Student+Council+Projects

Hello Fifth graders! I am writing an article for the Washtenaw Jewish News on all of the wonderful projects you have done this year to help the community - included in which are: your fund raising campaign for Make a Wish Foundation, your regular recycling, your adoption of the Clinton Park, and the visit to Glacier on Purim, and others.

As always, I love to include quotes from you the ones who participate and experience what it is like to help out. So, please post to the wiki, and let me know your thoughts about these projects - how it feels to help, why we help, why it's important to support our local community and our national needs, etc..

Thank you!!

Dina

Max: I thought that it felt great to help the greater community because then you know that you are doing the right thing and making others happy.


 * Emma:** Spreading the wood chips around the trees in Clinton Park and watching all of the paper being recycled every week made me feel really good about what our school is doing for the environment. I hope other classes continue to recycling and helping the park in subsequent years.


 * Avi**- When we help the community or our school it feels like were not just kids entertaining ourselves, we are also helping the community while we entertain ourselves.


 * Rachel**- It makes me feel really good to see how full the recycling bins get and I know that every time we recycle we save tons of trees and that just makes me feel even better.


 * Natan**- When we help the community we help ourself.


 * Gabi:** The recycling helped me realize that our planet really needs us, it's the little things that count.


 * Grace:** I was very glad when I found out that we could adopt Clinton Park, because I have really tried to be more "green". Being able to help the environment not only at home but also at school made me feel great.


 * Liana:**
 * Recycling and woodchips:** When we spread the wood chips around the trees and when we recycle, it makes me feel really good because we're not only helping ourself, we're helping the community and environment. I hope we can do more projects to help the environment.
 * Make-a-Wish:** I thought the Make-a-Wish project was great. It felt SO good to help other kids and I am glad we did this project.
 * Spelling Bee:** The spelling bee was a great experience for the kids who joined. It was a good idea to have the 2nd and 3rd grade spelling bee as well as the 4th and 5th spelling bee. Hopefully, this can continue next year too.
 * Glacier Hills:** Giving hamentashen and singing songs to the senior citizens at the Glacier Hills Home made me feel good. I enjoyed talking to them and getting to know them. This was a great "mitzvah".

Brayan: Recycle- When I did recycling with my class I realize that it is very nice to do community service. Its nice to do things for other people in the community.

Arianna: At glacier hillsBrayan: I felt so good about myself and whatdid recycling with my class I was doing. I felt I was doing a mitzvah. Donating moneyrealize that it is very nice to do community service. It's nice to do things for other children at Make-A-Wish made me feel great! If I was one of those sick children that would make me feel so good, it would me feel loved bypeople in the whole world.community. Arianna- At Glacier Hills I felt so good about my self and what I was doing. When we donated money to Make-A-Wish I felt Great! If I was one of those sick kids I would have felt loved by the whole world, it made me realize how lucky I am.