Plymouth
Meeting Friends School
2150 Butler Pike,
Plymouth Meeting, PA 19462.
Phone: 610-828-2288
Plymouth
Meeting Friends School is a small Quaker
elementary school. Currently it has about 150 students from
preprimary through sixth grade. It was founded
in 1780 and is part of the national historic
district of
Plymouth Meeting.
The third graders at Plymouth Meeting Friends
School worked on two projects in art classes
for their display on Artistic Kids. In their
classroom, they first read Paddle to the Sea,
by Hollings. They also studied about rivers
both in their classroom and in science class.
They even went on a boat ride on the Delaware
River. In art, they then made little boats of
their own out of wood and assorted every day
materials. They painted them and wrote the
school's name and phone number on the bottom,
and then took them to the Schuylkill River
where they put them in the water for what
would hopefully be the start of a journey to
the sea. If anyone finds a boat, and sometimes
they do, they are to call the school, but put
the boat back in the river to continue its
journey. The children really enjoyed all
aspects of this project.
After studying about Martin Luther King and
his dreams for the world, the third graders
then made little books about their own dreams,
which they read to the rest of the school
during Meeting for Worship. In art, they made
dream pots out of clay which incorporated some
of their dream images.
