We love our grandparents! ACS students from preschool to high school worked on a special project this month creating gifts or writing personal letters to their grandparents to show how much they are loved and appreciated.
“Each November, our students eagerly look forward to Grandparents’ Day when we welcome grandparents to attend a special chapel here at school and spend time with their grandchildren in our classrooms,” said Chief School Administrator Karen Oblen. “However, due to the coronavirus pandemic and health and safety protocols, this year we are unable to invite outside guests into our school building, so we decided to do something different to honor our grandparents.”
Oblen said the school mailed hundreds of craft-style gifts and letters created by the students to their grandparents during the week of November 16, and invited grandparents to watch the school’s virtual Grandparents’ Appreciation Chapels on Wednesday, November 25. Pictured below with their gifts are two ACS grandparents, from left: Mrs. Lee Ann Kyle, grandmother of Peter Shockey; and Mrs. Elaine Goldberg, grandmother of Isabella, Gabriella, and Theodora Santos and Haley Whedbee.
The two virtual Grandparents’ Appreciation Chapels — a Middle School/High School Chapel and an Elementary Chapel — will be live-streamed on Atlantic Christian School’s YouTube channel. ACS grandparent Carlo Lenzi will be the featured speaker at both chapels.
“We are disappointed that our grandparents cannot join us in person at our chapels this year, but we hope they can join us virtually online,” Oblen said. “Our students will be offering special presentations to show how much they love and value the important role that grandparents play in their lives.” The chapels are also being recorded so they can be watched at a later time.
Below are the YouTube links for our Grandparents Appreciation Chapels:
- Middle School/High School Chapel, starting 8:50 a.m.: http://bit.ly/ACSGrandparentsDay
- Elementary Chapel, starting 9:40 a.m.: http://bit.ly/ACSGrandparentsDay2020
