Teddy Bears for Refugee Children

As a class, we read a Scholastic Action magazine article about a young Syrian refugee named Dania. She was forced to leave her country due to a civil war that broke out in 2011 and continues today. We learned that she enjoys playing soccer, reading, and playing video games, just like many of us. After some time away from school, Dania was finally able to start school again in Akkar (in Lebanon) and quickly caught up. She aspires to become a doctor someday and would like to service poor people for free. 

In doing outside research, we learned that there are 65 million refugees worldwide (half are children), and 5 million are Syrian refugees. Recently, the United States has pledged to resettle 10,000 Syrian refugees in our country. We also learned that there is an IRC (International Rescue Committee) in Elizabeth, NJ, that is currently resettling families in our area. 

Di' Jon, a student in our class, wrote, "They are Simply Human, like any of us. Just because they don't live in a proper home and go to the same school as us doesn't make them any less of a human being. They still can feel love, anger, hate, remorse, and or compassion, and all the other feeling a normal human (Person) would feel. I just think (people) down grade refugees as a lost cause, because they have no way of actually relating them to themselves so they lean towards more of a relation towards and animal and not a person."   


We would like to do something to help these families in desperate need. We are going to work with Knitting Without Borders, an organization that knits teddy bears for children who are suffering due to illness, war, or any other cause. We plan to deliver these teddy bears personally to the IRC, along with coats and household goods (listed on the flyer below). 

If you would like to donate, please let us know, or drop off items to room 370. Our tentative deadline for collecting items is the first week in January. 

Thank you for your support! 

We will update you soon on the details of our project.

*We apologize for technical formatting issues with this blog post.

Mystery Unit Final Project

Hi Everyone!

We have something new to share with you. We just wrapped up our Mystery Unit. We read about Amelia Earhart, Sherlock Holmes, the Lochness Monster, the Bermuda Triangle, Optical Illusions, and the Chinese Emperor Shi Huangdi and the terra cotta warriors. In small groups, we created collages representing three mystery stories. We included pictures related to the setting, time period and details of the story.

We learned some new vocabulary related to mystery stories. Mysteries still surround us today in our lives in current events, movies, books, and TV shows. We hope you enjoy our collages. Please comment below! Stay tuned for more posts soon!

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