Cortes Children and their Grandparents

Most of our seniors are grandparents. Some of their grand children live on Cortes Island, some of them live further away. When we see the grandparents with their grandchildren, they always shine. We asked the principles of our schools, to do a project that involved grandparents.

Linnaea School has finished the project. Each child wrote a story about a favourite time with a grandparent and there are illustrations to go with this

Other activities include a wonderful photo board of grandparents and the kids have written the names they call their grandparents and posted them beside their photos. They each have read several books on grandparents and done book reports. They wrote thank you letters to the grandparents they interviewed. All their work is compiled into Grandparent books that they took home at the end of the unit.

Each child also interviewed a grandparent. Below is the list of answers to their
question: 'What advice would you give me to help me in my life?'

Advice From Our Grandparents:

• Love your family, be honest with yourself and respect everyone
• Be happy
• Do what interests you rather than what makes money. Do what you enjoy.
• Do well in school, enjoy many friendships and don’t be afraid to follow your dreams.
• Pray every day to God to show you what to do
• Listen to your heart and choose wisely.
• Be the best you can be.
• Really love and enjoy what you are learning and learn as much as you
• Be as loving as you can.
• Enjoy being a child.
• Do not start chasing boys too soon.
• Keep loving and learning.
• Be kind to others and love the Lord with all your heart.
• Try to do as many activities as you can so you learn what you like best.
• When you make a mistake try to learn from it; try not give up when something is hard to do
• If you feel upset and take a deep breath and relax
• Look after your family.
• Remember that you have lots of people that love you
• Do what interests you rather than what makes money. Do what you enjoy.
• Remember you are a wonderful bright person. Don't worry if someone says you can't do something.
• Whatever you do, do your best – even when you don’t like what you are doing.
• Learn as much as you can and don’t be afraid of failure.
• Speak your truth with love. Be sure to tell people how you honestly feel.
• Love your family, be honest with yourself and respect everyone.
• Find a nice job that you can make lots of money with so you can buy nice clothers
• Treat people with respect and don’t be afraid to try new things
• Read lots of books
• Don’t do drugs
• Phone your grandparents more often.

On your left is a link to "Grandkids". There you will find all the drawings and write-ups they did.