{"id":9249,"date":"2018-12-13T15:36:58","date_gmt":"2018-12-13T19:36:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=9249"},"modified":"2018-12-13T15:36:58","modified_gmt":"2018-12-13T19:36:58","slug":"holiday-gift-exchange-a-fun-time-at-wmes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=9249","title":{"rendered":"Holiday Gift Exchange a fun time at WMES"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"StoryBody\" class=\"rtEditor\" title=\"(double-click to edit)\" data-role=\"none\">\n<p><strong>WAVERLEY:<\/strong> Students at Waverley Memorial School had the opportunity to pick out the perfect gift for their family members on Dec. 13.<\/p>\n<p>Teacher Dana Johnson is the brains behind the yearly event, which first started 14 years ago when she began teaching at the school.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI did it in my own classroom that first year,\u201d said Johnson.<\/p>\n<p>The following year it expanded to all the building Johnson\u2019s classroom was in at the former WM LC Skerry school on Rocky Lake Drive.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt ballooned from there and since then it has been a school-wide event,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>On this day, students in Grade Primary were out getting gifts they thought would be well received for their family members. One young boy picked out a Barbie doll for his brother, who is a few years older then him. That is sure to create a good Christmas memory for that family on Christmas morning.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson said the Holiday Gift Exchange is definitely her favourite event at WMES.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s so fun watching the children pick out the perfect gift for their family,\u201d she said. \u201cThey get so excited.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can only imagine the surprises and laughs that are had on Christmas morning.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WAVERLEY: Students at Waverley Memorial School had the opportunity to pick out the perfect gift for their family members on Dec. 13. Teacher Dana Johnson is the brains behind the yearly event, which first started 14 years ago when she began teaching at the school. \u201cI did it in my own classroom that first year,\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9250,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,12],"tags":[153,154,16,155],"class_list":["post-9249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-featured","tag-holiday-gift-exchange","tag-students","tag-waverley","tag-wmes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}