Mrs. Culpepper’s 2nd grade class led our Lower School in chapel this week. After praising God with our voices, these 2nd graders taught us a valuable lesson about becoming a hero. Through a series of scenarios, we saw superheroes save the day time after time, but there was one problem our heroes couldn’t solve: eternity. […]
From the desk of Sandra Fritcher, Lower School Principal: The Lower School participates in achievement testing every spring.聽 Next week, April 18-22, our students in first through fifth grades will be taking the CTP 4 achievement test.聽 This assessment will provide us with another source of information that is helpful in determining individual and group […]
Our 4th graders at Lower School started our Magnetic and Electrical Unit with 鈥淎 Cash Smoothie鈥�. Yes, you read that right; MONEY IN A BLENDER! It鈥檚 true鈥� some money is magnetic. Iron is in a dollar bill and the only logical question for science enthusiast is, 鈥淗ow can I get the iron out of that […]
Our 5th graders have been learning about聽space and constellations in preparation for their NASA trip to Houston. Instead of paying for a star as some businesses are advertising these days, the 5th graders designed a constellation and made a model on black paper by punching holes. Then students聽wrote some of the coolest papers Mrs. Brindley […]
Mrs. Ponce fourth grade class gave a wonderful presentation on Wednesday over the importance of the ‘Good Samaritan’ Story. Students gave many examples and scenarios of what you should do if someone else is in need. Teaching us to think of others before our self, they used examples ranging from the wild west to a […]
The Lower School almost had too much fun with the “Feelin’ Groovy” theme of the Scholastic Book Fair! Teachers and students dressed up as a person from the 1960’s during one of our special events. Families and students visited the book fair throughout the week and purchased great books. It was a very exciting and […]
Pre-k has been discussing measurement and using our feet to measure distances. We measured different length of tape using our feet. In other news, we had two chicks hatch from our PreK incubating project! check them out!
5th graders went to NASA this week for a field trip! Students had the opportunity to explore the facilities and learn about space travel. Students also got to “pack” for a trip to Mars, and see space shuttles and rockets while also learning about our vast universe!
91猫先生鈥檚 Lower School Third Graders went to a naturalization ceremony on Wednesday, April 6. The ceremony was held in the federal courthouse in downtown Tyler. There were 40 new citizens being honored in the ceremony. One of the new citizens was one of our own 鈥� Wentzel Bouwer whose country of origin was South […]
On Friday, April 1, 2016, the Guard Junior Scholars competed in the 2016 Private Schools International Association (PSIA) Academic District Competition. 15 schools with 500 students = 1 tough contest! 91猫先生 sent 60 4th 鈥� 6th graders to compete and they represented 91猫先生 well! Guard Junior Scholars brought home a total of 407 […]
First Graders have been working on animal research projects. Teachers and librarian collaborated on a word art project called a “wordle” or “word cloud”. Students聽 first聽 typed a list of describing words about the animal in a Word document.聽Then, they聽copied and pasted their list into a “wordle” which allows the list to be formatted in […]
our PreK classes have been learning all about plants this week, culminating in their planting of a community garden on Friday afternoon. Earlier in the week, students ate a “whole” plant from the roots (a carrot) all the way to the flower (broccoli). Then they also prepared the earth for their planting on Friday! […]