Food Drive Teaches Math Skills
Posted: March 9, 2013 at 2:59 a.m.
Ethan Potts, second from left, and Andrea Abarca, 11, both fifth-graders at Bellview Elementary School, put snacks into bags Thursday at the Samaritan Community Center in Rogers with other fifth-graders. The children had a contest to collect food for the center and used the collection to help teach math to the students.
A math project and contest at Bellview Elementary School let fifth-graders feed those less fortunate.
Service Projects
Each grade at Bellview Elementary School has adopted a local agency as a community service project through the school and the parent teacher association.
• Kindergarten partners with Meals on Wheels
• First-grade partners with the Rogers Animal Shelter
• Second-grade partners with Northwest Arkansas Children’s Shelter
• Third-grade partners with Laundry of Love
• Fourth-grade partners with the Kendrick Fincher Memorial Foundation
• Fifth-grade partners with the Samaritan Community Center
Source: Staff Report
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