Our afterschool class decided to have a NO TV day. The following are just a few of the responses of what the students and their families did:
Iris – played games with my family.
Jocelyn – played “Steal the Bacon” with my sister.
Lucas – read books with my mom.
David – I played with my brother and built a castle.
Noah – I played with my cars and my puppy.
Carolyne – I helped mommy bake cookies and we played together.
James – I drew letters and wrote my numbers.
Taylor – I went make believe shopping with my mom and dad.
Lauryn – I played and read with my family and cousins.As you can tell, everyone had a great time. Try a day with NO TV. You may really enjoy it!
Bake Sale – Fifth grade broke the record with the most successful bake sale in the history of ECS! This helped them raise money for their Spruce Lake trip in June. Fifth grade explored and delighted in God’s creation while at Spruce Lake. They also were challenged by participating in a 30 foot power swing, found frogs in the pond and did the wall climb.
March – Bowling. In honor of African American History, combined with Women’s History, 5th grade went bowling at Harlem Lanes, which is owned by two African American women.
February – Focus on the Family – Underground Railroad. Who said children need television, MP3 players, DS, I-pods. Fifth grade proved this theory wrong as they were engrossed in listening to the struggle to freedom of the Ress family, an enslaved family. The cassette provided an educational, fascinating study which originated from Focus on the Family.
In Social Studies, we have learned some interesting facts about Brazil, China, and Japan. The differences between America and other countries are the most fun to learn about. For Science we have been doing some hands on experiments. Our most favorite science topic has been watching our ladybugs grow in Lady Bug Land.
Math! Math! and more Math! Well, Math has been a challenge for the students and teachers. Our new Math curriculum has given us a new way of exploring numbers. Through games and partner work, we have investigated this subject.
We all had a nice time in our trip to Green meadows Farm. We learned about Native American Indians and birds of prey and enjoyed watching other animals at the farm.
We plan to end our year with making a class fruit salad and vegetable salad and also share our favorite game from home at our year end party.
Well 3C, we did it! Go have fun and enjoy your summer. You deserve it. Love Mrs. Calma
It has been with great pleasure to be with the Third grade. Each child has a different gift and talent that they possess which made our group so much fun. One thing that they do have in common is that their hearts are tremendous. The love and care that they show each other when something goes wrong bears witness to all that we can witness the Kingdom of Heaven through the eyes of our little ones. Even in the midst of enjoying each other, 3C has been busy practicing our writing skills while creating and sharing interesting stories about their favorite animals, describing their most enjoyed meals and what exciting and fun things they would do if they were invisible.
Fifth grade experienced an amazing get-a-way when they traveled to Spruce lake on their annual fifth grade retreat. The retreat was an exciting event that brought the whole class closer together and they got to know each other in a much more personal way.
This year the reading lab has experienced many fun activities. The fifth grade students presented a play in the fellowship hall and all of the elementary school students were invited. Several hands-on experiments were experienced with the Daybook for the Second grade, such as acting out our reader stories. Third grade enjoyed their favorite activities in their workstation times. Fourth grade acquired many new vocabulary words. All in all, the year was a fun filled adventure for each grade.
Ms. Aviles
Fifth grade read a variety of different books throughout this year. They liked fiction, and non fiction, they also enjoyed the Guinness Book of Records to the point that I had to split them up in groups and each group would have the book for 10-15 minutes each. As a class we read the book “Yellow Star,” which is a true story of a person who survived the holocaust as a child in the Lodz ghetto in Poland. It was great to see some of the responses to this toughing book. We also read, “Rules” which is about a fifth grade girl who has an autistic brother. This was a story that truly touched us all and gave us an insight into this topic. It also gave the opportunity to have great discussions. Overll, it was a great year, full of great reading.
Fourth Grade was able to take two books out every week, but they enjoyed reading so much that they always wanted to take out more than that. It was a blessing to see how they enjoyed to read especially since most started reading the Left Behind kids series, which is about the tribulation times as told in the Bible. One student in particular impressed me, because she read more than thirty of the books in this series in just a month. We read parts of the first book in the series together, and it was great to hear their responses.