{"id":1953,"date":"2015-12-23T10:00:08","date_gmt":"2015-12-23T18:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/?p=1953"},"modified":"2016-02-25T15:39:19","modified_gmt":"2016-02-25T23:39:19","slug":"students-from-el-dorado-and-valencia-bring-holiday-cheer-to-ruby-drive-elementary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/?p=1953","title":{"rendered":"Students from El Dorado and Valencia bring holiday cheer to Ruby Drive Elementary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, Dec. 17, SERVE leadership from El Dorado and Valencia high schools and SERVE classes from Valencia visited Ruby Drive Elementary School for its first &#8220;Holiday Exchange.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>SERVE, which stands for &#8220;Social Emotional Recreation Vocation Education,&#8221; targets socially and academically at-risk students.<\/p>\n<p>The teams arrived at Ruby Drive in the morning with holiday gifts for all 82 Preppy K and kindergarten students. They also brought over a &#8220;Buddy Bench&#8221; made by SERVE\/BITA (Building Industry Technology Academy).<\/p>\n<p>Each high schooler partnered with a Ruby Drive kindergartner, and together they sang Christmas carols, read books and played together during recess. The Ruby Drive students also performed a song for their guests. Finally, the youngsters were able to open their presents.<\/p>\n<p>It was a wonderful morning filled with music, laughter and holiday cheer!<\/p>\n<p>Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/media\/set\/?set=a.1028399803869295.1073741850.557181107657836&amp;type=3\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> for our Facebook album of the &#8220;Holiday Exchange.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, Dec. 17, SERVE leadership from El Dorado and Valencia high schools and SERVE classes from Valencia visited Ruby Drive Elementary School for its&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1954,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1168,1177,15],"tags":[17,56,13],"class_list":["post-1953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-elementary-school","category-high-school","category-school-district","tag-el-dorado-high-school","tag-ruby-drive-elementary-school","tag-valencia-high-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}