{"id":6287,"date":"2020-01-02T14:01:30","date_gmt":"2020-01-02T19:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/floridanewsline.com\/Clone2\/?p=6287"},"modified":"2020-01-02T14:01:30","modified_gmt":"2020-01-02T19:01:30","slug":"palm-valley-academy-students-celebrate-the-grand-people-in-their-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/floridanewsline.com\/Clone2\/ponte-vedra\/palm-valley-academy-students-celebrate-the-grand-people-in-their-lives\/","title":{"rendered":"Palm Valley Academy students celebrate the Grand People in their lives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">By Sara Bolden<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">mail@floridanewsline.com<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">On Nov. 22, students in Diane Buckner\u2019s third grade class at Palm Valley Academy put on a very special experience for a \u201cGrand\u201d group of people at Buckner\u2019s annual \u201cGrandperson Celebration.\u201d The celebration, now in its 13th year, is aimed at honoring special people in the children\u2019s lives \u2014 from grandparents, to extended family, to neighbors, to parents.<!--more--><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Prior to the celebration, each student learned how to properly request and conduct an interview, including how to select appropriate interview questions, how to record answers, and how to exhibit proper interview behavior (such as active listening and making eye contact). After conducting their interviews, the students prepared a report on their grandperson, including information from the grandperson\u2019s childhood (such as their favorite subject growing up and what kind of grades they received in third grade). The reports were then displayed in a colorful mural outside the classroom that the honored guests could explore prior to the celebration.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">At the start of the celebration, the children, dressed up for the occasion, escorted the grandpersons into the classroom and presented their honored guest with a beautiful fall-colored mum. The children and guests then rotated through various activities, including a reading station, keepsake craft station, and a photography station. After the stations, the honored guests returned to their assigned seats where the children served them a breakfast of tea, croissants, and fruit. During breakfast the children put on a wonderful show consisting of poetry and songs. Afterwards, the grandpersons each received a surprise raffle prize to take home (such as candles, blankets, and cookies). The celebration concluded with each child individually serenading their grandperson to the song \u201cYou\u2019ll Be In My Heart.\u201d At the end of the morning there was not a dry eye in the house.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This special celebration is the brainchild of Diane Buckner, a Ponte Vedra Beach resident who has been teaching for almost 25 years, including the last 14 years in St. Johns County. Although the celebration requires a lot of work behind the scenes, Buckner \u2014 who has been recognized in the past as a Teacher of the Year \u2014 said it is all worth it in the end. Parents of children in her class agree.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Photo courtesy Sara Bolden<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Diane Buckner and her class.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sara Bolden mail@floridanewsline.com On Nov. 22, students in Diane Buckner\u2019s third grade class at Palm Valley Academy put on a very special experience for a \u201cGrand\u201d group of people at Buckner\u2019s annual \u201cGrandperson Celebration.\u201d The celebration, now in its 13th year, is aimed at honoring special people in the children\u2019s lives \u2014 from grandparents, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6288,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6287","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ponte-vedra"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.4 - 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