First I can't believe what skilled fundraisers Division One has been. You have raised more than 1100 dollars this term! Plus bringing in a great deal of food twice for the food bank and pennies for the Me to We Coins for Change project. In two weeks you raised 600 dollars as part of the End Poverty Day Campaign. Then you sold Paperblank Journals for three weeks and raised over 400 dollars for the Nepal Library Foundation and with hot chocolate and chai sales at the primary musical you raised almost 100 dollars in a day that was donated to the Food Bank to buy perishable food. I think we have all been inspired by the novel I have been reading you by Joan Bauer, Almost Home, about a girl who loses her home, helping us understand a little what it is like to be homeless. We have all fallen in love with Sugar who has taught us about gratitude and gumption.
We have also had lots of fun. There were three sessions of skating with our grade one reading buddies, a book launch with Melanie Jackson at our school, and a day at Granville Island seeing The Wizard of Oz. We also had fun at the Writers' Festival in October there as well. And have loved reading the Seven series of novels by the authors we saw there.
They wouldn't let us forget they were the first Trudeau Senior Boys to become city champions!
