How fantastic is this? Melissa's teacher has arranged for Marines to volunteer in the classroom weekly. It is such a great program. The kids get to have a "hero" in the class who comes to school to play at recess, read with them, and help with assignments in the class. One of the Marines has been deployed to Iraq (with Flat Stanley) and the kids get to e-mail Matthew and also they get to video conference with him. How great is this?
Anyway, this past week has been Red Ribbon week at school and Mrs. Budde managed to get about 15 Marines to come in and do boot camp with the entire school. It was such a blast to watch the kids take direction from these guys! They did exercises and then broke off into groups to discuss good character; how to be respectful, trustworthy, responsible, etc. Here's a couple pictures and a great video of Melissa at boot camp!
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I see it was also silly hat day! That video of Melissa is great!!
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