside Villagers! As a team we will be working to better the environment at Glenside School. Each of our members provide valuable skills and resources in order to complete our tasks at hand. We will have several meetings throughout this process discussing the best ways to accomplish our goal. While working together, we will bring back the beautiful environment at Glenside School.
Kaylee Frapaul is a sophomore student currently majoring in marketing and minoring in psychology. Kaylee is our team’s liaison. She will help our team stay focused and organized during this project.
Sosa is a junior majoring in criminal justice and minoring in Spanish. He play soccer for the Penn state men’s soccer team. He’s an outgoing person always ready to work. Can’t wait to work with my team and hopefully make Glenside a learning environment for the kids.
Krisann Cruickshank is a Senior at Penn State Berks, Currently Majoring in Criminal Justice. She is hardworking, dedicated and committed to finishing anything she starts. She takes pride in punctuality and getting things done in a timely fashion. She’s ecstatic to work with the team in helping Glenside as well as helping to beautify their environment.
Matt Harper is a junior here, currently majoring in marketing management! He is the team leader and will help our team work at the most efficient rate, and keeping everyone connected and happy with what we are planning to do. So excited for the opportunity to work in a team with my friends, I know we will leave our mark on Glenside and they will never forget the Glenside Villagers!
Our meeting with Karen Houck was great! She is a very kind and intelligent woman, during our visit she gave us a tour of Glenside. We went to the bottom floor where the kindergarten students were having lunch, Mrs. Houck showed us a lot of past year projects done by students and they all turned out great! We are so excited for the opportunity to leave our mark on this school! Next we then headed up to the main floor where the first and second graders had their classes, she also showed us the gym and some more past year projects from Berks students. Lastly, we headed to the third floor which is where the rest of the older students had class. We actually ran into a past teacher that Sosa had when he attended Glenside back in 2008 with his fifth grade teacher Mrs. Hoffman. To finish our visit, Karen had us all come into a room where she then elaborated on possible projects that we could choose and they had plenty of amazing options! Then she led us to the exit and let us all scramble to our cars in the pouring rain! Overall it was a great visit and we are super excited to be able to have this opportunity to give back to Glenside!
Our team has decided to focus on the shed’s flower boxes for our project! We are very excited to begin hand making these flower boxes and decorate them to brighten up Glenside School!
It’s great to hear you enjoyed your visit to Glenside. I bring the 5th graders here for Earth Day for a full day of activities, etc. and Mrs. Hoffman is one of the two host teachers. That’s amazing Sosa that you got to see your former teacher too!
This is a great intro, but just be sure to add the service project you will be working on once you have decided that as a team.