Ask your kids tonight if they learned anything about goats today?

Our new Global Ugandan Project was launched today in the school which lead me to read Beatrice’s Goat to the class which then lead me to read Give a Goat by Jan Schrock .

We spent time viewing the website about the Ugandan Global Project and talking about children around the world less fortunate than us and ways we could help them.

Today your child will be bringing home a sheet of paper with information about the Project and how we have come to be involved. There is also a section for them to tally the money they can make by taking part in the fund-raising part of the project which, along with the awareness a project like this creates, is a very important aspect. Considering we begin our Cultural Studies Unit this week and we are celebrating United Nations Day here at school next Friday, this is a very timely project.

UGANDAN GLOBAL PROJECT LETTER TO PARENTS

Parents and students, you can also go to some great links about Uganda as posted on 5th grade teacher, Ms Yick’s blog and read a lot more about the history of the project on Mrs Toa’s blog.

As far as looking into the Heifer organization which we read about and discussed today in class, I will leave that up to families, but here is a link to one of their catalogs.