GET ON THE BUS PROGRAM FUNDRAISER

Fourth Grade is going to have a classroom raffle on Wednesday, April 8th 2009 in order to raise money for the "Get on the Bus Program". This is an annual event sponsored by the San Bernardino Diocese. It offers free transportation for children and their guardians/caregivers to visit their mothers or fathers incarcerated in prison. Many of these children have been separated from their parents and not been able to visit them in quite a while.( Some children haven't seen their parents in years.) The program provides transportation, food for the journey, and comforting teddy bears when the children have to end the visit. It simply offers sympathy and compassion for children. Fourth grade students may purchase raffle tickets for twenty five cents and bring in any added donations until April 8th. Students wrote a note in their best cursive writing in class to their parents explaining the classroom raffle. Any student returning a signed cursive letter will get a free raffle ticket on Tuesday, March 31, 2009.