My name is Lysette Ramos. This is my first year working at Evangel Christian School. I am the new cooking elective teacher. Cooking is not just a form of art, but also involves socialization, math, creativity, hands-on learning and health awareness. My goal is to help those students who enjoy cooking learn to use it as a way of demonstrating God’s love. Some of the things we have cooked so far are crumb cake, lemon chicken pasta, turkey bacon wraps, and quick and easy salads.
Sneakers play a major role in pre teen and teenage fashion today; unfortunately the cost to be in style is high. I wanted to give students the opportunity to move away from the highly circulated name brands and create an affordable and fashionable pair of sneakers. Each student will leave this class with a personalized one of a kind pair of sneakers, and when someone says “Those sneakers are hot, who are they by?” They can proudly say “me.”
Ms. Arnou
Evangel will be publishing a newspaper for the middle school and the high school this year! Students have been brainstorming on titles and slogans and have come up with some pretty interesting options. I can’t wait to see what they will settle on! We hope to have our first issue out by the end of October! Please pick up a copy and see what’s going on in Evangel!
I had the awesome responsibility and pleasure of teaching Elementary and Middle School music this past term and was so blessed!In Middle School students created a project which asked them to analyze critically 4 pieces of music (2 classical and 2 contemporary), describing the music in detail: composer, key, style, etc. Additionally, they were asked to compose their own piece of music. We have some really outstanding composers in our midst. All in all, we had a blast and I really believe God was blessed.
Dance Elective is so much fun. The students get a chance to really work out and it’s a learning experience. Many students came and found out that they had gifts that they didn’t know about before. The students learned how to express their emotions in a different style of dance and they learned how to worship in Spirit and in Truth
The Middle School Dance Elective did their Christmas Program to the song “I Praise You In the Sanctuary” and “Lord You’re Holy”. I had a wonderful time with them. They were very respectful and listened well and really worked well together.
This year has been very exciting in Art. Students have learned a lot this year from Art History to the culture of others’ art work. Here are a few highlights of the year:
· Sixth grade made a patchwork quilt where each square represented themselves as individuals. They then put it together on the bulletin board as their class project.
· Seventh grade learned about Tessellations. It was very hard for them but once they got it they did an awesome job.
· Eighth grade: 8C created beautiful landscape paintings using watercolor techniques and applied this to their “Hnadscape” pictures. 8R created sculptures out of saran-wrap and packaging tape. The tape held the sculptures together and to give it a solid look.
During the spring semester of 2008, Miss Stahler and her middle school class began to learn how to take a good photograph. First, we studied a slide show to find the most common mistakes photographers make (i.e. over and under exposure, blurry action pictures, etc.) Second, we learned 6 main categories to think about when taking a picture. They are:
7. Composition – use of lines, focus, zoon, rule of two-thirds.
8. Light – light source, temperature, flash, time of day.
9. Color – use of color, light, emotion, black and white.
10. Landscape – composition, framing, zoom, perspective, foreground, proportions.
11. People – light, lens, portrait, children, flash.
12. Being ready – motor drive, vantage point, shutter lag, preparation.
Each week the students would bring in their digital camera and we would learn a new part of the outline and then practice taking a picture using the topic of the day. Here are some pictures from our end of the year slide show. Enjoy.
This year the reading lab has experienced many fun activities. . Middle School created a media collage and presented many pieces of poetry and short stories to the whole class. Many videos were presented to the class to introduce a topic. . Sixth grade acquired many skills for reading that was highlighted in the daybook. Seventh grade explored the origins of the Harlem Renaissance through the writings of Langston Hughes. And last but not least, eighth grade shared memorable memories through heartfelt reflections of short stories and poems all provided through the Daybook. All in all, the year was a fun filled adventure for each grade.