Service+Projects

CLASS OUTREACH PROJECTS Mrs. McSwain’s class will be participating in various outreach projects throughout the school year. Participation is optional.

= We are teaming up with to help provide dog houses for chained dogs. = =Send in your spare change to participate in this service project. =

= = =@http://www.petakids.com/= =Check out these before and after videos of dogs who were helped by the Change for Chained Dogs Fund Raiser.= =Our class raised $39.20! Great job guys!= =@http://www.peta.org/features/lonely-backyard-dogs-helped-peta/=

=COMMUNITY SERVICE PROJECT =

Our first project will be to collect soda pop tabs for The Ronald McDonald House. Collecting pop tabs is a great way to teach kids about the importance of recycling, and raise funds to help children and their families at the same time. Ronald McDonald Houses collect pop tabs instead of entire aluminum cans because it's more hygienic to store tabs than cans, and collection and storage is easier. The program is an easy way for people of all ages to support RMHC and know they are making a difference for families and children. It is an easy to help families in need. Pop tabs will be collected throughout the school year and will be taken to our local Ronald McDonald house here in Jacksonville so start sending them in!

Won’t you help a neighbor? It’s time for Mr. Rogers’ sweater drive! WJCT and VyStar Credit Union are hosting the 10th Annual Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood sweater drive to lend a helping hand to neighbors by __donating new and nearly new sweaters, jackets and blankets__. The drive runs November 1-30. __Blankets and children’s sweaters are especially needed__, but all contributions are welcome. Contributions will be donated to St. Vincent’s Mobile Outreach Ministry (which serves migrant workers), I.M. Sulzbacher Center for the Homeless, Clara White Mission and other First Coast nonprofits. Please send in donations before November 29th. Thank you!