Last week, out of the blue, Wyatt decided he wanted to have a lemonade stand. I'm not quite sure where he got the urge, especially since its December and it has been pretty chilly around here lately. The idea persisted throughout the week and by Friday he had already told many of his buddies at school to come visit his stand. Wyatt and Malcolm both helped make the lemonade and set up the stand. Wyatt made the sign. They had a great time selling lemonade, especially when friends from Wyatt's class who live in the hood stopped by.
Before the big day we talked about what Wyatt wanted to do with the money he would earn from his stand. His classroom, K 107, has "save" "spend" or "donate" jars and he decided that he wanted to put the proceeds from the lemonade stand in the donate jar. In fact, he even told one customer (a friend from another Kinder class at Grattan) that the money was going to Kenya to help kids who don't have enough in their school. I wasn't sure that was entirely accurate (in fact I didn't know he'd ever even heard of Kenya!) but I was very impressed. We were proud of the hard work and the $12.80 they raised. However, after talking about donating the money all weekend, on Monday morning when his teacher, Mr. Draven, asked which jar he wanted to put it in he replied, "spend!" Guess we will just have to have another one to raise money for the school kids in Kenya.
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I am so proud of Wyatt and glad he willingly gave the money he raised to the "donate" jar. As a result, we decided as a class to buy X-mas presents for two families in need.
Wyatt was correct regarding his statement about school children in Kenya. Apparently, if a family does not have the money to buy the appropriate and mandatory school uniform, then their child can not attend school. As a result, our class denoted money for this cause as well.
Thank you Wyatt for remembering!
Happy New Year!
Peace,
Mr. Draven
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