Cultural Explosion!
We enjoyed a week of cultural exposure. We saw different costumes and traditional dress, tasted exotic foods from far away lands and learned about traditions. We also had new students place pins in our world map located on the first floor as people enter our building. This map represents all the countries our students come from – over 73 countries!
See “Galleries” for pictures
Fitness Testing
Students are finally finished with the Fitness Test. They did push-ups, sit-ups, the flex-arm hang (to see how many seconds they could hold themselves), and the 10 minute run. Now we are starting to work on bumping and setting a volley ball.
A Race To The Top!
We had an exciting week of campaigning. From singing in the cafe, to passing out candy, to amazing speeches; our student body is an incredible group of students to work with. They all worked so hard and presented a great campaign. We look forward to our elected candidates getting to work on student body issues. Congratulations to all who ran and through student government there will be many great ideas implemented. In a close race, this years’ president and vice president are Peter Rezkalla and Josaiah Bonifas, our secretary is Becky Wong and our treasurer is Angie Arroyo. We are looking forward to a great year!
New Testatement Survey
We are studying the teaching, parable, and miracles of Jesus Christ – the Son of Man and the Son of God. 12th grade has re-enacted the parable, written their own modern day parables, and attempted to break the standing long-jump record! We continue to seek a deeper appreciation of the King who came to meet God’s perfect standard on our behalf – and to suffer the penalty for our sin in our place.
Mr. Roberts
Graphs
Students are studying graphs. They are learning how to shift the graphs up and down, and right and left.
Motion
Physics students have explored the equations of motion. They have used these equations to calculate distance and velocity. In lab, they verified their calculations by experimentation.
The Big Apple of His Eye
Welcome back! We are excited to have many new international students this year. We talked about all the different cities we came from and learned expressions to describe a place. We also worked on putting together a bulletin board with words to describe NYC. The title of our board is The Big Apple of His Eye, and we have words such as busy, friendly, fantastic, and multicultural! We’re doing a lot of speaking practice, and I look forward to seeing improvement throughout the year!
Miss Park
Let’s Get Organized
Resource Room is in full swing as we continue to teach the students writing and study management skills helpful toward success. The students are learning how to use Edline printouts of their classes to evaluate how they are performing in each class. They also use it to track late homework that either needs to be turned in or finished. International week provided a wonderful platform from which to use graphic organizers. Both middle school and high school had so much to offer that we could make three-circle Venn diagrams. These diagrams were at first intimidating, but, working together, the students learned how easy it was to use them to compare and contrast different countries that were studied. In the end, we learned that we are united in Christ. Our hallway bulletin board will soon read not only, Be confident… in Christ but also Be unified… in Christ.
Bill of Rights
The 12th Grade Government class is learning about the Bill of Rights and how the Supreme Court has interpreted it over the last 200 years. The Supreme Court has issued judgments that impact our daily life and other judgments which are completely unheralded and unknown. They have issued popular judgments and radically unpopular judgments. My job is not to initially pre-judge the ruling – my job is to get the students to first understand it. Only then can we critique it through the lens of a Biblical worldview.
What do you like?
We began our first few weeks learning about the possible reasons why people behave the way the they do and think the way they think. We are now working on how to research some interesting things about our peers. Psychologists follow the same research methods as other scientists. Because of this, we are establishing this project using the psychological methods of research. Students are using the survey method to find out what students like and why.