Daisy Brook - 12/13/2017 Gingerbread House Contest

Our class and our fabulous ELA Buddies hosted a gingerbread house contest to raise money for Kids Food Basket http://www.kidsfoodbasket.org/ . Anyone could participate, and families were welcome to join in. All houses were displayed in the library for two weeks in December.

Students, staff and parents voted for their favorite house with money.
One cent for each vote! (Nickel = 5 votes, Dime = 10, $1.00 = 100, and so on…) The winning house was included in the school paper and featured in the DB announcements. The REAL winners here are the KFB schools, all money raised will go straight to them!
Thank you,
Mrs. Flock’s and Mrs. Reisler’s Classes
Below is a copy of the note Mrs. Flock sent home a couple of weeks ago:

Mr. Troy Vos from the Kids Helping Kids department of Kids Food Basket http://www.kidsfoodbasket.org/ in Grand Rapids came in to our classroom today and gave an inspiring presentation! My students are so excited about being World Changers, they have decided to help feed students in our area who are without food. It all started a few weeks ago as we were reading about an organization that provides food for starving children in other countries. Several students spoke up and emphatically protested that it was not fair for some children to be going without food, and asked if we could help. I told them that I wasn’t sure how to help with that organization, but our own former Pathfinder Behavior Specialist Mr. Vos now worked for a non-profit organization that feeds kids right here in west Michigan! They asked if we could do something to help him, and I said I would see if he would come all the way to Fremont to speak with us. He said yes, and was so impressed with the heart and enthusiasm of the requests that he arranged his schedule to come on his day off to meet with our class. Our 5th Grade ELA buddies joined us.

Here are some things we learned:
*Kids Food Basket began 15 years ago when a GR principal noticed one of her students taking food out of a trashcan. When asked, the student said if she didn’t find food, she wouldn’t eat dinner. That principal did some checking and found that this was not an unusual case
*The first year she provided dinners for 125 students and began the organization
*28, 500 students in west Michigan go hungry every night
*$1.00 will provide a meal for a student which includes a fruit, a vegetable, a protein and a treat
*Kids Food Basket now services 42 schools, and 7,500 students EVERY DAY!
*It takes 7 hours to get the food sorted, prepared, divided, delivered and this is done by volunteers. KFB has over 250 volunteers each day ranging from 5 years to 105 years old!
*One man in his nineties has been volunteering for 15 years
*There are many schools on the waiting list, and it costs KFB $30,000 to service a school for a year.