Last week I got a surprise at my door!
I was filling the students bowls with cereal (I run the Breakfast Program from my Grade One Room at Jarvis Public School), one of my students poked his head in the door. It turns out he had something for me.
Inside a huge plastic bag were three backpacks. [...]
This past Tuesday we had a school fundraiser!
I am proud to say that we raised $395 to go towards Haiti Relief.
To raise this much money students were given the opportunity to purchase tickets to have the chance to pit a teacher in the face. One teacher from each division was chosen to get a pie [...]
This past weekend Stu and I worked on the Write to Give Gift Shop!
We are pretty excited to get the books online for everyone to see. The students did an excellent job. You will see in Gift Shop we have the books from Series Two.
We will be adding all books to the Gift Shop shortly!
Thanks [...]
The earthquake that rocked Haiti just 11 days ago has taken the lives of more than 111,000 people.
WTA and the Write to Give Program has decided to donate $2 from every book sold in the next printing session to help those in Haiti.
At the present time we have students from Waterloo, Hamilton, Brantford, Africa and [...]
World Teacher Aid - Winter 2010
Well the past few months have been busy.
As the Write to Give Program and the charity continues to grow, I found it hard to balance teaching full time and working on Write to Give and World Teacher Aid.
This Christmas, my husband and I decided that it was time for [...]
Recently, Stu and I were invited back to Wesley Church for a special presentation.
For the past year now they have been saving and rolling their pennies.
This past Sunday, Stu and I attended the service and were presented with the kind donation. Wesley United raised a mile in pennies for us, and for those [...]
Well the 2009 Write to Give Campaign, has been a HUGE success so far. Thank you to all teaches for spreading the word :). I am so happy to announce that I had to stop at 35 teachers! I now have a waiting list for the New Year.
This means over 700 students [...]
What an amazing honor Stu and I had today at the Rotary Club of Norfolk Sunrise, in Simcoe, Ontario.
Stu and I arrived at 6:45 am this morning to present to the club about World Teacher Aid and the Write to Give Program. We were welcomed by Ross Gowan and Stu’s high school principal, John Wallis. [...]
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