Perspective drawings
Anyone can draw a picture but how about drawing a picture that has depth and looks as if you can step right into it? Sixth and Seventh grade students learned the techniques that come with what are called Perspective Drawings, they had to include a horizon (the place where sky and land/water meet) and a vanishing point (the place where as the scenery looks as if it disappears because it gets smaller and smaller). Students had their choice of scenery, some chose cityscapes others chose beaches and parks, but all had the two main techniques – Horizon & Vanishing Point. Once they carefully measured and drew their pictures they colored them using color pencils and markers.
Miss Arnau
Photo Frames
Students worked on painting paper mache photo frames for that special someone. That special someone can be a good friend, a teacher, parents or other relatives. Students used various Valentines Day themed colors (red, pink, purple & white) to paint their picture frames, some students also decorated theirs with beads and glitter. This craft is a great gift that is both decorative and functional, it can be placed on a bookshelf, desk or dresser.
Miss Arnau
NHS and NJHS
On Tuesday, June 8th, we conducted our national Honor Society and National Junior Honor Society Ceremony. This ceremony is beautiful as students carry during the processional and recessional.WE are very proud to have inducted 63 new members to NHS and 13 new members to NJHS. We welcomed back 68 NHS members from last year and 53 NJHS members from last year. Both Societies worked very hard on their service project, raising money through bake sales and other means. Students were delighted to take what they had raised to the different institutions. What a blessing to be able to bless others. Please see Galleries for some great pictures of NHS and NJHS traveling to give what they had raised.
Here is a little history about the National Honor Society and the criteria for selection:
When the National Honor Society was founded in 1921, the hope was to create an organization that would recognize and encourage high school students’ academic achievement while developing other characteristics essential to citizens in a democracy. The National Junior Honor Society was founded shortly thereafter-in 1929 to recognize middle school students in the same areas. Now, over 80 years later, these Societies have become prestigious organizations with outstanding faculty members and students from the school community. Their reputation for excellence is the result of years of commitment on the part of everyone involved. Membership is thus both an honor and a commitment.
The NHS and NJHS recognize outstanding high school and middle school students who demonstrate excellence in the areas of scholarship, leadership, service, and character. The National Association of Secondary School Principals proudly sponsors these Societies.
For the selection of Members to the NHS and NJHS Chapters:
* Members must maintain a cumulative overall 85% average or higher for two consecutive semesters with 80% as the lowest grade in all subjects.
* Members must be in good behavioral standing.
* Members must demonstrate outstanding performance in areas of scholarship, service, leadership and character.
* The selection of each Member shall be reviewed and approved by the this School’s Administration and Faculty each school year.
Please click on the links below to view our NHS and NJHS Program.
Please go to “Galleries” for some wonderful piictures of this beautiful ceremony.
Pixie and Twist
Middle School students in computer class have been using Recipes4success.com to develop their skills in using our art software, including Pixie and Twist, which are fun drawing programs. They created an initial project without any instruction, went through the tutorials and created new pictures as they learned. Finally, they were given choices for a new project to show how much they had learned. The results were amazing!
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
NJHS Visits the New York Founding
For the 2009-2010 academic year, Evangel’s National Junior Honor Society (NJHS) decided to raise money for the NY Founding as their service project. Our NJHS treasurer, Keoana Arnett (an eighth grader), is adopted and her mother spoke with the NJHS advisor of the various organization she knew about.
As stated on their website, “Founded in 1869 as a home for abandoned children, The New York Foundling has continuously and conscientiously expanded its scope of programs to meet the changing needs of the communities we serve. The Foundling’s diverse network of programs works interactively to provide care for families with multiple social, economic, medical, and psychological needs. We protect children from abuse and neglect; we help teen mothers and other overstressed parents to meet the challenges of parenthood; we help developmentally disabled people achieve maximum independence; we provide educationally-enriched child care and preschool; and we meet a variety of community needs in neighborhoods struggling with poverty, drugs, and violence.”
Through bake sales held throughout the year, in which students baked or brought in yummy treats themselves, NJHS raised $300.00 which we presented to Mr. Alan Schatz, a program director at the New York Foundling, on May 27, 2010. Mr. Schatz provided a tour of the Crisis Nursery to our NJHS students. The Crisis Nursery is a facility that accepts children at any hour or any day if the parent is unable to care for them at that time. Mr. Schatz was so grateful and sent a beautiful letter of appreciation to our students in recognition of their endeavors. Pictures of our day can be see in our school’s website gallery.
NJHS looks forward to the 2010-2011 year in which we can raise both awareness and money for another great cause.
Please see “Galleries” for some cool pics!
New York Founding
For the 2009-2010 academic year, Evangel’s National Junior Honor Society (NJHS) decided to raise money for the NY Founding as their service project. Our NJHS treasurer, Keoana Arnett (an eighth grader), is adopted and her mother spoke with the NJHS advisor of the various organizations she knew about.
As stated on their website, Founded in 1869 as a home for abandoned children, The New York Foundling has continuously and conscientiously expanded its scope of programs to meet the changing needs of the communities we serve. The Foundling’s diverse network of programs works interactively to provide care for families with multiple social, economic, medical, and psychological needs. We protect children from abuse and neglect; we help teen mothers and other overstressed parents to meet the challenges of parenthood; we help developmentally disabled people achieve maximum independence; we provide educationally-enriched child care and preschool; and we meet a variety of community needs in neighborhoods struggling with poverty, drugs, and violence.
Through bake sales held throughout the year, in which students baked or brought in yummy treats themselves, NJHS raised $300.00, which we presented to Mr. Alan Schatz, a program director at the New York Foundling, on May 27, 2010. Mr. Schatz provided a tour of the Crisis Nursery to our NJHS students. The Crisis Nursery is a facility that accepts children at any hour or any day if the parent is unable to care for them at that time. Mr. Schatz was so grateful and sent a beautiful letter of appreciation to our students in recognition of their endeavors. Pictures of our day can be see in our school’s website gallery.
NJHS looks forward to the 2010-2011 year in which we can raise both awareness and money for another great cause.
Mrs. Candelier