BEST Healthy Eating Project

A project created by three student council members is encouraging healthy eating at school! I know what you are thinking--10 year olds and healthy eating is an oxymoron--but it is true! They have created a point system for healthy food choices, put sticky notes on the lunch line to point out healthy choices, count the points during lunch, tally them, and have a business sponser (Georgetown Hospital) donating prizes for making healthy food choices!

Click here to see what the students have created.

Burgess Students Helping Haiti

My students never cease to amaze me. Over the long weekend, one of my students felt the need to help Haiti children and created a proposal to present to Student Council this morning. It never ceases to amaze me how civic minded children can be.

Click here to look at the proposal!

I try to teach my students to "think globally, act locally" and sometimes feel that the children just don't get it. They are too busy thinking of themselves and instant gratification--being children. Then I get a proposal like this, with a unanimous yes by student council and I know that the children are listening, and responding in ways more mature and thoughtful ways than I could have imagined!