Getting out the dye... but not for eggs!

Preparation for the virtual lemonade stand project has moved in to high gear! With Easter break on the horizon, teachers at Fox Township Elementary School thought it would be fun to break out the dye, but not for Easter eggs! Students and teachers got into the spirit by tie-dying t-shirts instead.

Teachers had already decided to ask everyone to wear yellow for the kick-off on May 6th, but soon realized that yellow shirts are few and far between. Someone had the brilliant idea to tie-dye shirts with the students instead. We decided to use the color yellow to represent the lemonade theme and gray for brain cancer, in honor of our local inspiration for this event. Lucky for us, we have some resident tie-dying experts, as the kindergarten students learned about properties of fabric and tie-dying earlier in the year as part of a science module. We were also fortunate to have two high school students, Abby & Olivia, as our “traveling tie-dying team.” As part of a community service project, they volunteered to visit each classroom to assist in dying the shirts. To say everyone had fun would be an understatement! Students and teachers are excited about their work and can’t way to show off their lemonade inspired t-shirt creations at kickoff!

Post Contributed by Amanda Vollmer, Teacher at Fox Township Elementary.

Fox Township Students are Getting "Sour" for Alex's Lemonade!

The faculty and staff at Fox Township Elementary School are busily preparing for the upcoming Alex’s Virtual Lemonade Stand project. This cause is near and dear to our hearts, as we lost one of our kindergarten students to pediatric brain cancer this February. We will be wearing yellow in his honor at the May 6th kick-off event and just found out that we will be VJs for this event as well. How exciting!

Although the project hasn’t officially been announced to students and families, we anticipate a positive reaction from the community. One of our school families has a lemonade stand that we will be using throughout our event, so that should add to the excitement. In addition to the video conferences, classrooms will be participating in the poster contest and the 5th graders will be using their Flip cams to create a commercial to submit. The teachers will get in on the act with a “Sour Face Contest.” We will take pictures of any teacher that wants to participate and they’ll be showing off their very best “Sour Face.” People will be able to vote for the best sour face by placing pennies in the container for their favorite face. We will then announce the winning teacher at the VC on the 20th.

The lemonade stand itself will be up and running during 4 different days for lunch here at school and also during our evening family book fair on May 10th. Student, parent, and teacher volunteers will be in charge of helping with the distribution and lemonade sales. Our hopes that are through this fundraising event we can raise both money and awareness for childhood cancers so that a cure will be found!

Post Contributed by Amanda Vollmer, Teacher at Fox Township Elementary.

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