Doing good in Wisconsin

GREEN BAY – On March 6, Annie Jackson Elementary School participated in the Do Good Wisconsin’s Cereal Box Domino Challenge.

The challenge is to encourage all Wisconsin schools to collect as many cereal boxes before National Cereal Day on March 7.

As a part of the challenge the school also creates a video of the cereal boxes being knocked down.

The school with the best video is to be recognized and receives a trophy delivered directly to the school.

After the challenge, the proceeds are donated to a local food pantry.

The Jackson Elementary staff and students spent over four weeks collecting cereal for Hunger Heroes Jaguar Den and two additional local transformative pantries.

This is Jackson’s second year participating in the challenge and their school has collected 845 boxes of cereal, some of which were donated while others were acquired through classroom cereal trivia.

The cereal trivia focused on literacy skill while using the cereal boxes as tools.
Some trivia required students to come up with words that start with the same letters as words on the box or reading the nutrition label to determine the amount of calories in each serving.

The cereal trivia promoted student learning while rewarding correct answers with cereal boxes.

Part of the challenge is also to be creative in the way the boxes are set up.
With the boxes this year they have decided to create an infinity symbol that spans the entire front of their school.

The infinity symbol represents endlessness, interconnectedness and eternity.
Similarly, School Counselor Tammy Van Ess expressed, “we do a lot of things to actually give back to the community because we’ve had so many people give to our community. And I hope that when the kids leave Jackson and they go to [middle] school, they take the skills they have learned and to be those change makers and to provide service to people, that they’ll continue that.”

Van Ess encouraged her students to continue to give and be a part of the cycle that has aided them.