On Friday, March 28th, our class hosted a "Wacky Dress Up Day" fund raiser, in support of two local animal welfare organizations: the Orillia SPCA and Aspen Valley Wildlife Sanctuary.
Students in our class took a lead role in promoting and running the event. They wrote and read advertisements on the morning announcements, posted fliers around the building, counted out reminder notices for students from Kindergarten through Grade 8 to take home, and went from class-to-class collecting donations on the day of the event.
Here are some of the students in our class, dressed "wacky":
Students weren't the only ones that enjoyed dressing wacky for a day. Staff also joined in the fun:
Wacky Dress Up Day raised $204.28!!
The money will be split evenly between the Orillia SPCA and Aspen Valley Wildlife Sanctuary. Our class decided to use Aspen Valley's money to sponsor some of the sanctuary's permanent residents. We reviewed the list of available animals and their sponsorship costs:
We decided to adopt both of the sanctuary's deer, for $25.00 each:
We still had $50.00, and three of the animals cost that amount to sponsor, so we reviewed their information and then voted. Brooke the beaver only got two votes. Monty the bobcat edged out Mikey the fisher by three votes, to become the third animal we sponsored:
The school will receive adoption certificates to thank us for sponsoring Andy, Annie and Monty. Students in Grades 4-6 will also get a chance to meet all of the permanent residents, including our adoptees, when we visit the sanctuary in May.
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