To Speak Or Not To Speak
On April 30, 2010, Samantha Byrne (8th), Angelie Cesario (8th), Jerry Meng (7th), and Kristina Papacostas (8th) represented Evangel Christian School at the annual Association of Christian Schools International Junior High Speech Meet. These four students worked hard to memorize works from the Dramatic Reading, Dramatic Poetry, or Humorous Reading categories. There were two rounds with different judges the students had to recite their pieces to, using only their voice and emotion to convey the author’s thoughts. Each of our students brought home a rating of “Good” and was awarded with a ribbon and certificates and the awards ceremony. We are so proud of our Speech Meet Team and look forward to continuing to build it up and enter more categories in the future!
The Holocaust
Part of our curriculum is learning about the Nazi’s and what happened to the Jews during the Holocaust.In learning about the Holocaust, we watched a documentary on a survivor of the Holocaust. This was a real eye opener for my students. It caused them to experience true empathy for the Jewish nation and realize how blessed we are to live in America!
College Prep
The Seniors are splitting their time between computer class and their senior seminar, which is preparing them for college. Since time is short and the Seniors are busy folks, we’ve assigned some independent work projects due on June 4. They have chosen all sorts of things to work on and are really enjoying the projects. Some are making videos, while others are dissecting computers. Many students are learning office software, and one group is making an online comic for which they are making their own website!
Mr. Boyd
College Prep
The Juniors are splitting their time between computer class and their junior seminar, which is preparing them for college. Since time is short and the Juniors are busy folks, we’ve assigned some independent work projects due on June 4. They have chosen all sorts of things to work on and are really enjoying the projects. Some are making videos, while others are dissecting computers. Many students are learning office software, and one group is making an online comic for which they are making their own website!
Mr. Boyd
Office Masters
We are working on two basic projects right now. We have begun working through the Learning Office 2007 textbook, which is a very well designed book that will teach our kids how to skillfully use office software and prepare them for the future. We are also working on improving our keyboarding skills, which is going quite well. Some students have improved their typing rate by as many as 25 points in just the last three weeks!
Mr. Boyd
Young Illustrators
We have begun using recipes4success.com regularly. Our first set of activities was a series of tutorials in Twist, the kid friendly version of Adobe Illustrator. The kids have loved using it and many of them have had their incredible work posted here. In the lab, we are also developing our keyboarding skills and learning about other software, such as Powerpoint and the rest of the Microsoft office suite.
Mr. Boyd
Beginning Typing – no wait – Keyboarding
The students in elementary have begun a focused unit studying the history and basics of keyboarding. We have taken a speed test and many of the students have some natural ability. The students are exploring Microsoft Word and love drawing pictures for each other in Pixie, our basic illustration software. Jump start is a great addition to your home software collection. The students love playing it and they learn about many different subjects from playing it.
Mr. Boyd
We have a voice
If I had a super power what would it be? What would I do to help the world? 5E is writing about this topic and is going to publish a book. Children are the future and in reading some of the essays students took a stand about, pollution, war, and poverty. As strongly stated by a student, children are people too and our voice counts. We can make a difference in this world. We can make it a better place. I agree.
Mrs. Emestica
The Hydrological Cycle
Here we go, as we learned a little song and dance that would help us remember the three states of water. The hydrological cycle condensation, evaporation, precipitation OH! In this lesson the students had to observe different states of water as well as make other observations of what was in it. This helped students be more aware of their scientific evaluations. OH!
Mrs. Emestica
Do you know Aunt Sally?
PEMDAS, please excuse my dear aunt sally. We are now moving on to Algebra. 5E learned this simple acronym to help them remember the order of operations. P is for parenthesis, e is for exponents, m is for multiplication, d is for division and s is for subtraction. This helped 5E as they ventured into solving math equations. They learned it so well that we can now say we don’t need Aunt Sally helping us anymore.
Mrs. Emestica