A Hodge-Podge of Happenings

When my kids were in school here at UCA, I often wondered how they were doing during the day, and wished I could be a fly on the wall. 

Well, this blog is my attempt to give you a few glimpses of a variety of things that have been happening both in and out of our classrooms! 

For example, during the kids' Spanish class the other day, I was very impressed with how they were able to say their phone numbers in Español. I whipped out my phone and took a couple of videos. Mrs. Plitt is doing a great job teaching our kiddos!

Did you know that our chapel times are now split into K-2, and then 3-5th?  Bob the Bible Guy from ALFC came and spoke at our chapel on Thursday. He is always a hit with the kids!

I want to share with you some "sounds of learning". I love it when they get with partners to share their thoughts. These are clips of the kids going over the comprehension questions for one of the Journeys stories a couple of weeks ago.

I've been wanting to show you this video for a while...it's the Continents and Oceans of the World CHANT! Can you name all of them? 

Did you know that our students got to attend the first ever Student Council election assembly? 

Congratulations to Jahan's older sister Rishta for being elected to be the secretary! She did a great job on her speech.

And finally, did you see how WONDERFUL our gift card display turned out?? Thanks to your generosity, we collected over $600 worth of cards. And thank you to Tina Chen (our assistant room mom) for stepping in to help our room mom who was caring for her sick kids at home. 

Guess what? Mrs. Sarmiento ended up winning Mrs. Kok's class basket! Congratulations!! If anyone deserves to win, it's Mrs. Sarmiento. 

STEM BINS

We were able to do some STEM bin activities one Friday afternoon. The students were asked to create things such as a bridge, a house, or an airplane using only the items in their bin.

***Note: This was done BEFORE I was asked to put up the table shields. Thank you for your understanding. 

This was a great way to not only develop in STEM skills, but also learn to work together with a partner. I was very proud of our students for their team work.
 

First Day of School 2021

Welcome to the school year of 2021-2022!!

I love the fact that we get to start off the new year with prayer.

Here is what our classroom looked like as we waited for our beautiful students to walk in:) 

I took the photos below on the first day so that I could memorize their names. I wanted to share them with you since their faces are so sweet!

We are going to have a great year together!