Dec. AOK

For the month of December we will be concentrating on FREE Acts of Kindness!  I know that our parents have very important things to spend their money on this month!  We are very grateful for all of the help our parents have given us thus far!  We only have 29 acts to reach our goal of 200!

Nov. AOK!

This was only a two day wk but we did our November AOK this wk!  :)  We cooked on Tuesday morning-spaghetti, salad, green beans, bread & chocolate chip cookies.  After school we met at the firestation & delivered it to the firefighters.  They were very grateful!  :)  They gave the kids a grand tour & let them play on the firetruck.  We stayed for an hour!  :)  The firefighters talked to them about their thoughtfulness & good things coming back to them.  :)  I was very proud of the kids!  :)

Week 14

This week we did some fun AOKs.  We made 94th BD cards for one of my friend's grandfathers; Mr. Lawson.  He REALLY liked them & it made the kids SO PROUD & HAPPY!  :)  We also donated some items to a Thanksgiving basket for one of our families.  We also gathered 835 box tops for our school-raising $83. 50.  Today we emptied 20 recycle bins for K & 1st grade teachers.  :)  Next week we are VERY excited about cooking our meals for the firefighters!  I hope it goes smoothly-we'll see how working in a kitchen w/ 22 kids will be!  ;)  The kids & I have decided that we are going to do all FREE acts of kindness in December since our parents have been so generous & we know they'll be spending a lot in December on other things!  ;)

Week 13-Going on to 200 Acts in 100 Days! :)

This week we wrote a get well card to Nate when he broke his arm.  We sent 22 ecards to veterans for Veterans Day & we emptied 19 recycle bins.  :)  My kids voted to continue our project to see if we can complete 200 acts in 100 days!  I'm SO proud of them!  :)  Food/Donations have already started rolling in for our Thanksgiving Basket!  We're SUPER excited to be cooking for the firefighters next week!  :)

November AOK

For our November project we will be making dinner the Tuesday before Thanksgiving break for local firefighters to show our appreciation for them.  We wanted to show our appreciation to someone that we were "thankful" for that didn't necessiarly get Thanksgiving off.  To go along w/ our Social Studies unit we VOTED on what we wanted to make them.  The winning vote consisted of:  spaghetti, green beans, bread, salad & chocolate chip cookies.  :)  Mrs. Turpin is going to let us use her room during her plan time to do the cooking.  The kids are SUPER EXCITED to cook!  My sweet mom has already purchased a lot of the items for the meal so my parents won't have to donate so much since it is a spendy time of year for families.  It's coming together nicely.  :)  My students have "officially" reached their 100th act so...we're going to have to VOTE again to see what we want our new AOK goal to be-I'm anxious to see what the kids decide!  I'll keep you posted!  ;)

October AOK Project! :)

We sent our October Act of Kindness to Whitney Elementary today!  :)  My kids made cards for the students & they raised $71 to send to their school.  We sent it in the form of a Walmart giftcard.  The school can purchase their most needed items w/ the giftcard.  I was SO proud of my students for raising so much money.  I even emailed Ellen to tell her about this project since we first found out about it on her show!  Two of my sweet girls even donated their own money from their piggy banks to send!  This makes my heart SO HAPPY & let's me know that my kids are really "getting" the idea behind our project.  :)
HOORAY!  :)