As I explained in a
previous post, the grade 1s held their Recycle for Good Garage Sale on April 18th &
19th. Their goal was to raise funds to help people in Africa (
through World Vision) and to help animals (through the
World Wildlife Fund Symbolic Adoption Program). The
idea came
from Lilly, a student who was watching television one night and saw a
commercial that showed some people in Africa need help getting clean
water and fresh food. Our class had discussed the idea of a garage sale earlier this school year, when we were brainstorming ways of fundraising for symbolically adopting animals. We decided that our garage sale could benefit both people and animals! When the Grade 1s decide to do something, they do it right....they raised $464 to help others!
Earlier this week, students suggested animals we may want to help from the WWF's symbolic adoption website. Then students voted for the animals they would most like to adopt. Today, we were on a Skype video call with our partner class, Mrs. Caldwell's Kindergarten at Oak Lake Community School. Students were sharing how well the garage sale went and one of the Grade 1s asked the Kindergartens if they would like to vote to help us choose the animals to adopt. Here's our voting:
After we finished our call with the Kindergartens, we officially adopted 1 meerkat and 1 orangutan. We can't wait for our adoption kit to arrive!
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