Better Together!

Better Together

Making a difference can be a one man operation, but for 6A and 7A, making a difference meant working together! Having started our focus on community in November, we hit the ground running in December. Brainstorming ideas, more ideas and even more ideas for what we can do for our community. Ultimately we decided that we wanted to visit some seniors at the Long Term Care Unit at the hospital. It was shocking for them to hear that many of the residents spend Christmas alone, with no family to come visit them. This really lit a fire within them to do something special. 

This Wednesday was our big visit. Which meant we had Monday and Tuesday to put our plan into action. Bake 150 cookies, make 30 Christmas bags, make 30 cards, make 30 Christmas ornaments and make and pack 30 candy dishes. While it seemed slightly chaotic to anyone who wandered by during those 2 days, we worked together as 50 determined students to get it all done! It was touching to see the effort that was put into making these gifts special. 

Finally, as we continue to learn about our community and communities around the world with the arrival of students from Syria to our class we embarked on an epic Christmas Concert challenge. My amazing teaching partner taught our grade 6's to play Silent Night on the Ukulele, and with the help of our newcomers oldest brother, we learned how to sing the 2 lines of the song in Arabic! It was hard to hold back the happy tears as they sang at our concert on Thursday! 

While it has been a crazy busy month, I am proud of the work all these students managed to pull it off!