We Scare Hunger 2014

We Scare Hunger

   During October,"Free The Children" committee came up with a creative idea by asking the classes to bring in any amount of change ( from 25 cents to $1) to buy thanksgiving dinners for the Ottawa Mission (people who can't afford it). The following week, the committee came out to play with kindergartens. The committee continues to host what we call the"Turkey Tournament" in the next two weeks, The committee hopes to share the "Turkey Tournament" with the rest of the school, celebrating their contribution to the initiative.

Turkey posters

The money we raised


Activities for fundraising:

Counting the money

Our committee

The Food Bank committee has been raising awareness for the Kanata Food Bank by assigning each grade with a high priority items that's in demand by the food bank. Here are a few pictures that we took that shows what we have been doing for the past few months

              Packing the food 

        Loading to send to the mission

The Grade 6 students also designed and created a haunted house in a classroom, to support the food bank project. The haunted house took part in our school Halloween Dance.  Free addition with a canned.good Donations for the food bank 

On top of all the other projects grade 6 students took part in SGCL's ( Small Gestures Change Lives ) care packages for the homeless. Student were given a list of things to bring in  such as toques, hats, mittens, soaps, shampoos and many other items. These items have been given to SGCL and were handed out to homeless people downtown.

Play For Change

Im March we held Play for Change to raise funds for building schools for Free The Children. We raised 800 dollars by organizing Arcade cardboard games for the day. We invited the whole school to contribute .50 cents to play this is the link for promoting the day.  Play for Change #2 was a very successful day. This link is to a Padlet that has short videos of the 1st Play For Change day. http://padlet.com/rolat/play4change

We applied learning about electricity to our arcade cardboard boxes. We decided to host another play for change and raise money. We held it on June 23rd. The same arcade games became interactive by applying principles of electricity.

This  video summarizes our day in June. Play For Change #2

 We were also very excited to find out that Free The Children Blog featured our first Play For Change initiative http://www.freethechildren.com/2014/06/st-gabriel-plays-change/

We Create Change

Le video par Emma

We Create Change

Grade 6 students are working on ways to raise money for Free The Children, to build schools for children who don't have education.

1 Brick= 20$

Chew For Change is another project that we have just finished. On Thursday, Febuary the 6th, we asked the school to bring in their own gum, and 25 cents, (or more).  The money will go to Free The Children for building schools for children.

The money we raised from Chew For Change.

Grade 3 students

This is the presentation that we shared with the school to promote Chew for Change.

On Friday February 7th we continued making our games and planning to advertize for our next initiative Ply for Change.It will run in the gym all day and students drop by to play many games on Scratch Minecraft and cardboard boxes games.We are very excited and it will be as successful as our Chew for Change.

Last year Grade 4 students made Yarnies and sold. They donated the amount of 50$ from last year's sale.

Mr. Corcoran Class also took a great local initiative "Small Gestures Change Life".   https://sites.google.com/a/ocsb.ca/stgabriel-sgcl/

Our second initiative was  Play 4 Change. Every Friday during curiosity camp we would work on creating arcade games out of cardboard to create our mini arcade that would later on be shared with are school.

Presentation about Play 4 change   We explained the initiative with a Google presentation.

The introduction to the students before entering the gym. Below is an audio Boo of Samantha preparing students before entering the gym .

Reflections form KG about the arcades.

audioboo.Reflexion

Welcoming speech,

Here are the videos of people playing our games and us explaing our games on the day we had Play4Change.

Between Play4Change and Chew4Change we raised $954.85 to build a school for kids around the world in need of shelter.
Play for Change was a great experience that we will never forget , it helped the students to notice how doing small action can make a huge difference in our world.

We Day sign with minecraft 

Tara and Jessica cam to visit us at school and meet all the Grade 6's and chat about their arcade games before play4change. 

We stand together started with a blanket exercise to explore the history of aboriginal people. We continue learning and provoking the thinking through videos and pictures. We connected with another French class and online shared our point of view about the history and actions taken by Europeans.