Bake Sale

The week of May 24th the children at my school worked really hard to make banana bread, gingerbread, rice krispie squares, and cranberry orange cookies. They enjoyed mixing and measuring the ingredients, stirring and mixing, pouring and scooping...what fun! I carefully supervised the area to ensure no extra little goobers or unidentified objects made it into our tasty treats. On Friday May 28th we had a bake sale at Downtown Montessori as a fundraiser for Victoria's Quilts Canada. A charity dedicated to giving the gift of warmth! Victoria's Quilts Canada is my charity of choice during my training for Ironman, many thanks to those who have donated in support of my journey.

http://www.victoriasquiltscanada.com/

Days leading up to the bake sale the children and I discussed the charity and what they are all about. The children took pride inviting their parents and students of the school to purchase baked goods to support a charity. A charity they described as "People who make special blankets for people who are really sick". One of our generous families also donated 4 blue Jay tickets, an autographed baseball, and autographed baseball, and 2 Bon Jovi concerts tickets prior to the day for additional fundraising. The baseball items were used for a raffle where we sold tickets and the concert tickets were sold in a silent auction. All together that day we raised just under $850.00, how exciting!

The best part was the involvement of the children and families and their willingness to support. For the children it also builds on their grace and courtesy skills during the interactions in our peaceful community. The older children really took pride in calculating the total purchases and were very good at working out the change for the customer. It was a successful day all around for everyone!