I love our block sale every year. Our sidewalks are overly crowded with people and I can smell lots of fresh lemonade from our lemonade sale. We always have a tiny table filled with toys and things that we like to sell. My mom, dad and I sell bigger things too! I got to thinking [...]
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If you look at my sidebar, you will see a bunch of names listed there. These are mostly teachers who volunteered to put up posters for Compass House! Thank you VERY MUCH!
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My friend Kristen works with Suneel’s Light helping to raise money to find a cure for Muscular Dystrophy. Suneel is a boy who lives near me. He is about my age, and he has muscular dystrophy. I’ve dedicated the last month of my blogging to Suneel’s Light. This weekend, I will be returning bottles to help raise [...]
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The first thing I would like to write about today (or tonight) is my Skype chat with the bloggers at 17 chances to Make a Difference. Mrs. Hernandez invited me to be interviewed by her class. They were the same age as I am.
I thought that everyone was really nice. I was really excited to do this [...]
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I have been planning to do a Lemonade Sale to help raise money for Suneel’s Light. My friends Emmy and Julie helped. I want to give a big thank you to Emmy for having such a wonderful idea and her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas for allowing her to do the lemonade sale and buying [...]
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As I walked to my friend Emily’s house a few days ago with her, we thought about having a Lemonade Sale. Emily said that it was a good idea but that there should be a purpose. Emily and I thought for a while and Emily decided that we should donate the money we raise to [...]
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This month there weren’t many donations to Compass House or Cheerful Givers. Rather than picking a winner who made the most difference, my mom and I have decided to donate $40.00 to Compass House instead. I also made $100.00 from bottle donations to buy things to put in giftbags on behalf of Cheerful Givers that I will donate [...]
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You are probally wondering why I haven’t written in a few days. Well, I have a lot to say today because of lots of busy-ness (biz-ee-nuss). I will be annoucing the winners for the April Showers giveaway as soon as I hear from Ms. Nadler about the people who donated to Compass House during the month of March. [...]
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This winter, Twenty Five Days to Make a Difference was nominated for a Blogger’s Choice Award, and a lot of nice people have voted for me. I’m in first place for best charity blog right now! If you haven’t voted for me, would you please take a minute to create a free account here and [...]
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Today, I went to National Make a Blanket day to make blankets for my local chapter of Project Linus. In the picture above, I am holding the first blanket that I made, and the chairperson of our Project Linus, Christene Lewandowski, is standing with me.
I liked Christene a lot. She was really friendly and she [...]
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Yesterday, I collected all of the books and pajamas from drive for The Pajama Program at Charles A. Lindbergh Elementary School. I want to thank the students and our wonderful principal, Mrs.Parsons for helping me!!!! We collected 25 pairs of pajamas and almost 200 books!!! I was really excited about this because my dad is doing a book and pj [...]
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This Saturday I am going to go to National Make A Blanket Day to support Project Linus. Christene Lewandowski, our local organizer, invited me to come and make a tied fleece blanket to donate! I am also planning on donating my bottle return money as well. I’ve still been collecting this month, and my Aunt [...]
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Today I got some books and pajamas for The Pajama Program from school! I am really excited about this, and I have a feeling that I am going to get more things tommorow. I think that Mrs.Parsons really helped with this beacuse she put the pj and book drive on our school calendar, reminding everyone to donate books [...]
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Valentine Card Giveaway for Spreading Awareness of my Blog!!!
This month one of my goals is that I wanted to increase awarness of my blog, readers and subscribers. I think that a subscriber is someone who comes every day or whenever I post. I can see when people are subscribed because they show up on my [...]
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We had the day off from school today because we are having a huge wind storm! The wind gusts are over 80 mph! We lost our power early this morning, and so we went over to our friend Kristen’s house, where we spent the morning stamping Valentine’s Day cards. I made a whole bunch of [...]
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Mr. Carr has been encouraging people to support the Sharing Foundation as they try to win The America’s Giving Challenge. If the Sharing Foundation wins, they will receive $50,000 dollars which will be used to change many lives! Right now, they are in second place! Please consider going here and making a ten dollar donation.
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Today is an exciting day!! I have a lot of people to thank, and I will be announcing the winners of this month’s contest! For the last twenty five days, I have been supporting Ski4E and the Children’s Organ Transplant Association. Many people have donated Dash’s register tapes, bottles, and change to my efforts. Erie 1 BOCES [...]
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At the end of this month, I will be giving away two $15.00 iTunes gift cards to the two people or groups who have helped me make the most difference for Ski4E and the Children’s Organ Transplant Association this month. In addition to this, I will be naming these people as donors along with me when [...]
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The Serving Kids Award was designed by me. I used Microsoft Paint to make it. I’m just learning to use it so I don’t really get fancy like Lynn Anne Cutler can. Each month I am going to give the Serving Kids Award to 3 bloggers. Bloggers can win this award by doing 1 of 2 things [...]
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This is the sort of thing that I am really hoping other classes and schools and kids will do!
Today, I received a really exciting email message from Mr. Pullen, who is a third grade teacher! This is a part of it:
Hey Laura — I left a comment on your blog a few days ago saying that I [...]
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Mr. Carr recently nominated me for a Best Charity Blog Blogger’s Choice Award. At first, I didn’t really think that my blog would get any votes, because I am a kid. I also didn’t want to ask people to vote for me because it felt kind of like I was bragging. But now I am [...]
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Yesterday, I got an email message from a teacher who is doing skits about making a difference for our country and our world. She wanted me to ask if my readers have any ideas for her. She is working with fifth and sixth graders to create skits about making a difference for your country, and [...]
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Recently, my mom and I learned about an online community called Razoo. On Razoo you can meet other people who are interested in doing good things and making a difference. There are a lot of ideas for anyone who is looking for large or even very small service projects. I haven’t been on it much today, [...]
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Today, I found out that there are some women who write online about social justice. They encourage other grown ups to write about social justice in their blogs too, and they recognize them by giving them Just Post awards. They gave me one today! This made me really happy!
I am very interested in building up an [...]
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I want to start with some BIG news! In December, I wrote about the great people who work in my school cafeteria. Their recipe for Macho Nachos was a finalist in a competition, and I asked everyone who read my site to vote for them. The Grand Prize was a kitchen renovation. AND TODAY WE FOUND OUT [...]
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Today, I spent some time collecting bottles for Ski4E and the Children’s Organ Transplant Association! When I got home from school, I took my wagon over to Mr. and Mrs. Valenzuela’s house, and they gave me four HUGE garbage bags full of bottles. Then, we went over to the Toney’s house to pick up more, [...]
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Today, I “caught” Mr. Koppel, my orchestra/flute teacher making a difference at my Erie County Orchestra try out. Yesterday, I left my book and my music and book at school and I couldn’t try out with a photo copy. Mr. Koppel went into the parking lot, which was more like a zoo because it was wild, [...]
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The first thing I want to say is thank you to all of my classmates at Lindbergh Elementary! Everyone is bringing in all of their Dash’s receipts to support Ski4e. The bowl in the picture is the biggest bowl in my house! It is overflowing with receipts! I think that this is awesome! I WILL BE [...]
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Heidi Taylor emailed us to let us know that she came home recently to find her driveway shoveled. Someone secretly did this for her family, just like her family did during the December 25 day challenge! How cool is that?
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When I started my website I thought that it would be hard for kids like me to really make a difference in the world. But, over the last week, I’ve been doing some research. I learned that there are many kids who are making really big differences and I am going to write about two girls who [...]
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This week, the winners of our Christmas Eve give away took some time to select the charities that they wanted their donations sent to! We are really excited about their choices!
Coco was our adult grand prize winner. She has decided to divide her prize between two different causes. Half of her money will be going to [...]
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Many people have shared ideas with us since yesterday about charities that I can focus on in the new year! I wanted to share some of them with everyone who is reading and ask that you leave a comment here or email us with other thoughts that you might have. On New Year’s Day, I [...]
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Merry Christmas everybody! As you all know, today is the day I have been waiting for! I am about to announce the winners of the contests– the GRAND PRIZES, the BETTER LATE THAN NEVER PRIZES, and the CLASSROOM CHALLANGE PRIZE. Some people have been wondering how my mom and I kept track of the people [...]
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Today, I served mass at St. Paul’s Church. I was really nervous about doing this, because I thought that there would be a lot of people there. But my Church really needs help with altar serving on Christmas, so I wanted to help out. This is a really good example of how helping out and being [...]
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These Are All of My Grandma and Grandpa Stockman’s Grandchildren!
Last night, we had our big family Christmas party. My dad is one of seven children, and so I have lots of cousins. My cousins make a difference to me because even though there are a lot of us from very little kids like Ryan and [...]
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Miss Steinhauser is my favorite instructor at Master Khechen School of Tae Kwon-Do because she is very kind to me and is a very good role model for myself and others. Miss Steinhauser is the only woman instructor that I have at Tae Kwon-Do. When I first started Tae Kwon- Do, Miss Steinhauser had just tested [...]
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Today I made a difference by giving Mrs. Nabozny (my teacher) a present where ten percent of the money used to purchase the gift goes to buying textbooks and supplies for schools that can’t afford them. It said Teacher’s Rule 2007 on it. I really liked it. There were different ones like some that support the troops [...]
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Several of our readers have been doing my MEME about making a difference! Coco, Dr. Cason, Kelly, and Orange Soda 2000 all have responses to my MEME up on their blogs! I am really excited about this. I hope you will go and visit their pages.
When I started this blog, you know that I only thought [...]
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Today I helped my daddy put down new carpet in my basement playroom. The old carpet got ruined in the October storm here last year and our concrete floor was cold. I like the new carpet better than the old carpet because the old carpet was not as pretty. Our new carpet is blue. It looks nice with [...]
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Christmas is exactly ONE WEEK AWAY! Do you know what this means? It means that in seven short days, I will be announcing 2 Grand Prize Winners, 2 Better Late Than Never Winners, and 1 Winner of the Classroom Challenge!
My mom and I have been visiting your blogs and receiving your email messages every single [...]
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Today I made a difference by searching for coins in my house and car. Later, I will go to a Coinstar machine and put them in there to get dollar bills back. I am going to give all of this money to the Salvation Army! I will write more about this later! Right now, Matt Pearl from Channel 2 [...]
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This week, my mom and I have become acquainted with a mom named Hallie. Hallie’s son, CJ, is going to be a soldier in Iraq soon. He is leaving right after Christmas. He is only 18 years old too. My mom asked Hallie to tell us about what CJ will be doing as a soldier, [...]
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So……..some people are wondering how much of the work viewed on this blog belongs to Laura and how much of it is being done by her mother? The answer is one that evolves every day, actually. As a mom, one of my goals is to help Laura become proficient with many aspects of blogging by [...]
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Today I tok down the dirty londry from upstares with out being asked. My perints like it when I do that!!!
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Wow! You have all been very busy donating rice and books and helping your parents around the house. Thank you so much for working so hard! If you have left a comment here or emailed us, your name has been added to the participant’s list at the top of the page. You might also find [...]
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Hi I am Nina .I am Laura’s little sister.I am seven year’s old.Today I made difference by hleping Laura carry her books that her class helped her donate.By the way , I am tiping this all by mysalfe!!!!
from Nina
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When I began this site on December 1st, I did not ever imagine that so many people would want to participate. I really only thought about giving away one prize to one person who made the most difference during the month of December. I was planning on donating my allowance, which is $25, for the [...]
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“I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.”
Helen Keller
Laura began this project in response to the project prompt linked to this year’s New York State Parent Teacher [...]
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