Uniting for UNICEF!

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Every Halloween, many children collect  money for UNICEF.

 UNICEF is the United Nations Children's Fund.

It was founded in 1946 to help children after World War II.
It now operates in over 150 countries all over the world and has saved
many lives!

The tradition of "Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF" began in 1950

in the United States. 

First, we dumped out the boxes and pushed the money into a big pile.

Next, we sorted the coins into categories: pennies, nickles, dimes, quarters, and paper bills.  

PENNIES

TEN pennies = ONE dime

The students made stacks of ten pennies. 

Ten stacks of ten make one dollar. 

100 cents = $1.00

NICKELS

TWENTY nickles = ONE dollar

We had $6.00 in nickels!

DIMES

 TEN dimes = ONE dollar

We had $17.80 in DIMES.

QUARTERS

FOUR quarters = ONE dollar

 We had many stacks of 4.

The class total was a little under $100, so Mrs. Yollis added some more to bring the donation to an even hundred dollars.

How is the money used? 

According to UNICEF: 

25¢ gives 10 kids clean water to drink for a day.

$1 pays for protein biscuits for a starving child.

$17 keeps a kid safe from 6 killer diseases.

$24 supplies an emergency first aid kit.
 

$257 buys a School-in-a-Box so kids can learn anywhere.

$500 provides a water pump for a village or school. 

What did you learn from this program?

How might UNICEF use our $100 donation?

How does it feel to help someone in need?

Uniting for UNICEF

Every Halloween, many chldren collect  money for UNICEF .

 UNICEF is the United Nations Children's Fund.

It was founded in 1946 to help children after World War II.
It now operates in over 150 countries all over the world and has saved
many lives!

The tradition of "Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF" began in 1950

in the United States.

This year our school carried on that tradition!

First, we dumped all the coins and bills into a pile.

Next, we sorted the pennies. A penny has Abraham Lincoln on the front and his monument on the back. Stacks of 10 made on dime. Rather than counting every stack, we made a master stack of ten and all the others were measured against it. It really moved things along. Another word for a penny is a cent.

Ten stacks of ten pennies equals one dollar!

Would you rather have 100 cents or a one dollar bill?

We sorted the pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters, and stacked them in one dollar increments. Finally it was time to get a grand total.


We had set a class goal of $25.

We actually collected
$227.75!

How does it feel to give to others?

What will UNICEF do with our donation of  $227.75?