A GIVING HEART!!

As the holidays approach, I would like for our class to consider giving to others.  As a class, we have very giving hearts and have talked about serving those in need and less fortuate than us.  On a personnal note, my own family has a heart for serving and giving.  My daughter has been on 2 mission trips to Mexico, my son just got back last week from serving on a mission in the Dominican Republic, my parents spent 2 years serving the people of New Orleans with over 20 trips, they have also been to Hungary and Haiti.  My sister went to Guatemala this summer on a church mission trip.  I myself try and mission to our community by helping local families out with clothing, food and Christmas.  I would like to transfer this spirit of giving to our children.  World and community service is so important for our children as they grow into young adults.  Colleges now require that community service be a component of the application process.  Starting at a young age instills a life long love for giving to others, just ask my own children who still have the tradition of giving out food and gift boxes every Christmas Eve, our holiday would not be complete with out this family tradition.  I would like to start out our spirit of giving in the Carroll classrom by participating in Operation Christmas Child which gives shoe boxes out to young children around the world.  The students in our class will ask for donations of money or small gift items to fill the boxes.  These boxes will in turn be sent to other countries for children to have at Christmas.  I just want you to think about this and see if you would like for your child to be a part of this act of kindness.  Shoot me an e-mail or write me a small note saying whether you would be willing to help or not.  I am going to include 3 small videos for you to watch if you have never heard about this before.  Look for a letter coming home this week in your child's planner telling about this wonderful event.  Thanks for listening and hopefully God will lay it on your heart to help out those in need.  Even if you aren't able to help monitarily, please keep us in your thoughts as we take on our first Carroll Classroom Service Project.  Love you-Mrs. C

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