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= Group B= Please keep in mind that only one person can edit this page at a time. It is recommended that each of you choose a colour of font and use the same one throughout.

As you work on your social action project (committed to 12 hours of dedicated time to giving service to others) plus responding in a Wiki format with your group of three, you will answer the following question: In light of your understanding of disciple, what does it mean to be a disciple of Christ to others through your project? You will share your thoughts and observations and actions of setting up to kinds of things you did to what you observed or saw to the final pieces of your project. At the end of your project (Dec. 2 or what you have completed thus far), your group will come up with a group response to what is a disciple based on your social action journey.

Let's start answering this question    tonight.

//What does it mean to you to be a disciple? What is a disciple?//

Toni and I have put in several hours organizing a Thanksgiving food drive for our school. St. Vincent De Paul food bank, in Orillia, was looking pretty bare so we set up a school wide collection and managed to get over 1000 items to deliver. We brought three very large car/suv loads over today. We've planned to do another drive just before Christmas. I was very proud of our students and the enormous efforts they took to bring in such a large quantity of food in such a short amount of time (only four days).
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Stephanie Ross

October 28, 2008 We currently have plans with the student council to meet and discuss the Christmas food drive. The St. Vincent De Paul food bank was so thankful to our students that I think it will inspire them to bring in even more next time around. I think that it is important to teach our students that they are all disciples of Christ and to make them aware of the good they are doing for people that are less fortunate. In my class this week we have been talking about the special talents God has given to us and how we need to use them. As a disciple of Christ you need to use the talents God gives you to help others. I would like to try and help my students, over the next few weeks, discover how they can do this. Stephanie Ross ||  Stephanie Ross

I am continuing to meet with the student council to plan different activities to raise money for or support different local agencies. The school is currently planning a hat and mitten drive to collect items during the Orillia Santa Claus parade. We have also had students express an interest in collecting items for UNICEF to be sent in shoe boxes to children in developing countries. Apparantly this has been done at our school for a number of years. It has been a very rewarding experience so far working with the students to come up with ideas to support those who are less fortunate.

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!! Posted Oct 30, 2008 9:54 am

Cindy Megaffin!!

This week I organized with my english class, our sock and mitt drive. They came up with some very creative names. We decided on Sockolucious/High 5 mitts. They organized what posters they want, how they want to collect the socks and mits.

We decided to use our Student leadership House program that they just started at the school for school spirit. Based on the number pairs of socks and mitts that each grade brings in, determines the percentage of points that will be added to their houses. At the end of the term, the winning grade is given a prize.

We also went outside and painted our feet, with the word sock drive written across it. They put some leaves under it, and we will blow it up and use it as one of our advertisements around the school.

They also came up the with idea of Sock inspectors where they get dressed up, to make sure the socks are good to keep. They had fun taking the pictures, and now they have to assign the different tasks to my other classes. This class has done a good job so far in organizing. Posted Nov 7, 2008 8:26 am

Well I did write a whole other Wicki a couple of weeks ago but that has apperantly been lost. Anyways it discussed the organiztion of my class painting their feet for a picture for the sock drive. Since then, our preperation for the sock and mitt drive has taken place. My grade 10 class coloured our advertisements and put them up on the walls. They were pretty excited to do that. They were happy to do it. I created another pictures of cold hands that I took yesterday of one of my students. He held onto an icicle and his hands went really red.The boys were happy to play in the snow to do it. I coloured in two flourscent bristol boards last night, and put them up today for the campaign. He saw it actually as I was doing it and "said his hands look cold". I also counted out over 600 Jelly tots for them to guess in a jar, to raise money. The kids will be handing out prizes at the end of the week, and my other grade 11 class will be going around next week to collect the socks and mitts. We will have sock inspectors to make sure there are no holes. Other then that, it does take a lot to organize, but the kids seem to be enjoying particpating in the drive. The toque drive collected over 300, which is great, so hopefully we will be able to match that. Not sure in socks, but hopefully with both they will. My student who goes to KW could not get the socks, as they were out. Other then that, we will have to see how the drive runs next week.

Cindy Megaffin

This week the Sockemberfest/High 5 Mitts campaign ran at Jean Vanier Highschool. We were able to raise over 375 pairs of socks and mitts. We also raised $51 from a guess the jellies jar. Overall it was a success. I do however feel, that some of my students were more motivated in running the fair then others. We also had one Grade 9 boy who brought in about 150 pairs of socks and mitts. Which represents about half of the total. It was great for him and the grade 9 class becuase they were able to win house points, with a student council campaign that is running. I do wish that we could have raised a little more, and had a bit more school spirit, but I am happy with what we did raise. I was surprised that so many kids bidded on winning the Jellytots. I had a few students who were not to enthusiastic about collecting the socks. Therefore they were not permitted to continue collecting the socks. I wanted students out there who believed in the cause. The kids went around to each of the classrooms, and collected the socks during second period. They kept each of the grades seperate, so that they knew how many each collected so they could keep track of the house points. The grade 9 class one the percentage of house points. On friday during fourth period, we did a draw, and students won some chocolates and cafeteria prizes. They seemed genuienly happy to win something. I don't think they were expecting it, because we didn't advertise that prizes would be awarded. I had some chocolates donated from one of my students in my class. I had a discussion with my fourth period class after we did the draw, and took down all of the advertisements. I asked them how they felt about helping out, and they said really good. They were a little disappointed that my other classes were not as enthusiastic about the drive. But they were happy that they organized and participated in it. They also were happy knowing that they were going to be helping out other youth. In the end, Who do we say we are, we are people who started with an idea, and will end up helping many people out, that we will never meet. But we will have the idea of knowing that people out there will be wearing our donations, by simply doing one action, cleaning out our closets. I am glad that I helped to organize this with my students. <span style="color: rgb(242, 7, 7);"> <span style="color: rgb(245, 20, 20);"><span style="color: rgb(240, 255, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(242, 7, 7);">My Social Action Food Drive Rob MacLeod

Our grade 7 and 8 classes at St. Catherine of Siena school are going to St. Joan of Arch to watch the Ontario Volleyball Championships. We have not sent the permission form home yet. I am brain storming with the other intermediate teachers on how this experience can be tied into a Social Action project.

After some ideas, I came up with the idea that every student who had permission to come to the volleyball championship had to bring a item of non perishable food or a loonie during the week. The food would be donated to to our Barrie branch of St. Vincent De Paul. We made the permission form an sent it home with the students. Food drives sometimes do not work with this age group. So I knew we had to educate the students about our local organizations that help less fortunate people in our city of Barrie.

I explained to the students how important it was for our society especially our Catholic Schools to help support St. Vincent De Paul and other organizations that help people in need. I explained to the class that many families in our Barrie region depend on food banks and charitable donations to get through their daily lives. Many of the students in the class could not believe the amount of food that these organizations go though each month.

Each teacher in grade 7 and 8 made it a competition between the classes to see who could bring in the most food for the drive.

During the week we had students bringing in 2-5 items in at a time. The class got very excited every time a student brought in some food.

Even though we made it a competition between the classes, the students knew what the main cause was. They knew that every food item was going to help feed families in their city.

On that Friday before we went to the Volleyball Championships we counted the items and had over 200 hundred food items. The class were very excited to hear how much food they brought in. My class won the competition for bringing the most food so I bought them a treat the following week.

The students had to do a reflection on the food drive and how it made them feel when we discussed the number of families who depend/needed our St. Vincent De Paul/ organizations in our city. They did a great job on these reflections. Many of the students grew during this activity.

There is a food drive going on at our school at this moment. I still have students bringing in food for this cause. It was nice to see the grade 7 & 8 students continue to develop into disciples of Christ. <span style="color: rgb(245, 20, 20);">