UNICEF update!

This week we received a special package from UNICEF! It was a framed certificate stating that BHS was one of the top 3 schools in Manitoba during the October fundraising campaign! Wow! That is so awesome! Thanks for your support . . . it's great to see kids helping kids!

Kids helping kids!

Something I love about working with the older students is that we can learn lots about what we can do for others and the impact of our actions. I am always so happy with the support from the BHS community for all the wonderful things we do at our school.

For the last several years, my class has been in charge of Unicef. We have now wrapped up the campaign for this year. The grand total for donations is  . . . (drum roll, please) . . . $937.55. That is wonderful and will really help improve the lives of children struggling to survive!

The SPIN Club received a beautiful thank you card and letters from Mosaic Newcomer Resource Centre for the 200 pairs of socks we donated as part of the Socktober campaign. The letters were written by adults, who are new to Canada, and are just learning english for the first time. It's really heartwarming to read the letters!

As well, we just weighed all the food that was collected as part of the "We Scare Hunger" campaign with "Free the Children". A total of 281.5 pounds of food will be donated to Winnipeg Harvest, to help families in need.

Thanks so much for participating in these worthwhile fundraisers at a busy time of the year!

Ms. Wasney  :)

UNICEF update!

This week, we've been busy making the rounds collecting UNICEF donations! As of today, we're up to $699.50. It's pretty awesome to see every classroom represented on the graph by the gym!

Thanks so much for supporting UNICEF . . . especially at a very busy time of the year with other fundraisers (Show & Save, Magazine Fundraiser, Socktober, and We Scare Hunger)!

Monday, November 2nd will be the FINAL day to bring in donations.

Thank you!  :)

UNICEF update!

Earlier this week, we received a framed certificate from UNICEF recognizing Bird's Hill School for being one of the top 3 schools in Manitoba for fundraising during the campaign in October, 2014. This is the 3rd year in a row that we've received this designation!

Way to go BHS!

UNICEF Update!

I love having the opportunity to run the UNICEF campaign with my class each year. Even though it's a super busy time of the school year, it's just awesome to see kids helping kids! Thanks to Karley and Andrew for sharing what we did!

Over the last week of October our class has been running and raising money for a campaign called UNICEF. If you have not heard of UNICEF what you most likely have it is a campaign all over the world that helps kids in need. Our school raised $1201.50. Our class raised $84.00. Mrs. Dyck’s class made it completely off the graph! Some advertisements that we did was making posters and posting them all over the school, making announcements in morning announcements, speaking at an assembly, going to classes to collect their donations  and some people in the class got to count up the money.$$$ It was an awesome campaign and lots of fun to do. We wish we could do this again. #UNICEF IS AWESOME

By: Andrew and Karley!!!!!!!!

UNICEF update!

We returned to school after a wonderful week off for Spring Break to find a special delivery from UNICEF! It was a framed certificate recognizing our hard work "way-back-when" in October with the UNICEF campaign. BHS made it into the top 3 schools for fundraising in Manitoba AGAIN! Woohoo!

I am excited by this, as I love running the campaign each year with my students. Thanks for supporting this worthy cause!

UNICEF update!

I absolutely LOVE running the UNICEF campaign each year with my students! Even though it's a busy time of the year with other fundraising events going on, sport commitments, and report cards sneaking up . . . it always brings a smile to my face to see kids helping others! We were kept busy creating posters, making morning announcements, and updating the graph each day. This week, we spent some time sorting, counting, and rolling coins. And now the students have reflected on the experience. I am always pleased to read that so many students truly enjoy helping others and feel that they can make a difference! That is AWESOME!

A special shout out goes to Ms. Dodds' class . . . they brought in so many donations that they made it OFF the graph! Our class came in 2nd, and Mrs. Tresoor's class rounded out the top 3 for fundraising this year! Woohoo!

Here's a short video of pictures. Keep an eye on the growth of the graph!

SPIN Club and UNICEF Updates!

This week, we are wrapping up two important campaigns at the school. The S.P.I.N. Club has been running the We Scare Hunger campaign to collect non-perishable food items. Today at lunch, students visited classrooms to collect all of the food that has been brought in by the students. The total weight of all the food collected is 477 pounds (216 kilograms)! That is AMAZING! Representatives from Winnipeg Harvest will be coming to BHS tomorrow to pick up all the donations!

The other campaign that ended today is UNICEF. I am so proud to run this with my students each year. BHS raised $2 406.36! Just imagine what that money can do for kids all over the world! The students of Room 31 will be sorting, counting, and rolling coins in the next day or so. Keep your eyes out for a video of our hard work! And be sure to check out the impressive graph across from the library!

Thank you for supporting these fundraisers!

I totally agree with the words of former NBA star Magic Johnson. He recently said at WE Day Saskatchewan; "The greatest person I know is someone who always helps somebody else".

It warms my heart to see young people helping others! Way to go!

Helping Others + Raising Awareness = A Good Thing!

We Scare Hunger! Boo!

The staff and students of BHS are showing the love by helping others with 2 campaigns during the last few weeks of October!

The SPIN Club is busy raising awareness for the We Scare Hunger Campaign with Free the Children. We are collecting non-perishable food items for Winnipeg Harvest. The top 10 needed items include; canned fish and poultry, canned fruit and veggies, canned stew, peanut butter, baby food, pasta, rice, spaghetti sauce, cereal, and canned soup. We will be collecting items until the end of October.

AND, our class is once again running the UNICEF campaign. Last year, BHS raised over $3300 and was one of the top 3 schools in MB! Wow! Donation forms are being sent home on Thursday, October 17th and are due back by November 1st. You can learn more about UNICEF and donate online by clicking HERE.

UNICEF Update!

Well, even though it's April Fool's Day today . . . it's NO joke! We were excited to receive some VERY special mail from UNICEF this morning! Bird's Hill School was one of the top 3 schools in Manitoba for the 2012 fundraising campaign! Woohoo!

(For the 2011 Campaign, we were one of the top 5 schools in Manitoba. We are just getting better and better!)

Final UNICEF update!

I was waiting to post this final UNICEF update until I was able to get a class picture in front of the UNICEF graph. The flu and new winter colds have been hitting our class hard! Congratulations to BHS for raising a total of $3324.66 this year! Thank you so much for supporting this fundraiser! Hope you enjoy the video of all the hard work we did running this campaign!

UNICEF Update!

All the classes that set goals this
year, met them! Way to go!

Mrs. Tresoor's class made it to the corner!
Mrs. Ducharme & Mrs. Dowhan's class
made it to the gym doors!

Wow! Bird's Hill School, we are amazing! We have raised a total of $3279.47 for UNICEF! That is even better than what we raised last year! Woohoo! Our class raised $299.21 and we are one of three classes that made it OFF the graph! Congrats to Mrs. Tresoor's class for being the 2nd best class for fundraising and Mrs. Ducharme & Mrs. Dowhan's class for raising the top amount this year! Their squares are right around the corner to the gym doors! Yay!!!

Now, we have a tough job of counting out and rolling all the coins!

Thanks for supporting this awesome fundraiser!

UNICEF Assembly!

Today, we hosted an assembly to kick-off the UNICEF campaign at BHS. Nathan and Kaylee welcomed classes to the assembly, then we sang a song with help from Mrs. Tresoor's class. It was to the tune of Queen's song "We Will Rock You", except the words were changed! Then, Carly and Jack shared some information about UNICEF and Nicholas and Ryan introduced a short video that we watched. Finally, Nick and Lindsay thanked everyone for coming to the assembly! I think it was a fun way to get the school excited about UNICEF!

Unfortunately, my camera did not work well during the assembly, so I was unable to take a video of the Grade 5s singing the awesome song! However, when we returned to the classroom, I had Room 31 students sing the song one last time and was able to get a video. Here it is (just imagine more kids singing, in front of the whole school, in the gym!):

UNICEF song - 2012 from Krista Wasney on Vimeo.

Special Delivery from UNICEF!

Today, we received some important mail! It was a framed certificate from UNICEF congratulating Bird's Hill School for being one of the top 5 schools in Manitoba for the October fundraising campaign! Room 5 is super excited about this accomplishment!

Bird's Hill unites for UNICEF!

For the 2nd year in a row, 3/4W was in charge of the UNICEF campaign for Bird's Hill School during October. We made posters, hosted an assembly, updated the giant graph daily, made morning announcements, and counted and rolled LOTS of money! Bird's Hill School raised over $2400 this year! That's $1000 more than last year! Our hard work even gained us recognition on the divisional website!