Students are required to take the New York State comprehensive English Regents this year. We have currently completed our first assessment to find out what level students are at, needless to say students have shown that are ready to take on the challenge of this 6 hour test that awaits then in June.
Miss. Quiros
Greetings again from the Middle School and High School Resource Room!
We just finished “Back-to-School Night” for both middle and high school and I had a great time meeting both new and old parents. It looks like Resource is on it’s way to working at facilitating team effort between teacher, parent and student. The parents I met are active in their child’s education and will be a great mix of help, accountability and encouragement to them. The time with them was both informative and important for student success. Our concentration with the students this month is on self-management and productivity in class. Note taking skills are revisited and expounded on to improve student notes as a tool for studying for tests. We have a lot to look forward to as God’s plan for each student unfolds.
Mrs. Kemp
Students have been creating and acting out crime scenes. They are also learning the terminology of forensic science such as: criminalistics, pathology, anthropology, odontology, engineering and entomology.
Mrs. Christian
Students have been learning how make math practical by learning how manage a bank account by, making out deposit slips, writing checks, and balancing a checkbook. They are also now working on making a three month budget plan.
Mrs. Christian
In September we started the school year with a great excitement as to what we would learn this year.! The first few weeks of class, we focused on reviewing what the students had learned the prior year to get a better handle on the upcoming lessons. The textbook we are using is called “Buen Viaje” and we have already covered the chapters dealing with, school supplies, friends and family, sports, travel, vacationing and health. There is also a focus on both vocabulary and verb structure. The class is doing well!
Mrs. Pascualini
Fitness Workouts and Circuit Training
September has been a month dedicated to fitness workouts. Students began their second week of P.E. with circuit training, where they went through various stations such as pushups, sit ups, hurdles, cones, wall squats, etc. Students not only learned the proper way to exercise, but they began to realize why exercising is so important in their daily lives.
-Mr. Wong
Fall greetings from the Middle School and High School Resource Room! This year we are blessed to have Mrs. Cathy Hampton join our team. She has wonderfully stepped in to help as Evangel’s Resource Center has grown. She is a special asset in assisting the international students in all classes.
As the year started students came with a great sense of expectation, positive attitudes and high goals. In Resource we are setting the groundwork for success first through prayer and second by covering the Building Blocks to School success. This includes but isn’t limited to study skills (SQ3R), reading skills (finding the main idea), Learning Styles Assessments (visual, tactile, auditory), how to take good notes and how to read the textbooks effectively.
It is a blessing to have students from all over the world at Evangel. Our international students represent interesting and varied countries of the world such as China, Indonesia, Korea, Peru, Philippines, Switzerland, Venezuela, and Viet Nam, and many more. Locating their home countries on our classroom map, gave all of the students a chance to discuss the distance to the United States. Becoming familiar with American Idioms has been challenging but it helps with both their conversation and written English skill building. As they discuss their assignments, we might say that some of the answers “are on the tip of your tongue” as a way to practice the use of idioms in conversation. There are many new things to teach and learn for everyone.
Mrs. Kemp
The Juniors are working hard in Math. Our goal is the Math B Regents in June. We have been working very hard at graphing functions with and without a calculator.
Mrs. Wong
The juniors were introduced to chemistry by making a class Periodic Table. Each student researched one element and displayed that information along with visuals for the class to enjoy. In lab the students observed signs of a chemical reaction. They mixed different solutions and recorded the changes that they saw: a color change, the formation of a precipitate; or bubbles.
Mrs. Wong
With a lot of material to cover as we prepare for the US History and Government Regents test in June, the 11th graders have already reviewed the explorers, the discovery of America, and colonial life, and are now beginning a unit on The Road to the Revolutionary War. While we studied colonial society, we had one student pose as a member of the wealthy “gentry” class–so don’t be surprised if you see a picture floating around of one of the students wearing a gray wig!
Mrs. Lapp