Giving Chapel

After several months of learning, we used our hands to share the OES heart at Giving Chapel on Friday. Prior to the special chapel, the kids kicked off their learning about the agencies with a conversation about our values around education. Together we visited Woodburn Learning Center with Maestra Kelola and explored our love of language with the preschool students. After our visit, we worked to present our understandings to the Lower School, created several sets of bilingual learning games for the school, and welcomed the organization into our school. 

Giving Chapel day saw us all a buzz with plenty of energy and excitement. We helped carry gift bags and wrapping paper to the service, presented the agencies during the chapel, and then began to sort all of those gifts given. Sorting proved to be a bit daunting as we unpacked over 250 bags of gifts. Our favorite part was loading all of those gifts into the waiting vans and cars to be delivered to the people in our community. In reflecting on our experience we wrote, "Now that I’m in fifth, I feel like I understand the big change that these tiny toys create." "I was surprised how much stuff was brought. And it was stuff that made you really think about who was receiving it."

"How fortunate we are and how important it is to share. It isn’t that hard to make someone’s day. Even the smallest gifts add up to so much that it doesn’t fit into cars."