Operation Haiti

RAVE, the service learning class at Renaissance Academy has recently finished a unit focusing on Mother Teresa and Florence Nightingale. Their influence has compelled RAVE students to do what they can to help the children in Haiti.

The school has chosen to help an orphanage in Haiti that is gaining over 100 new orphans a day. These children have lost everything. They are in desperate need of comfort and a place to lay their heads down. To help with this we have decided to make quilts for them.

All this week RAVE students will be cutting squares of fabric to make quilts that will be ready to tie on Saturday, January 30th at 9:30 am. We would like to invite anyone to come help with these quilts and to bring supplies to make other quilts.

If you would like to participate in our Saturday service day please post a comment below so we will know how many people to expect. Also if you can bring any of the following donations listed below please post that along with your name. (ie The Smith Family (3 people) bringing a child size quilt to tie). If you have any specific questions or concerns please email aholmes at renacademy dot org.

Thanks for your support!!

Items Needed for Saturday:

• Batting (please get to Mrs. Holmes ASAP)
  
• Fabric scraps (Please get to Mrs. Holmes ASAP)
  
• Needles
• Yarn
• Flannel (or other soft backing material)
• Quilting frames
• Thumbtacks
• Quilts ready to be tied
• Fleece for tied fleece blankets
• Sharp scissors

What: Service project, tying quilts for Haiti
Where: Renaissance Academy Gymnasium
When: Saturday, January 30th at 9:30 am
Who: Everyone
Why: Because they could use some comfort

Don't forget to post a comment!

Below are some images of Gabrielle, Nyah, and Robens being adopted from the orphanage we are sending the quilts to.  For more information about this orphanage you can visit their website www.vvhf.org

Operation Stars

After learning about Anne Sullivan and all the patience she had while teaching Helen Keller, RAVE students wanted to show appreciation to their own teachers. Students cut out colored stars and wrote thank you notes on them. They taped the stars to the teachers' doors. This was a huge hit with the teachers--one teacher even laminated her star so she can keep them forever.

Operation Trick-or-Treat

Students donated their trick-or-treat candy to the Cathedral Madeline in Salt Lake City to put in sack lunches for the homeless. They had a lot of fun counting and weighing all their donations.

Operation RAK

During December students decided they wanted to do Random Acts of Kindness (RAK). They decided that a RAK was more than doing something nice, but was doing something that was unexpected. They invited the whole school to participate to help make a RAK paper chain. Students and teachers filled out a link of the chain whenever they did a RAK. The student who did the most thoughtful acts (judged by the 6th grade teachers) got to take home a RAVE gingerbread house to enjoy for the holidays.