{"id":24555,"date":"2020-05-12T18:54:47","date_gmt":"2020-05-12T22:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/?p=24555"},"modified":"2020-06-18T17:23:24","modified_gmt":"2020-06-18T21:23:24","slug":"drive-by-parade-celebrates-preschool-grads-5-11-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/?p=24555","title":{"rendered":"Drive By Parade Celebrates Preschool Grads! (5\/11\/20)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">It&#8217;s the middle of May and the school year is nearing an end.\u00a0 It&#8217;s time for our Preschool (Our Father&#8217;s House) to celebrate the accomplishments of the year, especially to celebrate our Pre-K class.\u00a0 Normally, we&#8217;d have a big graduation pageent in our sanctuary, the pews would be filled with parents taking pictures, and afterwards we&#8217;d go to the park for a cook-out.\u00a0 Celebration!<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Here are a few glimpses of\u00a0 how we celebrated the class of 2019:<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 50%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-24555 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-medium'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/OFHgrad19-_IMG_2373-300x225.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/OFHgrad19-_IMG_2373-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/OFHgrad19-_IMG_2373.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/OFHgrad19-_IMG_2356-300x225.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/OFHgrad19-_IMG_2356-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/OFHgrad19-_IMG_2356.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/OFHgrad19-_IMG_2368-300x225.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/OFHgrad19-_IMG_2368-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/OFHgrad19-_IMG_2368.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/OFHgrad19-_IMG_2340-300x225.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/OFHgrad19-_IMG_2340-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/OFHgrad19-_IMG_2340.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Class of 2020<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>But the Spring of 2020 is not &#8220;normal.&#8221;\u00a0 In the throws of this Coronavirus pandemic, we have to &#8220;stay at home, &#8220;practice social distancing,&#8221; Stay safe&#8230;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>So we used some creative ways to finish the school year.\u00a0 We made learning packets and distributed them via &#8220;drive-by curbside&#8221; pickups. \u00a0 These packets weren&#8217;t simply dumped on the kids for them to work on their own;\u00a0 we used social media and held lessons remotely.\u00a0 We created private Facebook groups for each class and sent videos.\u00a0 We tried to interact with the kids as much as we could under the circumstances.\u00a0 Our teachers worked hard, our students remained engaged,\u00a0 and the learning continued.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>But one thing remained; we still couldn&#8217;t gather together and celebrate our Pre-K kids the way we normally would.\u00a0 Our building is closed.\u00a0 Crowds as big as the Our Father&#8217;s House family are not even allowed to occupy the same room.<\/p>\n<p>But this year&#8217;s class is no less deserving than previous year&#8217;s classes. It&#8217;s the end of the school year and we still want to celebrate.<\/p>\n<p>So, we found a unique way to do what we could:\u00a0 We formed a parade and drove to the neighborhoods of each of our 53 Pre-K families.\u00a0 Each child was presented with a personalized lawn sign bearing his or her name announcing their achievement. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Eileen Salmon, the Director of Our Father&#8217;s House describes the experience&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class='et-box et-shadow'>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class='et-box-content'><p><span style=\"color: #993366;\">What a great day we had!!<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6453\" style=\"width: 138px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6453\" class=\" wp-image-6453\" src=\"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Eileen-Salmon-_IMG_1765-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"128\" height=\"128\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Eileen-Salmon-_IMG_1765-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Eileen-Salmon-_IMG_1765-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Eileen-Salmon-_IMG_1765-178x178.jpg 178w, https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Eileen-Salmon-_IMG_1765-184x184.jpg 184w, https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Eileen-Salmon-_IMG_1765.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 128px) 100vw, 128px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-6453\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">OFH Director, Eileen Salmon<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\">We started at 9:00 at the church with writing messages on our car windows and ended at 3:00 in Washington Township after we delivered the last of our 53 signs to our Pre-K graduates. I had no idea that some of you travel quite a distance to come to us!! <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\">We are truly blessed.\u00a0\u00a0 We enjoyed seeing each and every one of you today. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\">Thanks for the many signs for us and expressions of your love. We miss all of you so very much!! Please display your graduation sign proudly in your yard. We are so very proud of you and your accomplishments. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\">Special shout out to TJ Ambrose who accompanied us most of the route with his lights and sirens!! <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\">THANK YOU!! What fun!!\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Families could not come to the church for the graduation, so we brought the graduation to them!<\/p>\n<p>The parents couldn&#8217;t snap pictures of their kids in the sanctuary, but they had their cameras ready when the parade came to their neighborhood.\u00a0 There were sirens, horns, and a lot of smiling faces.\u00a0 We maintained &#8220;social distancing,&#8221; but with waves and cheers, teachers, students,\u00a0 and families were able to give each other a big hug when the parade came by.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some pictures along the parade route:<\/p>\n\n\t\t<div class='et-image-slider et_sliderfx_slide et_sliderauto_true et_sliderauto_speed_4700 et_slidertype_images'>\n\t\t\t<div class='et-image-slides'>\n\t\t\t\t<div class='et-tabs-content-wrapper'>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class='et_slidecontent et-image-slide'><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/et_temp\/OfhGradParade-_IMG_0931-25221_x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"300\" \/><span class='et-image-overlay'> <\/span><\/div> \n\t\t<div class='et_slidecontent et-image-slide'><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/et_temp\/OfhGradParade-_IMG_0927-23867_x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"300\" \/><span class='et-image-overlay'> <\/span><\/div> \n\t\t<div class='et_slidecontent et-image-slide'><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/et_temp\/OfhGradParade-_IMG_0912-26799_x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"300\" \/><span class='et-image-overlay'> <\/span><\/div> \n\t\t<div class='et_slidecontent et-image-slide'><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/et_temp\/OfhGradParade-_IMG_0910-28904_x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"300\" \/><span class='et-image-overlay'> <\/span><\/div> \n\t\t<div class='et_slidecontent et-image-slide'><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/et_temp\/OfhGradParade-_IMG_0926-33724_x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"300\" \/><span class='et-image-overlay'> <\/span><\/div> \n\t\t<div class='et_slidecontent et-image-slide'><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/et_temp\/OfhGradParade-_IMG_0932-29973_x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"300\" \/><span class='et-image-overlay'> <\/span><\/div> \n\t\t<div class='et_slidecontent et-image-slide'><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/et_temp\/OfhGradParade-_IMG_0933-21372_x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"300\" \/><span class='et-image-overlay'> <\/span><\/div> \n\t\t<div class='et_slidecontent et-image-slide'><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/et_temp\/OfhGradParade-_IMG_0934-33187_x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"300\" \/><span class='et-image-overlay'> <\/span><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div> <!-- .et-image-slider -->\n\t\t\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #008000; font-size: 18pt;\">+\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 +\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 +\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 +\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 +\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 +\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 +<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For more information about the Our Father&#8217;s House Preschool, click this button:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <a href='https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/?page_id=117' class='small-button smallpurple'><span style=\"color: #000000;\">OFH<\/span><\/a> \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because of the pandemic, we were unable to hold a graduation ceremony for our preschool class of 2020.  So, we formed a parade and drove to each child&#8217;s neighborhood!  With sirens waling and horns honking, we congratulated our Pre-K grads by giving them a personalized lawn sign.  Congratulations class of 2020!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24563,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,23,55,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-evrpt","category-kids","category-mission-aroundtowns","category-ofh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24555"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24577,"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24555\/revisions\/24577"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}