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West Mercer Elementary and the school’s PTA organized a Thanksgiving Food Drive to support the Rainier Valley Food Bank.

West Mercer kindergarten teachers Michele Frisch, Tara Hutschreider and Claire Phillips developed a unit for students that used the school food drive to teach their students math and community support.

Several weeks ago, the three kindergarten classes gathered as a cohort to count how many kindergarten students were at the school. The students found there were 50 kindergarteners at West Mercer.

The kindergarten teachers and students set a goal of collecting 100 food items — two items per student — by Nov. 20 to donate to the Rainier Valley Food Bank.

On that day, each student that brought a food item made a mark on a tally sheet, which record

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