{"id":7778,"date":"2018-05-09T15:49:18","date_gmt":"2018-05-09T19:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/?p=7778"},"modified":"2018-11-05T16:12:36","modified_gmt":"2018-11-05T21:12:36","slug":"day-caring-fosters-positive-peer-relationships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/day-caring-fosters-positive-peer-relationships\/","title":{"rendered":"Day of Caring fosters positive peer relationships"},"content":{"rendered":"

By dedicating one day to help others, a group of First Colonial High School Legal Studies Academy (LSA) students are hoping to make a big difference in the academic achievement of children at Williams Elementary School. More than 500 elementary students and 30 high school students participated in the fourth-annual Day of Caring event Friday, May 4.<\/p>\n

The LSA students led the mentoring and tutoring event as a way to help the fourth- and fifth-grade students prepare for their upcoming state Standards of Learning (SOL) tests.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s an opportunity for the First Colonial LSA students to come provide our students with SOL review activities, books and school supplies,\u201d said Tim Sullivan, principal of Williams Elementary School. \u201cMy students love it.\u201d<\/p>\n

First Colonial spent the year preparing for this event by collecting books and supplies to allow each student to take home one book and to fill backpacks for each of the 31 teachers at Williams to take back to their classrooms.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe would not have been able to provide the take-home books or school supply backpacks without the numerous donations given,\u201d said Melissa Disher, Day of Caring coordinator. \u201cCountless students were involved in the preparations of this event.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Day of Caring featured multiple one-hour rotations of study activities that focused mainly on science and math.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe one hour flies by,\u201d said Sullivan. \u201cThe LSA kids run the show. They set up all the rotations, teach all the lessons, and my kids fall in love with them.\u201d<\/p>\n

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But, Williams students are not the only ones learning.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy high school students reported back they learned so much more from the students at Bettie F. Williams,\u201d said Disher. \u201cThey learned a different approach, they learned a different story, they learned a little something about themselves, and they learned they made a friend.\u201d<\/p>\n

Caleb Knox, a sophomore volunteer, said his favorite part of the day was watching the transformation each child made throughout the day.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey would first walk in shy, but by the end of the day we were having profound debates on the greatest basketball player of all time and holding elaborate reenactments of our favorite dances \u2013 all while preparing for their SOL,\u201d said Knox. \u201cI think I learned more from these kids than they did from me.\u201d<\/p>\n

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