9/11/13- Four classes at Pathfinder School in Pinckney remembered 9/11 this year with a service project. 3rd graders at Farley Hill Elementary designed lunch bags and filled them with non-perishable food for hungry and homeless veterans this morning. The students brainstormed ideas on why they should thank a veteran and included hand written thank you notes in the snack bags. Michelle Trumpey, who teaches 3rd grade at Farley Hill, says her 7th grade daughterâs class at Pathfinder, is doing the same project. The class inspired her to bring the service project to her own classroom to teach 3rd graders about 9/11, who werenât even born at that time. Trumpey tells WHMI it has been a learning process as much as an outreach project. Students have been collecting food for about a week, hoping to fill the bags they are donating and will continue to collect for the rest of the week. The snack bags will be picked up next year by a representative from the Veterans Administration in Ann Arbor. Trumpey says the representative will talk to the class and thank them. 3rd grader Emma Hartley says doing something nice for someone puts her in âa really good moodâ. (DK)
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