Step Up Your Faith
January 3rd- January 7th
“Step up You Faith,” the theme for the week, encouraged students to go a step further in their walk with God. Middle School and High School students were challenged with speakers each day to take their faith to the next level. Our Elementary students looked at a different bible stories each day as well as completed crafts to encourage them to “step up their faith.” Our memory verse for the week was Luke 17:5-6
Our Hero
Who is your hero? This was the theme of the high school production. Students did a tremendous job of illustrating through song, dance, drama, music videos, spoken word, flags and worship who their hero is, Jesus Christ. They also took this theme a step further by looking at themselves and the important role they have of sharing the gospel to others by being the light of the world in the midst of darkness. These students showed what it was to be a hero to those that don’t know Christ. They displayed a lit cross to the song “Go Light Your World,” signifying the importance of who Christ is in their lives. Our Hero, Jesus Christ, is the true reason for the season.
See “Galleries” for some awesome pics!
Take Spanish out of the classroom
Journey with us as our Spanish vocabulary increases to greater heights. I encourage you, if possible, to continue to speak Spanish with your child(ren), as this will enable learning all throughout.
Mrs. J-P
Telecommunications
This New Year, we begin learning vocabulary of various types of telecommunications; knowledge essential in today’s technological world. Students will learn names for parts of a computer, telephone, and more, as well as learn how to conjugate words in the imperfect past tense perfectly.
Mrs. J-P
December has flown by!
This month we have learned how to ask for the menu to order meats, seafood, vegetables, and much more from vocabulary concerning food. Students created skits and practiced on how to ask for a menu, food, and even ask check please? in a restaurant. We shall continue learning how to conjugate verbs using the past preterit tense.
Mrs. J-P
Lets Talk About God
In ESL we have been focusing on improving our speaking skills and because the textbook doesn’t always offer the most interesting or relevant topics, we came up with our own topic for the month of December. Remembering the true meaning of Christmas, students wrote questions they had about who God is or anything about Christianity and we picked one question in the beginning of each class. Students came up with great questions such as: Why did God allow evil to exist? Why didn’t he get rid of it all? Or I want to know how to be a real Christian, not just study in a Christian school. A lot of our thoughts and answers pointed towards Jesus and it was a great way to celebrate Christmas even through a speaking activity.
Miss Park
Tenebrios
In 9th grade lab, each student was provided with a live tenebrio, also known as a mealworm. Mealworms live for approximately one month. In nature, mealworms feed on cereal plants and stored grains. Students put obstacles, food and water near the tenebrio and observed its movements. Students also combined their tenebrios into one petri dish and recorded the movement seen. Because of the size of these worms it was important to use a magnifying glass as they took notes.
Miss Farrell
Cell Lab
What is the difference between a plant cell and an animal cell? Why can animal cells burst when they are put in distilled water and plant cells do not? These differences have to do with the structure of these two types of cells. Not only was each student able to identify this in a lab diagram, but they were given plant cells to observe under the microscope, as well as prepared slides of human blood, muscle and bone.
Miss Farrell
Boxes of Love
During Fall Spirit Week, November15-19, MS and HS students participated in a canned food drive as part of their class competitions. Students were excited at the opportunity to win points for their class while helping needy families. In all, we collected 130 cans and were able to help feed 30 families for the holidays. We are extremely happy with the results and very proud of our students for focusing on the value of giving.
Let’s Go Shopping
9thgrade- The students are reviewing verbs and nouns in Spanish. They are also learning about purchasing things in Spanish and how much fun it is.
Ms. Purdee