PHOTO GALLERY: Fifth-grade class collects donations for Room at the Inn

Jared Broughton, a student in Judi Privitt's fifth-grade class at Mill Creek Elementary School, wraps items to be donated to Room at the Inn shelter at the class holiday party Friday. Items such as warm coats, toothbrushes and non-perishable food items were collected and wrapped for the seasonal homeless shelter.   |  Kayla Kauffman

Fifth-grade teacher Judi Privitt packs a pile of donated items into bags Friday at Mill Creek Elementary School.   |  Kayla Kauffman

Students in Judi Privitt's fifth-grade class at Mill Creek Elementary School wrap items donated for charity at their class holiday party Friday. The items will be given to Room at the Inn, an overnight homeless shelter in Columbia.   |  Kayla Kauffman

Students from Judi Privitt's fifth-grade class and parents carry donated items out of the classroom Friday at Mill Creek Elementary School.   |  Kayla Kauffman

Fifth-grade students Matthew Canady, left, Preston Francher and Connor Bolin cary items out to a car with room dad Pat Fancher on Friday at Mill Creek Elementary School. The items, colleceted and wrapped by Judi Privitt's fifth-grade class, will be donated to the Room at the Inn homeless shelter in Columbia.   |  Kayla Kauffman