In honor of Black History month our kids are learning about Mae Jemison, the first African American woman to go to space. I can't think of a better role model for all of our kids. Mae's parents often told her; If you can dream it, and believe it, and work hard for it, anything is possible! Check out the video below for the newly inducted NASA Kinder-nauts! Click below for more information about Mae Jemison. Graphics by Shaili The 5th grade WHIZ Givers want your old, used, broken unwanted crayons. Why you might ask? Well, one of the caring kids, Mason, approached me at the beginning of the year and wanted to participate in The Crayon Initiative. He thought it would be perfect for our school since we do have a lot of old, used, broken unwanted crayons which we could send to the people at The Crayon Initiative. Their mission is to recycle these unwanted crayons into new ones and send the new crayons to children’s hospitals.
The 5th graders helped to plan and prepare the project. First they had to figure out how to ship and pay for shipping when the crayons were ready. We will start collecting now and stop in May. Then some volunteer kids helped decorate shoe boxes for each classroom at WHAM. We decided to keep it green and reuse older shipping boxes as well as shoe boxes for the containers. Now almost every classroom at WHAM has their shoe box and we’ve already collected gobs of old crayons. I’m excited and a little scared to see how many crayons WHAM kids collect. I better start working out cause I think there are going to be a lot of boxes full of crayons by May. |
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