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Our ambassadors completed a school wide winter gram fundraiser! The ambassadors researched items to order, created order forms for students/families, publicized the event school wide with posters and various announcements, sorted items and delivered the over 1,000 items ordered to classrooms. Our ambassadors worked hard on this event to give back to our 4 locals Hoffman Estates Fire Departments. The feedback from students, parents and teachers was so wonderful. It was a great way to connect with our whole community.

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After completing an activity on belonging with ambassadors, all students at Mac will individually create one patch of a quilt that ambassadors will connect. Each patch will include 'I am _____. Soy _______' for the student name and one-word descriptor. Students will be able to decorate their individual patches.

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At Mac, we discussed how we can form connections with others in order to help them belong. We thought about how others would describe us. Then, we wrote about what we wish others knew about us. We are going to facilitate a similar activity with all students at Mac so that we can find authentic connections in order to belong.

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At Mac, we created posters in English and Spanish about the following:
1. How we belong at Mac
2. How we help other belong at Mac
3. A quote about the meaning of belonging

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The ambassadors will run a holiday drive December 6th-17th. We are collecting toys and holiday decorations. Every donation will earn a Keller student Cat Coin and we are running a silent auction for gift cards. On Tuesday December 21st we will invite our FRL students to stay and "shop" for gifts for their family members. They will choose toys and holiday decorations to wrap up and take home. This event is a tradition at Keller. It brightens the holiday season for those who give and receive.

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Our ambassadors have been helping with new students. They walk them through their schedule. They also helped us make an 8 keys bulletin board. The ambassadors helped to organize Starbooks. This is a hot chocolate bar to help get families interested in the book fair during conferences. This year they prepacked hot chocolate to go for families to take with them and enjoy at home. It helped bring families into the LMC and we had a record year in book fair sales!!! Right now the ambassadors are stocking the food pantry with meat for Thanksgiving. We just purchased some chickens and turkeys and are hoping to add hams to it as well. The families that come in before the holiday will be invited to choose a meat to take home with them for a holiday meal. We collected donations from staff for purchasing these and the ambassadors put a raffle together. every donation to the thanksgiving meat purchasing gets to enter in the raffle for a gift basket.

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Our Student Ambassadors have really been encompassing our school-wide theme of "Community" this year. They decorated the hallways for Halloween, they set up a "You've been Booed" for different classrooms to leave kind notes and Halloween gifts (all provided by the SAs) in other rooms, and they are currently in the middle of putting together a Thankful Turkey. Each student in LP made a handprint with their name and things they are thankful for. We are also in the middle of hosting a toy drive for Amita Women's and Children's hospital, as well. Our ambassadors are doing an amazing job!

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We worked with our PBIS team to organize a Penny Wars to raise money for a peaceful playground. We planned a spirit week and helped count the money each day. We are currently working on helping out our school with a veteran's drive. We are going to promote a school wide competition to increase donations and get the school excited to donate.

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Student Ambassadors just started taking over the school store. They are packing orders and delivering prizes to the classrooms.

Also, every Month the SA's present at our whole school assemblies and introduce what our next SEL goal for the month will be.

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October-
Costume Drive:
Donate costumes to students in need and also collect costumes after Halloween for the following year.

November-
Book Drive: Partnered with 100Fold Harvest to fill a cargo container with books to be sent to Ghana for literacy centers.

Spirit Days for the school to participate in together.

Turkey feathers- each classroom will add a turkey feather of thankfulness to add to a big ol' turkey in the hall.

December- Toy Drive:
Donate gently used or new toys for Hands if Hope in Chicago.

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Socktober: sock drive in order to provide warm socks to families in need as the weather gets colder. We collected over 1,400 pairs of NEW socks. Ambassadors promoted, collected, counted, and boxed the socks for shipment.

Worked on creating thankful notes for the staff in the building to brighten everyone's day.

Thinking of logistics on a gently used or new toy drive to help families as the holidays approach.

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After gaining inspiration from the fun stickers at our Student Ambassador training in September, we ordered a bunch and held a fundraiser where the proceeds will go directly to our Mead Giving Tree that is beginning after Thanksgiving break. Every day during the week of Nov. 8-12, student ambassadors sold "Kindness Cards" that other students could decorate with stickers and write a nice message addressed to a friend or faculty member. These were distributed to first period teachers to pass out. In addition, the Student Ambassadors initiated a spirit week, consisting of days like "Identity Day" and "True Colors" Day. Next week, the student ambassadors are delivering "KIND" bars to staff members during advocacy along with a nice personalized note. We are thanking teachers for "Raising the BAR on how to STICK to KINDness."

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We will be completing the leadership training in our November session. We will look to provide opportunities for the ambassadors to utilize the leadership skills learned during the month of December. Thank-you for the future share-outs for future activities - we are still navigating specifically what we want our students to do with their leadership skills.

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The ambassadors wanted to give back for the month of December, so they decided to host a fundraiser for Lurie Children's Hospital. They will be collecting donations and hope to use the money to buy books, stuffed animals, and games for the patients. When students give a donation, they will be entered into a raffle to pie a teacher in the face. The pie a teacher will be broadcasted live before we leave for winter break.

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The student ambassadors launched a kindness campaign for the month of November. They pushed out a "Kool to be Kind" Google Form to all students and filmed an announcement encouraging students to nominate their peers for genuine acts of kindness and will be giving out prizes for students that were nominated. They also did a secret sticker give away - get one, give one. Ambassadors handed out kindness stickers during the week to any students they saw demonstrating kindness. They also gave that student a second sticker to hand out to a peer that they saw demonstrating kindness to spread kindness throughout our building.

The ambassadors also took the lead for our Trimester 1 Celebration. The ambassadors hosted a Bingo Game that was broadcasted live for all students. They all had separate jobs - calling bingo numbers, recording bingo numbers, and giving out prizes - everyone had a blast!

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Frost is hosting spirit weeks, virtual assemblies, fundraising opportunities, and cultural awareness days these upcoming months. Excited to see what they continue to come up with.

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Muir- Kindness links us together challenge 

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Muir- Kindness links us together challenge 

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Students were challenged to complete as many random acts of kindness as they could during the month of November each act of kindness earns a paper chain link. The class with the longest chain wins. We also did a spirit week leading up to National Kindness Day

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Our awesome Frost ambassadors have taking the leadership role by being the spokespersons for our virtual assemblies. Its soo cool to see them on the big screen.

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Students are currently working on making a bag filled with a school map, letters, Welcome Padlet link, Powerpoint with student ambassador introduction, and document with device tips!

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STEM Teamwork activities

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Yesterday Student Ambassadors had a blast during our leadership training! Ambassadors had to stack up cups into a pyramid without touching them. They had to work together to stretch the rubber to pick up the cups! Each group had a coach that lead their team!#weare54 #leadership

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Yesterday Student Ambassadors had a blast during our leadership training! Ambassadors had to stack up cups into a pyramid without touching them. They had to work together to stretch the rubber to pick up the cups! Each group had a coach that lead their team!#weare54 #leadership https://t.co/sx4hirD4cQ

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Yesterday Student Ambassadors had a blast during our leadership training! Ambassadors had to stack up cups into a pyramid without touching them. They had to work together to stretch the rubber to pick up the cups! Each group had a coach that lead their team!#weare54 #leadership pic.twitter.com/sx4hirD4cQ
— Ms. Spiwak (@MsSpiwak) October 15, 2021

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Yesterday Student Ambassadors had a blast during our leadership training! Ambassadors had to stack up cups into a pyramid without touching them. They had to work together to stretch the rubber to pick up the cups! Each group had a coach that lead their team!#weare54 #leadership https://t.co/sx4hirD4cQ

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Yesterday Student Ambassadors had a blast during our leadership training! Ambassadors had to stack up cups into a pyramid without touching them. They had to work together to stretch the rubber to pick up the cups! Each group had a coach that lead their team!#weare54 #leadership https://t.co/sx4hirD4cQ

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Yesterday Student Ambassadors had a blast during our leadership training! Ambassadors had to stack up cups into a pyramid without touching them. They had to work together to stretch the rubber to pick up the cups! Each group had a coach that lead their team!#weare54 #leadership