WE Scared Hunger

We did scare hunger the week prior to Hallowe'en.  How is it that it is ALREADY the first days of December?  That may be even more scary 😱!

Sorting over 1100 food stuffs collected by staff and students

Every year, we have hosted a canned food drive at some time throughout the school calendar.  Since this is our inaugural year as St Teresa of Calcutta and because we are a WE school, we decided to bring a twist to this old favourite by trying a "WE Scare Hunger" campaign running until Hallowe'en.

I proposed to the kids that they could choose any way of advertising the campaign.  The traditional poster ads were common replies.  So, I challenged the kids to consider how the world advertises.  Minds opened; ideas poured!  Twitter, TV, radio, announcements, commercials, emails, newsletters were some of their inspirations.

Students then selected group members based on skill set and began bringing their campaign strategy to life.  

A group of actors added a tech kid for filming, lighting and sound

A group who wanted to create a dance "commercial"

 added a different tech partner for filming and music

Another group of artists set about to advertise 

with posters throughout the school

And still another group created a PSA about the campaign which can be seen here  

The Wall of Fame for many classes!  5P reached 175 cans!

We found time to throw some math into the campaign by posting the tallies in the main hall.  I think it lit a fire under some of the classes!  My kids used the tallies to determine the percentages towards our goal.  This gave an opportunity for mental math adding and learning how to figure out percents (which we hadn't studied yet).

Day 2 of the campaign and we had reached 35.3% of 1000 cans!

Of course, as their teacher, I was totally psyched that they were geeking out, using their talents to promote the WE Scare Hunger initiative throughout the school.  I appreciate it when extracurricular meshes with curriculum and collides with the real world.  Never mind that the campaign was a HUGE success thanks to the time they put behind the scenes.

~MissBrooks