Community Service - Class Projects
Pre-K3:
The PreK-3 class had the opportunity to visit the Loggerhead Marine Life Center in Juno Beach earlier this year. The children fell in love with the turtles and wanted to help them. The class has been busy creating original turtle artwork to raise money for the cause. Because of their great effort, Ms. Barris recently brought the Marine Center a donation of $300.00.
Pre-K4:
PreK-4 has decided to help the Busch Wildlife Sanctuary. Busch Wildlife Sanctuary is located at 2500 Jupiter Park Drive in Jupiter, Florida. This facility is a unique refuge that combines a community nature center with a wildlife rehabilitation hospital. Native animals from Bald Eagles to Florida Panthers can be seen in outdoor exhibits. The Sanctuary provides medical care to thousands of sick, injured or orphaned wild animals each year. Their ultimate goal is to return recovered patients to their natural habitat.
Our class has collected birdseed, dog/cat food, cleaning supplies, and toys for the animals. We have also earned $101.00 by making and selling crafts for the Wildlife Sanctuary. In appreciation, the Sanctuary brought two of their owls to our class for a special presentation. We learned a lot about these beautiful animals. Thank you to everyone who has been so generous to this cause.
Kindergarten:
The kindergarten class has chosen to Adopt a Chimp named Elway through
the Save the Chimps foundation. Elway is a five-year-old chimpanzee, the same age as many members of our class. Save the Chimps is the world's largest permanent sanctuary for rescued chimpanzees. Twenty chimps currently living at Save the Chimps sanctuary were at one time NASA astronauts. Save the Chimps is based in Fort Pierce, Florida on 200 acres designed to enhance the lives of the chimps. Their mission is to provide a permanent sanctuary for chimpanzees rescued from research laboratories and owners unable to give adequate care. Once renovations are completed, the sanctuary will be able to house 300 rescued Chimps in an enriching environment geared toward chimps' intelligence and innate curiosity. For more information or to donate contact
Save the Chimps
P.O. Box 12220
Fort Pierce, FL 34979
www.savethechimps.org
First Grade:
Our first grade students will be raising money for Heifer International through
their Read to Feed program. This wonderful program will give our students the
chance to set off a chain reaction of positive change around the world. Our
class will be getting reading sponsors outside of school as well as working on
other money raising endeavors at school. With the money raised we will buy
gifts of livestock for impoverished families. Through Heifer International’s
program, these families will be provided with a renewable source of food, a
living loan of an animal, as well as the training to take care of it.
Each sponsored family will repay the living loan by passing on one or
more of their gift animal’s offspring to another family in need. As many
families continue to pay this gift forward, a gift of just one animal can
eventually transform an entire community!
Heifer International has been around for nearly 60 years and has helped well
over four million impoverished families in 128 countries lift themselves out of
poverty and achieve self-reliance. We are so excited to be a part of this
wonderful program and to begin raising money!
Second Grade:
The Second Grade class cause is "Adopt A Family". The class plans to raise money for a family
by selling beaded bracelets and necklaces, pot holders, and book markers. The 2nd graders are working very hard during their free time to finish their projects. The goal is to collect enough money by December to give their adopted family a wonderful holiday!
Third Grade:
Third grade has been communicating with Mrs. Martin's younger sister, Claudia, who is a Peace Corp Volunteer in Fiji. She lives in a small village called Nailawa outside of the town of Rakiraki and works with a kindergarten class. She expressed the need for pencils, paper, books,video tapes, shoes, and toothbrushes. The third graders loaded up three huge boxes of items to ship to Fiji. Last we heard, Claudia was very excited to have received one of these boxes. Each student has also written a letter to one of the children in the village.
We can't wait to here back from our new friends and learn about their lifestyle. We are also brainstorming some ideas to help raise money so that the Fijian Kindergarten class can attend a field trip in their capital city of Suva.
Fifth Grade:
The 5th grade class at Batt Private School has been selling ice cream every Friday during lunch periods. They keep very specific records of sales, debits and credits, profits, and inventory as a part of their math curriculum. All of the proceeds raised by the 5th graders go to the American Red Cross. |
