Bella Cain picked up a soft baby doll and hugged it to her. She then showed it off to her teacher.
"Look what I got. I got a scarf and a baby doll," Cain said as she wrapped a soft pink scarf around herself.
Cain, 5, is a student in the More at Four classroom at the Tyndall Center, a day care. The third-graders at Hickory Christian Academy visited Tuesday morning, bringing a gift bag for each child. The visit was supposed to be before Christmas, but was delayed because of the snow.
Each class at Hickory Christian Academy does something for the good of the community each year.
Each grade must decide an event they will give up to participate in something for the community instead. The third grade decided to give up their Christmas party to spend time with the students at the Tyndall Center, said Melody Ray, a third-grade teacher at the school.
The third-graders all brought in gifts for the children, which were divided up into gift bags for boys or girls. Ray said she knew ahead of time how many of each gender there were at the Tyndall Center.
Hickory Christian Academy student Madison Hartman said she liked coming.
"It's supposed to be about someone else, not ourselves," she said.
Hartman was paired up with Cain, and read her a story about Winnie the Pooh.
Raul Avalos, 5, got a remote-controlled dog in his gift bag. Avalos showed off his new toy to anyone who would watch, making it bark, walk forward and wag its tail. He also got a coloring book, hat and mittens and a stuffed dog.
Andy Cook, 9, from Hickory Christian Academy, said he thought the stuffed dog and remote-controlled dog would go well in the same bag.
"I know he really likes dogs, because his second favorite gift was a stuffed dog," Cook said.
Ray said she thought the school's first trip to the Tyndall Center went really well.
"The kids are so excited. They love to give gifts," she said. "We'd like to do it again."
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