In response to Christ’s awesome gift to us through His death and resurrection, we worked in teams to create murals.
ALIVE!
No Words
Happiness
Every day of teaching is full of beautiful moments because of these wondrous children.
Detective Day 2017
Young Readers’ Day 2017: Growth Mindset
Snow Dance!
Three Weeks of Wild Reading!
Inspired by our reading companions in Costa Rica, here are our celebration windows after the first three weeks of reading. What a discussion we had today after our personal reading time. Readers compared series they love, shared books they recommend, and offered opinions about our read alouds so far.
Our MVCS Makerspace
What is a Makerspace? A makerspace is a place where students can gather to create, invent, tinker, explore and discover using a variety of tools and materials.
Why have a Makerspace? You can read online about many, many benefits of including a makerspace in your school. A few important reasons include teaching basic problem solving, building perseverance, engaging minds, encouraging questions, providing connections between lessons and the real world, practicing inquiry, solving meaningful problems through engineering design, and much more!
Our Makerspace dream is gradually coming true, box by box and paper towel tube by paper towel tube! So many have pitched in to help us take the next step in having an ALIVE Makerspace, such as the summer crew clearing out the science room and student volunteers helping to sort and label bins of recyclables. It now offers tables or a lovely open area for building projects, as well as a whole array of interesting recyclables from which to choose during STEM activities. We hope that you will hear lots of STEM excitement coming from this room from now on. Thank You, Lord, for providing for us!
*Student volunteers Benjamin, Karis, and Martha sorted piles of recyclables into labeled bins to organize our Makerspace this summer.
*As part of his Boy Scout environmental project, former student Wesley Stocken recruited the 2nd/3rd graders to spearhead increased “reusing” throughout our school. Over the summer, he also trained 5th graders Brooke and Autumn to lead a biography puppet project that incorporates reusables in decorating the puppets.
*Wesley coached the 2nd/3rd on reusing and put his instruction into action by helping them create a giant Makerspace sign made with reused items.
*Here students are using the Makerspace for STEM marble run challenges.
Worthy of All Praise
In Bible this week, we tackled systematic theology using The Ology, a “beginner’s theology book to help young people understand who God is and how we, as his children, relate to Him.”
Delving into the attributes of God each day, we ended the week reflecting on all we had learned by writing our own prayers of praise based on the long list of attributes each person had collected all week. Here are snippets from each young worshiper’s writing, a glimpse into their hearts toward God that touched me deeply.
Sylvie: Kind, powerful, wonderful, everlasting Father! God knows everything. He is perfect. He is the most high King!
Keziah: I love you because You are amazing, You are perfect, and You made me! You are abundant in love.
Benjamin: God you care so much about us that You gave us Your own Son.
Jackson: You are wonderful and all-knowing. You are our Defender and our Foundation. You are my God!
Nathaniel: You are holy, and I am so glad that You came because I would not have come to Heaven. I think that You are so cool that You can even tell exactly when a whale eats something because You know everything! You are a Guardian to us because we are weak.
Micah: You are pure, holy, wonderful, the Miracle Maker. You give us what we need. You are King of Kings and Lord of Lords. You are the Circle.
Nico: God, I love You because You are perfect. You are WOW!
Nevaeh: Thank you for forgiving me. You are just, everlasting, mighty, and You heal the broken-hearted. You bandage their wounds. You are holy, never-ending, and pure. Thank You for giving people the Holy Spirit.
Owen: You are so great because you can make things in one second. You can forgive anyone. You know everything. You are mega!
Audrey: Oh, Lord, I sing to You! Praise You! Praise You! You are trustworthy and alive. Wow! Wow! Almighty Lord, I sing to You!
Natalie: God of glory, exalted in every nation. Universe Creator, God of everything, we praise You. You are the Alpha and Omega. You are the Alive Agenda, planning everything and knowing everything that ever will happen so we can look to You.
Timothy: I know You are holy. I will never turn away from You. You love me and everyone in the world. You are faithful!
Nathan: God, I love You because You made us. You love us too! You made us to love You. We give love forever to You!
Amen.
ALIVE!
Our first week of 2017-2018! We’re ALIVE!