Club Hope's "Super-Heroes Project"

With only 6 weeks of school left, Club Hope members are working hard to 'make the world better, one day at a time'. At our meeting today, the majority of members decided to join the Super-Heroes Project challenge!!! On every school day from April 15th til May 20th, club members will make conscious decisions to do one good thing for themselves, their families, and Prairie Vale. Our goal is to create so much goodness that it is noticeable. Stay tuned........

O Ambassadors Scrap Book is Done!!

One of the great activities that we have been involved in is "Girls World" through our O Ambassadors' affiliation. Last week several (Camryn, Sierra, Makenzie, Taylor, Emily, Tyler, Matthew, Katy Marie, Shelby B., Taylor, Greer, Gabby, Caroline, Shelby W., Hallie, Paige, Kayla, Sean, and Niklas)club members gave up many recesses and Study Skills time to work on a scrapbook that we are sending to our friends in Kenya. The scrap book is 12 pages long, but the pictures posted represent the first 2 and the last 2 pages. Some of the other pages answered questions about some of our favorite things. We surveyed all 115 fifth graders to find the answers. Here are some of the results:
The FIVE values which are most important to us - FAMILY, FRIENDS, HEALTH, EDUCATION, and FUN. The THREE sports or games we like the most - BASEBALL, BASKETBALL, and FOOTBALL. We are happiest when - we are with family and friends, we are at church, when we do something good for ourselves or others. What we like best about our school - the teachers, the kids, recess!!!, friends, how clean and nice it is, the fun, how we help other people, Club Hope. The 3 biggest holidays and celebrations -
Christmas, 4th of July, Birthdays. We also attached pictures of fashion trends at Prairie Vale. It was a great experience and we are eagerly looking forward to receiving our scrapbook from our friends in Kenya.

Our Girls World Friends from Kenya!!!

A few months ago, a group of Club Hope / O Ambassadors members worked on a Profile Exchange and put together a packet of information and pictures. We sent it to a group of girls in Kenya. Here are pictures of our new friends. We are currently working on a 12 page scrapbook to tell our friends more about life here in Edmond, Oklahoma. We will be conducting surveys over the next few days about the kinds of things that are important to us. Stay tuned!!

How Do You Have a $1200.00 Bake Sale!?!?!?!?!?!?

How do you have a $1200.00 Bake Sale??? Well first, you take 50 hard-working Club Hope members who baked and put together some of the BEST BAKE SALE food ever!!! Then you take lots and lots of loving moms, dads, and grandparents who bought the ingredients and helped with the making and baking (I know that Ms. Crossley has accused us of running some sort of Ponzi scheme - with having you buy the ingredients, make the baked goods, then pay money to buy them back - but it is all for a good cause!!). Then you take a supportive school environment where EVERYONE showed up with money. Finish that off with EXCELLENT selling skills by all salespersons involved!! We actually made $650.00 on the Bake Sale (thank you to our front office discussion group for suggesting that the coins be taken to the bank to be counted, they did it in about 60 seconds and the total was $106.00!!). Top that off with some amazing people who donated and offered to match our efforts. Special thanks go out to Oklahoma Gold Gymnastics, The Litz Corporation, the Frimberger Family (THANK YOU Carley, Cassidy, and Niklas for getting those donations!!), and one very generous anonymous patron who all together gave us $550.00. A big thank you to Mrs. Martin and Mrs. Rochford, who made announcements for us and helped with the money. All the money will be sent to our O Ambassadors partner in Kenya - "Kids Can Free the Children". Congratulations Club Hope/ O Ambassadors members - you were awesome today!!!

More Bake Sale Pictures!!

We are selling!!! We couldn't have done so well without the help of Ms. Maddie Green, our UCO Observation student, who joined us all morning - thanks, Maddie!!

More Bake Sale pictures!!

Who is that cheesy looking customer? (Oops, sorry, Mr. Souter, didn't recognize you right away!!). We set up and started selling!!!

Pictures From our Bake Sale on Friday, April 3, 2009

Okay it all starts with GREAT Bake Sale donations. Club members had some great ideas and some of the most unusual items were the first to sell out. Club Hope members did an awesome job this year with our doggy treats table. Five different club members researched healthy dog treats and my dog, Sadie, will attest that they were all delicious!!!!