RES sponsors Grandparents Day

By Staff
Melissa Cason
Today is Grandparent's Day, which is a day set aside to honor grandparents. To mark this year's Grandparent's Day, the students at Russellville Elementary invited their grandparents to visit their class Friday to celebrate the day.
All of the classes held a special reception for the grandparents. Third grade teacher LeAnn Little planned different activities for her students and their grandparents.
"We had the students and their grandparents work on paper quilt patches," Little said. "We are going to put these patches together and make a quilt with them."
Little said the students delivered their grandparents hand-made invitations for Friday's event.
"The students were very excited to make the invitations for today," Little said.
Little had each student interview his or her grandparents as an assignment for the day.
"I have a list of questions they asked, and we'll go over the different types of sentences after the grandparents leave," Little said.
She said the students have been learning about sentence structure, and the assignment will help the students recognize questions from regular sentences.
The class had refreshments with their grandparents also.
RES Principal Kristy Ezzell said this is the second year the school has held this event for the grandparents and the students and teachers seem to have enjoyed it.
"Any time we are able to have parents and grandparents at school is good because it gets them involved with their children and grandchildren," Ezzell said.
The first national Grandparent's Day was held in 1978 with the efforts of Marian McQuade. She has been recognized nationally by the United States Senate, in particular Senator Alphonse D'Amato, and President Jimmy Carter as the founder of National Grandparents Day.
McQuade made it her goal to educate the young in the community to the important contributions senior citizens have made, and to the important contributions they are willing to make by request.