My journalism class collected money and put a tree in the Festival of the Trees that benefits the Primary Children's Medical Center. Although there were hundreds of beautiful trees that dwarfed our cute little 4 1/2 foot tree, and tree was only purches for a few hundred dollars, the rewards of doing service are great.
Sometimes "fun" things are a lot more work than work itself, but the stress is worth it. The kids were pretty excited about, and I was too.
A small number of kids were able to go with me up to the event to see our tree after it was sold. Sadly, every member of our class couldn't come, but those that could got a day off of school and a free meal at Chilis! :D
Our tree was dedicated to spreading literacy and had little rolled up copies of our student newspaper and childrens books tied all over the tree. Stacks of books were placed underneath. All in all it was a pretty neat project for us!
2 comments:
It's a cute tree. It must be a journalism thing to do, because when I was in high school our journalism class did the same thing. But our tree didn't look half as nice. Way to go!
That is awesome! I wanted to do a tree with the Cub Scouts a couple years ago, but the parents and leaders said it would be way too much work and I'm sure it wouldn't have been too cute w/ me and a bunch of cub scouts in charge!!! It turned out great! A sweet neighbor of mine has her 2 year old in there right now. He just had his 3rd heart surgery and will hopefully be home for Christmas!
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