Week 6

This was a short, busy wk @ school so we didn't do that many AOK's.  On Tues. we collected all of our broken crayons for Mrs. Cunningham (one of her friends is doing a special project w/ them).  On Wednesday we took Miss Joiner's recycle trash for her.  She came & asked us to & the kids were super excited to do it!  :)  Also on Friday I went to the Post Office & got the boxes & labels to send our stuff to the soldiers.  I also swung by The Dollar General to get some more supplies to stuff the boxes with.  I talked w/ one of the Grandmas that's coming Wed. to help us stuff-she & her friend are SO EXCITED to come and help us!  She's bringing us pics to put on our wall so the kids will have a face to put with a name.  :)  We're going to make cards for them tomorrow to put in our boxes.  It's exciting to see our next big project come to a culmination!  It's going to be an exciting wk!  :)

 

Week 5

What a FANTASTIC AOK week!  :)  This week on Monday I was watching the season premiere of Ellen & I got inspired for our next big project!  There was a principal from a school in Las Vegas, NV that goes way above & beyond helping her students & their families so they can concentrate on school & making a better life for themselves.  Her name was Sherrie Gahn & I was SO INSPIRED by her.  The next day, I showed my kids a clip from the show & they were just as inspired as I was!  So...I called their school to see what they needed & the things they need the most are clothes & food so I decided to contact our area Wal-Mart & Target & see if they could donate anything & take up a collection in our class so we can send the school gift cards so they can use them for their current greatest needs.  We decided this would be the best approach since both food/clothes would be heavy to mail & the food might get damaged along the way.  This allows us to also put all the money towards the gift cards instead of S & H!  I LOVE that we've decided to help a school away from us & that the "ripple effect" of our project is in full swing!  :)
We also wrote a Get Well card for one of our students this week.  We took another class's library books back to the library for them.  Mrs. Goodwin asked us to empty her recycle trash for her today-we love that we're getting a "rep" for being willing to do an Act of Kindness for other people. :)  We replenished our hummingbird food today-which we decided was an Act of Kindness for our 2 resident hummingbirds.  (Which also brought up a pretty lively debate about if hummingbirds migrate or not! LOL! ;)
The icing on the cake for a great AOK week for us was mail we received today-we got a Thank-You letter from Coach Pat Summitt today for the Get Well cards we send her!  My kids were SO EXCITED & impressed!  It was so thoughtful of her to send us a letter back-she even commented on their nice artwork, which of course made their day!  :)
Next week is a short week so hopefully we can do an AOK everyday.  We're looking forward to stuffing the soldiers boxes the week after that.  I actually have 2 very sweet ladies that have agreed to come help us stuff the boxes, a former teacher that has done this project before & is going to "show us the ropes" and the grandmother of 3 of the soldiers we're sending the boxes to!  What a WONDERFUL week!  :)

October AOK Project! :)

Thanks to the Ellen show I have found our October project!  :)  I was completely inspired by a principal-Sherrie Gahn in Las Vegas, NV!  I showed my students the clip from the show & they are SUPER EXCITED!  I contacted the school & they are SUPER EXCITED as well.  They are most in need of food & clothes for the students so I thought I would try to get donations for the school in form of gift cards to Wal-Mart & Target so they might use them in whatever way they need.  We will be taking up donations all month!  :)
http://ellen.warnerbros.com/

Week # 4

It was a good week!  We have supplies coming in for the soldiers.  :)
This week we returned Miss Russell's class's library books for them.  The office staff told me yest. that they were having a really bad day-they'd had nothing but "bucket dippers" come through SOOOO we had 10 extra minutes & we decided to make them cards to brighten up their day!  They were SO nice & they buzzed our room & told my kids how much they LOVED their cards & they hung them up in the office for everyone to see.  :)  Today my kids took Sea Crew's recycle trash for them.  ALL of our AOK's this wk were FREE!  :)

Week # 3

It was a good week.  :)  We wrote get well cards to Pat Summitt.  We took another 1st grade's library books to the library for them.  We also took a K's recycle trash for them.  :)  All of our AOK this wk were free!  :)

We sent our letter for our Sept. project (care pckgs for soldiers in Japan & Afghanistan) home this week.  We're excited to start getting our supplies in!  :)