Combating Hunger One Snack at a Time

Funded Nov 1, 2017

Thank you so very much for fully funding the Combating Hunger One Snack at a Time campaign for room 147. Funding this project, not only shows but mirrors the importance of support through sharing, which is a valuable lesson we are reinforcing and teaching our students daily.

I cannot tell you how surprised my students were to watch box after box of snacks arrive to our classroom over a three-day period (I was equally surprised and excited). One student stated, "We're going to have enough snacks, for 100 years!"

Students and their families donate snack and supplies to their general classrooms. This practice generally works well because many of those students and their families are more affluent and are dual income parent families than those I serve in my classroom which are almost exclusively single parent and improvised. There has only been 1 out of the 10 years, I've been teaching, that I have had snacks donated.

Goldfish crackers, one of our classroom's favorite snack, was chosen to be the one we took the picture to share with you. Passing snacks out is always an experience as each student does some type of ritual; such as a happy dance, singing a song or making an announcement to the others to eat a certain colored one first. It sounds something like this, "Okay, everybody, eat the gold one, eat the gold one!" Such was the case on that day.

Thanks to you, we are using this resource as a daily positive reinforcement, that all the student receives, as well as a nutritional supplement to combat a less than desirable diet at home, and to provide equity in our special education classroom to match the affluent classroom mentioned above.

Your generous donation has help to close this disparaging gap that separates the haves from the have nots!”

With gratitude,

Ms. Kelley