Hearts' Stories is an inquiry-based community involvement project. Our goals through Hearts' Stories are to:
1. Celebrate diversity
2. Explore careers in our local communities
3. Experience different families and cultures
4. Provide authentic integrated writing experiences

Monday, December 6, 2010

Seslyn's Pop-Pop, Mr. Johnny Vereen

The class sitting on a bear surrounded by deer antlers.

The bear Mr. Vereen killed in Canada.

The turkey caller (that worked on calling the turkeys in our room too!)

Did Seslyn grow antlers?

Mr. Vereen teaching us about the color orange.

An antler filled group shot.

Silly faces!

Seslyn and her Pop-Pop!

I've never met a nicer hunter than Mr. Vereen.  Today we had so much fun getting to know Seslyn's Pop-Pop.  He is her mommy's daddy and he is from Conway.  He grew up in Conway and started coon hunting with his own grandfather when he was only 6 years old.  Mr. Vereen loves all kinds of hunting and fishing.  He has hunting dogs that he uses when he goes hunting (both coon and squirrel dogs).  He and Seslyn enjoy taking walks in the woods and looking for turtle shells.  Mr. Vereen has always enjoyed working on and selling cars and now that he is retired he spends most of his time enjoying the outdoors.  We all agreed that he has a great life filled with adventure.  Probably the thing we enjoyed the most about this special guest was that he brought a real bear with him that we all got to sit on and touch.  Mr. Vereen killed the bear with a bow and arrow during a trip to Canada and now he uses it as a rug.  If you have some little hunter's in your house now, you know why!

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