The Fourth Graders at Meridian decided to earn money so that they could sponsor kids for Christmas from another school in the district. They've been doing chores, donating birthday money and various other things to help out. Once the teachers collected all of the money they divided it up based on what kids we had and what they needed. Then we all went shopping! Picture the majority of the fourth grade running around Target in control of their own carts and own lists. It was wild. Luckily there was parental supervision, which is why I got to go have fun with them! Kelton had a bunch of his friends in his group, Liam, Andrew, Kai and Collin. They are great kids and I'm glad we were teamed up with them.
We had an eight year old boy who needed everything from underwear to winter clothes. We loaded up our cart and checked off the boxes. We had $.73 to spare. Once everyone was gathered we realized we had an impressive amount of presents to wrap, over $2000 worth. These kids were amazing. We wrapped the presents the next day in class. I'm grateful for their tender hearts.
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