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Celebrating Generations: A Recap of Grandparent Appreciation Day at ACS

There were lots of smiles and hugs as our students from preschool to high school welcomed their grandparents to our campus on Wednesday, November 22, for our annual Grandparent Appreciation Day.

Over 500 grandparents attended the event and were able to visit with students and attend chapel, featuring performances from our Kindergarten Classes, 5th Grade Worship Team, and PK4 Classes.

ACS Grandparents William and Brenda Maurer delivered the chapel’s special message. Grandparents to seven ACS students, the Maurers thanked ACS for coming alongside their commitment to raising their grandchildren in the Christian faith. Brenda Maurer, also an ACS Lunchroom volunteer, encouraged everyone to volunteer and witness what she herself observed – how teachers, staff, and other volunteers pour into the lives of the students at ACS on a daily basis.

Thank you, grandparents, for joining us at the event and for the vital role you play in shaping the lives of our students.

Nov. 19 Grandparents Appreciation Day Postponed to Spring 2022

To protect the health and safety of our ACS grandparents, the school administration has decided to postpone the Grandparents Appreciation Day event scheduled for Friday, November 19 to the spring of 2022.  ACS grandparents and school families will be informed of the new date, once it is determined.

Each fall, ACS students look forward to honoring their grandparents and welcoming them to a special Grandparents Day Chapel on the ACS campus. Last year, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Grandparents Day was not held as an in-person event. Unfortunately, a year later, the COVID-19 virus is still having a significant impact.

“We are all disappointed that we cannot be together on November 19, but we look forward to welcoming our grandparents to ACS for Grandparents Day next spring,” said Chief School Administrator Karen Oblen. An email announcing the postponement of the event was sent to parents, faculty, and staff on October 29.

Students Show Their Love, Appreciation for Grandparents at Virtual Chapels on November 25

Students from kindergarten to high school sent heart-felt messages of love and appreciation to their grandparents at special chapels on November 25 as grandparents watched online, unable to attend this popular annual school event in person due to required health and safety protocols related to the coronavirus.

Elementary Principal Gail Alford and Upper School Principal Meg McHale opened the two chapel programs with prayer and thanked the grandparents for their love and for being involved in the lives of their grandchildren.  Mrs. McHale noted that the Bible speaks of the important relationship between grandparents and grandchildren, quoting from Proverbs 17:6, which says: “Children’s children are a crown to the aged, and parents are the pride of their children.”

A musical program followed, with performances by the kindergarten classes and the Middle School Worship Team. Students in the Middle School sign language class signed to the fitting Josh Groban song “You Raise Me Up” as a collage of photos of ACS grandparents appeared behind them on a video screen.

The featured speaker was Carlo Lenzi, grandfather to 7th grader Gianna Flynn and 6th grader Mackenzie Flynn, and father of ACS Business Administrator Kelly Flynn. Mr. Lenzi traveled from his home state of New York to give an uplifting message to the students about how special they are in God’s eyes and in the eyes of their grandparents.  Mr. Lenzi’s career has been in restaurant and event management and he is the senior sales director at American Golf in Brooklyn.

“What’s important in life is not the amount of likes you have on Facebook,” Mr. Lenzi said. “It’s important to know who you are — that you are a child of God and you have special gifts and a calling on your life.” Lenzi also encouraged the students to appreciate their grandparents and the sacrifices that many of them made to create a better life for their children and grandchildren.   “Right now, life is difficult with wearing masks and being sequestered and many of you are separated from your grandparents and loved ones, but we’ll get through this and we’ll be back together again soon.”

Mr. Lenzi also had fun with the students showing off a variety of popular toys, games, and candy that he and other grandparents enjoyed when they were children back in the 1970s, like slinkies, silly putty, and the hula hoop. He even tried taking a short ride on a skateboard. High school senior Sydney Pearson closed the chapels in prayer.

CLICK HERE to watch the YouTube video of the Grandparents Day program.

CLICK HERE to view a photo gallery of the Grandparents Day chapel.

Students Create Special Gifts, Letters for their Grandparents Ahead of Virtual Grandparents’ Appreciation Chapels

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:

 

Grandparents Appreciation Chapels to Air on YouTube — Wednesday, Nov. 25

ACS students will be celebrating the important role that grandparents play in their lives at two Grandparents Appreciation Virtual Chapels on Wednesday, November 25. Due to COVID-19 restrictions, we are unable to invite grandparents to join us for this special day, but the chapels will be livestreamed on the ACS YouTube Channel and recorded for later viewing. The Middle School/High School Chapel will begin at 8:50 a.m. and the Elementary Chapel will begin at 9:40 a.m.

“We hope that the grandparents who are part of our school family will be able to watch the chapels online and see the special presentations that our students have prepared for them,” said Chief School Administrator Karen Oblen. “Our students always look forward to Grandparents Day each year, and we are disappointed that we cannot celebrate with our grandparents in person this year, but we want them to know how much we love and appreciate them.”

The chapel programs will include musical presentations and Bible readings from students from preschool to high school and a special message from one of our ACS grandparents.  Oblen said students are also preparing special mementos for their grandparents that will be mailed to them in November.

Please click on the links below to view the Virtual Chapels on YouTube:

8:50 a.m. Middle School/High School Chapel — http://bit.ly/ACSGrandparentsDay

9:40 a.m. Elementary Chapel — http://bit.ly/ACSGrandparentsDay2020

 

 

 

 

Grandparents Day is Tomorrow! November 22

We are all set for our Grandparents Day!  Tomorrow’s celebration will begin with a coffee social for grandparents at 8:00 a.m. in the gym, followed by an all-school chapel at 9:00 a.m., where students from preschool through high school will participate in praising God through musical presentations and Bible readings. Grandparents will then have the opportunity to spend time with their grandchildren in their classrooms from 11:00 a.m. -12:30 p.m.

Grandparents are also invited to attend the following events tomorrow, November 22:

10:00 AM – 2:00 PM
SCHOLASTIC BOOK FAIR (LIBRARY)

10:00 AM – 2:00 PM
CHRISTMAS TRAIN DISPLAY
BY SHORELINE MODEL RAILROAD CLUB (ANNEX BLDG. #2)

10:00 AM – 1:00 PM
TRUTH THAT ROCKS CHRISTIAN BOOK STORE (FOYER)

FRIDAY, 7:00 PM &
SATURDAY, 2:00 PM
ANNIE JR. MUSICAL (ACS GYM)
TICKETS AVAILABLE AT THE FRONT DESK

We hope to see all of our grandparents at ACS on November 22.

Grandparents Day – November 22

We love our grandparents and ACS students will show that love on Friday, November 22nd as part of Grandparents Day.

This special annual celebration will begin with a coffee social for grandparents at 8:00 a.m. in the gym, followed by an all-school chapel at 9:00 a.m., where students from preschool through high school will participate in praising God through musical presentations and Bible readings. Grandparents will then have the opportunity to spend time with their grandchildren in their classrooms from 11:00 a.m. -12:30 p.m.

We hope to see all of our grandparents at ACS on November 22.

Move It Mondays

Elementary students had great start this week with the first session of Move It Monday!  Mrs. Jessica Martin directed all the students in a fun and engaging 20-minute fitness workout exercise designed to condition the body and get their minds ready for school.

Mrs. Gail Alford, Elementary Principal and Director of Early Education, was excited to bring back this fun activity.  “Every year before standardized testing we would always have a short session in the morning to get moving and wake up the brain. Since we changed the format of our testing we no longer had a set time to do this fun activity. After meeting with Mrs. Martin we decided that the first Monday of every month would be designated as a time to all get together and begin our day with movement.”

Students wore their “Be Transformed” class t-shirts with either jeans or ACS PE uniform bottoms for the activity.