A student leadership group at Shoemaker High School raised funds to purchase books to gift to Clarke Elementary School first-graders in a Thanksgiving service project.
The school’s Chick-Fil-A Leadership Academy, about 30 students, joined the restaurant’s effort to give away one million books to children.
The Shoemaker club raised money to provide 80 books and fruit snacks for the younger students.
On Thursday, World Kindness Day, the first-graders received their books as well as a video with a few of the high school students reading the book, “I Am Thankful.”
The teachers and children at Clarke responded with a video of their own thanking Shoemaker for the gift.
Shoemaker teacher and leadership club sponsor Deborah Whitesides praised her students for working to benefit younger students.
“They made the decision to give books to some students here in KISD,” she said.
“We brainstormed and came up with the idea to make the video, to raise the money and get the books and snacks for them.”
Photos: https://www.flickr.com/photos/killeenisd/albums/72177720330300657
SHS students reading:
https://youtube.com/shorts/S61O6Xx3TUM?si=eO7FoFkddAtbXVs2