On Thursday, our class took a field trip to The Nature Center At Shaker Lakes. Thank you to Scott Shelfer and Craig Macklin for braving the cold and chaperoning our field trip!
This was our second field trip to The Nature Center. Once again, we were exploring the forest and marsh habitats. We compared what they are like in the winter compared to the fall. We will be back in the spring!
We read the book Paulie Pastrami Achieves World Peace by James Promios.
We talked about the seven year old boy in the book and the actions he took that made a difference in the lives of the people in his community. Then, we brainstormed actions we could take to make a difference in our community and decided to organize a food drive.
Together with the other first grade classes, we wrote a letter to the students and the staff at Boulevard School asking for their help with this project. We also made posters to "advertise"our food drive.
Thank you to all of the families who participated in our food drive! Because of the generosity of the families and staff of Boulevard School, we were able to donate 330 cans, boxes, and packages of food to the Greater Cleveland Food Bank in time for Thanksgiving.
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I shared the following video from Kid President with the students:
As a part of our "How We Organize Ourselves" unit, I tried to encourage the students to take action. I think it is important for them to understand that even six and seven year olds can do things that will make a difference.
Each student came up with a small and/or large action that they can take to "change the world".
