Animal Art Sale!

On Friday, April 29th, come in front of the school, because our class will be hosting an Animal Art Sale, selling art related to animals and giving all the profits to the Rainforest Action Network, a charity working hard to save the disappearing rainforest! In the mood for friendship bracelets, animal art or animal clay sculptures? Then it is essential that you come to the sale!

Here are just a few samples of the art we will have to offer at the sale!

Valentine's Day Cupcake Service Project

Today, we participated in an exciting service project for Craig's Kitchen, a soup kitchen in Greenpoint. As members of the Dessert Corps, we decorated homemade cupcakes for a Valentine's Day meal at the soup kitchen. Katie dropped off the cupcakes after school today, and the group was so excited to learn that a school was taking part in their project. Listen to some of our thoughts behind why this was an important project to take part in!

Thank you so much to everyone who sent in supplies and who baked cupcakes! You truly made our service project a success!

Books to Costa Rica!

Here is a picture of the school we donated books to in Costa Rica. Last week, Yana stopped by our classroom to bring us thank-you notes from the students and to share stories from her travels. Of particular interest was the fact that there was no garbage service in the town, only recycling. That meant that residents had to be creative about what they did with their waste! 

If you missed it, here's our earlier entry about the books we donated!

Books to Costa Rica!

In just one day, our class collected over 100 books to donate to a school in rural Costa Rica! We brought in the books Thursday morning and by Friday morning, they were already at the school in Costa Rica. We've received two emails so far about the donation. The first is from the woman who brought the books to Costa Rica.

Dear Class 4-324, Thank you so much for sharing your love of reading and books with boys and girls in Costa Rica.  Thank you for gathering such a wonderful collection of books on a such a short notice.  Katie often tells me what an amazing bunch of kids you are!  I am so excited to be a "book transporter" between you and the children at a small rural school in Costa Rica.  Sincerely, Yana

Then, we received an email from the director of the Nature Kids School in Drake Bay, Costa Rica, where Yana donated the books. How exciting!

Hello Katie,

My name is Pamela and I am in charge of the Nature Kids School in Drake Bay.  I just wanted to let  you know so you can tell your students that we just got the  books from Yana.  She will visit us again next Friday and hopefully take some photos of the school and children. 

All of the books will be very useful for our students who are both children and adults. 

Thank you all so very much and the children will be sending notes and pictures very soon.  We do not have regular mail service, but we do have access to the internet at the school and hopefully we can stay in touch.

Sincerely,

Pamela

Nature Kids

Bahia Drake

Here are just some of the books we brought in!

Here are the books loaded into Yana's suitcase, ready to take to Costa Rica!