A Lesson in Caring because of a Christmas Box

Today was a day of much learning.  The most valuable lessons were not learned in my classroom but rather in the halls of our school.  For several weeks our student council has collected toys, clothes, crafts, soap, tooth brushes, combs and many other supplies.  You were generous in your donations to Operation Christmas Child.  I know that you participated so that  a child in another country would have a Christmas gift. What I want you to know is how your little one was blessed today.

Our high school kids did an amazing job of organizing and leading today.  All students, K-12, were organizing in to groups and moved through 3 stations, making cards, packing Christmas boxes and prayer groups.  The older kids lead and helped the younger ones as they together they chose gifts for a child. They wrote letters and made cards for the child.  Once the boxes were packed they sat down together and prayed for the child who would receive that gift.  They prayed for both the physical and spiritual needs of the  child who would get that box.  These are the blessings of a K-12  Christian school.  These powerful life changing lessons!  

And the King will answer them, 'Truly I say to you, as you did it to the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.'  Matthew 25:40

A Look Back at the First Days of First Grade

The first days of the school year are behind us.  Gone are those timid little ones with the wide eyes who wondered what first grade would be like, or if they'd find a friend or where should they sit.  We used those first days to make friends, learn procedure, engage in cooperative activities and understand the first grade way.  Take a peek into those early days.

This is the classroom as I walked through it one final time the afternoon before school started.  I too, was excited for the first day of school.  I used those last quiet moments to pray for each of the precious little ones that would walk through that door in the morning. The quiet and the order would be short lived but the time spend committing our year to the Lord will bring blessing all year long.




Many of the beginning of the year activities were designed to build friendships and to learn to share and work together.

All smiles

Accomplishment1

Working on a hard one

Look what cooperation can do!

Having fun

Pretty




We had to learn to be responsible for our own desk and supplies and even how to how to take a test!







The school year has been especially warm and sunny.  It has been beautiful weather for using our new playground equipment. But who would have thought we would have needed to use the misting tent on the first day of Fall!