Middle School 6th graders will be working on Valentines Day cards and 7th graders will be working on “Love Is” paintings. Eighth grade is working on paper mache vases and picture frames that will be painted in the traditional Valentines colors. Students will be reminded that the greatest act of love took place on the cross.
Ms. Arnau
Middle school has been learning a lot in computer lab in the last few weeks. We just recently completed our curriculum of Microsoft Word 2007. We learned all the new features and options of the new Microsoft program. We have started to learn how to use Google as a search engine on the Internet. We learned how to narrow our searches through keywords and then identify correct information in Google. Google has a lot of great features and we are having lots of fun learning about them all.
Mr. Miller
Every page we read in The Silver Chair takes us on an adventure with Jill, Eustace and Puddleglum. You never know where you are going to end up in Narnia or whether you will be the giant’s supper. C.S. Lewis keeps things interesting in all his books.
Mrs. Bienemann
The students finished reading C.S. Lewis’ The Silver Chair from his The Chronicles of Narnia series. We are reviewing this text as well as the past book we read in the first quarter in preparation for our mid-year final.
Mrs. Candelier
The students had a great time working on their entries for the Association of Christian School International (ACSI) Creative Writing Festival. The students of 8C put their best effort into creating short stories, essays, and poems. Nyaisa Anderson’s sweet poem entitled “You Said” was awesome as was Jamie Santana’s poem on eternity. It was hard selecting pieces to enter into the next level of competition and I congratulate those who were selected! Please check out Room 302’s bulletin board to see more great entries. Aside from this nice “creative” break, the students are busy preparing for their mid-year finals. Prepositions, anyone…?
Mrs. Candelier
In class, we have had discussions on what it really means to be a Christian and during an emotional Friday chapel, students of 8C shared personal testimonies of how the Lord has worked and is working in their life. I am blessed that we are able to have deep and meaningful discussions in class where the students are understanding how to draw nearer to the Lord.
Mrs. Candelier
The students spent time in January learning about Timothy and how to survive a lack of confidence. Timothy was a trustworthy young disciple who overcame his timidity to become a powerful witness for the Kingdom of God. The students learned that confidence does not come from knowing the right people, attaining a certain position or having a lot of possessions. Your personal relationship to God and your understanding of what He has done for you determine the strength of your confidence.
Mrs. Candelier
The eighth graders are finishing out the second quarter with a study of earthquakes. They have had quite the entertaining stories and questions about this topic to make time fly in the class. However, as much as our class passes us by quickly, the hard-working eighth graders make sure to keep up on their end of completing homework and studying for their quizzes/tests. I am proud of these accomplished students and look forward to the rest of the school year with them!
Miss Lawrence
Happy New Year!
We look forward to a new year of hope – hope in the Lord and assurance that God has a perfect plan for each student.
January is an exciting time with new goals set for a new year and yet a difficult month with mid terms on the way, homework to stay on top of and the Academic Fair coming. In Resource Room we will be checking our goals and finding strategies with which we can realistically meet those goals. Now is the time for students, parents and teachers to truly work together as a team to help students set good goals and begin to achieve them. In I Corinthians 12: 24-27 the Bible says, “But God has combined the members of the body and has given greater honor to the parts that lacked it, so that there should be no division in the body, but that its parts should have equal concern for each other. If one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if one part is honored, every part rejoices with it. Now you are the body of Christ, and each one of you is a part of it.”
Mrs. Kemp
Students have been studying immigration of the late 19th century and early 20th century in America. Students learned how an immigrant’s life was no different from the lives of people now a-days. The struggle to find work and assimilate into the American culture is still a struggle faced by minorities and immigrants today.
Mr. Sanchez