Mother's Day gifts for 25 cents? St. Norbert elementary students go shopping

Kindergarten student Noah Ferguson only has a toonie in his hand, and he is trying to find the perfect gift for his mom for Mother's Day.

The six-year-oldsays his mom deserves something nice because it's Mother's Day, and because whenever there is something up high, she is the one who gets it for him.

Ferguson has a good shot at getting something great, because he's shopping at teacher Lisa Yagi's Mother's Day sale.And he has a slight advantage over the rest of the students from Parc La Salle elementary school in St. Norbert, Man. he's one of the first kids checking out the donated items on offer.

Elementary school Mother's Day sale

8 years ago

Duration 1:53

Kindergarten teacher Lisa Yagi is hosting her fifth Mother's Day sale with items she has had donated for students at Parc Ls Salle elementary school in St. Norbert.

Ferguson is choosingfromalmost 200 gifts, includingcandles, scarves, jewelry, vases, flowers and picture frames. Yagi has collected them from friends, family and other staff members to allow the students to come in with anything from $2 to 25 cents to buy gifts for their moms.

Zoe Shersty, also6, analyses a gold necklace with a cluster of peach-colouredstones.

"It's a hard choice for me, actually," Ferguson tells Shersty.

This is the fifth year that Yagi, who teaches kindergarten, has rounded up items to host a sale for the students.

"You can see the excitement on the children's faces when they bring in their own money from their own piggy bank and they get to choose something that they think their mom would like," she said.

The students feel proud about buyingtheir first gift for mom and taking it home in a little bag to surprise them on Mother's Day, Yagiadds.

Kindergarten students shop first. Students in the higher grades will rotate through the sale through the end of the week.

In previous years,Yagi has spent the proceeds on games or artsupplies for her class, but this year she plans to purchase tree seedlings from the Manitoba Forestry Association to send home with students at the end of the school year.

Shertsyknows all about Mother's Day, and shewants to get her mom something special.

"She is very nice and she feeds me," she explains.

Sherstypicks a gift describing it might spoil the surpriseand saysher mom will love it.

"She'll love it because it's from me, because she loves me, and whenever I give her something she says she loves it."