The students' culture quilt before they added the border.Our local branch of Fidelity Bank at 21 Main Street agreed to be our Pennies for Peace sponsor! We gave them a large can for donations, and a poster designed by 5th-grade student Riley Korhonen. Both are prominently displayed in front of the tellers.
The students spent part of Friday putting together a formal thank-you letter to the bank. Ms. Lynch decorated it with a photo of pennies, and Michael Sowa was the lucky winner of the opportunity to hand write the entire thing. Ms. Lynch then attached some orange construction paper to the letter and all of the students signed it. I was so proud to take it into the bank.
We also put our culture quilt on display at the end of the second floor hallway near the copier. The students finished it on Wednesday, after which Ms. Lynch and I presented it, along with other projects, to the Shirley School Committee and Superintendent Mac Reid. We explained the project and thanked Principal Pat Fitzgerald and the Shirley Educational Foundation for all of their support. We also thanked Art Teacher Sarah Russell for her help with the collages. This is truly becoming a community-wide effort.
As of the end of school on Friday, the students had counted $82 in pennies, and there are still more to count. Our goal is to raise $600--enough to pay a teacher's salary in Afghanistan or Pakistan for a year--by May 13.
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