KINGSPORT — Students from Lincoln Elementary School shouldn’t be bored over the Christmas break, however every one has a board for the vacations.
To be precise, they’ve board video games for leisure and studying throughout their day off, due to the generosity of fogeys and the group.
And in addition they can play the cardboard sport Uno for a change of tempo from a board sport or eat some snacks.
“Before Thanksgiving we sent out the call for games for our students. We wanted to gift each Lincoln Lion with a board game to play over the holiday instead of more screen time,” Lincoln Principal Suzanne Zahner mentioned.
Lincoln Elementary School Principal Suzanne Zahner
“We asked parents and community members to donate a game or two so all students could enjoy a game over the holiday,” Zahner mentioned. “The response was overwhelming. We needed almost 400 board games, and we received close to 600 board games and over 500 packs of the card game Uno.”
That meant the varsity was capable of give each one in every of its students a sport of Uno and, after all, a board sport.
“We really are pleased with all the support we received from our families and community. It is overwhelming,” Zahner mentioned.
However, the varsity people had to determine what to do with the excess video games.
“We had enough left over that we have also paid it forward with the overflow of games to Michele Wilder and the HEP (Homeless Education) Program in addition to a few other community organizations that directly service the children of Kingsport,” Zahner mentioned.
On Friday, Dec. 10, members of the Lincoln Parent Teacher Organization, father or mother volunteers and members of Dobyns-Bennett High School Beta Club got here to Lincoln after faculty “to wrap, wrap, and wrap some more” for the mission, the principal mentioned.
“In an hour and a half, we wrapped close to 700 gifts,” she famous.
“As a surprise today (Dec. 17), our students were given games, a trail mix treat (funded by a local business) and in return gave us lots of smiles, hugs, and squeals of delight as they opened up the games they had chosen,” she mentioned.
“It was a magical afternoon at Lincoln. I was even accused of having elf ears (implying that I was one of Santa’s helpers)! What they didn’t know is that the entire community around Lincoln has elf ears and we all worked to provide them with a little holiday magic.”
For the file, an investigation by the Kingsport Times News reporting workers discovered no photographic proof of elf ears on Zahner.
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