The school has been having a canned food drive to support the Trinity food pantry in Topsfield this past week. It ended today, and I am proud to report that our class contributed 111 items to the pantry. Fantastic!!
I asked during the food drive for the students to not just go home and ask for cans. I hope they took it to heart to contribute some of their own money or to do a chore around the house to earn the can. I think the lessons that can be learned from doing this are invaluable.
And so the following little story. We had a friendly competition going on among the 5th grade classes to see which class could bring in the most items; our class came in second. Despite not being the "winning" class, your kids were incredibly gracious about coming in second. They said, "We won even though we didn't because now there's more food for the poor." That kind of spirit will take them far in life and should be celebrated.
I asked during the food drive for the students to not just go home and ask for cans. I hope they took it to heart to contribute some of their own money or to do a chore around the house to earn the can. I think the lessons that can be learned from doing this are invaluable.
And so the following little story. We had a friendly competition going on among the 5th grade classes to see which class could bring in the most items; our class came in second. Despite not being the "winning" class, your kids were incredibly gracious about coming in second. They said, "We won even though we didn't because now there's more food for the poor." That kind of spirit will take them far in life and should be celebrated.
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