Kindergarten students wore hats of all shapes and sizes to school this Friday. During class, students studied poems, math problems, and did a variety of learning activities – all about聽hats! Although wearing hats is a lot of fun, it also serves as a learning device, helping students connect their various activities and lessons from the […]
PreK students learned about the letter “S” this week, and as a way of celebrating, students wore crazy socks to school!
4th grade Spanish students took turns role playing a conversation between a student from North America and 聽student from Mexico who had just arrived in the United States. Each student played a part in the conversation (fully in Spanish), and even took turns being John (from North America) and Diego (from Mexico). What a great […]
First graders spent a full week studying apples. We read lots of books about apples and loved hearing about The Seasons of Arnold鈥檚 Apple Tree. 聽We watched a time lapse video聽 show an apple tree through each season and even went on a virtual tour through an apple packaging factory. Stop by and see our […]
Inspired by the story, Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing, by Judy Blume, fourth grade聽students recently held a juice contest to determine which flavor would be the favorite of 91猫先生 third through fifth graders.聽 Students worked in teams to create聽 a new juice flavor. Each team made posters聽and presented commercials for their juice flavor聽concoctions […]
First Grade students used BrainPopJr. to learn more about words with short vowels. They worked to collect words with short vowel sounds as they watched and paused a BrainPop video. As the words were mentioned they wrote them on the”handy” graphic organizer. Teacher Assistant Kim Tollett assisted students in lab.
The third graders in Mrs. Bickerstaff鈥檚 Bunch are learning map skills. So they created a map of their own of the imaginary country Chaundoon. Groups worked to create the shape and size of the country, chose physical geography for the country, created symbols for the geography, made a map legend that explains the symbols, created […]
During chapel this Wednesday, Mrs. Gibson’s 5th grade class taught the final part of the Guard Charge to our lower school students! To illustrate how to “Follow the King,” students performed 3 stories from scripture: The Parable of the Good Samaritan, The Parable of the Unforgiving Servant, and The Story of Jesus Calling His Disciples. […]
This week in second grade, students studied Johnny Appleseed. Students learned about the legend of John Chapman also known as Johnny Appleseed by reading multiple stories by different authors. Although each story was a little different, the main idea of Johnny Appleseed spreading apples across our country during the pioneer days was pointed out by […]
Kindergarten students learned the Chicken Dance in music class this week. As you can tell, our students LOVED the dance, and broke out in giggles when Mr. Pierce showed them the motions. If you have a facebook, you can view the video here:聽https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=940177906009330&set=vb.126194957407633&type=2&theater
Kevin Pierce, our Lower School music teacher taught the boys and girls what is means to serve others. The Bible tells us in Peter 4:10:聽 “as each has received a gift, use it to serve one another as good stewards of God’s varied grace”.聽 We can serve others by loving, helping and praying for each […]
How many Skittles filled Gannon’s jar? First grade counted 932 Skittles! Whew, that’s a lot of counting for a first grader! Mrs. Dahn says, “Thanks for filling our estimation jar, Gannon!”