Carter Community School Community Service Project

For several years now, 3rd Bryan has joined with 1st Beall (and this year we are including 1st Hill) to take stockings stuffed with treats to the Kindergarten-2nd grade students at the Carter Community School. Our halls bringing treats had become a special tradition for many of these students. In addition to taking treats, we invite along one of NCSSM's founding faculty member Dr. Jon Miller and he reads "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" to the students. Seeing the excitement and joy of the students is always so much fun. BUT we need your help to make it happen.

The hall funds will be providing stockings, but we need students and parents to provide the stuff to go in them. There are 81 students we will be making stockings for, so over break, if you could pick up something to stuff the stockings and send it back with the students after break, it would be a huge help. Think about things along the lines of candy, candy canes, pencils or small school supplies, small toys (like happy meal toys or toys from the dollar tree), coloring books and crayons, or other small gifts that would fit in a stocking. If you can get enough of one thing for all the stockings, great, but if not, just bring whatever you can and we can combine comparable treats to make the stockings close to the same, even if they aren't exactly the same. We do not have the count of how many male and female students there are and we do not make gender specific stockings, but if you want to send something that is more traditionally enjoyable for one gender, feel free. We always just encourage the students to trade with each other if they get something they do not enjoy (but don't under-estimate how many girls like superhero stuff or boys like Disney characters-you never know what kids will enjoy). 

 Once we have gotten all our supplies together after break, We will meet one night and stuff stockings (and we usually have food and holiday music), and then on Monday December 17th during common lunch, we will be delivering the stockings to the school. Students will have a chance to actually go to the school and help deliver them to the students. My hope is that all of the students will have a chance to participate in some way, whether by donating supplies, helping assemble stockings, or delivering them to the school.

Thanks again for your help with this project, and please let me know if you have questions. (AND keep an eye out for more potential community service projects coming up soon).