The Montessori children filled classroom boxes with candy from their trick-or-treating again this year. All the candy will be donated to Mother Teresa's Gift of Peace home in Northeast Washington, DC. We promised not to eat any!
First our collection needed to be sorted.
What are the categories?
Is it chewy or chocolate?
Package or box?
Lots of decisions to make!
Then the Lunchers sorted all the chocolate candy.
What a lot of chocolate!
Make groups of ten!
Then count 10,20,30,40,50... Our graph showed how many candy bars we collected.
We had 64 Snickers! How many KitKat?
Sweet counting work!
Now the really important work begins.
Make each gift bag special!
Put in a lollipop
and make sure there is a variety
of candy for each one!
Our sorting made it easier to make sure
each bag was filled with a sweet treat!
We know our candy gifts will help make the holidays a little sweeter for Gift of Peace patients and their families! We hope everyone has a wonderful Thanksgiving, too!
"To make a difference in someone's life you do not have to be brilliant, rich, beautiful, or perfect. You just have to care." ---Mandy Hale
