Call or be called
Students are reading The Silver Chair, one of C.S. Lewis’ Narnia books. Almost immediately (in Ch. 2), we began seeing parallels and similarities between the words of Aslan and the Scriptures. One challenge to the students was to ponder the idea of calling: does God call us or do we call Him? Or is it both? Students read several verses to form their opinion.
Mrs. Foster
A Narnia Adventure
We’re currently reading one of C.S. Lewis’s Narnia books: The Magician’s Nephew. Students are discovering the unique powers of the green and yellow rings created by Uncle Andrew, and they’re also following the children, Digory and Polly, through their crazy ride through worlds.
Mrs. Foster
Old Yeller
We’ve begun reading the classic novel, Old Yeller. Just as Travis, the main character, eventually took a liking to this devoted dog, our students are falling in love with Old Yeller too. This beloved dog is taking us through a journey of humor and adventure.
Mrs. Foster
We’ve begun reading the classic novel, Old Yeller. Just as Travis, the main character, eventually took a liking to this devoted dog, our students are falling in love with Old Yeller too. This beloved dog is taking us through a journey of humor and adventure.
Mrs. Foster
Metaphores
Eighth graders made metaphors personal this month. God uses so many metaphors for Himself/His Son in the Bible (ie. Shepherd, Light, Way, Refuge, Shield, etc). Students chose one that was very meaningful to them; they drew or gathered pictures to display and wrote about how God engulfs this metaphor for them personally.
Mrs. Foster
Art and English
One of the best ways to remember tough words is to SEE it. Students chose one of their new spelling or vocabulary words and illustrated it on a 5×7 index card. They always love viewing each other’s artwork.
Mrs. Foster
Prepositions
How do you remember all those prepositions? Well, sixth grade students learned that many can be shown visually. Therefore, students drew a favorite object or animal and strategically wrote prepositions on and around the drawing to show the relationship between the preposition and its object.
Mrs. Foster
Seasons
For science our class is traveling through space and learning about our Solar System. Why do we have seasons? Well we know how the Earth is on a tilt and that it revolves around the Sun and this creates weather pattern we call the seasons.
Green Meadows Farm
We had a great trip to Green Meadows Farm. We got to milk a cow, chase chickens, pet rabbits, go into the pigpen, go on a hayride and ride on a pony. We ended our trip having a picnic lunch at the farm. Before our trip to the farm we sketched our own maps of a farm after our Social Studies Unit on Map skills!
Gingerbread Man
It happened again! Another Gingerbread Man Escaped from our oven. Someone saw him running out of our school singing You can’t catch me, I’m the Gingerbread Man. He left yummy gingerbread man cookies and frosting for us to enjoy. We are tracking his journey on our map! Next time we should bake a Gingerbread Girl instead.