cindy+megaffin

I am working at Jean Vanier Highschool this semester, and for this section of the course, Sarah and I are organizing a Toque, mit and sock drive during the month of November. Her classes will be in charge are organizing the toques, and my classes are in charge of organizing the mits and socks.

She and I have been discussing this project for the last couple of weeks over our lunch hour, and decided that the donations that we receive from the school will go to the St. Vincent de Paul in Collingwood. Anything that they do not need will be sent to the Convenant house in Toronto.

We are trying to focus on youth helping youth. As this is our call to discipleship as teachers, it is important to educate our students on being kind and helping those in need.

Sarah's class is going to run the toque drive in the first week of November, and my classes will be running the mit and sock drive in the third week of November. Our goal is to collect as many items as we can. We decided to run them a week apart from each other so that it gives the students enough time to organize their used items, or go and purchase new items as well. We also decided, that since our school runs the Christmas shoe box program in December, we didn't want to overwhelm the students during December.

I posed the idea to my third period class on Monday. Their reaction was "I'm wouldn't want to wear people's dirty socks. Miss, do we get out of class for this?" My response was yes. I explained the project to the class, and let them know, that they were the class that I selected, to organize, what my other two classes were going to be doing help organize the sock drive.

They did a little brainstorming, as far as how they want to run it. We haven't come up with our final plan yet. I am hoping today that we can start to organize it. I will also be introducing the project to my two other classes today.

One of my students, mentioned that he can get 100 pairs of socks, for 5 dollars at the KW army surplus store. He visits KW everyother weekend, and would be able to pick them up. This is a great idea, however, my only concern is that I don't want them to get caught up with the quantity of socks, rather then the idea, of helping others from their own backyard.

As I continue to discuss it with the classes I will continue to keep you up to date!!