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Spokanimal Supplies Drive

March 17, 2022 Leave a Comment

Student Contributor -katelyn pitzer
In this project, I had my students gather supplies for the Spokanimal animal shelter. The students gathered supplies over the month of February. Then I went and delivered the supplies to spokanimal.

For the project, the students were given a newsletter in their mailboxes that went home to parents about how we can help our community. It explained we would be doing a supplies drive to help the animals at spokanimal. The students brought in supplies over the month of February and would get the privilege of bringing supplies down to the office where the supplies were stored when the class would get team points for being respectful and on task. This was a service to the community because it greatly helped sponanimal stay in business so that all the animals can go to a good home! It was powerful for the students because we know how much they love animals and they were so excited and happy to be able to make a difference in their community and help out the animals in need!

The project went really well! The students gathering supplies over the whole month of February worked great because it gave lots of time for students to get the information to parents/guardians and get the supplies back to the school. If I had more time I would try and plan a field trip to spokanimal for the students to visibly see the worker’s gratitude when delivering the supplies.

Filed Under: Large Project Tagged With: 3rd-5th Grade, K-2nd Grade

Blizzard Box

March 4, 2020 Leave a Comment

Student Contributor -H. McCarthy
We held a school wide food drive where students/teachers bring in canned food/nonperishables. After multiple weeks of the food drive we also asked communities members to donate shoe boxes. The students put food into the shoe boxes, decorated them and gave them to meals-on-wheels. The students also walked them over to the nursing home across the street and gave them to the elderly people there.

To begin this project, I explained what Meals-on-Wheels does for the community, giving hot meals to those in need of food. I had an open discussion with the students about what they think these people in need do when the Meals-on-Wheels trucks can’t make it to them, for example, during a snowstorm. As a class the 5th graders decided that we should give them food, just in case the trucks couldn’t get to them. Because we had the intention of them using this food during a snowstorm, we named them Blizzard Boxes. We held a school wide food drive for nonperishable items. We let this go on for 3 weeks. Food lined the halls, the foyer & my mentors’ classroom. We also asked community members to bring in empty shoe boxes. After 4 weeks we got together as a group and made decorations for the top of the blizzard boxes. We cut white construction paper that covered the top of the shoe box then the students colored the top. They wrote Blizzard Box on it, and also wrote a note to go in the inside of the box. The note said something kind, as well as Love, McDonald Elementary. After the top covered were glued on we packed the boxes with 1 entrée, 1 vegetable and a dessert. We gave a lot of boxes to Meals-on-Wheels to distribute, and we also walked them over to the nursing home across the street.

-Give the food drive enough time to ensure a lot of food is donated.
-Ask for shoeboxes that have tops that completely off.
-I did this with an afterschool group, but it could be modified as an in-class art project time.
-We had a hard time communicating with the nursing home manager to get a time for us to come bring the boxes over.

Filed Under: Large Project Tagged With: 3rd-5th Grade, 6th-8th Grade

Crayola ColorCycle

June 3, 2019 Leave a Comment

Student Contributor -K. Flatow
I did the Crayola ColorCycle with 3rd graders at my placement site. My 3rd graders were in competition with the neighboring 3rd grade classroom to face off in collecting the most markers. The students are to be collecting markers for roughly 8-10 weeks (length of time my vary). At the end of each week the classes are to add up the markers to track the growth to then share with the other class. At the end of the project the markers are added up and announce a winning 3rd grade class.

The students were to collectively as a class gather as many markers as they could while competing with the neighboring 3rd grade classroom. Each of the classrooms has their own marker drop box for continued collection. The winning class will receive popsicles or other treat for most markers collected. The students are learning the value of recycling and how small collective changes can make a change. The makers are tools the students use all the time and the familiarity of the product helped build the connection that other items can be contributed to the reduce, reuse, recycle.

My students really enjoyed the activity. It was really nice to have the other 3rd grade teacher willing to participate in this activity. Every Friday we collected the weekly totals to share with the students. When the project started we created a thermometer to continuously fill, as we got closer to goal of 100 markers. The students are learning the value of recycling and how small collective changes can make a difference. The students really benefited from seeing the their contribution of markers rise over the extended period of time. In terms of modification or advice I would adjust the goal depending on the length of time of collection.

Filed Under: Large Project Tagged With: 3rd-5th Grade, 6th-8th Grade, K-2nd Grade

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