Global Youth Service Day!

Great work, everyone! It was a success! First of all, thank you parent and community volunteers who came out to help referee the games. We had a great time, played a TON of dodgeball and even found a winner for our tournament. Definitely a highlight for the afternoon was when Principal Mr. Underwood joined in a game!

Everyday Leaders will now be sending 25 letters to Representative John Lewis about funding for transitional housing for those with mental illness so that they do not end up homeless. Students also collect donations for Genesis: diapers, baby formula, food, baby clothes, and $55 cash for the organization!

Great work students! Way to do something good and have a great time while doing it!

Week Nineteen: Gearing up for GYSD!

Right after spring break, we have come back with much to do and lots of energy to do it! With only a few days to go until the Fight To End Homelessness Dodgeball Tournament, we have been working hard to put all of the pieces together. The students have really worked hard on advertising their project, even make temporary chalk posters on the sidewalks of the school. Students also took the lead to identify and assign student leadership roles, create a day of timeline and checklist, and make a resource list. The Everyday Leaders are well organized and are very excited for next Friday!

We also used our $50 Target gift card to purchase diapers and baby formula for Genesis to add to our donation box. Thank you Target - Edgewood!

Another exciting note: our Everyday Leaders tshirts are in! Thank you to student David Carlock for creating the Everyday Leaders logo for our shirts and a BIG thank you to Frank Kocsisszucs with Crash and Burn who made the tshirts for a very nice discount! We will be wearing our kelly green shirts for Global Youth Service Day - yea!

Great work, Everyday Leaders!

Week Eighteen: Reflection and Moving Forward

It's hard to wind down from such an exciting weekend! We have received much praise from the mural project. Still, after some reflection and discussion, we realized that there is much work to be done for our last project -- Global Youth Service Day and the work we will do with Genesis. The students hung up their posters, completed the entry forms, and went over logistics. They are starting to recruit parent and teacher volunteers to assist in the dodgeball tournament.

Here are the details on fundraiser:

The Fight to End Homelessness Dodgeball Tournament

Fight Homelessness, Play Dodgeball

Friday, April 24th
4 pm – 6 pm
Benefits Genesis, a local transitional family shelter
Only those who enter by Monday, April 20th can participate!!!

+Parent Signature Required!
+Entry forms will be passed out after Spring Break
+Turn items / forms into Ms. Larson
+Due on Monday, April 20th!!!
+Entry fee:
$5 -or-
3 Items of non-perishable food
See the form for more ideas!
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On Friday, we presented the project to the school in two groups as well as showed the school pictures of the mural project. Reggie & Noah did a great job presenting as a team to the sixth grade and the eighth grade group Russell, Camille, Regan, Ronald, and David even got applause for their mural project picture!

Fight Homelessness, Play Dodgeball!