CENTS FOR SENDAI!!!

Hi everyone!

Here is a letter I recieved today regarding the devastating tsunami in Japan, and how MMHers can help out!  Please read through, and if possible, have your student bring in a toonie for Tuesday, or another day this week.  Thanks!

-Anna Tsentouruos

Dear MMH families

As you all know there was a devastating earthquake and tsunami in Japan.  In Grade 5, our teacher lived in Japan for two years and two of the students in our room are Japanese so we feel like we need to do something and thought the school could help.  We are going to introduce a school-wide project called CENTS FOR SENDAI.  Sendai is the region of Japan where the earthquake happened.  All the money would go to the Red Cross so that people can get food, blankets, clean water and medical supplies.  We are asking each student in the school bring in a TOONIE.  Because there are about 500 people in the school, a toonie from each student could help our school raise over $1000!  Who knew that doing such a small thing could do so much!  An announcement at 12:45 today will explain the project to all the students.  Our kick-off event will be tomorrow and it is called TOONIE TUESDAY! On “Toonie Tuesday” we hope that almost all the students in the school remember to bring in a toonie to their classes.   We will have students go around the school to collect the toonies from each classroom around 11:30.    For those students who forget to bring a toonie, we will continue the project until Thursday of this week.  We are not sending a note in agendas because we are trying to be environmentally friendly so we are asking for support from the teachers.

Here's how you can help:

*There will be a bucket set up in the office for parents who would like to contribute, especially when they are here for parent teacher interviews. 

*Please encourage students to think of the good they are doing.  It may be a small amount for one person but we can do a lot of good together.  We are important citizens of the world and we should care about other citizens of the world.    We can choose to do nothing, or we can choose to help.  So let’s help.

Thank you for supporting this project and we hope it leads to good discussion about global citizenship in your homes.  If you have any questions, please contact a teacher at MMH.  While we are starting this project, we hope that it spreads through the school and becomes a MMH Special Spirit Project.