It has been an exciting month for my Classroom Champions. We started by supporting our school's canned food drive. We talked about the need in our community for families who may not have enough food to eat during the holidays. Our part of the project was to make signs to hang up around campus to encourage the other students to bring in as many cans as possible.

The students were really excited to be a part of this project and our school ended up donating quite a bit of food to Second Harvest Food Bank. The classes that brought in the most food got to have a free dress day (the students usually wear uniforms).
The other exciting thing this month was video chatting with our awesome mentor Lex Gillette. My students enjoyed asking him questions about participating in the Olympics, training, everyday life, etc. He also told the students a great story about a time when he wanted to give up but kept on persevering. They really consider Lex to be their friend, they are benefitting so much from his mentorship. They also loved the shirts, stickers, pencils and folders from Classroom Champions and the Lex poster is now hanging proudly in our room.