Northbrook 2nd Graders Receive Thanks From Houston

NORTHBROOK, IL —Local second grade students got a first hand lesson in caring and service from a direct exchange with a community in need recently. After students from Parker Intermediate School in Houston suffered devastation from Hurricane Harvey, the four second-grade classes at Northbrook's Meadowbrook School adopted a fifth-grade classroom at Parker earlier this month.

Students collected three boxes of school supplies and clothing and $450 in gift gifts and sent it off to Houston.

Four days later, Meadowbrook teacher Jean Viviano received a message from the fifth-grade teacher at Parker, Christine Clark.

"We received the boxes this morning! It was as if it were Christmas morning! My kids and I both could not believe how much we received," Clark wrote.

"We could never thank you and your students enough for the overwhelming love and support that you have shown not only to our classroom but to our state! YOU ARE SUCH A BLESSING!” (Get Patch real-time email alerts for more local stories and the latest news for Northbrook — or your Illinois community.)

_{Top photo: Meadowbrook second-grade students prepare to pack up the results of their school supply and clothing drive for a fifth-grade Houston classroom devastated by Hurricane Harvey. From left is Maya Schmitz, Elle Mackey, Jzak McGough, Liam Mathein, Zack Schwarcz, Chloe Wenk, Ryan Cederlund, Janessa Wu, Avery Atkinson and Caroline Henderson. | via Northbrook District 28, used with permission}