See what we can do with Microsoft Publisher
The 9th and 10th grade classes have been using Microsoft Publisher. We have designed greeting cards, flyers, and calendars. As they discover how to use the different toolbars they are also finding their creativity in design, layout and prose. For the academic fair, which is coming up in March, we have learned how to use the reference toolbar in Microsoft Word to cite our sources in MLA format and create a bibliography page. We have also worked on paraphrasing from our sources so we avoid plagiarism.
Miss Stahler
Resource Room News
January was quite an eventful month: midterms, new students, academic fair, and more. Congratulations to our students whose study skills paid off and who were exempt from any of their midterm exams. Congratulations to those who took their midterms and did well. And congratulations to our 11th graders that passed an RCT or two!
We also welcome 4 new Chinese students and an American Student from New Jersey. We look forward to getting to know them and we’re glad they can join us in the adventure of learning through the last half of the school year.
Part of the adventure is working through all the phases of the academic fair process which helps ideas come to life. This month very interesting topics have been explored and research started. Some of the topics included skate boarding, gymnastics, basketball, terrestrial and jovian planets, the origins of chocolate, baking a cake, Puerto Rican cookies, volcanoes of Hawaii, Hawaiian culture and language, and international flight. Do you get the feeling some students are really hungry and some are ready for warmer weather? We look forward to seeing all these wonderful ideas blossom into research papers, projects, and presentation boards by March 18th.
Mrs. Kemp and Mrs. Hampton
Check Mate!
On Wednesday, January 13th, Evangel Christian School hosted a Chess Tournament in preparation for the first Association of Christian Schools International (ACSI) Chess Tournament. Schools throughout the Northeast region will come together to participate in this fun yet challenging game of strategy. Students played multiple games in the intense elimination rounds. We thank all the students who participated and are praying for the team members who will be competing on February 12th in Newton Square, PA.
How We Received Our Bible
We studied how we got our Bible. How it was handed down through the ages. The Bible is a trustworthy book that has a unique claim on our lives. We are learning to love our Bible and the Great God who is revealed in it. It is God’s love letter to us! Thank You Lord that we have Your word to read and to study!
Mr. Lopez
Photosynthesis
This month we have been studying a process which completely supports the entire earth – Photosynthesis – How plants use (light energy) sunlight and water to produce carbohydrates (food/energy) and oxygen. Energy is produced in the form of Glucose (sugar) and oxygen an important product produced by plants, an essential part of different organisms existence. Students are now very familiar with the chemical equation for photosynthesis and also have participated in different lab activities where they have had the opportunity to see photosynthesis in action. Using live evergreens we were able to trap the oxygen being released during the process. They will soon be learning the relationship between photosynthesis and cellular respiration. Mrs. Alvarado
Spanish Class
In December we dealt with a chapter called Telecommunicaciones. Students learned how to talk about computers, e-mails, the Internet, faxes and telephones. They learned the formation and usage of perfect tense verbs and how to receive and make calls in Spanish.
Mrs. Pascualini
Algebra
The 9th Grade Algebra class is working on a study of how to use linear equations in real life situations.
Mrs. Christian
Resource Room
December is such a wonderful month as everything around us remembers the birth of our Savior. This year we added Advent reflections to devotional/prayer time. Our favorite passage by Dennis Bratcher was:
“We live in a world in which bigger and better define our expectations for much of life. We have become so enamored by super size, super stars, and high definition that we tend to view life through a lens that so magnifies what we expect out of the world that we tend not to see potential in small things. But as the prophet Zechariah reminds us (Zech 4:10), we should not “despise the day of small things,” because God does some of his best work with small beginnings and impossible situations.”
The students read them and came up with their own reflections, which graced our bulletin boards. They wrote them on angel shapes and decorated their version of an angel. It is always nice to see students using their creativity especially as a way to worship.
Enrichment Class
Happy New Year’s. I pray everyone had a safe Christmas break. The group projects are starting to heat up. Most of the research has been done and now the teams are writing or typing their final papers. When your child has their work online they will be able to show you what they have been working on. The research has made way for the English side of learning. The groups are continuing to write about this new technology. The artisan is about to push their way into the project when the group starts working on their simulated web pages. This simulated web page is all about their technology. If you child’s group wins the regional judging they will get the opportunity to create a web page that may be put on the internet. Examples of winning projects can be seen at: www.dmail.exploravision.org. Click on winning entries and scroll to the age group you would like to look at and click view winning website. Time is short and the deadline is coming soon. January 25th for the paper part of the project and February 2nd for the electronic part of the projects.
God is good and His mercy endures forever.
Dustin Penland
Biology Lab
Each lab has provided our 9th grade students with exciting investigations and their own new discoveries. We have recently explored human cells, plant cells, live tenebrio worms and the internal anatomy of earthworms. Who would think we could analyze the actual cells of the human muscle, human blood and human bone? In fact that is what we did! The students experimented and discovered what happens when a cell is diluted with water and also with liquids of high concentration. From this lab, there were students who became interested and asked what I thought about them entering the medical field! There is only one answer: “Certainly, you can do it!” The earthworm dissection allowed each student to: inspect the various parts of the worm which makes up the digestive tract and pumping organs; learn how a worm knows where to go when it does not have eyes; how it breathes when it has no lungs or gills; and what our soil would be like without worms. Indeed there were students who were looking for yet another opportunity to dissect an animal, and this time a larger one! We have that coming too! Stay tuned…
Ms. Farrell