Morah Malka and Morah Vickie's Chaverim class read "Joey and the Giant Box" by Deborah Lakritz.  Throughout the year these yeladim have been creating structures using boxes, and this book was the perfect book to enhance their structure investigation.  In the book, Joey decides to keep a giant box from the new dishwasher and comes up with a very special use for it. He performs a mitzvah of collecting foods to donate to a food pantry.  After reading the book the children were inspired to create their own collection box for canned foods. They went around the campus sharing their idea and the mitzvah they were doing. The following is  the letter that these Chaverim students wrote to our community:

 

Dear Friends,

We read "Joey and the Giant Box." We want to copy one of the ideas of the book.  At the end of the book, the kids in Joey's classroom put food in a giant box and bring it to the food bank.  Please could you give us food and put it in the big box outside our room [room 110]?  We will bring the food to the food bank.  Thank you!