Volunteer+for+Change

A) **Cluster Name:** Volunteer for a Change

B) **Cluster Leader(s):** Joanne, Nancy, and Thandi

C) **Cluster Goal** (ie What do you want to accomplish in this cluster? Example: //The Music Label Cluster will allow participants to learn how to write, record and produce their musical ideas in order to create a demo CD.)//

Our goal is to help our community and people by volunteering in a hospital, cleaning a park, donating money to an organization; anything that involves us in changing someone's life and our community.

D) **Names of Student Documentarians:** Patricia, Dana, Jessica, Jordan, James, Angelica, Vilma, Wendy, Daisy, Fernanda, Bethany, Jennifer

E) **Experiences Students Will Have:** We want to learn about many different things and find many different ways to volunteer and help our community. We also want to be able to teach other people about ways to volunteer and help so that more people can contribute to our community. We will have the oppurtunity to visit and donate to two types of animal shelters/ adoption centers, raise money for the amelia appeal and march of dimes, create and teach childhood obesity workshops within the school, and create our own bakesale within 24 hours. F) **People or Groups Students Will Meet:**

We are going to meet many people from many different places such as Ed from the Jackson Heights Beautification Group, Bonnie from the Humane Society of New York, and many more.

G) **Skills Students Will Learn:**

We are going to learn how to clean the park, rake leaves, care for animals, help the community and volunteer for change.

H) **Artifacts or Work Products Students Will Have For their Scrapbook/website:**

Cleaning the Park__.__ In the afternoon, we cleaned the park by raking the leaves. We left the park nice and clean. Now the children in our community can have fun in a clean environment.
 * __ Cluster’s Curriculum Plan (March 23-30): [[image:DSC01175.JPG width="277" height="174" align="right" caption="March of Dimes Poster"]] __**
 * Monday, March 23**: March of Dimes: Around the School__.__ Today we collected money for the March of Dimes. The March of Dimes is a program that helps premature babies by raising money to give them treatment and helps parents who can't afford treatment for their premature babies. In only one hour, the Volunteer for Change cluster raised $68.00 to send to babies in need. The future of sick babies will be bright.

This is a non-profit organization that helps amelia, a friend and student from the renaissance charter school who has cancer. Amelia is only in the third grade struggling to make her life and her family's life easier to deal with. "Medulloblastoma is the most common malignant brain tumor in children, affecting approximately 400 children per year in the United States." - from the theameliaappeal.org Affected by this, we created a bake sale for amelia. Having brownies, cake, cookies and more we were able to make 246.00.
 * Tuesday, March 24:** Bake Sale. Today we had a bake sale for theameliaappeal.org

Wednesday, March 25th:

Thursday, March 26th: Fun Day: IHOP for breakfast and Bowling. On FUN DAY we took a day off of volunteering and treated ourself for all of our hard work. We went IHOP for a brunch. Many of us ate pancakes with eggs, others had french toast, even fried chicken! After that we enjoyed playing cars and bowling. We took up three lanes and bowled for two hours, two hours of fun and many pins falling.

Friday, March 27th:

Monday, March 30th: Description of presentation: