Typhoon Yolanda Relief

Dear Resume,

First project for our "Give Back Club" really touched home at Bethune. 80% of our school's students are Filipino as well as a few teachers, the Librarian, and most of the parents that help out daily around the campus. Amazingly, not many of our families were directly impacted.
A group of 4th and 5th graders made signs to put up around the campus and decorated jars to put in the classrooms for penny/loose change collection. They also set up a jar in front of the main gates for before and after school and collected from parents as they walked by.

Word of the Month

Dear Resume,

This month's word: Empathy. How does it feel when you win or lose, play well or drop the ball? Can you understand how others feel when they succeed or fail? Special session for the recess football league due to a few players that feel no one should be able to celebrate winning without an answering temper tantrum. hmm...

I made copies of these signs for all the teachers and put them up in various places around the campus.

Math Tutor

Dear Resume,

Started helping tutor a few 6th graders in Math, mostly fractions. Sometimes I wonder why in the world they haven't "got it" yet, other times I think "Dang, this stuff can get confusing!"