Grandparents Day

To promote sales at our annual Book Fair, our school invites grandparents to lunch.  They make more money during the lunch hour that day, than they do the rest of the week.  The upper grades don't get as much participation as the younger grades, but we did have 13 grandparents in our room today.  The sixth graders were so cute when they introduced their grandparents and told a little about them.  They said things like, "she makes the best cookies" and "he took me ice fishing once".  We spent 45 minutes just talking to them and asking them questions.  They come from all over the country and sometimes from out of the country.  Today we had some who grew up in Los Angeles and others that grew up on farms and ranches.  Some went to parochial schools, some in one-room school houses (16 students in 8 grades), and some went to school right in Boise.  They tell the kids what they did for entertainment, what their chores were, what school was like, what they ate, how much a dollar would buy, things that were dangerous when they were young, and important events that they've lived through.  It was time well spent.  Everyone learned something, and enjoyed it.  Some even scored a new book.