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WEEK 5! We are finally putting our plans into action! We have connected and reached out to the schools, and visited and revised our plans. Instead of doing just a food donation site, Sarah remembered how at her school they participated in a sock drive during the month of October, called “Socktober”. We have reached out and asked if we could hold it this year. We think this is a cool twist on the original idea, and it also contributes to the entire goal of the project: helping others. On Wednesday (10/27) we will start Socktober and it will run until next friday (11/5). This week in genius hour we are making posters for the Sock donations, making a google slide presentation for Mrs.McPherson at North to incorporate into her PROWL presentation, and writing the morning announcements for them to use regarding our drive.
We have also made a slight change in the original food drive plan - instead of collecting general food, we are focusing specifically on Thanksgiving foods! The holidays can be especially hard so hopefully we can help donate Thanksgiving meals to families in need. We are asking for:
We are excited to help out our community, and make it a little more personal with our revised plans! Socktober will hopefully be a hit and prepare us for the second drive in mid-november. Feel free to leave any suggestions or ideas you may have, and be sure to follow us on Instagram! Our first post will be coming out soon….STAY TUNED FOR MORE!!! This week we did get in contact with the schools that we will be having donation boxes at and have gotten a good start on coordinating where everything will be taking place. The locations that will be used at Davie were already verified so we didn’t have to worry about coordinating that this week. We didn’t get to post on Instagram, which we meant to do, so we should definitely get to do that this week since the donation sites will be verified.
I think we are all excited to see what the following weeks hold and to see our ideas finally play out. I know working with the elementary and middle schools is a fun element added to the project since we get to collect from the schools we used to go to. As our time to finish the project gets shorter, it does become a bit more stressful to make sure we stay on schedule and have enough time planned for each donation site to collect what it needs. Being now a third through the project, we are starting to get through the planning stage and having to work a bit faster. With that being said, I think we will have no problem getting it all done and having good results. Just like last week, we have a date set to get together and continue further progress on the project. As we said in our last blog post, time management for our group is our biggest and probably only large challenge as of right now. Keeping ourselves from procrastinating is something we are getting better at. With each one of us having busy schedules, finding coordinated time to work on the project can be difficult. We have done better about planning ahead of time though. Dates have been set aside for us to work outside of school on the project which is great news. Be sure to look out for updates on the website and on our Instagram account this coming week! Our emails are linked on the “How to get involved page” if you need to reach us with any questions, comments, or concerns!! This week was full of planning for our group! We focused on figuring out dates, locations, and plans for meeting to update donation sites and collect whatever has been dropped off. The Instagram page has been up and running for about a week and a half now and our plan is to start posting this coming week. Instagram should also be updated once the donation sites have been verified and are ready for donations. We talked to the teachers at Davie who’s classrooms we will be using as donation sites and should have those locations released when we set out donation boxes. Our plan is to contact the middle and elementary schools this week and set out the donation boxes sometime this coming week also. Overall, we are pretty much on track with our time frame and have a decent work pace. I think we are all excited to see the planning phase of the project come to an end and see it all come together!
Our biggest worry as of right now is staying on track as well. We think we are in a good place, but it is hard to gauge because we are new to this project. We are also struggling as a group to find the time to work on this project. Finding a time where we are all available is very hard because of our schedules. We are also struggling with this because of other school work that is prioritized before this, which is something we can all work on as far as planning and working together on. In fact, we are getting together tomorrow ( 10/11) and working on it which is super exciting! Be sure to look out for updates on the website and on our Instagram account! Our emails are linked on the “How to get involved page” if you need to reach us with any questions, comments, or concerns!! There is nothing much to report for our second blog. We are still trying to organize our ideas and plan out some dates. This week was more of a maintenance week. Although, we did get our Instagram set up and ready! We also found some places to donate our items to which is super exciting. We have decided that we are going to do a food drive as well as a hygiene/personal care items donation. We plan to have donation sites set up at the elementary schools that we each went to. Sarah will be in charge of Pinebrook, Makenna will be in charge of Cornatzer and Jenna will be in charge of Shady Grove. We will also have sites at all of the middle schools, and a couple of classrooms at Davie. The donations that we will be accepting for the hygiene drive are, toothbrushes, deodorants, travel size shampoo or conditioner, body wash, combs, mouthwash. We are also thinking about adding cleaning supplies such as trash bags, lysol wipes, and lysol spray to this drive. The items we are accepting for the food drive include any canned items and dry boxes of food (uncooked boxes of noodles, rice, or any non-perishable items). In this upcoming week, we will be communicating with the schools, and teachers to ask if we can have a donation box at these locations. We haven't figured out the dates of when these will take place, but we are finishing up with the planning stage in the next two weeks, and then beginning the drives. Our plan is starting to take place, and we are all pumped to continue! Stay tuned for more updates and information!
We have officially made an Instagram that we will be updating with new announcements about our drives! You can find us at @dchs.communitydrives If you would rather reach us by email, our emails are linked on our "How to get involved page." Please feel free to contact any of us on these platforms with any questions, comments, or concerns!! |
Authors:Jenna, Mak, Sarah Archives
December 2021
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