On Thursday, 20 October, Wheatley’s 8th Annual Day of Service and Learning took place. As part of this day, students and faculty engage themselves in approximately three dozen different service activities throughout Long Island. Some of the activities included:

• A Canvas Full of Sunshine
• Amityville Community Gardens
• Birthday Wishes
• Book Room Organization
• Build Storage Shed (donated by Wheatley PTO)
• Christopher Morley Park Cleanup
• Concert at Glen Cove Nursing Home
• East Williston Pumpkin Patch
• Family Service League Preschool
• Friends Academy Cemetery
• Friends and Angels
• Guide Dog Foundation
• Hempstead Plains Restoration & Seed Collection
• Horseability
• The INN
• Jessica Cohen Courtyard Cleanup
• Million Pillowcase Challenge
• North Side Assistants
• Prairie Restoration/Invasive Species Removal
• Project Sunshine
• Ronald McDonald House
• Sandwiches for the INN
• Stage Crew Clean-up
• Stop Hunger Now
• Sweet Dreams
• SWS Planting Beds
• Veteran’s Memorial Maintenance
• Video Documentarians
• Willets Road Music Mentors

Over the next week or so, I will provide more details (and photos) from some of the activities. For now, here are some pictures of the students getting ready to head out to their sites!