Over 400 Grandparents and Treasured Friends Visit Redmond School

Oct. 28, 2011 - PRLog -- Students at The Bear Creek School invited their grandparents and treasured friends to join them on Friday, October 21 for a very special day. Grandparents were treated to a musical program of songs from Disney musicals and movies. In the choral finale, students encircled the audience with their voices and joined hands as they sang “The Circle of Life” from Disney’s The Lion King. Natalia and Oleg Romanov, from Russia, were acknowledged for having traveled the farthest to visit Bear Creek. Nancy Bagby, whose three grandchildren Henry, Shea, and Sam Humphries attend Bear Creek, travelled from Orlando, Florida because, “You can’t have a Grandparents Day without a grandparent.”

Grandparents were also invited to attend class with their grandchildren and tour Bear Creek’s Redmond Campus on Union Hill. While visiting classrooms, grandparents were treated to recitations of Bible verses, poems, and songs. In some classes, the students interviewed their grandparents about what society was like when their grandparents were growing up or shared stories they had written and illustrated. In Miss Vuletich’s grade 5 class at Bear Creek’s Valley Campus near Perrigo Park, students demonstrated origami and were excited when Jacob Heimberger’s grandmother, Jin Li Xie, who had traveled all the way from China for the event, taught her grandson to fold an origami monkey.

In Bear Creek’s Middle School and Upper School, grandparents attended class with their grandchildren, participating in lectures and discussions. Grandparents solved for x in Mr. Benson’s Algebra class, participated in a discussion about the government of Sparta during Mr. Sorensen’s Honors World History class, and raptly observed Miss Bell balance a chemical equation in AP Chemistry class.

Despite the downpour on Friday, the soggy Northwest weather did not keep grandparents from enjoying our Redmond community with their families and are looking forward to coming back to Redmond in 2013 for Bear Creek’s next Grandparents and Treasured Friends Day.

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The Bear Creek School offers a Christian, college preparatory, liberal arts education where students from preschool through grade 12 are guided to explore their unique talents and abilities.