Thoughts By Jen

Both of these projects are EASILY replicable on your own campus!!
Thank you to BOTH classrooms for sharing their ideas with us.
(Project page:  http://gooddeeddoers.pbworks.com/w/page/26665909/FrontPage)

Eisenhower
Oklahoma
Teri Emery – School Project
My 4th grade GT group started out with recycling, but turned their project into a schoolwide book swap to share and reuse books.  They organized the project and promoted the book swap with the students, teachers, and parents.  It was a big success.  They decided to donate remaining books to the teachers and the public library.  They surveyed the school to evaluate the success of the project.  This may become an annual tradition at our school to promote sharing books and the love of reading.

Fawn Hollow Elementary
Connecticut
Roseanne Haughton – School Project
We are creating a “Rainbow of Respect”.  We are learning to become respectful of each other, our school, our community and our environment.  We read books to learn about respect and role play in our classroom.  We wrote about ways we demonstrate respect and good manners.  We made a recycled can project for Earth Day as a way to respect our Earth and keep it clean.  Each time a student does something respectful, he/she adds a paper chain link to our “rainbow” with his/her name on it.  To make this a school wide project, we gave each grade level a different color for their paper links.  It is a positive way to encourage and reward great behaviors!

And the stories continue to come in…..  ENJOY
(Project page:  http://gooddeeddoers.pbworks.com/w/page/26665909/FrontPage)

Highland Elementary
Kim Hennessy
“My 2nd grade class is doing a combination of community projects and world projects.
*The children are collecting pop tabs for the Ronald McDonald House.  There goal is 30 lbs.
*The children wrote letters and sent Valentine’s to children in Cambodia.  A volunteer is traveling to Cambodia  to teach the children English for 5 weeks (her 6th year) and she will deliver the letters to her students.
*The children collected change and a check was sent to World Vision to purchase 2 goats for 3rd world countries.
*Each child was given $5.00 (from an anonymous source) and challenged to do their own service project to make a difference in the lives of other people.  Some children donated the money to a charity, some bought materials to create a craft to sell to make more money to give, some children bought items for food pantries or animal shelters,…”

Lincoln Elementary School
Marilyn Whatley
“SOLES4SOULS SHOE DRIVE
My classroom collaborates with a non-profit agency, Soles4Souls, each year.  In the fall, we host a new and used shoe drive for them.  Students made plans for how they would get the word out into the community that we needed people to donate any new or old shoes that they no longer used.  Some of the plans were to make daily announcements over the school intercom system, create posters, make flyers to pass out in the community, and to create a powerpoint to share.  The response was overwhelming this year!  In just four short weeks, we had collected, banded together, boxed, and delivered over 1,500 pairs of shoes to the Soles4Souls Warehouse in Alabama.  They distribute the shoes to people in the United States and in over 100 other countries around the world who need them.  This was a wonderful learning experience for the students as they learned more about the world around us.  During the project, we researched countries where people do not make enough money to buy shoes, practiced public speaking on the intercom system, worked collaboratively with each other to create flyers and posters, and realized how lucky we are!”

It has been a while since I posted teacher submissions from the Good Deed Doer’s Project……..

So, here goes—-   ENJOY!

Clay Lamberton Elementary
Community Project
Our second graders have adopted a nursing home in our community.  We are making seasonal decorative items to give to the residents.  We are also planning on going over to the nursing home to read to the residents.

Vinland Elementary School
World Project
Our Student Leadership Team decided to sponsor a student at MYFV Primary School in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. I spent a month in Ethiopia this summer learning about Ethiopia culture, education and literacy and have enjoyed sharing what I learned with my students. When this opportunity presented itself, the students were anxious to take advantage of it in order for a student in a faraway land to have a better educational experience.

Market Street Elementary
School Project
We collected food for our local food bank, the Good Harvest Food Bank.

North Cape Elementary
Community Project
Every year the kindergarten, first, and second grade classes hold a coat drive.  Rather than have a classroom gift exchange, which often ends up in disappointment or broken presents, the students bring in the money they would have spent on that gift.  This money is used to purchase new coats for area children.  This year my class of 13 students purchased 4 winter coats.  Our classes purchased a total of 27 coats.  These are being donated to area shelters, churches, and organizations for holiday distribution.  The students get a lot of fulfillment from knowing other children will have a warm holiday due to their generosity.

Shanghai American School
World Project
“Kathleen McGeedy from 2KM in Australia and Linda Yollis from California invited a group of teachers to join a blogging project to raise money for a school in Uganda. Seven classes from 4 continents joined together to walk for an hour at 10am on October 22. Two classes from Australia, one school from Uganda, one class from Connecticut, two classes from California, and our class from Shanghai participated.

Our goal was to raise $5,000 so the school could buy land. You can read our joint blog http://ugandanglobalproject.blogspot.com/ which introduces all the classes and different activities. We are in the final stages of our project where we are counting the money raised and looking at currency around the world.”

St. Elizabeth Seton
As a school we will be collecting money for the Kids Against Hunger (KAH) program.  Each student in my class is asked to do something or give up something to give to a child in need.  Then once the money is collected, usually $300 per class, the children then help package the food for the children in Honduras.

(Visit the Good Deed Doer’s  project at http://gooddeeddoers.pbworks.com/)