Operation Christmas Child

                                         Operation Christmas Child                           
Q. What is the mission of Operation Christmas Child?

·                            A. The mission of Operation Christmas Child is to demonstrate love                      in a tangible way to needy children around the world.

Since November is already here, H102  thought  that it would be a great month to do  lessons on having a giving and kind heart. We want to have a good understanding of what it means to be self-LESS and give to others who are less fortunate than us. After researching, we  found a great organization called, “Operation Christmas Child”.

Operation Christmas Child is geared toward helping children all over the world; even kids the same age as your child! They help other parts of the world such as Cambodia, Africa, Asia, and many more. Since 1993, more than 100 million boys and girls in over 130 countries have experienced TRUE love through the power of simple shoe box gifts from Operation Christmas Child. They work with local organizations to deliver the gifts.

In class, we created shoe boxes filled with NEW school supplies, hygiene products, and NEW toys and presents for kids who are less fortunate as us. We even wrapped the boxes—good “Procedure Writing” practice! We had so much fun! Here are some things we had to research about and follow:

1.    SHOEBOX

Use an empty cardboard or plastic shoebox (average size). You can wrap the box, lid separately.

2.    BOY OR GIRL

Determine whether your gift will be for a boy or a girl, and the child’s age category: 2-4, 5-9, or 10-14. Mark the correct age category on the label and tape it to the top of your box ( I have the labels in class).

3.    FILL WITH GIFTS

Fill the box with a variety of NEW gifts that will bring delight to a child (see Suggestions below)!

Gift Suggestions

·         Toys: Include items that children will immediately embrace such as NEW dolls, toy trucks, stuffed animals, kazoos, harmonicas, yo-yos, jump ropes, balls, toys that light up and make noise (with extra batteries), hard candies (in ziplock bags), gum, mint, etc.

·         School Supplies: NEW Pens, pencils and sharpeners, crayons or markers, stamps and ink pad sets, writing pads or paper, solar calculators, coloring and picture books, etc.

·         Hygiene Items: Toothbrush, mild bar soap (in a ziplock bag), comb, washcloth, etc. ( NO Liquids please).

·         Accessories: NEW T-shirts, socks, ball caps, sunglasses, hair clips, toy jewelry, watches, flashlights (with extra batteries).

·         A Personal Note: You may enclose a note to the child and a photo of yourself or your family. If you include your name and address, the child may write back. I think having a pen pal would be so AWESOME!

·         Do Not Include: USED or damaged items; war-related items such as toy guns, knives or military figures; chocolate or food; out-of-date candy; liquids or lotions; medications or vitamins; breakable items such as snow globes or glass containers; aerosol cans.  

  

Opinion about Operation Christmas Child 

Hi my name is Andre and I will be talking about Operation Christmas Child.

Anyway that means you make a shoe box with new items.

We put those items in our shoe box but we remembered that we couldn't put any war related things, glass items, and fake guns.  

Our teacher told us that the items would be shipped all around the world to needy children and make their dreams come true.

We also put hygiene items like soap and toothbrushes.

It felt really good to give to needy children who don’t have anything.

THAT'S ALL FOLKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By Andre Grade 6

Posted by Mrs. Aimee Matsuura's Class

Posted by Mrs. Aimee Matsuura's Class

Have you ever had a Parent/Student/Teacher Conference?

Have you ever had a Parent/Student/Teacher Conference? If you haven’t, this is what happens.

First off, you have to sit down in your class and you lead the conference by talking about your goals in class and what you have been working on. 

The teacher talks about your grades on your report card.  Then your teacher asks your parents if they have any questions. Sometimes parents have a lot of questions and sometimes they don’t.  

The main reason why we have this conference is to help the student! Parents and teachers help each other!

It’s actually pretty fun at your conference!

Hi my name is Zahna and I was kind of scared at my conference but it turned out ok.

                                  

Zahna 

 6^th grade
Posted by Mrs. Aimee Matsuura's Class

Do you read every single day?

Do you read every single day? Well, in our school, if you read a certain amount of books every one to three months, you get to participate in the reading campaign celebration! 

Now let's start from the beginning. Our whole school does a system where students read books every day and the teachers count how many books that student read in a quarters worth (1 to 3 months of reading). If you meet or exceed the number of books needed to be read, then you get a star. That star means that you made the reading goal for that quarter. In grades K through 3, you are required to read 25 non-fiction and 25 fiction books. In grades 4 through 6 you are required to read 3 fiction books and 4 non-fiction books. In grade 4, 125 pages equal one book, in grade 5, 150 pages equal one book, and in grade 6, 175 pages equal one book. 

Remember I said that you get a star if you meet or exceed you reading goal? There is something it goes on. Every year, students draw a picture of what they think would be great for a reading campaign design. When a picture is selected, the student's teacher makes button for the selected grade level to wear. Two drawings are chosen. One for grades K-2 and another one for grades 3-6. The button contains the design that the student drew and a bar for the stars to go on. There are 4 quarters that are in a school year. Each square represents a quarter. If you exceed (meaning that you read more books than needed) the reading goal for the quarter, you get a gold star. If you meet (meaning you read just enough books) you get a silver star. If you don't meet or exceed the goal, than you don't get a star at all. If you have a star for each quarter, then you get to participate in the end of the year celebration. 

The end of the year celebration is only for the kids that met or exceeded all of the quarters. They do really fun activities which include water games, clothes relays, and basically having a ton of FUN! All of the students look forward to this event and it motivates us to read more and write better! 

I interviewed the student that won the button contest for grade 3 to 6. I won't tell you who it is until the end of this interview.

1) How does it feel being picked as the winner for the campaign button?
It feels really great to be the winner because grades 3-6 get to wear my button. It is an honor to be the winner.

2) How did you come up with the idea of having a worm reading a book?
I came up with the idea of the worm reading a book because I play a game called "Book Worm", and worms love to read books.

3) What was the purpose of the design?
The purpose of the design is to have kids imagine the things that you would learn from reading. You can get smart by reading non-fiction and fiction books.

4) Lastly, what would you say to get kids to read more?
Something that I would say to kids is that "If you read more, you will come better at reading and you will learn lots of things. This is what I would say to kids.”

What a great person right? He is such an inspiration and I could tell he really expects a lot from kids. Are you ready to find out who won the button contest? 

The student is.......a boy........named......DHAYDREN!! He is in our 6^th grade class and is really funny, yet hard working!

I hope that you learned a lot from this. Thanks for reading and "WE LOVE TO READ, YES WE DO! WE LOVE TO READ, HOW ABOUT YOU?????!!!!!!

By Jewel Grade 6

Posted by Mrs. Aimee Matsuura's Class

                                  
Posted by Mrs. Aimee Matsuura's Class