Category Archives: X Selma 2009

Here are the names of those bringing things to my house Sunday:

1 bag of brown sugar – Courtney Berghuis
1 bag of pretzels – Kayley M
1 bag of powdered sugar – Tricia Schmiege
1 carton of a dozen eggs – Devyn Crane
1 or 2 brownie mixes – Tyler Darnell
3 bags of semi sweet chocolate chips – Sam Ferrier
3 boxes of real butter (4 sticks to a box) – Autumn W
2 chocolate chip cookie mixes – Jessica Jenkins
2 sugar cookie mixes – Kaylie Payne

Please remember to bring these items and to check the blog for directions to my house.  Please call me if you have any questions at 788-5295 or email me at charitywilde@aol.com and I hope to hear from you soon other wise I will see you Sunday! Thanks a ton….

A message from the new Charity.

First, let me thank those who attended the meeting this morning. I was glad to see that you are interested in doing this because it is all for you! That is why I decided to put together a committee so we could work together and because I want to see you go and have your eyes opened to what the world has to offer

Now to the more important stuff. We will meet Friday, November 21^st during Channel One to finalize all the things we talked about during the Wednesday meeting.

Please leave your name for all those who interested in helping us out.

The food ideas we came up with are as follows:

• -Chocolate Chip Cookies
• -Sugar Cookies
• -Brownies
• -Cupcakes
• -No Bakes
• -Puppy Chow
• -Chocolate Covered Pretzels
• -Rice Crispy Treats
• -Zucchini Bread

These are what we’ll start with and if anyone comes up with other ideas then we can add to our list of items to make.

We will meet Sunday, November 23d at my house and split up into two groups at 2:00 pm to start baking.

What I usually do when I have a bake sale is I label my items and take the money that I earn, and others take what they earn. BUT what I think I want to do is have everyone help out and bake things and we will all work selling the goods and then divide the money equally if we have a big number of helpers. This will make if fair. If you have any questions please talk with me at school, email me at charitywilde@aol.com or call me at 638.0182 or 788.5295. I would be happy to help you figure any thing out. These are the directions to Brittany Weiss’s and my house.

Hello Everyone!

Our next bakesale will be Monday November 24 and Tuesday 25 – both lunches.  That’s the week of Thanksgiving.

SPECIAL NOTICE: I am going to be putting together a fundraising committee so we can all share ideas and work together as a team to earn money for the trip(s) you are going to attend.

*All who are interested in being apart of this committee, come to the Close Up/Selma fundraising committee Wednesday November 12 during Channel One. Announcements will be made so please listen! :0) And I will get names and we’ll start brain storming ideas.

Thanks everyone!

~ Charity

P.S. Use this blog! Check it every day. Make it your new bestfriend. I want to hear from you! :0)

Good news boys and girls!

We have our first bakesale this month.

Thursday –  October 30th and Friday – 31st, first and second lunch both days so we will need helpers.

We will have a Halloween theme. So share your ideas with me here online! :0)

Grazie, Ciao and Auf Wiedersehen!

– Charity Wilde

It’s Close Up Time. It’s Selma Time. It’s time to see the World.

Two “Getting Started Meetings”

• Thursday Oct 23 afterschool (3:00 to 4:00) or
• Friday Oct 24 before school (7:00 to 8:00)
• We will talk about Selma and Close Up at each of the meetings.
• We will start our Janie’s Cookie Dough Fundraiser.
• You must make it to ONE of these two meetings.
• Don’t come to both.
• Special Note – Selma and Close Up are school related absences

Listen to the following podcasts to gain insight to these two wonderful travel / learning opportunities. These podcasts will not open in Firefox browser. Use Safari or Explorer.

• Selma, Alabama podcast
• Close Up Washington DC podcast
• Close Up from Charity Wilde podcast

Close Up Washington – May 1 to May 8, 2009.
We will travel to D.C. You will meet kids from all over the country. You’ll study government, visit diverse neighborhoods, take in a play at the Kennedy Center, talk politics, tour the Capitol and the monuments and the Library of Congress. You’ll debate issues that matter to young people. And you will do it all in a year when this country has elected a new president. That should make things particularly exciting. Close Up starts on Sunday night …Our Oakridge group goes a day earlier on Saturday morning. We search out D.C. on our own for a day and a half – before we join the crowd. And then Close Up takes over and becomes the teacher. Close Up is cool – you’re going to have a GREAT time.

Selma, Alabama (Bridge Crossing Jubilee) – March 6 to March 9, 2009.
Selma, Alabama is where the battle for American democracy was truly won. I’ve gone six years – taken Oakridge students two times. I will go every year the rest of my life. There is something truly special about joining hundreds of others, old folks and children, black people and white people together, to walk across the Edmund Pettus Bridge on Sunday of the Jubliee. For four days we’ll emerse ourselves in the Civil Rights movement. Friday in Birmingham (Kelly Ingram Park, Sixteenth Street Baptist Church), Saturday and Sunday at the Jubilee in Selma. And then on Monday before flying back – we’ll tour Dexter and the Rosa Parks Museum in Montgomery, Alabama. This trip is just us. And history. You will feel the Civil Rights movement in your bones.

“Travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.” – Miriam Beard