This year, we are thrilled to announce our upcoming Charity Drive, “Kids Giving Back to Kids”, an opportunity for our students, staff, and community to come together and make a meaningful difference.
The goal of this drive is to collect items for UC Davis Children’s Hospital from their Amazon wish list. We believe that this is not only a chance to help ease a child’s hospital experience but also an incredible way to teach our students the value of empathy, generosity, and community spirit.
THANK YOU PHOEBE FAMILY!
On December 6th, Mr. Goul’s 5th grade class kicked off our annual charity drive, with a dollar-free dress day for the school, and together we started this event that supports an amazing cause with a bang! Over $650 was donated! The money collected will go to buying an Amazon Gift card so that hospital staff can purchase items on the list throughout the year. Items will be collected at school. Each grade level will have a designated classroom to drop off their items. You can also order directly from their Amazon list and it will ship directly to the hospital. All items should be brand new and unwrapped.
Any items brought to school can be dropped off in the bellow locations:
- Kinder: Mrs. Corcoran, Room 3
- 1st Grade: Mrs. Nelson, Room 18
- 2nd: Mrs. Vancil, Room 24
- 3rd: Mrs. Chasko, Room 21
- 4th: Mrs. Scinto, Room 12
- 5th: Mr Goul, Room 8
- 6th: Mr. Meyer, Room 15
- Main Office
You can access their Amazon Wish List by clicking this list. As a reminder, this list of toys and items is curated by the child life staff based on age-appropriateness, highest needs, and ease-of-use in the hospital.
For anyone able and willing to make a monetary donation, they can visit this link. This option allows the staff to do the shopping for their patients based on real-time wants and wishes of the children. Any funds leftover from the holiday season can then be used to purchase items for the hospital playrooms and for patients all throughout the year (birthdays, prizes, milestones, arts and crafts, etc).
The holidays are a time for giving, and who better to give to than kids giving back to kids. We are excited to bring joy to others this holiday season and continue to teach our students to be kind, giving humans.
Amazon wishlist:
https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/C8JK0OIVMBUJ/ref=hz_ls_biz_ex
Monetary donation site:
If you have further questions please reach out to Vanessa Waszczuk