FWCD Celebrates Grandparents and Grandfriends
Fort Worth Country Day will celebrate Grandparents’ and Grandfriends’ Day on Thursday, November 18 (junior kindergarten and kindergarten), and Friday, November 19 (grades 1-8). The parent preview event for kindergarten and fourth grade takes place on Wednesday, November 17. Fort Worth Country Day is excited to welcome back grandparents and grandfriends to campus!
Thursday, November 18
Junior kindergarten grandparents and grandfriends will join their students in the Junior Kindergarten Classroom for morning routine and a special slideshow from 9:30-10:30 a.m. Junior kindergarten students dismiss at 10:30 a.m.
Kindergarteners will perform The Plight of the Turkey, a Grandparents’ and Grandfriends’ Day tradition since 1997, in the FWCD Scott Theater at 10:30 a.m. That means this performance is the 25th anniversary celebration for The Plight of the Turkey! Following the performance, grandparents and grandfriends are invited to visit classrooms. Students are dismissed following the event at 11:30 a.m. (Please note junior kindergarteners and kindergarteners do not have school on Friday, November 19.)
Friday, November 19
Grandparents and grandfriends of students in grades 1-4 begin their celebration in the Fischer Dining Pavilion at 8 a.m. with coffee and pastries and a brief program before moving through a series of activities from 9-11 a.m. Fourth-grade French and Spanish classes showcase the language skills they have acquired since kindergarten in a special music and modern languages performance. The Book Fair is open in the Moncrief Library from 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. for students to bring in their grandparents and grandfriends to peruse the books for sale. Students are dismissed following the Grandparents' and Grandfriends’ Day event.
Middle School grandparents and grandfriends enjoy a brief assembly at 11 a.m. in the Mason Middle School's Amon G. Carter Foundation Commons followed by classroom tours conducted by the students they came to visit. Middle School students are dismissed following the event.
For more information, contact Jen Pendell.
