KAUKAUNA, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) – Kaukauna families in need will be getting warm meals this winter, thanks to first graders at Park Community Charter School. The kids are putting together meal kits for 25 local families.
“We’re decorating bags for people who don’t have enough money to get food, or like don’t have any food, and we’re trying to give them food,” said Park Community Charter School 1st grader Cameron Howard.
“Stone Soup” – a tale of villagers adding one ingredient of their own to make a tasty meal that feeds the entire village. The moral of the story? Making something significant by accumulating many small contributions.
That’s what Kaukauna’s Park Community Charter School first graders are essentially doing with the meal kits they’re creating for the Kaukauna Library.
One ingredient at a time, the students work together to build a whole meal kit for one family.
“Each classroom here at Park donated one item; one ingredient for the meal kits,” said Angela Schneider, Kaukauna Public Library Assistant Director.
“Our first-grade students read ‘Stone Soup,’ and we talked about the message of that book, but then together they’re making 25 meal kits to add to the library’s Little Food Pantry.”
This community project teaches students about the importance of kindness and sharing, and why sharing and caring for their neighbors is important.
The first graders called on the whole school to join them in this project, and each classroom donated one item for the holiday meal, an item from each student.
“It was a school-wide opportunity to bring things in, so each grade had a certain item that they were asked to bring in,” Park Community Charter School principal Ken Korton said. “We did that for a couple of weeks, and we also had some parents that did some matching through their work, so it just really turned out nice.”
Together, these kids learning that sometimes it truly does take a village.
In addition to the 25 meal kits the students put together, Midwest Carriers and Lamers Dairy provided 50 more meal kits, along with milk and eggs for 75 families.
The kits were made available at the library’s pop-up pantry Monday night.
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