Wednesday October 20, 2010

 

   

Grandparent’s Day at LAMS

Friday, October 1

Visiting Grandson’s Ian and Jared

 

 

Grandparents gathered at 8:45 a.m. for registration and refreshments at Lititz Area Mennonite School.

 

 

Ken Fry, School Principal, welcomed the grandparents, and introduced Middle School Principal, Keith Garner, who told us about the program for the morning.

 

 

We visited Jared’s kindergarten class first. He was anxious to show us his construction project.

 

 

Showing a book to Grandma Buch

 

 

Telling Grandpa about his school work. The hand he traced is on the table, and was a gift to us. It has a heart in the center, and says, “I’m blowing this big kiss your way with a wish for a Happy Grandparents’ Day!!” It is laminated with a small magnet on the back.

 

 

Me and Jared posing for the camera. Don’t you love his toothless grin?

 

 

Jared and his friend Darin

 

 

Jared with his teacher

 

 

Darin’s grandparents Nevin and Cordy threejoys

 

Ian was looking for us, and delighted when he saw us coming toward his second grade room.

 

 

Ian’s classroom – he’s standing in the center back.

 

 

He was surprised to see Great-grandma Hershey.

 

 

Ian and Grandma Buch

 

 

Ian with his teacher

 

 

He loved showing us things in the hall that belonged to second grade.

 

 

But he was most anxious to show us his birdseed project.

 

 

 

 

Each student is documenting the growth of the seeds.

 

 

 

 

I love this project! They put water in a baggie, add some birdseed, close the baggie, then hang it in a window.

 

 

The program in the gym began at 10:15 a.m. with kindergarten. Jared is fourth from the left.

 

 

They sang “Way Up High” and “Young Little Branch.”

 

 

Second Grade: We could see Ian scanning the audience as he looked for us, then he saw us just as I prepared to take this picture.

 

 

They sang “Grandma’s and Grandpas” and “Lord, I Lift Your Name on High.”

 

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After the program, we took the boys to Pizza Hut (their choice) for lunch.

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They were quite interested in this ground hog, who was in the yard near where we parked at Pizza Hut. 

 

 

Ian was telling us about his new glasses, so I took a closeup. We told him that he could go hunting with them because they are camouflage.

 

 

Pizza Hut lunch

 

 

I loved listening to them on the way home. They found an atlas and tried to figure out were we were. They continued to flip pages and usually didn’t have a Pennsylvania map.