This program was started by a group of elderly women at a local church who noticed that several children on the way to school during the winter months did not have hats on their head or gloves on the hands. The women reached out to the school after knitting a couple dozen hats, scarves, mittens and gloves. Our school welcomed these wonderful handmade gifts of love. When the local church found out that is wasn’t just a couple dozen children without hats and gloves but many children without coats, they were flabbergasted. Subsequently, the elderly women reached out to their entire congregation of their church and then their church reached out to other local churches and organizations and made them aware of the crisis. Within a month the had gathered over 150 coats and made over 400 pair of gloves, mittens scarves and hats. That was the birth of Winter Wear, each year since then the volunteers try to break the previous years goal. Sadly, last year we did not meet the goal. However, this year we have had larger churches volunteer their services. Winter Wear is a very lovely program. Due to the Winter Wear the number of absent and tardy students during the winter months has dropped. Less children are waiting for it warm up before leaving the house to walk to school. Moreover,the number of sick children during winter has decreased as well. The handmade gloves, hats and scarves help boost the children self …show more content…
The purpose of watch dogs was to get more male role models involved with the children’s education. As many know, there is a surplus shortage of male teachers. Secondly, the is an alarming number of households that do not have a patriarch. To melee these serious issues the PTA formed the Watch dogs program. The program includes fathers, older brothers, uncles and grandfather of the students. Subsequently, in later years we have seen several husbands of the teachers of Bessie Coleman Elementary Join the program as well. Watch Dogs program meets two Fridays out of the month, the men come read stories to the classes as well as offer tutoring after school. Nonetheless, the watch dogs have also hosted several father daughter dances and father son nights out at the school. This program shows that our children that men can be just as active in their life and education as a woman can. Consequently, we have seen improvements in the students especially our young men. Their grades have improved in addition to their love of learning as well as their self esteem. Unlike the other programs this is program does not require a populous budget. The main thing that Watch dogs requires is men of all ages that are willing to support our children. This program is not just beneficial to the teachers and students. Hence, it it uniquely beneficial to the mothers and female caregivers and