Kinnikinnick Elementary’s division 3 class (grades 4 and 5) have raised $632.48 through a coin drive to help victims of the Fort McMurray fire.
“We decided we would like to do a coin drive for the Fort McMurray fire because last year’s fire at the [old] Sechelt Mine was very close to home,” division 3 teacher Corey Campbell said.
Students in Campbell’s class made and put up posters around the school to advertise the coin drive. One student asked her extended family to donate and raised $150 with her family alone. Another student and her brother held a bake sale and raised over $50 together.
Students collected money from classrooms every day.
“We counted our funds and raised $632.48 altogether,” Campbell said. “This will be doubled when given to the Red Cross. We are very proud of how our school community has come together to support other communities in their time of need.”
Campbell’s class has tied their discussions into a Social Studies unit about Canadian government and their responsibilities at the federal, provincial and municipal levels. “Students have been very engaged in thinking about how these families would be suffering,” Campbell said.
