Throughout the year, 7th and 8th grade students from Milwaukee Jewish Day School will work together with 8th grade students from Milwaukee College Prep and Bruce Guadalupe to do our part to repair the world together.  Forging the cross-community and cross-cultural relationships at a young age is an amazing growth opportunity for our students (and their students) in that we are able to work together for a common goal to make the world a better place.

We divided our students into two groups.  One group went to the Urban Ecology Center.  When there, students helped build a retention pond (prevent runoff into the Milwaukee River and provide water for plants and animals), planted native plant species, pulled invasive plant species, learned about Native American culture, and played a collaborative game of lacrosse.   Student really had a chance to meet others and work toward improving our physical environment, while also sprinkling in some physical activities.  At the Hunger Task Force Farm (which provides food for 10,000 people on a weekly basis, half of which are people age 13 or under), students partook in three different activities: meet with a Native American educator (part of the Menominee tribe) and learned some of his language and culture, wrapped apple trees in plastic to prevent deer and mice from destroying the tree (we did wrap 60 trees, in addition to sneaking some apples to taste), and picked sweet peppers (over 800 pounds of peppers, all of which will be delivered to local food banks today).

Provided is the link of the photos/videos we took from our respective field trip.  An additional set of photos is located here (password is Repairing)