Our annual Grandparents and Special Guest day was a huge success. We had approximately 400 specials guests visit the Leawood students this day. Each classroom had a special performance for our specials guests. Our primary grades all performed some type of song and dance for our special guests. Our intermediate students all performed various oral interpretations. The students practiced diligently for the past few weeks to memorize and prepare for this big day.
In addition to the classroom performances, everyone had the opportunity to eat a spaghetti lunch. Our cafeteria manager Sue prepared this huge feast for everyone. Our staff, parent volunteers, and some students helped serve the food and cleaned the tables. This day is so big that we end up splitting each grade level for lunch. We set up the cafeteria and the gym to allow enough space to eat. As soon as lunch is over, our head custodian Vince and any volunteers he could find, helped transform the gym from an eating area of tables and chairs to an auditorium of rows of chairs for our special guests to enjoy the Leawood Choir. At the end of the day, everyone remaining in the building was invited to watch the Leawood Choir perform.
After Grandparents and Special Guest day is over, the intermediate grades pick the top oral interpretations to present to the whole school. This year we will video record the performances and play them on our school video network for all of our students to enjoy. In addition, they will be posted on our podcast site under special events so that our families can enjoy them too.
I hope everyone who attended enjoyed this special day. I look forward to comments from those who were able to experience the special day.
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Monday, November 10, 2008
The Leawood Silent Auction
Wow, what a great evening. The Leawood Silent Auction was a huge success. I have to start off by thanking all of the parents and volunteers involved for the incredible job they did in preparation for this event.
If you have never been to the Terrace Gardens, you may be a bit hesitant as you drive up to the building as it is nestled back behind other buildings. The area is at first unfamiliar and you question where you are going. Once you walk into the building, you suddenly realize that you have entered a very elegant and formal dining room. You check in to get your name tags and auction numbers. You look across this huge open room and see familiar faces, a very nice dining area, and off in the distance you see where the silent auction items are.
Once you claim a seat, find where the bar is, and realize the process of opening a credit account and how you end up paying for things, you start to relax and enjoy the night. The silent auction items were amazing. The grade level baskets were filled beyond the brim of the baskets, there were massages for everyone, games, technology, toys, vacations, . . . the items went on and on.
Dinner was also great. The food was delicious. It was a buffet of salad, roasted veggies, mashed potatoes, roast, and chicken. Everyone continuously commented on how good the food tasted.
After the silent auction items were closed the live auction began. The auctioneer Adam Nevil was incredible. He was fun and entertaining. He used that professional auctioneer voice and threw numbers at you so fast it was hard to follow at first. He made our families feel comfortable and enjoy themselves. There was a ton of laughter and excitement as our families bid on various items.
At the end of the night, the line to claim prizes was not too long. No one had to wait around for too long before going home with a handful of new things.
I want to thank the Leawood families and friends that joined us that night to make our silent auction such a huge success. I am so impressed with the generosity and determination that our parents had this night. With less than 30% of the Leawood families in attendance, we managed to raise over $23,000. I have to thank this small group of parents and families over and over for the commitment to our students and the support of Leawood. We are very lucky to have such committed families and I thank you.
If you have never been to the Terrace Gardens, you may be a bit hesitant as you drive up to the building as it is nestled back behind other buildings. The area is at first unfamiliar and you question where you are going. Once you walk into the building, you suddenly realize that you have entered a very elegant and formal dining room. You check in to get your name tags and auction numbers. You look across this huge open room and see familiar faces, a very nice dining area, and off in the distance you see where the silent auction items are.
Once you claim a seat, find where the bar is, and realize the process of opening a credit account and how you end up paying for things, you start to relax and enjoy the night. The silent auction items were amazing. The grade level baskets were filled beyond the brim of the baskets, there were massages for everyone, games, technology, toys, vacations, . . . the items went on and on.
Dinner was also great. The food was delicious. It was a buffet of salad, roasted veggies, mashed potatoes, roast, and chicken. Everyone continuously commented on how good the food tasted.
After the silent auction items were closed the live auction began. The auctioneer Adam Nevil was incredible. He was fun and entertaining. He used that professional auctioneer voice and threw numbers at you so fast it was hard to follow at first. He made our families feel comfortable and enjoy themselves. There was a ton of laughter and excitement as our families bid on various items.
At the end of the night, the line to claim prizes was not too long. No one had to wait around for too long before going home with a handful of new things.
I want to thank the Leawood families and friends that joined us that night to make our silent auction such a huge success. I am so impressed with the generosity and determination that our parents had this night. With less than 30% of the Leawood families in attendance, we managed to raise over $23,000. I have to thank this small group of parents and families over and over for the commitment to our students and the support of Leawood. We are very lucky to have such committed families and I thank you.
Monday, September 8, 2008
Leawood Carnival
Wow that was cold!!!!! It took me 2 days to thaw out from the dunk tank at the carnival.
I had so much fun at the welcome back carnival. I was so impressed with all the activites, students, families, and fun that was being had regardless of the gray sky and rather cool weather. I have to say over and over again thank you to the PTSA and all the wonderful volunteers that we had. These great community events cannot happen with out the support of our Leawood Families. Thank you.
I hope everyone agrees that the carnival was a great way to provide a safe and fun community event for our kids. The hot dogs were grilled to perfection. The bounce houses, velcro wall, obsticle course, nascar tire station and the slides were endlessly used. The cotton candy machine was pumping out the cotton candy. The crazy hair station proved to create some crazy hair styles. Kids were earning tons of tokens from the carnival games. I have to say that it was a great success and I hope everyone enjoyed themselves as much as I did.
These types of community events are one of the many things that supports Leawood and shows the strength of the community and school. I am so excited to be part of this great school. I look forward to many more fun events. Oh, by the way, our Dairy Queen night is Tuesday September 9th from 5-8 pm. And definitely don't forget our only fundraiser of the year, the silent auction, on Friday November 7th. See you then!!!
I had so much fun at the welcome back carnival. I was so impressed with all the activites, students, families, and fun that was being had regardless of the gray sky and rather cool weather. I have to say over and over again thank you to the PTSA and all the wonderful volunteers that we had. These great community events cannot happen with out the support of our Leawood Families. Thank you.
I hope everyone agrees that the carnival was a great way to provide a safe and fun community event for our kids. The hot dogs were grilled to perfection. The bounce houses, velcro wall, obsticle course, nascar tire station and the slides were endlessly used. The cotton candy machine was pumping out the cotton candy. The crazy hair station proved to create some crazy hair styles. Kids were earning tons of tokens from the carnival games. I have to say that it was a great success and I hope everyone enjoyed themselves as much as I did.
These types of community events are one of the many things that supports Leawood and shows the strength of the community and school. I am so excited to be part of this great school. I look forward to many more fun events. Oh, by the way, our Dairy Queen night is Tuesday September 9th from 5-8 pm. And definitely don't forget our only fundraiser of the year, the silent auction, on Friday November 7th. See you then!!!
Thursday, July 24, 2008
Leawood Elementary Blog Site
Hello Leawood Lions, I am starting a blog page to introduce this to our parents and community to show how exciting this can be. Our sixth grade students started using a secure blog site on wikispaces last year (cocacolaclassroom) as a means to continue valuable conversations related to school outside of the classroom. I feel strongly that parents and families should be able to experince what a blog space (also known as web log) is and allow our community to participate in the same current trends that our students do.
This Blog site is an opportunity to post information, have an opinion, comment on things of interest, and really it is a way to collaborate on various topics through the internet. So for our first blog topic, I would love to hear about a fun summer experince from this past vacation. Remember that everyone can read this, so please be respectful to all readers when blogging on this page. To read all the blogs, click on the title link. To add a blog click on post a comment and follow the directions. Good luck and have fun!
My summer vacation was a family trip to Yellowstone National Park. We loaded up 3 kids and tons of gear and headed out. Our 10 hour road trip lasted a good 14 hours. With a 3 month old baby, we had plenty of stops and breaks that truly extended our drive. Once we were there, it made it all worth it. Yellowstone is an enormous and beautiful place. We were fortunate enough to see bears, elk, bison, bald eagles, and of course tons of other people. We spent some time in the town of West Yellowstone. This little town has so much character. Huckleberry is a poplular item and you can find, syrup, jam, and taffy all made from Huckleberry. In addition, when you go out for ice cream, the serving sizes are so large that all 5 of us were full off of one cone. Yellowstone was a fun trip for us and I would recommend this place to anyone.
This Blog site is an opportunity to post information, have an opinion, comment on things of interest, and really it is a way to collaborate on various topics through the internet. So for our first blog topic, I would love to hear about a fun summer experince from this past vacation. Remember that everyone can read this, so please be respectful to all readers when blogging on this page. To read all the blogs, click on the title link. To add a blog click on post a comment and follow the directions. Good luck and have fun!
My summer vacation was a family trip to Yellowstone National Park. We loaded up 3 kids and tons of gear and headed out. Our 10 hour road trip lasted a good 14 hours. With a 3 month old baby, we had plenty of stops and breaks that truly extended our drive. Once we were there, it made it all worth it. Yellowstone is an enormous and beautiful place. We were fortunate enough to see bears, elk, bison, bald eagles, and of course tons of other people. We spent some time in the town of West Yellowstone. This little town has so much character. Huckleberry is a poplular item and you can find, syrup, jam, and taffy all made from Huckleberry. In addition, when you go out for ice cream, the serving sizes are so large that all 5 of us were full off of one cone. Yellowstone was a fun trip for us and I would recommend this place to anyone.
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