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Last week, when we served a meal at Matt Talbot Kitchen and Outreach, a UNL student filmed the event and conducted several interviews with the adults and students who were there to volunteer.  I learned today that her project is finished, and we think she did a great job capturing the essence of the work that volunteers do there on a daily basis.

You can click here to see her project, which includes pictures and interviews from that day.  We are featured under the "Buying and Preparing" and the "Serving and Consuming" headers.

Giving Tuesday

In continuing to work with our Me to We theme, we celebrated Giving Tuesday by preparing and serving a meal at Matt Talbot Kitchen and Outreach here in Lincoln.

Tonight's menu:

Tacos!  And beans, salad, fruit, and cookies.

Our students worked very hard to get all the food prepared:

After about an hour of prep work, we were ready to serve!

But we also found some time to sneak in some bites of cookies, which were made by Mrs. Rhoades and the 8th grade FCS classes.

After everyone got their meals (and seconds!), it was time to clean up!

While we were there, a UNL journalism student was making a documentary about what it takes to serve a meal at Matt Talbot, so she filmed all of the work we did tonight.  A few of our students were asked to speak about their experiences!

These students were champs tonight, serving 149 meals to people-in-need.  We are so proud of their hard work!

We've Got Spirit, Yes We Do!

Halloween at a middle school could be a crazy day.  Or a crazy week.  Students seem to be under the impression that we should be throwing a party (we don't) or that they should be allowed to wear crazy costumes (they aren't). So, we figured, why not make every day of Halloween week a dress-up day?  It's all the fun of Halloween without the dress code violations!

Monday was Lazy Day, where students were supposed to wear comfy clothes - you know, sweat pants, t-shirts, hoodies, etc.  It turns out that students wear that kind of thing on a normal day, so taking pictures of that spirit day seemed sort of irrelevant.  That day, you couldn't tell who was dressed according to that day's theme and who simply forgot that Monday was even a spirit day.  Oh, well.

Tuesday was Red Carpet Day, where students were asked to dress up as their favorite celebrity or dress up as if they were attending a Red Carpet event.

These students just dressed up as the red carpet.  How creative!

Mrs. Mac wears a different Prom dress or bridesmaid's dress each year!

Walking on the Red Carpet.

These stars read, "I don't need to dress up because I'm already a star."

As the ever-popular movie Mean Girls states, "On Wednesdays, we wear Pink."  And indeed, we did!

Thursday was Teacher/Student swap day, where students were supposed to dress up like a teacher and teachers were supposed to dress like students.

And Friday was Sports Day!

Thanks to everybody who participated!