CHARACTERCOUNTS! 
at Verne W. Critz Elementary School

Character Education Program
The 3^rd grade classes at VWC are working on learning about communities as a part of our Social Studies curriculum. To connect this topic to our Character Education Program, and their daily lives, we have come up with a service learning project to help foster a sense of community by helping others (citizenship). 

        The children have learned about the UNICEF program in class.  They have read, and discussed the need for programs

like UNICEF. It is our goal that they will become more aware of and sensitive to the needs of others.

    The service part of this project is;

• To use their UNICEF boxes to collect money on Halloween. (We have encouraged them to make a donation of their own as well.)  [citizenship, responsibility]

• To return the box to school so we can count and combine all of the donations to be sent to the UNICEF program.  [trustworthiness, responsibility]

• To reflect-through writing and conversation- on the importance of projects like this and how they can help our world. [caring, respect]