This initiative is to build awareness around the issues of hunger locally in our city and globally. Students will be planning and organizing a food drive to support North York Second Harvest. Leadership please use the comments link below this post to continue discussions and planning.
The leaders that are talking about halloween 4 hunger, i think are giving alot of great ideas like:
ReplyDeleteWhen we would go collect the canned goods from the class rooms we could go dressed up in mini coustumes, and when we enter we could say "trick or treat" or sing the gingle Sarah wrote.
I alo thought the idea of handing out letters to your neighbours that give info about halloween 4 hunger and that ask if you could hand out canned goods too on halloween night.
I think yesterday we got lots of things done and people gave out many great ideas too.
Talia :)
I really enjoyed listening to the different ideas with the leadership group because we were on task,and had alot of brilliant ideas to work with.I hope the Be The Change Group get to acomplish many events as we plan. Aretha
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed talking, and sharing ideas at last nights Be the Change meeting. I think Halloween 4 Hunger will be a great success if we keep it at this rate! I think The BTC commitee is off to a GREAT start and i hope that we will get a lot done this year!!! :)
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I really like how many ideas everyone had at the meeting last night.I really hope that the be the change committe can accomplish all of our goals such as the Food drive or the Vow of silence. Emily
ReplyDeleteI am really excited for Halloween for Hunger and I think it would be a big sucess! I really love the idea about giving letters about Halloween for Hunger for people on our street so when we go trick or treating we can go to the houses that we gave the letters to and hopefully they would give canned goods. With this idea, we would really get closer to making hunger dissapear!! CLARA:)
ReplyDeleteAt last night BE THE CHANGE meeting, I really loved how everyone was sharing their ideas and
ReplyDeleteco operating. We each told each other about our ideas of how we are going to get the whole school talking about Halloween for Hunger and how it's going to look like. I hope that we would keep this up because we would have a lot accomplished throughout the school year!! CLARA:)
Today when I was walking home I noticed that some houses says no flyers our junk mail aloud. I think that if we are giving out flyers we should not give the flyers to those houses because they might not read it and recycle the piece of paper. I agree with all of you that our Me to we group will accomplish many things. I think our Idea about Halloween for hunger and our food drive will surely start making hunger disappear. Even our other actives will start to raise the awareness. I think we all believe that this year we can prove to the teachers each and every year the Me to we community can get better and better!
ReplyDeleteOn last tuesdays meeting I heard some great ideas and I know that we will have a great year for the btc commitee this year!!! Also I agree with everyone else.
ReplyDeleteThe leaves are changing colours and creating a beautiful scenery across our local community.I just can't wait to take part in the Halloween for hunger to see the percentage of the collection of donations (Food cans) we could raise.Aretha
ReplyDeleteToday the leader ship group had a discussion about Halloween for hunger. We decided to hand out flyers but today while I was walking home I noticed that some houses said no flyers or junk mail. Even thought our flyer is not junk mail people still may not read it and put it in the recycle. I think we should not hand it out to those houses, so we can just print out one less copy and don’t waste paper. Even if we hand out the flyers, I don’t think our parents would want to carry both our candies and our can goods. What if we handed out all the flyers about our program? Than on Halloween night we find a community for e.g. from Bathurst to Dufferin. Than we spit up to groups with a parent that drives because than we can put our goods in the car. After we can pick a time to meet at a friend’s house together than we can go down to Union station together because we did all the work.
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Sabrina :p
I been wondering when the committee group and the leadership group are going to start meetings on Thursdays during lunch,because to my opinion I think the two of the Be The Change groups might need more work on the discussions we are making to try to accomplish more work.Aretha
ReplyDeleteI think that eradicate extreme poverty and hunger is the most important millenium development goal because children can't work on an empty stomach, they NEED food to work and SURVIVE. Also, when they are really hungry, they will get extremely sick because they wouldn't have any energy and then they'll faint becuase they would have to work so we have to find a way to help them get food to survive. CLARA :)
ReplyDeleteI've just got a website about the rates of the use of the food banks, but the info is on Ontario not Toronto. if you want the website it's:
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Kevin
I think that the most important millenium goal to me is education because if you get a good education you get a paying job which means your family has clean water and food to live on.
ReplyDeleteI found a website about events,campaigns and facts about how many people use food banks daily.
http://www.foodbanknyc.org/
Emily :)
i think the last btc meeting went really well we got alot done and i think halloween for hunger is going to be a great sucsess and our first project will be great sarah
ReplyDeletei think one idea that spoke out to me was that we should only hand out flyers to the street we are going to be coolecting on so we do not waste paper sarah
ReplyDeleteThat was a good idea Sabrina, but I sort of dissagree with you because if we are collecting cans on our street, when the box becomes full, couldnt we just drop it at our house because we are just collecting cans from our neighbours. CLARA:)
ReplyDeleteThanks so much Kevin!
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Hey guys, this is just a rough copy of how I think the letter about Halloween for Hunger should look like. If you have any ideas, post it and then I can add to it. After, I'll print it and bring it to school to ask you guys what you think of it. BTW, got all the info from freethechildren.com and halloweenforhunger.com CLARA :)
ReplyDeleteHi! This year at McMurrich Junior Public School, we will be participating in an event called Halloween for Hunger. This event will give young children, like us a chance to help stop hunger.
On Halloween night, we will be going around asking families if they can donate 1 or more canned goods for children who are very hungry.
We decided to participate in Halloween for Hunger this year because we learned a lot about other children that don’t have as much food as we do, so we wanted to help stop hunger and spread the word to donate 1 can or more.
The donation that we would hope you will make will support local food banks and people in our community who are hungry. Poverty and hunger are challenges that effect many people in North America who are mostly children.
Last year, 408 schools participated in Halloween for Hunger and donated around 217 713 pounds of canned foods each. That was an outstanding number of cans! That could have been fed to 2 221 families for 1 week or 555 families for 1 month! This year, our school hoped that we would raise more cans so we can make hunger disappear!
Thank you for reading!
From,
The Be The Change Student Committee
Hey guys here is some information for Halloween for Hunger. In 2009, about 156,548 children in Toronto lived in poverty, that is 37%. So far this year, there have been 1,187,000 visits to the food bank in the GTA. Also, there are 15% more visits this year than last year at local food banks. 15% of kids and 37% of adults go hungry each week. For more info go to www.dailybread.ca
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Great Ideas so far.... I am so excited to see how this campaign will take off this year. I have posted some related links on the side bar to help with your research. Hope it helps Ms R :o)
ReplyDeleteEmily, education is important but if you don't have food or water you can't have engry to go to school and learn. Also a person can not survive longer than seven with out water. So I think haveing water and food is the most important millenium goal.
ReplyDeleteSABRINA and TIFFANY :oP
we just printed out the letter we will be handing out each and everyone of us will be getting one to hand out. to Ms. Rambaran
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I am so proud of the leadership group because we got to accomplish typing the letter for next weeks Halloween 4 Hunger .This means alot to me because all of these children needs food an a good education like children like us.Aretha
ReplyDeleteon our next meeting i hope we print the letters out and hand them out i am so excited to see how much cans we collected GO BTC GO
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Today in Me to We, my group started on our poster for Halloween for hunger. At first we had a little problem on how to start our idea by soon after we figured out that if we got up with this idea where we should draw a picture where some people are going to collect can goods and on the way they meet some very hungry children. I also think that today in groups we accomplished many things that needed to be done. I think if we are like this at every meeting we can get all our goals accomplished.
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BTC I am so proud of all your hard work... this is initiative is going to be a big success. Don't forget to post ideas so that others can give you feedback.
ReplyDeleteHalloween for Hunger is getting closer and closer by the minute. I am so excited and I can't wait to collect cans on Halloween night!! CLARA:)
ReplyDeleteGreat job today in SOM assembly you did a great job presenting your first initiative.
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Poster Group
ReplyDeleteIt is is really important that the poster group finish all posters for tomorrow so that this initiative is successful
I think that EVERYONE who presented in the student of the month assembly did a really great job! I really liked how in the beginning of the script, 4 members from the leadership comittee asked ARE YOU HUNGRY? CLARA:)
ReplyDeleteHey guys, if you have time this weekend, you should go check out the person living in the box for 5 days and 4 nights at Union Station. CLARA:)
ReplyDeleteI just checked out the guy living in the box last night. It was sooo cool and there were soooo many cans!! CLARA:)
ReplyDeleteThanks for letting me know Clara!...I am so glad that a lot a people are caring about Halloween 4 Hunger.I was just wondering have any of you guys went to go visit the guy in the box yet ?... If you want to know how it's going all of you should probably check out Clara's comment I think it's really important to know .I can't wait until to see our school raise some food cans !... And don't forget to bring some boxes in for the food cans to hold in.Aretha
ReplyDeleteI totally agree with you Aretha.I think that it is really important to check out the guy in the box becuase than you can see how many people believe that they can make hunger dissapear by bringing in non parishable food items. CLARA :)
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Thank you Clara for reading my comment I really appreciate it .This comment is for the whole Be The Change Committee I was looking up on the news and I saw the guy in the box there are so many non-perishable food cans !...And the guy said that it is such a great experience just being in a box surrounded by plenty of food cans.Hey Clara I have a question ;You know the guy in the box is eating or is he being one of those people suffering for food for all those days and nights.That is so cool!.. And sorry Clara that I didn`t put a question mark after my question .the reason why I didn`t is because my question mark on the keyboard is not working!..Aretha =o)
ReplyDeleteHey Aretha. I am not sure if he was eating or suffering for food for 5 days. Sorry, I just went by to check it out but I think it would be pretty cool for him to not have food for 5 days becuase it would show us right in front of our eyes how a person lives without a meal. Anyways, I just know that there were A LOT of non perishable food items and that he was really happy that everyone was donating a can of food and there was a long line up of people holding their cans. Also, there was one guy building the box and adding cans to it. CLARA:)
ReplyDeleteP.S Thanks Aretha for reading my comment and commenting back to it
Sorry Clara that I didn't get to comment you back sooner ,but thanks for letting me know about the guy in the box .Guess what I don't know if know whats happening in the Caribbean ; they had a Hurricane,so my family and I are going to pack a big barrel .If you don't know what a barrel is ,it is a kind of a huge bucket .My family and I are going to put any food items and clothing for people who needs it .Those people are suffering and they really need help,but were only sending a barrel for St.Vincent for now because part of my family is living there . Aretha=o)
ReplyDeleteThat's so nice of you Aretha. It's really improtant that we help everyone, not just our friends but everyone including people in other countries. CLARA:)
ReplyDeleteThe leadership and the skit group did a great job at last months assembly and I hope the rest of the the bttc students enjoy this.
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