Wellington Christian Academy
And whatever you do or say,
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Newsletter
let it be as a representative
of the Lord Jesus, all the
while giving thanks through
him to God the Father.
Colossians 3:17
October 2012
S-p-e-l-l-e-r-s
Karsten and Draecon will
represent WCA at the Sumner
County Spelling Bee on
Wednesday, October 10th at
the Wellington Middle School.
C-o-n-g-r-a-t-u-l-a-t-i-o-n-s!
The Lunch Bunch
Mrs. Skupa has started a wonderful new library program for the
3rd and 4th grade class and middle school students. She
chooses a book on the William Allen White reading list for them to
read. On the last Thursday of the month, she will meet for lunch
with one of the classes to discuss the book. In September, the 3rd
and 4th grade class enjoyed the book Star in the Forest.
Thank you to all
the grandparents
who joined us for
Grandparent’s
Day Lunch!
Scenes from Cross Country
BOX TOPS
ARE DUE
OCT. 15!
Inside this issue:
Jacob, Isaiah, and
Coach Tedder
represented WCA in
7 cross country
meets this season.
Way to go gentlemen
on all your hard work
and effort!
“And let us run with endurance the race that
God has set before us.”
Preschool
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Kindergarten
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1st Grade
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2nd Grade
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3rd & 4th Grade
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Middle School
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Middle School
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Preschool
Play with Purpose
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Preschool is fun! What students
don’t realize is that the fun
activities are designed to help
them attain skills they will need
for kindergarten and beyond.
October 2012
We practiced our fine motor
skills by cutting out fall leaves.
We fingerpainted!
We played
with Mr.
Potato Head.
The Apple Toss
Game was fun. We
worked on our
hand-eye
coordination by
trying to hit a
target.
We painted
houses for the
Three Little Pigs.
We cut out shapes
in pink playdough.
We made pancakes
for a snack. We
stirred and flipped!
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Scooping and pourin
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in the sensory table
develops our gross
motor skills.
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Kindergarten
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First day of school!
The first week of school, we read the story Chicka Chicka
Boom Boom and used this book as our learning theme. We
reviewed our ABCs, played a coconut counting game, made a
coconut tree snack, and broke open and tasted a coconut.
Allie (right) is helping to
demonstrate how a branchspreader works to keep the
apple branches from growing
too close together as they
reach for the sun.
“I love painting in art.”
Allie
“I like to do the piano
in music.” Hannah
“I like to do flips in PE.” Mariah
Mariah and Allie played a
matching game on the new
Promethean Board. We use
the Promethean Board at
least once each day to help
us learn.
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We studied how to stay
healthy, including washing
our hands. For fun, Mariah
made a germ to eat for our
snack!
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First Grade
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Lance, Tatum, Alec,
Wrangler, Atlas and
Abbey played
different math games.
Waylon, Atlas, Alec, and Ava worked
on the handhelds for the Promethean
Board.
We threw a globe around
and then told the
continent our thumb
landed on.
In science we matched the rocks
to the name.
We waited
for the
elevator to
take us
down into
the salt
museum.
Lance picked
out his salt
Everything is always more fun
on the Promethean Board!
There was a dinosaur
exhibit. There were lots
of paleontologists!
For lunch we
ate at the
Hutchinson
Zoo.
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We also
found a few
spiders
along the
way.
We made owl masks to act out the
story Why the Owl has Big Eyes.
Second Grade
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We have had a great start to second grade. We have already learned so much in the first
month! In core knowledge reading, we have learned what the sayings “back to the drawing board” and
“easier said than done.” We have been enjoying reading the book, Charlotte’s Web. A poem we studied
was “Bed in Summer.”
In math, we have been working on skills such as place value and number patterns. We have also
been working hard on addition and subtraction.
In social studies, we worked on our geography skills as we studied the location of the continents
and oceans. We also learned about the equator, map keys, and the compass rose. We also focused on
the geography of the Americas, and we had lots of fun learning about the making of the Constitution. In
science, we have started a unit on weather.
Aubree is measuring how much she
grew over the summer.
The second graders enjoyed decorating
pillowcases they will be using throughout
the year when they read in the bathtub.
In honor of Constitution Day, the second
graders did a nice job making a classroom
Constitution with rules and rights they
should have this year. They “ratified” the
Constitution by signing their names.
The second graders had fun making
puppets of our Founding Fathers, which
they used to go along with a Readers’
Theater called “The Constitution.”
In Bible, we had fun making a duplicate of
Noah’s ark.
Field trip to
Botanica!
It was fun pretending to be in a rocket ship
journeying through our city, state, country,
and continent.
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Third & Fourth Grade
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Haiku
This is a picture of the fourth graders with the Haiku we wrote. Haiku is a type of Japanese
poetry. The first line has 5 syllables, the second line has 7 syllables, and the third has 5
syllables. We each wrote a Haiku and illustrated it.
Colin
In Social Studies we began the year
learning about globes. We learned to
locate the northern, southern, eastern
and western hemispheres. We learned
which hemispheres the continents and
oceans are in. We found the Prime
Meridian and the International Date
Line.
Alysa
We used yarn and paper plates
to make a globe. On the globe
we put the Prime Meridian,
equator, lines of latitude and
lines of longitude. We also
labeled the South Pole and
North Pole. This was a great
way to learn about the globe.
By Macy
All of us are bringing articles
about the election on November
6th. We talk about what is in
the news each day. Avery
On September 21st, 3rd and 4th grade presented chapel. We
sang a song called Your Love Has Lifted Me. While we were
singing we had balloons tied to our wrist. We held a sign
that said God is Love. When we got done, Pastor Phyllis
Provost talked to us about God’s love.
by: Deitrek
At the beginning of the year Mrs.
Skupa told us about a new
program called Lunch Bunch.
She assigned us a book. We met
with Mrs. Skupa and discussed
the book while having lunch in
the library. It was fun. Our first
book was Star in the Forest by
Laura Resau. Our next book is
Guinea Dog by Patrick Jennings.
by: Joshua
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Wellington Christian Academy
Middle School
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Before learning how scientists classify animals,
we tried it ourselves. Mr. Tedder handed out a
stack of animal pictures and we had to sort
them by what they had in common. We chose
to sort ours by color and size. Emberly
We used the Promethean board to help learn about place
value. This year we are going to the hundred billions
place. The Promethean board is cool because you can
interact with it. We can drag things and click on things.
We dragged numbers to the place it asked for and there
were a lot more activities on it. Karsten
This month we studied place value. To help understand
better, we made place value posters showing the name
of the place and how many places left of the decimal
that place is. For example “thousands” is the fourth
place left of the decimal. We went all the way to the
hundred billions place. This was a fun project. Avery
We learned that scientists make predictions and did a
lesson that had to do with predicting. We predicted
how many drops of water would fit on a penny. Our
guesses were all pretty low – less than 10. We were
surprised that we could fit 54 drops on a penny! I
think the experiment was very cool and I learned a lot
about making predictions. Chloe
When learning about the Earth we watched some cool
documentaries on Netflix. One of them was a National
Geographic show about volcanoes. Did you know
there is a type of lava that is gray? It is gray because it
has so much mud and rock in it which lowers its
temperature to only about 500 degrees. At night it
glows red. Isaiah
We are learning about cells in science. One day we got to look at lots of
cells, including blood, cork, and onion skin. I thought it was interesting and
so did everyone else. The cork cells looked like little rooms and blood cells
look like little dodge balls!
Draecon
We watched a video about the San Andreas Fault in
California. There was a fence that crossed over the
fault when the fence was built. They didn’t know it
was on two different plates and when the plates
moved in opposite directions, half of the fence
moved about 10 feet away from the rest of the
fence. We demonstrated this in class by putting
two wafers side by side and drawing a “fence”
across then with icing. When we slid the cookies
like the plates of the Earth, the line of icing split
just like the fence!
Jacob
We showed what happens when the sea floor spread
using cookies and a pudding cup. We poked a hole
in the top of the cup and held two wafers over the
hole. Then we squeezed the pudding and slowly
moved the wafers apart. The pudding rose and
filled in between the wafers. This represents
magma coming up between two divergent layers.
Braden
We threw boomerangs on the first day of
school. If we couldn’t make them work right,
we had to change the way we threw them.
We learned that scientists often have to try
things several different times to get certain
results. We also learned that we have to tell
someone exactly how we did an experiment
so they can get the same results.
Seth
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We learned about the plates that make up the
Earth’s surface. They are always moving. To show
what happens when they move away from each
other, we put two wafer cookies over a pudding cup
with a small hole in the top. When our partner
squeezed the pudding, it flowed up through the two
cookies and filled the gap with pudding. In real life
the pudding is lava.
Isabella
Middle School
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5th Grade:
Social Studies– This month in social studies we are learning about the
election, and one fun activity we did to help us understand the process is
we held our own election for the class. We each had to make little
posters, then we had to come up with our own values and policies.
Next, we had to cast a vote in the primary election for the person whose
poster had the best values that we agreed with, and whoever had the
most votes from their party became the candidate. After we did that, we
had to make big posters for the candidates and now the whole school is
voting.
Avery
Language Arts– In Language Arts we wrote stories with multiple
people. First, one person wrote the exposition, then the next person
wrote the rising action. The third person wrote the climax, the fourth
wrote the falling action, and the last person wrote the resolution. After
we finished writing one of the parts, we would hand it over to a classmate sitting next to us.
Karsten and Draecon
Bible– Every Friday a class takes turns doing chapel. Two weeks ago
the middle school did chapel. Our theme was agreeing, or finding ways
to get along, with other Christians. In two weeks we do chapel again.
Chloe
Reading– In reading, we made our own “pumpkin boxes” after we read
the story The Pumpkin Box together. This story helped me realize that
friendship is important. One of the reading strategies that we practiced
was making predictions and inferences based on our background
knowledge and what the author wrote.
We are also reading The Secret Garden. We have made a lot of flowers
for our classroom garden.
Emberly
6th/7th Grades:
Bible- On September 14th, the middle school did chapel. It was
about how Christians should get along and find ways to agree with
one another. We are doing chapel again next Friday. I think it will
be really good, and I hope everyone else likes it, too.
Right now we are learning about how to tell if Jesus is really the
Son of God or not. Some people believe in him and some don’t.
Isabella
Language Arts- In Language Arts we’ve been learning about
sentence structure. I’ve learned that simple sentences are
independent clauses, but dependent clauses can’t stand alone. A
complex sentence has an independent clause and one or more
dependent clauses.
Braden
Social Studies- In Social Studies we have been learning about the
electoral process. The candidates for president have to go through
a lot of stages to become president. First you have to declare that
you want to be president, … then when only two candidates are
left, you take the vote. Our class has decided to do a mock election. The candidates for our grades are Braden and Seth. Who
will win?!
Isaiah
This month in Social Studies, we have been learning about the
electoral process, and how the people vote for our president. We
are holding our own election in our class for the 5th graders, and
6th and 7th graders. The 5th grade candidates are Chloe and
Avery, and the 6th/7th grade candidates are Braden and Seth.
Jacob
Reading- In reading we have been reading The Call of the Wild.
It’s a good book. We have been learning word phrases, too. I like 8
word phrases the best.
Seth