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JUDY DURR
Yosemite High students join a third grader from Coarsegold Elementary
at the special tea party to celebrate Women’s History Month. The tea
party was held in the YHS library. Pictured are (left to right) Elaine
Talanoa, Michael Wallis, Nathan McLachlin and Jessie Moore.
“Flat Stanleys” helped bring Yosemite High School seniors and Coarsegold
Elem-entary School third graders together for a year as pen pals.
Flat Stanley was a laminated man the third graders made and sent to
a YHS senior in Deborah Brown’s Inter-national Baccalaureate Psych-ology
II class.
The seniors took Flat Stanley with them everywhere and had pictures
taken, then they wrote the third graders, as if the seniors were Stanley,
telling them where they had gone and what they had done.
Later, the seniors and third graders exchanged other letters and small
gifts, becoming pen pals for the year.
They finally got to meet each other in person April 1 when there was
a Tea Party at the YHS library in celebration of Women’s History Month.
Each student had been assigned a woman in history. They were required
to do research about the woman’s life and accomplishments and they
had to find two quotations from the woman.
At the tea party, they read their quotes.
Cookies, muffins and tea were served at the party and then, later,
the high school students treated the third graders to lunch in the
YHS cafeteria.
“It was a great feeling to see how important we were to the kids and
the joy we gave them that day,” commented YHS senior Vanessa Fierstadt.
This was the third year the high school and elementary school have
participated in this project.
Some members of the Board of Trustees from the two schools also attended
as did some of the administrators from the schools.
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