Spring Is Here
What says Spring more then a baby Chick? Students made greeting cards in the shape of an egg and when the egg hatched (or is opened) inside was a feathery chick.
Pencil holders don’t have to be boring or expensive. Students brought in empty food cans and transformed them into Chick Pencil holders by covering the can in construction paper, giving it a head, eyes, beak, feathers and feet.
Miss Arnau
Symmetrical Painting
Symmetry is all around us. Most plants are symmetrical, shapes and even people! If you split a flower down the center both sides are identical, being that spring was just around the corner students took a sheet of paper painted a flower on one side then folded the paper over and rubbed it onto the un-used side making an identical flower.
Miss Arnau
Pet Rocks
Pet rocks are great for those of us who don’t have time to feed and walk our pets. Students chose a rock and painted it into a pet of their choice, some made ladybugs, spiders, dragonflies etc.
Miss Arnau
Future Writers
It was great to see how our second graders improved in their writing skills. Our daily journal entries inspired our children to utilize their creative abilities when constructing their own story ideas. They were required to describe their favorite stories from our reading class. In our Math 2010 project they wrote out their own story problems utilizing presents and parcels. Our applied mathematics allowed the second graders a chance to use their creative, analytical, and artistic abilities.
Mrs. Boodram
Pixie Fun
In upper elementary computer class, we have been learning the home row keys and have started reaching out for other keys. These students are on their way to being great typists. We have also had fun using Pixie, which is a fun drawing program (like Microsoft Paint, but better). They are loving improving their math and reading skills on Jumpstart as well.
Mr. Boyd
I know my home row
In lower elementary computer class, we have been learning the basics of the keyboard and how to type. We have learned the home-row keys including A, S, D, F, J, K, L, and ;. I have been very impressed with how well the students are picking up on the basics. They are loving improving their math and reading skills on Jumpstart as well.
Mr. Boyd
Congratulations
In December, 30 of our students entered writing pieces into the Association of Christian Schools International’s annual Creative Writing Festival. Two of those students, Alahna Dones (11th) and Angelie Cesario (8th), received marks of Superior (the highest possible) in the district level which qualified their poems to be sent to the regional level for adjudication.
We are proud to announce that at the regional level, Alahna Dones was awarded a Superior ribbon and Angelie Cesario was awarded with a mark of Excellent. Alahna’s spoken word poem entitled Freedom in Christ will be published in a book ACSI distributes to school’s across the country, while Angelie’s poem Tell, will be published online.
Congratulations to both Alahna and Angelie! Evangel is very proud of you!
Elissa Candelier
Flag Day
June 14th is Flag Day! There’s so much we can learn about America just from studying the flag. Did you know that the 13 stripes stand for the 13 colonies and the 50 stars stand for the 50 states? The American Flag we see now is not always how it looked. We’re reading about how and why the flag has changed and what it all means.
Regina DiGiovanni
Reading Room
We’re looking closely at the characters we see in our books. Understanding our characters can help us understand the story. There are some characters who remind us of people we know, or even ourselves! We’ve also read about characters that are very different from anyone we know. Reading a few books that have the same characters, like Junie B. Jones, is fun!
Miss DiGiovanni
Conclusions
What happens when you take what you already knew and combine it with what you’re reading to figure out what you don’t know yet? BOOM! You just drew a conclusion! We know so much about the world around us, and we can use our knowledge to understand anything we read.
Miss DiGiovanni