Are you taller than an Emperor Penguin?聽 Mrs. Dahn’s first graders found out that聽these penguins聽can reach 48 inches tall!聽 Some of our first graders were in fact taller than an emperor penguin, but most were not! After comparing聽heights, students also tried to be penguins.聽 We learned that God made them better suited for the cold, […]
We were blessed with a visit and a message from Viki Skinner, Children鈥檚 Minister from Lanes Chapel UMC, during Lower School chapel this week! 聽In addition to our regular praise and worship, we sang the 鈥淏ooks of the Bible鈥� by memory.聽 After an amazing demonstration of how Jesus can make our cloudy hearts pure, Mrs. […]
Third grade Spanish students made bilingual Valentine cards for KVNE鈥檚 Valentines for Kids & Seniors Campaign.聽 The Valentines will be given to children and seniors in local hospitals and nursing homes/assisted living centers for Valentine’s Day. What a great way for our students to not only practice their Spanish, but give back to our community! […]
91猫先生 second grader and beginning cellist, Kai Glenn (pictured), along with several other 91猫先生 orchestra students, attended the East Texas Symphony Orchestra 鈥淒ueling Fiddles鈥� concert聽on Saturday, January 17th at the UT Tyler Cowan Center. 聽91猫先生 orchestra students got to hear ETSO Concertmaster, Mark Miller solo on violin classics and聽witness the fiddling and […]
4th graders visited the Ross Perot Museum of Nature and Science on Thursday this week. Students had the opportunity to explore the mysteries of our world and interact with inventions. Our students particularly聽liked the dinosaur and the engineering sections where they got to see fossils and build robots and test a variety of machines. It […]
It was Hibernation Day at the Lower School today! Kindergarten students made presentations to their classes about all kinds of animals, especially ones that hibernate! Students shared with one another why hibernation is so important and how it helps animals survive in the wild! Plus, who doesn’t want to wear PJ’s to school?
We celebrated the 100th day of school in all sorts of ways this Thursday!聽Students created, presented, and enjoyed a variety of projects and activities related to the number 100. Students listed 100 things they love about school, made capes with 100 items, named 100 words in Spanish, and even imagined what they might be like […]
Mrs. Brashier’s second grade class led chapel for the Lower School on Wednesday. Students performed a play about Zacchaeus, teaching us that God’s love for us is greater than our own insecurities. What is more, God’s love extends to us despite our unworthiness of receiving it! What great lessons for all of us to learn […]
Mrs. Dahn鈥檚 class celebrated being 100 days smarter by making books, doing 100 exercises, taking a 100 second spelling challenge and lots of math activities.聽Each student brought in 100 items that聽were grouped, measured and weighed.聽 Atley Jones鈥檚 empty water balloon weighed the least, Camden Wilson鈥檚 Jolly Ranchers weighed the most, and Gretchen Ault鈥檚 crayons were […]
How Many Hundreds of Books Can be Found in the Lower School Library? Students and several adults including Travis Albea had fairly close estimates but no one guessed the correct answer of聽 67 hundreds, or to be exact, 6,732 books. The top聽four winners of the contest with the closest answers were Skylar Anthony, Mr.Travis Albea, […]
To celebrate the 100th day of school, second grade created mystery bottles filled with 100 mysterious items. Each student came up with 3 clues about their mystery bottle. After hiding the bottle in a bag, students brought their project to school and participated in the Case of the Mystery 100th Day Bottle. Students presented their […]
Mrs. Bell’s PreK class had a teddy bear picnic on Friday to celebrate the end of the week! We had bear claws, berries, fish (gold fish) and bugs (raisins/cranberries). We also learned through an experiment about different bears and how polar bears have blubber to keep them warm, even in ice water.