Current Projects
Look for project ideas and documents that will help you
with your own Kids Helping Hopkins project!
Hat Day
Hillcrest had two Hat Days. Students paid a specific
amount to wear a hat all day. Third graders made posters to advertise,
wrote announcements to read over
the intercom, and fifth graders collected the money in homerooms first thing
in the morning (or first thing in the afternoon for afternoon
kindergartens). A
letter was sent home to parents and a paragraph
was read to students. Also, flyers
went up around the school. If you have any
questions, contact Leana Janney at Hillcrest, either at
ljanney@bcps.org or
410-887-0820.
Timbergrove Elementary also had a Hat Day. Check out
some of
their pictures
-- children
and adults
alike got into the
action!
Each person donated a set amount of money to "buy" the
privilege of wearing a hat. Student council members
created posters, flyers to advertise and wore hats the week
before our Hat Day. They also made morning
announcements to publicize the event. Students donated 50
cents for the privilege of wearing a hat to school. Some
students wore multiple hats. Prizes were given in each
grade for the craziest hats. Our Hats go off to Timber
Grove Elem. School. If you have questions about
Timbergrove's Hat Day, contact
Riselle Abrams,
Candace Winterson, or Kim Jones.
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Life Link
Children purchase paper links for a pre-determined
amount and write their name on them. They buy their links in
the lobby before school and take the links to their
classroom. This is done for several days. The links are formed
into paper chains in each classroom. The entire school goes
outside and forms a kind of human chain with the links. The
paper chains are hung in the school for a short time and
then forwarded to the Children's Center. The proceeds from
the sale of the paper links, of course, are sent as well.
Here’s a great picture
of our students with a paper
chain! Here's the form
we send home so the students can buy links. For more information, contact Sherri Marder (smarder@bcps.org)
or Sharyn Stein (410-887-1212) at Wellwood International School.
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Penny Pitch
The Penny Pitch was a great project! Each homeroom
was given a Hopkins jar. (Contact
Anita to get the jars.) Students were encouraged
to bring in money to put in the jar. Although dollar
bills were certainly accepted, the majority of the money
collected was in change. Third graders helped to organize
the Penny Pitch. A social studies class who studies
advertising made posters to publicize the event. A reading/language
arts class wrote morning announcements to persuade and inform
the other students to bring in money. A math class
counted the money. The best system we found for counting
the money was to assign each homeroom jar to one student.
The student then sorts the money from their jar, makes piles
of ten, and records the numbers of each coin. (Click
here to
download the form we used.) Then an adult checked
the numbers, mainly by making sure the piles were the same
height. The money was then collected, and the student
determined the value of the coins. Several parent
volunteers were recruited each time that we counted, and
the money was counted every three days. An Excel program
was used to keep track of and add the amounts and a large
bar graph in the cafeteria displayed the totals by grade
level. A letter
explaining the event was sent home to parents and a
paragraph
was read to the students. If you have any other
questions, contact Leana Janney at Hillcrest, either at
ljanney@bcps.org or
410-887-0820.
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__________-a-Thons
Think about doing a math-a-thon, read-a-thon, or something
similar. Have your students get sponsors for how many
math problems they can do in five minutes, how many books
they can read in one month, etc. Here's a
sponsor form and a
book list!
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Activity Night
If
you want to have an keep your students busy one evening
having fun and raise money for the Johns Hopkins Children's
Center at the same time consider hosting an activity night.
Perhaps some pizza, soda, and a DJ are the way to go!
An added station where students can make cards or bookmarks
for pediatric patients will cheer everyone up. Check
out the
event permission slip from Loch Raven Academy.
Contact Leana Janney
(ljanney@bcps.org) if you have any questions.
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Mural Painting Project
For the past 7 years, there have been a handful of
schools in Baltimore County involved in a unique project to
raise an awareness and funds for Kids Helping Hopkins and
the Johns Hopkins Children's Center. They have been
painting murlas on the inside and outside of the school's
buildings. To date the main organizing sponsor has
been The National Art honor Society. They are charged
with hleping select a site, submission of preliminary and
final deisngs, solicitation for materials, fund raising for
KHH, and providing painters for the completion of the mural.
The scope of accomplishing these tasks requires a 2-3 month
planning phase before the actual mural is painted. The
organizing committee and school sponsor need to communicate
well between themselves and publicizing the event through
schools and community resources (i.e. PTA newsletters,
school web sites, local radio and TV stations, etc.).
The mural project is a wonderful way to reinforce real time
values education as probably every school in BCPS has had
their students experience first-hand the Johns Hopkins
children's Center and its wonderful care. Check out
some pictures of the murals being created (1,
2,
3,
4,
5,
6,
7,
8)
as well as a
finished wall!
The sponsor form
requests a donation for a hypothetical "block" of the mural.
contributing sponsors are also invited to participate and
help paint their block on the day of the event.
With the beginning of this new school year it is the hope of
Kids Helping Hopkins to have more schools participate in
this worthwhile endeavor. The Mural Painting Project
is a terrific way to promote your school while raising an
awareness and money for one of the finest internationally
known institutions in pediatric care, The Johns Hopkins
Children's Center. For more info, please contact
Carroll Cook via e-mail
or phone at Carver Center, 410-887-2775.
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