On Thursday, Connor’s class wanted to celebrate the birthday of Johnny Appleseed, so the teacher recruited parents to help.  Since I had not yet volunteered in his class and Connor often asked me about it, I decided to take some time off from work for it.  I arrived early to their class in the morning just when the kids were marching out for recess.  Connor smiled at me and we held hands briefly as I passed them.  Throughout the recess, Connor periodically looked into the classroom and waved to me.  When the class returned, Connor finally came over to give me a big hug.  Then for the next hour and a half, the teacher had the kids divide into four groups and go through four stations, making a paper hat with apples decoration, language art, science and math.  A dad and I were in charge of the math one where we had the kids guess the size and the height of an apple, and how many seeds inside their apple.  The kids were interested and relatively engaged.  After each round of our table activities, the kids always asked if they could take bites of the apples and they really enjoyed the quick snack.  It was fun to finally see all Connor’s classmates and interact with each of them.  Connor was happy that I was there, and he must have come over to hug me several times whenever there was a break.  After the morning activity, the kids were led out for lunch.  The other parents and I walked by to say final goodbye to the kids before I returned to work.  The class also had a chance to have several different apple snacks throughout the rest of the day.