Who: Students and Families of Indian Trail
What: Participating in our annual 'Kids Who Care' fundraising event
When: January 14 - 18
Why: We are trying to raise $3000 to support the students at a school
in Staten Island. These students and their families suffered damage
and loss after Hurricane Sandy hit the east coast. Our donations will
be used to buy school supplies that were lost in the storm.
How: Show you care by participating in our Spirit Days! Follow the
week's events below. Bring donations to school any day next week.
Special Event: Friday, January 18th
Come to Indian Trail for a bagel breakfast in the lunchroom. Make a
donation and enjoy
breakfast with classmates and teachers.
Spirit Week -- January 14-18
Monday
-We are head over heels about helping
Sandy victims.
Wear one color head-to-toe.
Tuesday
-Our age is rising while we are raising
money.
Dress like an old person
Wednesday
-Hats off to people who are rebuilding
areas affected by Hurricane Sandy.
Wear a hat today.
Thursday
-We’re fans of helping Hurricane Sandy
victims.
Wear your favorite sport’s shirt.
Friday
-Let’s raise their spirits!
Wear your Indian Trail spirit wear
*Come to Indian Trail for a bagel breakfast in the lunchroom. Make a
donation and enjoy breakfast with classmates and teachers.
Kids who care week is next week (January 14 - 18). We have been linked to a school in Staten Island who was affected by Hurricane Sandy. Our goal is to raise $3000 to purchase school supplies to aid in their rebuilding. More blog posts with dates about spirit week events will follow. Thank you for supporting this great (and needy) cause!
Thank you VERY, VERY MUCH to EVERYONE who has recently donated requested classroom materials! From used paper towel rolls, to antibacterials wipes.......Oreos, to toothpicks......and everything in between, THANK YOU! Thanks to YOU, we have been able to complete numerous engaging projects, keep our room clean, and stock our classroom with much-needed useful items. We greatly appreciate your generosity and support!
We are getting ready for hands-on space craftivities!
Multi-sensory, creative activities provide multiple modalities for students to experience learning. The hands-on nature and high-interest level of these projects are perfect for reviewing and reinforcing the science concepts of moon phases, constellations, and surface design/texture of planets. Please help us engage in these activities by donating needed supplies. THANK YOU!
As a culminating activity to our study of moon phases, we will be creating Oreo moon cycles! Students will HOT GLUE the oreos to their moon maps (as seen above) and will get to eat ONE cookie as a small special treat. We need approximately 8 packages of regular Oreo cookies donated in order to complete this activity. | In addition to creating paper towel roll stargazers with constellation disks (see post below), we will work to hand-create constellations with toothpicks and marshmallows. We HAVE ALL of the marshmallows we need and DO NOT need any marshmallows donated. However, we ARE in need of toothpicks. Students will be allowed to eat a few marshmallows after they complete their constellation creations. IF you would prefer your child NOT use/eat marshmallows, GRAPES are an alternative. Please send in grapes for your child if you prefer your son/daughter NOT work with marshmallows. To help students remember planets in our solar system, we will be creating textured artistic representations of our planets using dried beans. As you can see from the example above, the beans allow for hands-on, detailed creations that will enable students to remember key characteristics of the planets. Students will then write acrostic poems for their planetary creations. In order to complete this craftivity, we need SEVERAL bags of different types of dried beans, split peas, etc. We will also need WET GLUE (Elmers). |