Support a Local Classroom with the Community Classroom Committee

It’s been an entire year since the “Boxes of Sunshine” project was launched. A list of grade-based items was created, and Daughters rose to the occasion to support the students and educators in their community by donating countless crayons, notebooks, pencils, glue sticks, scissors, and plastic storage boxes that were purchased for thousands of children nationwide whose academic lives were upended due to the pandemic. 

I encourage every chapter to think out of the box when it comes to supporting their local classrooms. Reach out to the teachers in your chapter and school district and learn what the classroom’s needs are at this point of the academic year. Don’t forget to include the art teachers, the music teachers, and the gym teachers. A clean change of clothes would be a wonderful donation for any elementary school classroom as would a gently used and loved, yet no longer used, musical instrument. 

Mary also noted that she obtained the detailed, step by step, information for this project from the Community Classroom Committee’s Educational Resources list. This is just one of the lesson plans noted on our website that are free for members and non-members to use. As of the creation of this blog, we have 99 approved and posted lesson plans. 

Recently, a Daughter reached out to me as she was unsure she could lead this project for her chapter. I assured her that she could if her heart was kind and good and if the project’s goal was to truly help and support the children in her community.   

Every donation makes a difference. Continue to support education in your community and remember to be someone’s sunshine!