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Pockets of Pennies Provide Holiday Joy
12/21/2005
CCISD PRESS RELEASE
Clear Creek Independent School District
Office of Public Information
2425 East Main Street
League City, Texas 77573
Contact: Carrie Ann Taylor
Public Information Coordinator
(281) 284-0020
cataylor@ccisd.net
Dec. 21, 2005
PR-2241
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Photo ID: North Pointe Elementary fourth grade students Connor Hallmark, Annabeth Yeary, George Lee, Annie Chen and Eric Ho participate in the school’s Mile of Pennies fundraiser. The school collected 44,858 pennies equaling $448.58 for the Salvation Army.
Pockets of Pennies Provide Holiday Joy
League City, TEXAS—The third grade students at North Pointe Elementary recently challenged the rest of their school to do something to help the hurricane victims over the holidays. Mrs. Shawna Wood’s students distributed decorated soda cans to all the classes in the school, challenging each class to fill four cans. One 12 oz. soda can holds approximately 550 pennies.
Students from kindergarten through fifth grade counted, measured, and sorted pennies while doing numerous math activities. In addition, the students had a chance to practice North Pointe’s “Student Success Traits” for December: caring and compassion.
Friday, December 16 the students brought the 44,858 pennies they had collected into the hallways to be placed on an inside “track” of yarn. The students had over a half mile’s worth of pennies. The students raised $448.58 to be donated to the Salvation Army.
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