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February 2008 update by Grace:
Three Rivers School raised money to purchase teddy bears for Hugs Across America by selling duct tape to students to tape their principal to the wall. The principal, Mrs. Bulkley, stood on chairs against the wall throughout all of the lunch periods while students stuck their pieces of tape to her. At the end of all four lunches, the chairs were taken away and Mrs. Bulkley was successfully hanging from the cafeteria wall! The Three Rivers Student Council tagged 36 teddy bears for children undergoing medical treatment at Southern NH Medical Center in Nashua.
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November 2007 update by Grace:
I have lots of news to share. My wonderful class of 4th graders moved on to 5th grade. Unfortunately, they are in another school across town, so I don't get to see them. However, they wanted to remain involved with Hugs, so I contacted some teachers I knew to see if they might be willing to help us out. The student council advisor expressed an interest in the project. Four of my former students were elected as representatives and spoke about Hugs.
The council voted to support our efforts for the entire year! They will make the next trip to the hospital. At our school's open house, we sold ice cream bars and raffled a basket of back to school treats to benefit Hugs. Now, we are going to raffle a Christmas Tree lap quilt that was made by one of the teachers. We have several other fundraising ideas for the new year. One we hope to be able to do is to set up an after school craft club. Students will make sets of six all-purpose cards, such as a birthday card, a get well card, etc. Of course, the theme will be teddy bears, and we hope to have cards ready for purchase in the spring. We plan to have last year's founding members come back to help us out. We're still in the planning stages, but really do hope we can pull this off.
I am so thrilled that I was able to become involved in your wonderful project!
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This brand new chapter of 2nd, 3rd and 4th graders have already made a difference in the lives of patients at the hospital.
In their enthusiastic support of Hugs, they have written a book  , started a program to read more minutes and thereby get to write out tags and hug teddies, and have gotten the parent committee ( PALS = Parent Action League For Schools) to involve the entire school in the project AND have already taken their first tagged teddies to the Southern New Hampshire Medical Center. The staff at the hospital is planning a special meeting with the students to help them understand the comfort teddies bring to young patients.
I have a feeling they understand that very well!
Congratulations to Mrs. Forest and her 4th grade class for their inspiring work!!
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