Grade 1&2 Chapel


Here is a short video clip of our morning Chapel with Redeemer Christian High School. The students are singing “Build God’s Kingdom Here” by Rend Collective, which is our school’s theme this year.

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Build God's Kingdom Here with RCHS


Today we had the pleasure of worshiping together with students from Redeemer Christian High School. Our praise was loud!

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Our students joined in with seven guitars, 10 ukuleles, a keyboard, a drum set, the box drum, the kindergartens on their sticks and shakers, and all our loud voices.

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It was awesome to have our gym filled with joyful praise as we celebrated who God is and what he has done for us. A big thanks to the RCHS worship team for leading us!


Redeemer Christian High School Chapel


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As we approached Remembrance Day, the Grade 1&2 class reflected on what Remembrance Day meant to them. Through various stories and pictures, they were introduced to what the poppy meant, and why we celebrate Remembrance Day in Canada. While the concept of war is sometimes hard to grasp with students so young, it was remarkable to read some of their reflections.

Nathan in Grade 1 wrote, “When I think of Remembrance Day, I think of people that died in the war. It makes me feel sad. I wear a poppy to remember.”

Leah in Grade 2 writes, “When I think of Remembrance Day I remember soldiers that died in war. We wear poppies so that we can remember. Poppies grew beside the crosses. War is scary. When the soldiers died in war I feel sad.”

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In art, students took part in the Remembrance Day poster contest for our local legion. Students worked hard on creating their first draft of their poster. After they completed their first draft, students were asked what they could change or improve for their final copy. After thinking of things they could change, students then drew and coloured their final poster. Students took this revision process very seriously, and it was amazing to see their final product!

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Lest We Forget


“2, 4, 6, 8, We think math is really great!” This cheer could be heard loud and clear from the gym on Wednesday morning, as students participated in our annual Math Fair.

Before we got this point, the Grade 6/7/8 class spent a morning preparing for the Math Fair. They built and created manipulatives, gathered supplies and created posters that would enhance the learning of the groups they would be teaching. Each group of senior students was given an outline of their topic, and they had to practice how they would present the material.

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On the morning of, we all met in the gym together. After opening devotions, the students in JK – Grade 4 were divided into their teams for the day. Each group was given a three dimensional shape, and they spent time examining the shape – how many faces, edges and vertices does it have? Where can this shape be found in nature or in our world.

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After this, it was off to the stations. The six stations were spread throughout the school building, and covered topics in different strands of math.

At Supersized Tangrams, students explored how smaller shapes can be combined to create **compound shapes**. They were challenged to see if they could use the seven simple shapes in a tangram to create larger squares and triangles.

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At another station, students learned about **ratios** and how they are used. One real life application of ratio is recipes, and students learned to double a recipe for a snack mix so that it would make enough for their whole group.

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To work on our number sense, students in one group practiced **subitizing**. When we are able to look at a group of objects and know how many there are without counting them, we are subitizing. In this group, students found collections of objects around the classroom and took pictures that will be made into counting books to be used in the kindergarten classroom.

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At Mystery Mass, students felt the difference between an object of 1 g and 1 kg, and then estimated the masses of containers with mystery contents. They ordered the containers by **mass**, then found the actual mass to check if their order was correct.

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Students practice finding and extending **patterns** together, and also worked on looking for **connections** between objects. Looking for patterns and connections is an important problem solving skill!

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At our last station, students learned the word **logic** and talked about how they can problem solve and try different strategies until they are successful. Students enjoyed this station, as they got to maneuver big boxes in such a way that one stuffed animal could travel across to the other side.

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After all these stations, students headed back to their classrooms and had a time of reflection. In their classes, students talked about what they had learned and wrote about it in their reflection journals. This helps students to learn in a deeper manner, as they think about and write or draw about their learning experiences.

- _I like logic because it is fun and we moved boxes._
- _My favourite things was logic. It was fun! I moved the boxes. I like to do the hard ones._
- _Today was the math fair. I learned about mass, ratio, subitizing, logic and compound shapes. I love math!_
- _My favourite math object is logic. … I just liked when you have to figure out the problem and also you get to use your brain to figure it out. That’s why I like logic._
- _Logic is different ways to solve a problem._

For the senior students, this time of reflection was a chance for them to think about how they led and taught the groups that came in. We discussed together how the day went, and what steps we could take to improve next year’s Math Fair.

A few excerpts:

- _I really enjoyed helping everyone do the problems. I learned that I like teaching the younger ones._
- _I think that I like teaching kids things and encouraging them to try things._
- _I enjoyed how enthusiastic the kids were about learning the different math words._
- _I enjoyed that I could help other kids and could see their personalities._

The Math Fair was a fantastic day of learning together.

To sum it up, here are some more words from one of our Grade 3 students:

_My fave center was…… logic and it was fun and good too. And I did and expert one. It was hard but easy it did not seem or feel expert. But it was and it was awesome too …. I loved it and I’m super looking forward to the math fair again next year._

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Math Fair


The Grade 3-4 class led us in a wonderful chapel this morning. They performed 3 plays that they had written about how we can build God’s Kingdom at TCS and in our community.

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Grade 3/4 Chapel


**The Grade 3-4 students were asked to write about how they could bring God’s Kingdom to TCS.**

**This is what we came up with!**

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“We can play with the lonely kids on the playground.” – Petra

“We can share things and NO more fighting!” – Ben

“God’s kingdom means patience and being kind” – Braydon

“We can pray, sing, and praise Him.” – Cian

“We can build God’s kingdom by being like the Holy Spirit.” – Brandon

“Trying to have a right and honest heart.” – Angelina

“We could share God’s love.” – Micah VG  
“We can tell other people about Jesus and tell bullies to stop.” – Micah VD

“We have chapel where the whole school comes together to sing songs!” – Miriam

“God’s kingdom is love and peace and it is heaven in us.” – Tessa

“We can be kind, spread the Holy Spirit and do nice things.” – Sam

“We build His kingdom by praying for people because we help people.” – Noah

“If people don’t know God, we could tell them about God.” – Haley

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**We pray that everyday and in every way**

**we will bring God’s Kingdom!**


Building God's Kingdom


For our first Fab Friday of the year, we dressed like kings, queens, princesses and knights!

At our chapel, we talked about how we are all royalty because we are sons and daughters of the King. But… the King we serve humbled Himself and became a servant.

In our groups, we brainstormed ways that we can serve each other.

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We even had a horse and a cook at school!

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It was a beautiful day, and it was extra fun to run at recess with flowing dresses and robes.

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In Grade 7/8, students wore their fancy frocks as they solved an algebra mystery.

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At lunch time, hotdogs were served in style.

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We ate with our Kingdom Builder teams, giving us a chance do spend time in different rooms with students from other classes.![14542439_533129190211433_8789549295944882718_o](14542439_533129190211433_8789549295944882718_o_cucgec)
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Fab Friday: Royalty Day


The Kindergarten class began this school year learning about apples. Our project was to create an applesauce recipe and make a huge batch of apple sauce for the Morrisburg Community Supper hosted by the Pentecostal church.

We started by investigating and learning the parts of an apple.

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A trip to Dentz’s Apple Orchard allowed us to see and learn how apples grow.

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We spent time learning about the process – how do you get from apples to applesauce?

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We then experimented and tested different ingredients to make our Amazing Applesauce!

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Check out the recipe we created:

**20 McIntosh Apples**

**1/4 cup sugar**

**1/8 cup honey**

**1/8 cup maple syrup**

**1 tsp cinnamon**

And finally, Applesauce Making Day arrived! We spent an amazing day washing, cutting, cooking, mashing and stirring up the most amazing applesauce!

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The result was many happy people enjoying applesauce at the Morrisburg Community Supper. We are thankful that we could help build God’s kingdom through applesauce!

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