Grandparents & Special Guest Day

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.