Our School Greenhouse Is Now Filled with Living Things!
If you’ve glanced out back recently, you may have noticed a new addition to our campus—a greenhouse! We’re excited to announce that it is officially up and running, and already teeming with life. Inside you’ll find a variety of plants, including parsley, jalapeños, Carolina Reaper peppers, cucumbers, tomatoes and a few others just beginning to take root.
In the coming weeks, we’ll be adding more plants as well as structural upgrades like shelving to make the greenhouse even more functional and inviting. This space is an exciting opportunity for our students to learn about plant life and stewardship firsthand.
How You Can Use the Greenhouse Teachers are encouraged to bring their classes out to the greenhouse. The students can observe the plants’ growth and get an up close look at the different leaves, seeing how each is unique to a pa
At this point in the year the third graders have a strong foundation in creating keyword outlines from a text and in public speaking.
In April, students continued to develop their speaking skills by using a lectern and learning how to include gestures during their speech. Recently, they have learned how to write a composition from a keyword outline.
Students have made exceptional progress. They are speaking with more confidence and are excited about writing. Many students have expressed their love of writing to me, while others continuously ask to give more speeches! Some students choose to use part of their lunch time to research and write keyword outlines. It's been exciting to see their enthusiasm!
What looked like a day of fun, was actually a day full of learning in disguise. To celebrate the upcoming spring break, Mrs. Culver’s second grade class had an egg hunt, pizza party, and delicious cupcakes. What the students thought was just a fun time, was really a sharpening of their math skills in real world application.
We began with the egg hunt. Instead of getting all the eggs you can find to keep them in your basket, students had to sort the eggs by color. They were told that there was a certain amount of eggs per color. When they found all the eggs, two multiplication problems and an addition problem later, they knew how many they had all together. The final step was figuring out how many eggs each person could have to keep it fair. We had to divide our total number of Easter eggs by 11 students.
Oak Hill Chess Club has four weeks left competing in the Rookly Chess League!
For the past eleven Tuesdays and Thursdays, the students have competed online against other schools around the country in 10-minute chess matches for a full hour. Prior to joining the Rookly Chess League, chess club members would simulate tournaments against each other, always analyzing the games and learning better strategies.
The Rookly League is very competitive. Oak Hill shows up every week ready to play as strongly as possible, and currently both the Tuesday and the Thursday clubs are in 2nd place for the season. Oak Hill has a very good shot at taking 1st place in both divisions if we keep practicing, learning from our mistakes, and continuing to improve our chess strategy and speed.
I am so proud of our Oak Hill Chess Club students! Thank you all for your dedication and tenacity.
We love seeing the energy the students bring to the court during the basketball season and other tournaments throughout the school year. But is there really any benefit beyond a simple competition? A small school can have a huge impact on students even with a relatively humble sports program.
Character Training Team sports give students an opportunity to develop good sportsmanship. Playing as a team, students see that they have to work together, and that being kind to one another really has its benefits. Throughout the school year, year after year, we really see a change in the students during games. They learn to not only work as a team, but to be an encouragement to one another, including their opponents. Though they may struggle with it at times, it does get noticeably easier for them to demonstrate what it means to love their neighbors.
Stewardship Skills Since our spor
By: Makenzie Dowdy, 4th Grade, Quill Reporter
In P.E. in the second quarter, we are playing volleyball. It is really fun, but pretty hard. Usually, we exercise before we start and sometimes after. Our normal stage exercises are knee taps, 3 dots, where you have to switch feet on every side, push ups, squats and more. For running we normally do sprinting, side shuffle, karaoke, the same thing as 3 dots but walking and sideways, etc.
Our teacher, Mrs. McGorman, is a really cool teacher and has fun games for us to play every day when we come. To get our hands in position and ready to start the game, Mrs. McGorman says, “Pancake, pancake, syrup, syrup,” and while we say it, we use our hands and stack them and fold our thumbs over. We always get to use this every time we play.
Copywork Simply stated, copywork is the process of copying words or a passage. While this exercise may seem simple and unimportant, copywork is a time-tested method for learning grammar, penmanship, and spelling. Subjects we use for copywork span anywhere from Bible verses, poems, hymns, literature, or sentences from our current topic(s) of study. One of our main goals in copywork is for students to read and write well-written passages. These passages provide excellent sentence structure that give students good and worthy ideas to think and meditate on.
Classroom Routine In third grade, students begin each day with copywork. This fall we are currently copying spelling words, Bible passages, select lines from a hymn, and a couple of definitions for some new words. The process students use in their approach to copywork is simple and systematic. First, they read the passage. Next, they carefully trace it
