Learning about Earth
We are so excited to start the year together! Some of us are buddies from last year, and there are some new friends that we are enjoying getting to know and love. Our year starts with a look at our Solar System. We even took a Field Trip to the Moon at the Planetarium. For Social Studies we came back down to Earth to learn about how the shape of our world has really shaped our world. It’s amazing to see all of the things God has created for us to learn about, discover, and explore.
Miss DiGiovanni
Honor Roll
Congratulations to Alexis Versoza for earning 2nd Honors at Xavier High School. In order to receive 2nd Honors you must earn an 85 or above in all of your classes. Alexis graduated from Evangel Middle School in 2010. Way to go Alexis!!
Each month elementary students have a “Spirit Day” where we focus on a theme, read books, and dress up for that day’s theme. September was “flash forward” day when students dressed like their grandparents or how they thought they might look in 70 years. October was “friends” day and they dressed up like twins or triplets. November was a fun time for elementary students as we celebrated Thanksgiving our spirit day was combined with the Harvest Fair and they dressed up like Cowboys, Indians, and Farmers. All of Elementary got together in November to participate in our annual Harvest Fair complete with crafts, games, obstacle course, and face painting! Instead of participating in Operation Christmas Child this year, we focused on collecting donations for Hurricane Sandy victims. We are so proud of our students for stepping up and having a heart of ministry! Each class had their own Thanksgiving meals in their classes and invited their parents to come and enjoy some great food and company.
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Spirit week has been a blast this year. Each day students dressed up in a new theme to earn points for their class. On Monday, students came dressed like their friends for “twin day.” Some friends came in groups of four and five all dressed alike. The most memorable twin outfit was a group of our senior girls that dressed in pink hello kitty pajamas. Tuesday was filled with more fun as students went all out for “career day.” They were dressed like nurses, doctors, fashion designers, military and the list goes on and on. The most well thought out outfit was a student who came dressed like her favorite teacher. She had such great detail in her costume, it was comical. Wacky Wednesday brought out some interesting characters as students came in all forms of mix-matched outfits. Teachers also had fun with this one. Our traditional “spirit day” Thursday had so much excitement during the pep rally. For the first time in Evangel history, we had a drum cadence set up during the pep rally by three of our students who played and got the crowd pumped up during our varsity vs. staff/alumni basketball game. It was a great game and the week ended in a great “time” as students came decked out in various decades. The students came dressed up in 50’s, 60’s, 70’s, 80’s and 90’s. Mr. Hernandez was the most talked about outfit as he came dressed in his leather jacket and 50’s style hairdo.
Other than dressing up during the week, students also competed in games during the week to earn points for their class. Some of the games included, root beer chug-a-lug, tug-a-war, candy relay, cracker whistle relay and many more. The students really went out this year and the most talked about game since the start of games two years ago is the egg toss. With eggs flying through the air, it’s always amazing to see the one team who never breaks the egg. It came down to our seniors and sophomores this year, but the seniors pulled it out. Spirit week has been a blast this year and both our JV and Varsity boys basketball teams came out with two victories this week as we kick off our fall and winter sports season.
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The high school feast was filled with so many different types of food. It was great and the students loved it. Even before the feast started, the cooking elective worked hard to help get all the dishes set up. The students of course, ate a lot of food and then they played games, heard from our student government, and competed in contests. They had a great time competing with each other but it seemed the best part of the day was dessert time. What is a feast without dessert? There was so much dessert on the table, they could have each had an entire plate full. Thankfully, they shared with their teachers. The feast was very memorable and a favorite time of year here at ECS.
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In honor of all our fellow teddy bears we have invited them to visit our classroom for our Teddy Bear Celebration.
We made flags for our special teddy bears so we can participate in the teddy bear parade. Each child also introduced their bear to the class.
We also played with our teddy bears during center time. The end of our day entailed a song that says “Teddy bear, teddy bear turn around,
teddy bear, teddy bear touch the ground, teddy bear tie your shoe Teddy bear I love you.”
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Evangel Christian School has done an amazing job of working together in the days following Sandy’s aftermath. There have been numerous clothing, food and supply donations brought in as well as monetary giving. God has blessed our students to be able to hand out these donations first hand. Our 10th, 11th and 12th grade students had the privilege of purchasing food through the numerous donations to cook for people in the lower east side of Manhattan who have been without power and are not able to purchase meats at this time because the main grocery store in the neighborhood has been so badly damaged. They also were able to hand out all the clothes and canned food items that were brought in. As soon as the tables were set up outside with all the clothes, blankets and supplies, people came from all the surrounding blocks and were thankful for all the blessings they received. The students had the opportunity through three different days to feed around 1000 people in the neighborhood. Our students worked so hard and many came back saying how the day of serving impacted them.
Evangel was also able to go to Coney Island Gospel Assembly to minister to those without power and water who are devastated. We were able to clean 300 bags of mud out of their basement. We were able to serve the food we made to nearly 500 volunteers. We were able to disinfect their entire church so they can now conduct services.
We were overwhelmed with the generosity from our school family. Our parents and partners have gone “above and beyond” to make these outreaches happen. We continue to pray for those that have experienced loss. We are so happy that we are able to help and minister to those in need!
Evangel parents, staff and students also bought gifts for Hurricane Sandy Victims that were given out on December 23rd.