Caps to our Nation’s Capital; Frist to a TN School
May 8th, 2008 at 9:14 am | posted by Field
On Tuesday, May 5, Save the Children and Doctor and Former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist visited our school to launch the 2008 State of the Worlds’ Mothers Report. Who would think that learning to knit would bring so much excitement? Not the first second and third graders in Cordova, TN at Lamplighter Montessori School who knitted infant caps for Save the Children’s Caps to the Capital campaign!
Our students knitted the caps and sent them to Save the Children. Then they were invited to D.C to lobby with Save the Children. This week our school was chosen as The United States launch site for the 2008 report. Bright and early on Tuesday morning our students went on TV to promote awareness of the report. Later in the day, Senator Frist visited the school to talk about the simple and inexpensive ways children’s lives can be saved; warm caps for infants, hand washing, clean water and immunizations. The students showed Senator Frist the caps they had knitted in anticipation of another “Caps to the Capital” campaign.
Our Middle School students presented Save the Children, Senator Frist, Shelby County Mayor A. C. Wharton and ONE with student paintings to show our appreciation for the work being done to help children all over the world reach their first birthday.
-Terrie Sampson, Head of School, Lamplighter Montessori School
PHOTOS:
1- Lamplighter Students Ashley Buckingham, Naseem Yousef, Sutton Hewett, Dylan Beasley, Suzanne Bernstein and Michael Feather showing Save the Children’s Katheryn Bolls the caps knitted in anticipation of the next Caps to the Capitol Campaign.
2- Lamplighter student presenting ONE volunteer Carly Jackson with a painting creating by the students
