Thanksgiving Service - Students Donate and Deliver Thanksgiving Baskets to Local Families and Visit Day Care Students

Tandem students helped provide Thanksgiving dinner to 22 local families in need. In the Upper School, each Advisory group put together a box with a turkey, stuffing, mashed potato mix, gravy, canned yams, canned vegetables, canned fruit, dinner rolls, drink mix, cranberry sauce, milk, and bagged salad and salad dressing. The baskets were delivered to a local church for distribution. 

In the Middle School, 7th graders raised $10 apiece by doing chores at home (from babysitting to cleaning around the house and yard work), then brought in the money they earned to purchase items for the dinners for six International Rescue Committee families from Afghanistan and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Students took a culturally appropriate shopping list provided by the IRC and shopped as a grade, then put together and delivered those baskets to the IRC. The 8th grade will be doing the same thing in December and will be creating meal baskets for the same six IRC families.

On another service note this week, Middle School students went to Barrett Day Care to share booklets made during their visit to Cale Elementary School several weeks ago.