Mrs. Bailey's 3rd grade class had 100% participation.      Mrs. George's 2nd grade class had 90%participation.             

Lower school students had the opportunity to make Christmas a little brighter for many of our military friends deployed for the holidays.  Classes discussed items that would be fun and useful to our troops and collected them in bins outside their classrooms through the month of October.  A few Valwood students have moms or dads that are deployed for Christmas and this made the project even more meaningful.  Mrs. Hamman's son is also one of the deployed soldiers.  She shared with the students just how much these items mean to the men and women when they are away from their families. 

Fourth grade students wrote letters of encouragement and thanks to accompany their goodies.  All of the items covered the center of the hallway and were packaged up to ship overseas.  By their participation in such a wonderful project, these students have shown their Valiant commitment to character and service. 

         Mrs. Rowland's 4th grade class show off the letters they wrote to deployed service troops in Iraq.  They are looking forward to hearing back from them.