Socktober At Gelridge Elementary

    Socktober At Glenridge Elementary

By: Amanda Miller

On October 17th Glenridge Elementary School started participating in Socktober created by the one and only KID PRESIDENT! Socktober is in the month of October and we are donating socks for homeless shelters that don’t have any socks. At Glenridge Mrs. Scotino’s and Mrs. Barnes’s class are helping to set up the fundraiser for our school.

How Are We Helping To Donate

We are helping to Donate by having a sock drive here at school. We also had a snack and lemonade stand this past week across from Glenridge. During the snack and lemonade stand we raised almost 125 dollars in total. We also had a fun day week, Monday was wear your socks in class day, Wednesday was wacky Wednesday and Friday is PJ day. If you wanted to participate in any of those days you would have to bring in a dollar to donate to Socktober. The last thing we did to raise awareness is we created a challenge called “The Freeze Your Feet Challenge.” It’s like the ALS ice bucket challenge but instead of dumping ice water on your head you stand in a bucket of ice cold water and say who you were nominated by and who you are going to nominate. Then you step out and post the video on social media. Also if you want to participate in the Freeze Your Feet Challenge when you post your video make sure to use the hashtag Socktober and tag whoever you nominated.

Why We Decided to Participate In Socktober

We decided to participate in Socktober because it is helping homeless shelters that don’t have socks and we wanted a way to help them. So we joined the famous KID PRESIDENT to help raise awareness for the homeless shelters. Another reason we did this is to have fun while helping people in need at the same time because we can have fun and wear socks in class, be wacky and wear PJ’s to school but still be raising money for the homeless shelters at the same exact time. Socktober was a very fun experience because we were doing it for a good cause by donating money to the homeless shelters that don’t have socks. Even though Socktober is almost over it was a very fun fundraiser because we were having fun but being very caring about the homeless shelters at the same time.

#HAPPYSOCKTOBER