The fifth grade is starting its annual community service project this week and this year they are doing an individually-packaged snack drive! Here’s a message from one of our own LE 5th graders about the project with info on donation drop this week.

Dear Parents,

We are having a donation, run by 5th grade, for homeless children! We are having a snack drive. We are doing this because homeless children go hungry twice as often as other children. (information from ‘Homelessness in the United States of America’ Article). Also, kids at school miss breakfast because the lines for food are too long. (Information gotten from ‘Invisible Child Girl in the Shadows: Dasani’s Homeless Life’) To support the snack drive you can leave snacks in our snack boxes. You can find them outside the Lincoln-Eliot office, Jackson Road or inside your child’s classroom. Please bring in individually packaged snacks, such as small bags of Goldfish, chips, granola bars, or crackers. You can drop off snacks from Monday, February 7th to Friday, February 18th.

Thank you!