ENRICHMENT JOURNAL
The
Legacy Christian Academy’s
The September Edition
2014-2015
SCIENCE “ROCKS”
BIBLE CLASS
Hello Legacy Parents! I am having such a wonderful time getting to know your little ones. As they walk into the Science Lab each day, they immediately become such amazing scientists. I feel incredibly blessed that God has led me on a path to Legacy, as well as to educate and Tiffany Hinze Science excite your students every week. I love 1st-6th hearing that Science is many of their favorite subjects, and I pray that God guides me to foster that love of learning and investigation every day. I have truly enjoyed having many of you visit me in the Science Lab to look around and ask questions and I encourage you to continue to do so!
Greetings! My name is Kyle Jenison and I will be the new Bible teacher this school year! I have absolutely loved meeting all the students of Legacy K–8th grade. For the first week of Enrichment classes, I introduced myself, heard from each student something unique about them, and introduced the subject and direction for their grade.
1ST GRADE: This month, students will begin to explore solids, liquids and gases. Students will also become familiar with the properties of solids and constructing towers and bridges with them, as well as learning how liquids flow and pour.
Along with an exceptional Bible curriculum for each class, every classroom teacher has been provided with devotional material that will introduce and reinforce the Bible class materials.
Kyle Jenison Bible K-8th
This month KINDERGARTEN will be learning that God made our world and all the people in it. As we begin our broad survey of the Scriptures, some of the people we will talk about will be Adam and Eve and Noah and his family.
2ND GRADE: Students will be learning how to balance objects using both their bodies and with the use of counter-weights. They will also learn about motion using tops and zoomers!
This month 1ST GRADE will begin learning how to use our Bibles so that we can find important stories like how God created the world, Cain and Abel, Noah, etc.
3RD GRADE: Students have already discovered how to make a motor run using a simple battery! They will continue to learn about forms of energy and how energy is never lost, but can reflect, transfer or convert to a different type of energy.
2ND GRADE will be doing a character study of the life and faith of Abraham and of Moses.
4TH GRADE: 4th grade is already having so much fun learning about magnetism! Now that we know magnets ONLY attract iron, will begin to make circuits using batteries and discuss what objects are conductors and which are insulators. 5TH GRADE: This month in 5th grade, students will learn that, although all mixtures CAN be separated, there are different techniques needed to separate different types of mixtures, including solutions. 6TH GRADE: In 6th grade this month, students will be learning all about the landforms and soil on Earth’s surface, and how these are affected by weather, drainage and water erosion.
The 3RD GRADERS will begin their year-long study of the life of Jesus with a special look at the events which surrounded His miraculous birth. The 4TH GRADERS will begin a careful study of the Old Testament from creation to the period of the kings. The 5TH GRADERS will be beginning their walk through the 27 books of the New Testament as they begin with the Gospel of Matthew. This month 6TH GRADE will be looking at the the background and purpose of the Gospel of John getting into the pre-existence of Christ. Since 7TH GRADE will have Bible second trimester, the 8TH GRADE will be considering and constructing a biblical worldview as it pertains to society and law this month. Mr. Kyle Jenison
Mrs. Tiffany Hinze
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¡HOLA PADRES!
Bienvenidos a Español! Welcome to Spanish!
¡Hola familias de Legacy! Welcome to Spanish! My name is Mrs. Julie Zimmer and I will be teaching Kindergarten and 1 st Grade Spanish. I am looking forward to a great year with your wonderful children! Kindergarten will have Spanish once a week, and 1 st Grade will have it twice a week. The students will participate in a variety of activities this month:
FOURTH: We will be covering three units this year: animals, house and home, and the city. We have already begun learning vocabulary for various animals. We will begin with farm animals, and then proceed to jungle Grace Smith animals, zoo animals, and pets. Spanish Spanish class is 4th-8th conducted primarily in Spanish, and students will be encouraged to communicate in Spanish as much as possible.
KINDERGARTEN: Our first unit of study will be “Mi Escuela”- My School. The students will begin learning vocabulary for numbers and colors. We will be singing a lot of fun songs and playing games to become familiar with this new language!
Julie Zimmer Spanish K-1st
1 GRADE: We will begin the year with reviewing our numbers and days of the week from Kindergarten. These will be essential building blocks for our first unit “El Calendario” – The Calendar. ST
Mrs. Julie Zimmer
¡Bienvenidos a un nuevo semestre de español! Welcome to a new semester of Spanish! It's lovely to meet the 2nd Grade students and to continue with the outstanding 3rd Grade. As a reminder, throughout the school year the students will be working on their Spanish units in their cuadernos/workbooks which remain in their desks for daily use until they are completed in class and then sent home. We begin the 2014 semester with the following units: 2ND GRADE: The first unit of our "El calendario"/ "The Calendar" cuaderno is a review of the days of the week that expands this vocabulary to express the dates of “today, yesterday, and tomorrow.” Next comes a review of the months of the year. Each month the students will create their own monthly calendars in Spanish used to reinforce this unit daily. We will also be learning “emotions” vocabulary in Spanish to our daily routine. 3 GRADE: Our first cuaderno will be "Clases de la escuela"/School Subjects. Our first unit is a review of the Spanish alphabet and vowels which we will use as we develop our reading and writing skills in Spanish. We will also be expanding our "school supplies" vocabulary and creating sentences using color adjectives and phrases with "I have” and “I need.” Thank you and welcome back! Gracias, Señora Leslie Coca 2nd and 3rd Grade
Fifth: I am so excited to begin the fifth grade Spanish curriculum with our "All About Me" posters. Students will be completing Spanish posters which will include their favorite things, birthday, age, name, school, etc. Students will have plenty of time to complete and decorate these posters. When these are done, they will be checked for grammar and spelling, then they will be laminated, and sent home to study. The students will then have about two weeks’ time to study these posters and present them orally in class. Sixth: Sixth grade students have all been assigned a Paso A Paso textbook. This is a high school Spanish I textbook in which we will be covering about three chapters. The first of these chapters in about Hobbies and Pass times. We will be practicing how to ask and answer the question "Te gusta? - Do you like? We will also learn some grammar in this unit. The grammar will include the verbs "ir" - to go, and "estar" - to be. I do not assign homework in sixth grade, but if your child comes home with a page of homework it is because he/she ended up with the class "elefante." This means that they were speaking English in Spanish class! Señora Grace Smith
PHYSICAL EDUCATION It’s great to be back for another year (#11) of P.E. at Legacy! I absolutely LOVE working with your children and am looking forward to another great year with them. KINDERGARTEN: Our Kindergarteners will get to meet their new P.E. teacher and finding out what P.E. is all Caroline Rostad about. We’ll start the year off Physical Education with movement signals, space th K-8 awareness, locomotion, teamwork, agility, and footwork. Red Light, Green Light, Over-and-Under passing relays, are just a few of the fun games they’ll play. Jumping jacks, hopping, skipping, leaping, twirling, and side-to-side lateral movement will keep their heart rates going!
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1ST & 2ND GRADERS: The 1st & 2nd Graders will work on their movement skills and movement knowledge. Jumping jacks, pushups, ring toss, hula hoops, and bean bag toss are some of the activities. They’ll work on their visual tracking and manual dexterity while rolling and spinning deck rings. Working on alertness and agility they’ll play some fun relay games, and Red Light Green Light. Conditioning for the Presidential Run in 2015 will also begin. 3RD - 6TH GRADERS: 3rd – 6th Graders will start the school year out with a Volleyball Unit. They will begin with setting, bumping, digging, and serving. Conditioning for the Presidential Run will also begin. Mrs. Caroline Rostad
COMPUTER ENRICHMENT Welcome back! I am extremely excited for this school year and the privilege of teaching our students about technology! KINDERGARTEN: We will be exploring the parts of the computer, and learning the basic functions of the mouse to help us better understand how a computer works. Then we will dive right in to using Microsoft Paint, to learn how a program works, and how each program has different features. 1ST GRADE: We will be reviewing the parts of the computer and Microsoft Paint. We will be extending our knowledge from Kindergarten to learn more features of Microsoft Paint, and will be learning what else a computer can do. 2ND GRADE: Students will be learning the features of Microsoft Word including font manipulation, inserting images, and formatting text. We will also be reviewing how to properly save and open our files.
Greetings from the Art Studio! With this year's school theme being "Back to the Basics," I thought it would be wise to start off with a brief introduction to aesthetics and art criticism. In addition to going over classroom rules and procedures, we will be playing a few games that teach how one may approach a piece of art. I will be guiding your student Christine Harris through the process of first Art describing, then analyzing, 1st-8th interpreting and judging a few famous pieces of art. In order to unpack the significance of master works of art and begin to comprehend the full richness of them, we must first consider a few things. For one, we want to look at the work in the context of its time. We want to gain a technical knowledge of the techniques involved so we can appreciate the labor and processes involved. We want in the least, a basic knowledge of the principles and elements of design so we can see what particular devices were used. I hope to open your student’s hearts to how they may begin to digest the works that come before them and gain a greater appreciation for both current work and work from antiquity. It will be an exciting year ahead with works planned in charcoal, acrylic, collage, wood, plaster, and watercolor. To get the creative juices flowing, I will start off the year with an open-ended assignment inspired by Marvin Bartel, a fellow art instructor who has developed a mature philosophy of art education. Their imagination will be the limit in this first week of creating! Mrs. Christine Harris
Carl Astrera Computer Enrichment K-6th
3RD GRADE: Students will be reviewing Microsoft Word as they take their skills from 2nd grade and apply new found knowledge in formatting their documents for reports, and other types of documents. 4TH GRADE: Students are “going to the bank” as they start off with managing a bank account in Microsoft Excel. Students will learn how to format cells and create formulas to make sure every penny is accounted for. 5TH GRADE: We will be discussing the parts of the computer including the outside ports as well as the motherboard. Your students will know the “in’s and out’s” of the computer, its parts, and its different functions. 6TH GRADE: Your students are off, full speed ahead with keyboarding lessons. Your student will be learning how to improve their “touch typing” skills as we dedicate the whole first trimester to learning how to be an effective typist. Mr. Carl Astrera
THE ART STUDIO
THE MUSIC STUDIO Welcome back! My name is Miss Melissa K. Berg and I am so excited to have the opportunity to be your child’s new music teacher. Each class began the year with a fun movie score guessing game. Students were able to identify several popular film scores from Star Wars to Frozen. Now we must move on to Mozart! Before we begin our Christmas Melissa Berg musical practices, each grade will Music K-6th have a change to brush up on their piano skills during the month of September. KINDERGARTEN will begin to break down the patterns on the keyboard as well as identify individual key names. FIRST GRADE will review the musical alphabet, rhythmic counting, and Trion Notation. SECOND GRADE will review the left hand C position and review various Trion Notation songs. THIRD GRADE
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will review the transition from Trion Notation to traditional notation. They will also review and play Hot Cross Buns. FOURTH GRADE will review eighth notes, measures, and other music vocabulary. They will also compose short pieces with an assigned rhythm. FIFTH GRADE will review melodic and harmonic intervals and review two pieces: “Ji Ji Tap Dance” and “Harmonic March-Right Hand.” SIXTH GRADE will review reading the grand staff in C position as well as play the piece “Running Up and Down.” Thank you for a great first week everyone. It’s going to be a great year! Miss Melissa K. Berg
THE GUITAR STUDIO Welcome back to school! I'm excited about this trimester of Guitar Instruction. The scope of our class includes sight-reading on standard notation and tablature, learning classic guitar melodies, collecting a catalogue of chords based on keys and applying those chords to songs the students will be familiar with. By the end of the trimester, the students will have a great foundation for further development on guitar and have a great text (Mel Bay's Guitar Method) to delve in further if they so choose. In September, our students have been learning the rudiments of music (note values, staves, rests) and how they are applied to guitar. In addition, they've learned a familiar tune, "Happy Birthday" and already started on etudes for the high "E" string. During this month, the students will also add 3 more notes to their reading as we get into the notes on the "B" string. Vocabulary for this month includes words like frets, string names, half notes, quarter rests, and tuning pegs. Mr. Ryan Foglesong Middle School
VIDEO PRODUCTION Video Production is a course that provides advanced instruction to filmmaking and video editing. Students will experience the process of videography and filmmaking from the inception of an idea to the completion of a project. They will have the opportunity to plan, write, direct, shoot, edit and produce videos using digital video cameras and computer editing software. Students will gain a greater understanding of advanced editing software, and learn how to create fun and interesting effects using the provided editing software. This class is a great way for the students to learn the basics of filming and editing digital video. The students have already begun work on their first assignment. They will be creating a short interview with the members in their groups that incorporate background music, titles, and transitions. This is a great assignment for the students to learn the software and organizing media on their computers.
Cory Gilbride Video Production Middle School
Throughout the semester, the students will be using iPhoto, iTunes, and iMovie. These are great applications, and the students will really be able to produce professional work using these tools. I look forward to seeing the student's projects, and how they incorporate their creativity and personality into their work. Mr. Cory Gilbride
FINER ARTS This trimester, the MS Finer Arts class will be diving into the basics of cupcake and cake decorating. The students will be given the opportunity to learn through hands-on techniques as well as practicing these steps at home.
Stephanie Flowers Finer Arts Middle School
Tim “Coach” Borruel Principal/Founder
This month we have more specifically covered how to make buttercream frosting, tips for decorating, and several frosting techniques.
Natalie Keoshian Fine Arts Middle School
Mrs. Stephanie Flowers and Miss Natalie Keoshian
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