Third Grade Food Drive

The Stony Point Third Grade has a tradition of coordinating the Stony Point School Food Drive.  In each third grade classroom, students have been assigned to five different groups.  Each group is responsible for coordinating the food drive of a specific classroom in the school, grades K – 5. The classrooms we are responsible for are Ms. Frazier, Ms. May, Ms. Payne, Ms. Amatucci, and Mr. Wells. 

Last week we worked in groups to write speeches for this food drive.  Like any good piece of writing, we made sure that we included a good lead or attention grabber, the body of the speech with important details for the audience, and a closing which reminded the audience of the purpose. Will, Caleb, and Clare's speech is on the right. Monday morning we went to our assigned classrooms and presented our speeches. This took a lot of practice!  Each group also prepared a bar graph to put outside their classroom to record the number of food items their classroom brings in each day.

Each day during the food drive, we go with our groups to collect food items and record the day’s total on their classroom's bar graph.  We return to class and record each day’s data on their own graphs in our Math Notebooks. We also keep a chart of the types of foods that we collect using tally marks.  

After recording our data in two different graphs each day we sort the food items and take them to the main collection site outside of the library.