The Lower Elementary students have a monthly bake sale. This gives them the opportunity to handle money and maintain a feeling of school wide community by selling to the classes they used to be in, have friends and siblings in, or will be part of in the future.
The children use the money raised to host celebrations like the Halloween party for the elementary class and their Children’s House guests and to buy ingredients for the allergy-proof granola they make so that everyone can be part of bake sale days.
At their weekly class meeting, each of the elementary classes proposed and unanimously voted in favor of donating their bake sale profits to the relief effort in Haiti in cooperation with a Montessori school in Miami:
With this in mind the parents, teachers and students all made our most recent bake sale an amazing success. The parents were gracious enough to send the children with many great things to sell…and the money to buy some of it back!! Many children brought their own money. The teachers were very generous—muffins were going for $5 in some cases, and the kids were throwing in extra money too.
Finally, many of the parents who were at school for the Reading Buddies pizza dinner contributed generously to buy what was left. We are grateful for all of the support we received from the NHMS community. The spirit of generosity the children feel as we make this contribution is valuable. They earned the money ($257.00 from Ms. Fastiggi’s class alone!) and voted on its use and distribution—they are making a difference! Thanks to all.