Balanced Life Skills Martial Arts

Joey S.  gets it.  He has been working so hard over the last year as he trains in tae kwon do and in his personal training too.  Joey has become one of the physically strongest students in class – in fact one of the most improved too.  This summer he accomplished a very tough goal – biking the Great Alleghany Passage Trail from Frostburg to Meyersdale and back.  A total of 32 miles.  His goal was a 25 mile trek.  What a great accomplishment.

In addition he has not forgotten the importance of doing for others. For the past 4 years when he has a birthday party, Joey invites his friends to make food donations to the Lighthouse Shelter instead of gifts.  This year was no different.  His family and him delivered the food this past Saturday.  Happy Birthday Joey and congratulations on your bike ride this summer.

I grew my hair long so that I could donate it to a charity that would make wigs for kids that had cancer or other illnesses that made them lose their hair.  It all started several years ago when I saw a kid here at Balanced Life Skills Read the rest of this entry →

Cleaning up Aberdeen Creek

Look at all the trash they pulled out of the creek! This was a great job by these students.

For my service project I worked with my grandmother to design an art project from my class to complete together for the fundraising auction at our school.   We designed an under the sea collage.  My class divided into groups and each completed a square.  Marmee and I painted the background, and my group did the treasure chest square. We named it “Shark Bottom”.  The golden shark is the one I made.  It was lots of fun, and here is a picture of it all finished.

For my community service project my Kindergarten class and I each wrote a letter to a soldier thanking them for their service to our country. On the opposite side of the page we used small pieces of white and red construction paper and some stars to create an American flag.

My mom is going to send all of our letters to an organization called  www.amillionthanks.org and from there they will be distributed to an American soldier.

I had the idea to do this after learning in school about Veteran’s Day and Memorial Day all the things that the military does for us to keep our country safe.

Stewart & friend at Terrapin Park with their haul

Some trash is heavy to carry!

We got together some friends and picked up trash. We were with Project Clean Streams.  My friend Luke joined us.  My mom drove us to Terrapin Park on the Eastern Shore.  We worked 2 hours and picked up 8 bags of trash and a man told us the beach never looked cleaner!!

Connor, Ethan, Eric and James keep their promise

So now they have their heads shaved and all for a good cause.  They raised money to help St. Baldricks and their Cure Cancer Drive.  Our 3 students and a dad raised hundreds of dollars in this effort.

Thanks to all of them for making all of us aware of the work that needs to be done.  Click here to see Jimmy’s Story.

carrying food into Lighthouse Shelter

Ryan says:  We delivered some food to the place called the Lighthouse Shelter.  Its a place where people can go tot get food because they are hungry and they don’t have any money to buy themselves any food.  We brought them food because they said they really needed some help and so we asked what they needed and we went to Target and got some of the things.  And then my sister Hailey and I delivered the bas to the Lighthouse Shelter.  Well I hope the people can have some food now.  (6 years old.)

Hailey says:  We got to Target and mom got some food for the Lighthouse Shelter.  Some of the things we got were peanut butter, cans of vegetables, cherieos, rice and strawberries.  It made me feel happy to give to people who can’t afford money and now they can have some food to eat so hopefully they will like the food we gave to them.

I like doing this, maybe I will be able to do it alot but I want to help buy the food next time.  I am looking froward to be helpful to the Lighthouse Shelter.  It was fun!

PS.  At first I didn’t want to write this but now that I did I feel real good.

Susie C. is a leader

When I walk along the big road near my house, I notice a lot of trash. People throw their trash on the ground and it’s wrong. I wanted to do something to help.

Please Do Not Litter.

I made signs reminding people not to litter. The signs show pictures of animals so people will know that littering hurts animals. We put the signs up on the fence along the road where people litter the most.

Great Job little brother!

I got my little brother Teddy to help me, and we loaded up our wagon with trash. We picked up the litter on the road and filled a big trash bag with all the litter. It was really gross but now the side of the road looks much better.