We are having a lot of fun in computer lab so far this year. The elementary students come in once a week and have started to learn how to use a computer. The students are excited when they come in and get to play their games based on their grade level. The games they play incorporate every subject they are learning in class, and turns it into a lot of fun. I look forward to having their excited and smiling faces enter the lab each week.
Mr. Miller
Students have been making macaroni and cheese art paintings this week. They are quite colorful and very unusual. They are enjoying experimenting with color and paint.
The students have been borrowing one book of their choosing and the second has been a biography. We have talked about biographies. They have been writing about what they are reading, about who they read and what they learned about that person. They have also been experimenting with writing their own biographies. We have had a great time in the library.
Mrs. Ruiz
I am very happy to be back for another great year at Evangel. This year we have a brand new Bible curriculum called Building Life Castles. During this week’s lessons we learned about the life of Christ, from His birth on Earth to the beginning of His ministry. The children learned that just as He grew in stature and wisdom so can they as they continue to draw closer to Him. We enjoyed numerous worship songs, were blessed with our prayers for each other, and played exciting Bible drill games to help us memorize scripture about true Godly love.
September is one of my favorite months of the year. Some obvious reasons why, might be because I get to see my returning students, I get to meet new ones, and I get to set the tone for the rest of the year. These are among the main reasons I anticipate the start of the school year, but there is yet another reason I like September. And that reason is the “Fitness Test.” The Fitness Test is a New York State Test that measures student’s muscular strength and endurance. For one week, students have “Fitness Test Training,” where they are given a card with specific workouts and are expected to complete that card by the end of the class. For many students this card is an immovable mountain. They see what I expect of them and say, “Mr. Wong are you serious? Mr. Wong this is a joke right? Mr. Wong you’re a funny guy?” The truth is that I do have high expectations of my students and I take pride in pushing them further then they believed they could go. The conversations for the next couple of days are as follows, “I’m so sore, how about you? I cannot believe I actually finished ever thing on that card. Mr. Wong I have not worked out like that in months.” Little do they know that that’s music to my ears. It is not until the following week that they begin to realize the fruits of their labor. They understand why they were pushed so hard and how easy the Fitness Test actually is.
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.
We held class elections to coincide with our Social Studies lessons on government. We elected a class president and vice-president, nominated a supreme court that tried a case, and had our congress pass a bill. Overall it’s been a great year!
In May, we watched the extraordinary metamorphosis of larvae into butterflies in our classroom. We were so glad that they all made it!!! Then in June, we released our butterflies into their natural habitat during our end of the year picnic at Astoria Park, where we had relay races and played water balloon games.
This has been an exciting and of the year for 4th grade. In February, we took a field trip to the Moon at the Museum of Natural History’s Planetarium. Then in March, we viewed the life of Harriet Tumban, a runaway slave turned hero, when we went to see “Freedom Train” an inspiring play