‘Twas ‘grand’ to be on hand

MLC Elementary students welcome grandparents into their classrooms

 

 

Mountain Lake Christian (MLC) elementary students celebrated the school’s traditional Grandparents Day this morning (Friday, September 23). Their grandparents, adopted grandparents, mentors or special friends were welcomed into classrooms to observe and participate in educational programs. For the special students, it ’twas “grand” to be on hand.

In addition to learning the Sycamore (kindergarten), Acacia (first- and second-grade), Oak (third- and fourth-grade), Cedar (fifth- and sixth-grade) curriculums, some of the choice school visitors also dabbled in music class and Spanish class. They also attended an informational meeting led by the school’s administrator, Dr. Michael James, and shared noon lunch with their specific student – or, in some cases – students.

The gallery of photographs below captures some of the moments of class participation by the “grand”students:

 

 

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MLC KINDERGARTEN STUDENT Abbey Lepp, left, is totally engaged in the “counting-the-days-of-the-week” song (and so, too, is her grandma, Donna Lepp, right.)

 

 

 

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“IT’S A BEAUTIFUL Day” is the song the MLC kindergarten students are singing, and Mikaya Schroeder, front and Grandma Cheryl Peterson, back, are intent on savoring every minute of it together.

 

 

 

 

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DURING CIRCLE TIME, led by MLC kindergarten teacher Sheryl Fast, standing right, Grandpa Duane Henze, seated left, keeps an eye on granddaughter, Emma Naxay, to the left of Fast.

 

 

 

 

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ACACIA (GRADES 1 and 2) students are working on building numbers. Taryn Marcy, right, shows her grandpa, Bill Marcy, left, how to “build” the number her teacher, Rachel Knutson, posted on the board.

 

 

 

 

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JACKSON STONEKING, CENTER, is using a handful of 10-sticks to build a really large number, with Grandpa Gene Duerksen, left and Grandma Margaret Duerksen, right, learning from this Math U See lesson, too. Jackson has available in his number building “tool kit” a selection of hundred blocks and ones, which allows him to keep building numbers higher and higher.

 

 

 

 

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DEMONSTRATING TO GRANDPA Rick Porter, left, how he keeps his board and counters organized is Porter’s grandson, Ezra Peterson, right.

 

 

 

 

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TEAMING UP WITH Zach Klassen, center, to complete a worksheet on how bills are passed in the Oak (Grades 3 and 4) Classroom of Nordis Olson are Zach’s grandparents, Grandpa Wendell Klassen, left and Grandma Jo Evans, right.

 

 

 

 

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ANOTHER SECTION OF the worksheet had students and grandparents filling in the facts about each of the three branches of government – legislative, executive and judicial. Getting the job done are Oak’s Fairlane Penner, right, and her grandpa, Jonathan Penner, left.

 

 

 

 

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LISTENING TO HER grandson, Layken Marcy, right, read a book about the Constitutional Convention is Grandma Barb Miller, left.

 

 

 

 

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DEGREES OF LATITUDE and longitude is the focus of the geography lesson in the Cedar (Grades 5 and 6) Classroom of Karin Stoesz. Students are given the coordinates of a location in degrees – and jumped in to pinpoint the county, state or body of water. Above, Aiden Penner, right, gets the okay from Grandma Bernice Penner, left, that he has, indeed, identified the correct intersection of latitude and longitude.

 

 

 

 

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GRANDMA MABEL JAHNKE, left, observes as her granddaughter, Lydia Cavanaugh, right, moves swiftly to bring latitude and longitude together to identify the correct spot on the map.

 

 

 

 

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EVAN OLTMANS, LEFT, explains his task to his grandparents, Grandpa Bob Oltmans, center and Grandma Joyce Oltmans, right.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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