New Vocabulary
The beginning of school has been quite exciting in ESL with over fifty students from all over the world acclimating to a Christ centered school. The Middle School and High school students have been increasing their conversational English through group activities related to their workbooks. Spiritual Emphasis Week became an impetus for many students to learn for the first time words many of us take for granted such as sanctuary, redemption, praise, glory and audacity. It also became a special time to learn how to question and write reflectively. Our latest projects were for International Week; students made presentations with either posters or power points describing where they grew up, comparing and contrasting their hometown with New York City, and predicting where they will be in ten years. The best part was listening to the students ask questions in English about each other’s hometown. It was very enriching for all and enlightening to me.
Mrs. Kemp
NYC Exit Project
Students will be working on the New York City Exit Project in Social Studies for the month of November. Students will investigate a topic within the Progressive Movement in depth. This will allow students to experience immersion in a social studies topic, as well as question, investigate, and present a well-researched project.
Miss Campanali
Reading Strategies
Students continue to learn reading strategies to help digest informational text. Inquiry-based learning has been introduced as well as a number of hands-on projects, simulations, and games. Our lessons are cross-curriculuar, incorporating English, Science, Art, Math, and more!
Miss Campanali
Project Citizen
All Middle School Social Studies classes have begun to work on a civics education program called Project Citizen. An inquiry-based program, Project Citizen helps to develop the knowledge and skills needed to become active citizens in order to work to make their communities better.
Miss Campanali
Middle Ages
10th grade started the school year studying ancient Greece. They loved to read myths and had the chance to write some of their own. When we studied Rome, we focused on how Christianity changed from a persecuted faith to state religion and how that effected the Roman empire as well as the early church. Now we are in the depths of the Middle Ages. Students have created their own coat of arms, built models of castles and cathedrals, written songs as troubadours, and even drew their own version of a tapestry. By focusing on the culture of the time, history of 1000 years ago is able to become more real.
Miss Schutz
Thankfulness
November is a great time to think about all of the things we are thankful for. God has blessed us in so many ways, and it is important to take time each day to tell Him how much we appreciate it. We’ve been reading many books about being thankful.
Miss DiGiovanni
Forgiveness
October is all about forgiveness. Through Bible verses, books, and class discussions we are learning about why forgiveness is so important. Forgiveness is deciding that someone who had wronged you doesn’t have to pay. We can all think of a time when we were forgiven, so we also must forgive others.
Miss DiGiovanni
Four by Four
his month in Math we are studying about everything using base-four measurement. We are making predictions about our calendar markers in Number Corner that regroup by fours from units, to strips, to mats. We are learning about liquid measurement using food coloring and visually seeing how 4 cups make a quart, and 4 quarts make a gallon. Finally, we are using base-four notation the way mathematicians do while we find minimal collections for the hands-on base-four pieces we use. It is amazing to see how many times we count by fours in our everyday life without even thinking about it!
Miss Laforest
Food Chain
4th grade is studying about plant and animal life. We not only learned how plants grow, we also grew our own bean sprouts and measured which type of bean grows the fastest. FYI: Lima beans won! We also learned about producers (plants), consumers (animals), and decomposers (bacteria and fungi). Working together in groups we created our own elaborate food chain. It is awesome to see how God makes everything work and interact together perfectly; and how even the most insignicant creatures can have an important purpose in His design.
Miss Laforest
Dream Car
The students have been writing in Spanish about their dream car and where they want to go. They are doing a great job developing Spanish skills. I am excited for November where I will be introducing the theme of Public Servant Workers, and how we communicate our needs with them.
Mrs. Iglio