We LOVE to read
February is Black History Month, so we have been reading books about important people and events from the Civil Rights Movement. From leaning about Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream to recording facts and opinions about the Greensboro sit-ins, we recognize how blessed we are to be in a school where we can have friends of all sizes, shapes, and colors!
Ms. DiGiovanni
How Do You Learn?
January sure was a cold, snowy month. What a great time to curl up with a good book! Line snowflakes, we are all unique, and we each learn differently. In our reading groups we have been talking about how we learn. Do you learn best when you listen to something? When you see it? When you touch it? When we know how we learn, we can be responsible for our own success!
Ms. Di Giovanni
The Gingerbread Man
KV and KT have been listening to The Gingerbread Baby which is a retelling of the Gingerbread Man by Jan Brett. The Gingerbread Baby is a baby because the boy opened the oven too early and the Man was not ready yet, so a playful Gingerbread Baby came out. They also listened to Gingerbread Friends and to The Gingerbread Man. We have compared and contrasted the three stories. Our Kindergarteners have told me that they enjoyed The Gingerbread Man most because they wanted the Gingerbread Man to be eaten by the fox.
Literacy Day
We have enjoyed ourselves during our literacy day reading and learning about Martin Luther King. We are now getting ready for all our upcoming events in February: Valentines Day, our 100th day of school, black history month, as well as preparing projects for the academic fair in March. Join us soon to hear about our upcoming events. God bless!
Mrs. Torres
Community Helpers
Life is like a box of chocolate! This is our latest theme on our bulletin board. During the month of January we discussed community helpers. Students learned about the different jobs that people do around us. They were also given the opportunity to think about what they would like to be when they grow up. You may read their answers on our bulletin board; I had from cashiers, teachers, doctors to scientist etc… It was very exciting for them and for me.
Mrs. Torres
Helping those in need…
We are always looking for opportunities to instill in our the importance of ministering to those in need. An opportunilty arose through the contact of a parent who led us to “Project Angel Hugs.” Project Angel Hugs is a Christ-centered organization ministering to the emotional eeds of children with cancer and their families. To youth touched by cancer and their families, they offer encouragement through prayer, words, gifts, and festivities; harnessing the adundant energy from healthy youth to accomplish work generated by this project while instilling in them a pssion for volunteering.
Evangel students were able to touch a child with cancer by making home-made Valentine’s Cards that will be distributed o Valentine’s Day. We collected 170 Valentine’s cards from our students to send to Project Angel Hugs. The students really enjoyed being able to “reach out and touch someone” in need with card.
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Edible b’s and d’s
On January 11th, the kindergartners in our Early Reading intervention program reviewed the letters b & d in a unique and yummy way. Lowercase b and d were formed with donuts and strawberry twizzlers’. Students were instructed to form a b by first forming a bat with the twizzler and adding the ball to the right with the donut. Then they formed a d by first adding a drum with the donut and the twizzler formed the drum sticks to the right. The best part of this lesson was eating the edible letters. Forming letters never tasted so yummy!
Mrs. Jimenez
Step Up Your Faith
January 3rd- January 7th
“Step up You Faith,” the theme for the week, encouraged students to go a step further in their walk with God. Middle School and High School students were challenged with speakers each day to take their faith to the next level. Our Elementary students looked at a different bible stories each day as well as completed crafts to encourage them to “step up their faith.” Our memory verse for the week was Luke 17:5-6
Winter Stories
KV and KT both have enjoyed listening to stories by Jan Brett. She is a great illustrator and Author of children’s books. We read The Mitten and The Hat. Both of these winter stories were appropriate for this season and gave us a chance to talk about how we must dress appropriate for the changes in weather so we can stay healthy. They especially enjoyed The Hat which is about a little porcupine that gets a stocking stuck on his head and the rest of the animals make fun of him. We also talked about teasing and how God does not like us to do that and how He wants us to be kind to one another.
Mrs. Ruiz
Fun with Rhythms
For Kindergarten music we have been identifying sounds in the given song and focusing on fast and slow rhythms. The students are directed to clap, move and sing to the rhythm as the tempo changes within the same song.