Track and Field 2019


South Dundas Inbox:

_Friday, May 3rd – Timothy Christian School in Williamsburg opened their doors to the general public on Thursday evening and throughout the day on Friday to share their Celebration of Learning with everyone entering the premises. And the premises were decked out in all the creative and artistic glory the students could muster. It is a show well worth visiting._

_The students have created displays of recycling questions and answers after they visited the municipal garbage dump to gather knowledge. They have created displays around the theme of ‘growing’ which include seeds, seedlings, and full blown growing plants. In another classroom students are inviting visitors to help prepare a beef Stroganoff dish to be delivered to the Food Bank. Bees are one of the big interests and there is a classroom chocked full of information on display. And a student created solar system has been installed in the gymnasium, complete with planets and lighting, constellations and information stations._

_A Celebration of Learning continues throughout the day today and remains open to the general public. You will be made very welcome._

article: www.southdundasinbox.com

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Timothy Christian Williamsburg invites community to Celebration of Learning


The school is a buzz with learning these days. And in some classroom that is more literal than others 🙂

Each class is learning about something in preparation for our Spring Celebration of Learning. Sometimes we learn from books or different texts. Sometimes we learn from videos or movies. But recently students have had a chance to learn from local experts.

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The students in Kindergarten had a visit from Mr. Vuyk, who is a local beekeeper. He came dressed in his bee keeping gear and brought in a hive for the students to touch and explore. Students learned a lot and were able to ask all sorts of questions. They got to see and touch the tools that he uses and they were even able to try on his beekeeper’s protective hat.

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Having a local expert come in engages the students and gets them excited about what they are learning. They have a chance to interact with someone new, which helps to build knowledge and community.

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And sometimes, instead of bringing in an expert, we go to visit an expert. The Grade 8 class recently went to visit the House of Lazarus to learn from the experts there.

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As they look at Psalm 8, they are considering how they can use what God has given them to be a blessing to others. At the Community Food Share and the House of Lazarus they learned about these organizations and how they give back to the community.

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The students were amazed at the many ways they help within our community. Now each student is working on their own independent project – finding a way to give from the abundance that they have been given.

As you can see, drawing on the knowledge of local experts is helping us to build our knowledge and it also helps to build community as students meet new people and find out about different things happening in the community.

Hopefully we’ve piqued your interest about what is happening at TCS and that you want to come and see for yourself what we are all a buzz about!

You are all invited to our Spring Celebration of Learning, happening Thurs, May 2 at 6:45pm. and Fri, May 3 at 10:00am.

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The format for the Celebration is as follows:

- **Come** – arrive and be welcomed by the students.
- **Consider** – go to the classrooms/gym/hallway and learn from the student experts about honeybees, sunflowers, Neptune and more. They have lots to share with you! There will also be refreshments available 🙂
- **Contemplate** – one classroom will be set up with a quiet space for you to contemplate who you are and how much God loves you.
- **Communal Worship** – at a certain point in the celebration you will be called down to the gym where we will join together in a time of worship and reflection.

We hope you can make it!

_O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!_

Timothy Christian School – Building Knowledge. Building Faith. Building Community.


Learning from Experts


“Now you are the body of Christ, and each one of you is a part of it.” I Cor 12:27

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If you have walked the school halls recently, you may have noticed an amazing collaborative creation. We can him Tim, short for Timothy, short for Timothy Christian School community.

During our Community Circle, we gathered together in our Kingdom Building Groups and talked about how we are all different. We like different things, we think differently, we learn differently, we have different experiences. And yet, despite all of our differences, we are one community – we are the body of Christ.

Each student and staff member was given a piece of the body to colour and decorate as they wanted.

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As you can see each piece is different and unique. And when we put it all together ….

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Each piece is different and unique, just as each person in the school community is different and unique. God has brought the TCS school community together. When we work together we can be a blessing to others.

When the apostle Paul talks about the body of Christ, he says, “If the whole body were an eye, where would the sense of hearing be? If the whole body were an ear, where would the sense of smell be? But in fact God has placed the parts in the body, every one of them, just as he wanted them to be. If they were all one part, where would the body be? As it is, there are many parts, but one body.” I Cor 12:17-19

And so it is here at TCS. There are many students and staff members, but one community.

We are all a part of the body of Christ!


The Body of Christ


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These past few months, the Grade ¾ class has been learning about the country of China.

Some highlights included “virtual field trips”.

The first trip was to the Great Wall of China.

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And then they went to the Forbidden City.

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They learned about the Terracotta Warriors and sculpted their own.

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They even had an expert share … our very own Mrs. Daye, who had lived in China for 2 years.

Students also had the opportunity to reflect on their own faith as they learned about some of the other religions that exist in China. Students were humbled to learn about some of the difficulties that Christians experience in China, difficulties that we are spared here in Canada. Take a moment to read some of their reflections.

- _It must be hard to be a Christian in China because you can’t go to church. I hope all Christians are safe._
- _It is different because in China you would get persecuted. If you are a Christian and want to go to church, you have to do it at somebody’s house._
- _In China, the churches don’t have crosses in them and they cannot talk about Jesus._
- _It’s different because in China if you’re a Christian you could get hurt. In Canada, we’re free to be Christian._
- _It is hard to be a Christian in China because the government has to tell you what to teach and if you don’t listen, the government will tear down the church._

It is exciting to get to learn about a new country and culture. The Grade 3/4 students were always asking new questions about China and wanted to learn. It is a joy to see the care our students have for the world God has created around them!


Joy in Learning about China


One element of Project Based Learning (PBL) is an Entry Event to launch the project and get the students excited about what is to come. It can take many shapes and forms.

Recently, a couple of classes launched their spring PBL focusing on some aspect of Psalm 8. We’ve already had our whole school Entry Event in our trip to Countryside Adventures. You can read about that amazing event here: <https://tcswilliamsburg.ca/amazing-whole-school-field-trip/>

But now it’s time for each class to begin their portion of the project.

The students in Grade 1-2 entry event began with reading a book called The Curious Garden.

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It invited the students to wonder and imagine what a garden could be. The students then took some time to collaboratively answer questions about a garden.

- What do you need to grow plants?
- What would you plant in a garden?
- How does a garden help a community?
- How can kids be curious gardeners?

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The students were engaged, on task and curious.

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After working on the questions, one student asked, “Can we plant a garden?” It was exactly the outcome the teacher was hoping for and a launching pad for their PBL.

The students in Grade 5-6 had a bit of a stinkier entry event. They started by talking about garbage. They read a few articles talking about the amount of garbage in the ocean and how garbage winds up inside marine animals. Next they looked seriously at the amount of garbage that the school throws out in one day.

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They gloved up and sorted the 3kg of garbage – paper, food scraps, food wrappers, plastic containers, etc.

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It was smelly and messy, but they all worked together to sort it out. The next task was to weigh each category of garbage.

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They found out that 1/3 of our garbage is food scraps and that another big group is plastic containers.

The students said, “Hey! We can do something about this.” Ideas like composting, encouraging recycling, and making posters were suggestions. It was exactly the outcome the teacher was hoping for and a launching pad for their PBL.

Two successful entry events to instill in our students a desire to learn more and address a need in our community. We hope you stay tuned for more updates about our spring PBLs that will be shared at our Celebration of Learning on May 2 and 3.

“O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!”


Launching the projects


This past Wednesday we went as a whole school to a place called Countryside Adventures, an amazing place with a 3 km skating trail through the woods. We went there to launch our spring project that will focus on Psalm 8.

_“Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory in the heavens.”_

Our purpose for going was two-fold. We went to play and we went to stand in awe of our creator God.

We wanted to echo the question of the psalmist: _“When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is mankind that you are mindful of them, human beings that you care for them?”_

Before we went we gathered together in a community circle and thought about what our play would look like.

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And we also thought about what our moments of awe would look like.

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And on Wednesday, February 27, 2019, with the temperature well below zero, we boarded the bus and headed out for a day of play and awe. It was amazing!!

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We took a little pause in our play and awe to gather together as a community and sing praises to our God.

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Take a look at this video to get a sense of what our day was like.

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We returned with rosy cheeks and ready for a nap 🙂

The next day we took some time to reflect on our time and consider how we played and how we stood in awe.

Here are some of what the students said:

- _I liked when I went skating through the trails. I was in awe when I saw a fallen tree._
- _I liked it when we went sledding. I was in awe when I saw the animals._
- _I liked going skating! I felt awe when I stopped and saw trees!_
- _I liked it when I was snowshoeing with my friend. I was in awe when I saw all of the trees that God made._
- _I felt awe when I saw a woodpecker. I liked skating._
- _I felt awe when I saw the animals. I like skating and sledding and I liked playing with my friends._
- _I liked skating. I felt awe when I saw God’s beautiful creation._
- _I went around the snowshoeing path one time. Sometime I would stop and look around. One time when I saw a tree that looked like it had been attacked by a woodpecker recently, because there were wood chips on the snow._
- _I skated around it 8 times (24 km). I was skating and saw a squirrel jump out of nowhere. God has made us fingers so that we can build stuff like that ice path._

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What an amazing way to launch our spring projects!

Save the date of May 2 and 3 for our Celebration of Learning. You are invited to come and experience Psalm 8 with us. “When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is mankind that you are mindful of them, human beings that you care for them?”

How amazing to consider that God, the creator of all, is thinking about you right now!


Amazing Whole School Field Trip!


Here at Timothy Christian School in Williamsburg the students in Grade 5-6 are part of the Extended French program.

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Are you wondering what the Extended French program is all about? Take a few minutes to read this blog post.

The program involves:

- Relevant themes
- Increased time and intensity
- Authentic situations
- Emphasis on oral language
- Automatic and intrinsic

The class spends their first 100 minutes of every day learning in French!

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Every morning they join together in a circle where they greet each other, share, pray and play games in French.

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Here they are playing the game of “I have, who has” in French.

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And here they work together to put the story of the 3 Little Pigs in order, all in French.

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Each day, one student is the Mini Prof and they lead the rest of the class in talking about the date and the weather and thoughts about the day.

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The students do research and work on projects in French.

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They are learning about things that are important to them, about family and sports and food, and they are doing it all in French.

One student said that when he was in Grade 4 he could hardly say one sentence in French and now he can share what he did on the weekend, all in French. We are seeing amazing results with this program. Students are growing in confidence and they are excited to be learning in French.

There is joy in the journey!

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Do you want to learn more about what the Extended French program at Timothy Christian School can offer your child? Contact the school at office@tcswilliamsburg.ca or 613-535-2687. Or just stop by and visit – we’d love to show you around.


Joy in learning French


The gym was full as the Kindergarten students took to the stage and led us in chapel this morning.

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Decked out in red and white, their theme was God’s love.

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They sang about how mighty God is. “My God is so big and so strong and so mighty – there’s nothing my God cannot do!”

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Their memory verse reminded us of why we love in the first place. “We love because God first loved us.” 1 John 4:19

And then they shared ideas of how we can show God’s love.

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They told us we can pray to God, or share our toys, or be nice to others.

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They ended chapel time with prayer and then handed out valentines hearts that said “God loves you” as a tangible reminder of God’s love.

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We are thankful for our amazing Kindergarten students and how they reminded us of God’s love and inspired us to show God’s love.

How will you show God’s love?


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