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Pancakes and Books for Westchester 4th Graders
Students in Cindy Voller’s 4th grade class completed a service-learning project to benefit an organization called Room to Read, which was started by a former Microsoft executive named John Wood. The mission of the organization is to open libraries and schools, mostly for kids Kindergarten to 5th grade, in the developing world. Students watched an informational DVD that highlights a girl in Nepal who is benefiting from a Room to Read scholarship, and shows how they are building the schools with the help of the people in these remote villages. Students participated in many discussions and decided that their project would take two paths.
One part of their service learning involved a Read-A-Thon, where students set personal reading goals, and sought pledges or sponsors who helped them monetarily support Room to Read, through achievement of reading goals. Five other classes also participated in the Read-A-Thon.
Students teamed up with Miss Cobb and the spring Art Show/Book Fair with an “All You Can Eat Pancake Supper” that night in the cafeteria in hopes of bringing even more families to school for the Book Fair (they were able to buy books specifically to benefit Room to Read) and eat with their family to support Room to Read as well. The class made about 500 bookmarks and served pancakes to 425 people with the help of Chris' Cakes on Wednesday night. (This does not even include the kids two and under who ate free.) They also collected 16 book donations to send to Room to Read at the Westchester Book Fair. Students raised $1,324 on just this part of the project!
Students in Cindy Voller’s 4th grade class completed a service-learning project to benefit an organization called Room to Read, which was started by a former Microsoft executive named John Wood. The mission of the organization is to open libraries and schools, mostly for kids Kindergarten to 5th grade, in the developing world. Students watched an informational DVD that highlights a girl in Nepal who is benefiting from a Room to Read scholarship, and shows how they are building the schools with the help of the people in these remote villages. Students participated in many discussions and decided that their project would take two paths.
One part of their service learning involved a Read-A-Thon, where students set personal reading goals, and sought pledges or sponsors who helped them monetarily support Room to Read, through achievement of reading goals. Five other classes also participated in the Read-A-Thon.
Students teamed up with Miss Cobb and the spring Art Show/Book Fair with an “All You Can Eat Pancake Supper” that night in the cafeteria in hopes of bringing even more families to school for the Book Fair (they were able to buy books specifically to benefit Room to Read) and eat with their family to support Room to Read as well. The class made about 500 bookmarks and served pancakes to 425 people with the help of Chris' Cakes on Wednesday night. (This does not even include the kids two and under who ate free.) They also collected 16 book donations to send to Room to Read at the Westchester Book Fair. Students raised $1,324 on just this part of the project!