Number of Participants: 30
Hours Donated: 1
Value of Time Served: $254
Event Type: Civic & Community
Sport: Schools
Date: December 22, 2017
Location:
Bellmore
NY, United States
About:
An English language arts lesson quickly turned into a community service project as Bellmore first-grade students in Amanda Kowalski’s, Dawn McCardell’s and Cathy Schriver’s classes at the Charles A. Reinhard Early Childhood Center collected new mittens and gloves for their Mitten Tree.
The teachers read Candace Christiansen’s “The Mitten Tree” about a woman named Sarah who knitted mittens for a boy she saw at the bus stop each day. Sarah noticed that the boy could not play in the snow because he had no mittens.
After discussions about the story, the students became inspired to collect mittens and gloves for students in need. The donations were displayed on a mitten tree bulletin board in the hall and will be donated to local charities over the holidays.
Caption: Charles A. Reinhard Early Childhood first-grade students in Bellmore placed donations of mittens and gloves for students in need on a Mitten Tree.
Photo courtesy of the Bellmore School District
