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Hey Afterschoolers (and their parents)!

I have some really exciting news for our program! For those that don't know me, I'm from Pendleton County. Anyway, I've been talking with Pendleton's high school "A-Team" (Art Club), and I heard that they are doing this cool ArtStart program with Northern and Southern Elementary school. Well, guess what! If all works out, they will start coming to our AfterSchool program once or twice a month! I've very excited to have them come to visit us and watch the kids challenge themselves and learn from the fun activities!

Next exciting news for this post's agenda: Listening Center/Computer time.  My mom has revived my old college laptop so we now have two computers to use during Afterschool. My personal laptop is full of kids learning games that they can play, and the other will be used for specific children's learning and game sites. I will also be having books on CD's so kids can listen to them.  With this being said, if your child could bring their own headphones to keep in my class, that would be great. This would allow them to stick their headphones in the computer or CD player so they can listen to the story/game. If not, it could cause a lot of chaos with all the noise.  Or, if you would like to purchase them from me, I have them for $2.

Last thing for today: Friday is Wii day! During the 4 o'clock hour we will be playing games like Wii Fit, Wii Sports, Just Dance, and other games that require a little physical activity. I'm sure there will be lots of picture on that day, so I'll be sure to post pics before the Holiday weekend is over :)

Welcome to the 2011-2012 School Year!

2011 School year has already started! Crazy! We've already had to start doing homework here in AfterSchool! The first week or two are always a little crazy and different with getting into a routine because of schedules. Not everyone stays everyday, so some kids haven't even had their first days with us. But, that doesn't mean we aren't busy playing and learning!

We've been talking about our favorite things, and how God made everything. We've also been singing the song "Who's the King of the Jungle", so if you've heard that song... or seen them acting like an animal... that might be why :)

We've also been enjoying yoga, keychain making, and the dice exercise game. Plus, the playground outside.


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Be a Missionary...

This week we will be talking about missionaries. We'll be getting the 5 W's & 1 H questions answered for us as we try to investigate what the word "missionary" really means!

If you start hearing a clapping song about being a missionary everyday...well, now you know where it's coming from! I'll post a video later of them singing it!

April 21st

Okay! Now that I have everything uploaded from the old site onto this one, we should be able to keep it running until the end of the school year! Sorry for the lack of updates, but for some reason all the videos left the old site, and then it stopped letting me put new posts up. So, I decided to make a new blog all together. This is our last day before Easter, and we have been working on learning what happened during Holy Week, and the Resurrection of Jesus. They had fun making "Resurrection Rolls" earlier this week. We took crescent rolls, then stuck a marshmallow in the middle and rolled them up. After they baked, we opened up the rolls (Tomb) and saw that the marshmallow was gone! Not only did it help understand what we were learning about, but it was a very tasty treat as well!

Feb. 28th

Unfortunately, I can’t find my cord to upload photos and videos from my phone. However, here is a little update with what we have been up to!

We’ve recently learned a little about valentine’s history. For about a week, we examined different valentine’s day “Legends” . We learned that no matter what the “Legends” say, the stories were all focused on love, and that love comes from GoD. Be expecting to hear an afterschool trio at the talent show singing the “Love song” we learned that week, too!

Now that most of the afterschoolers have learned the old testament, we are focusing on finding the books within the bible. Soon we will start learning the new testament.

LAst week we started our unit about the armor of god. Be expecting many pictures and videos to come with this unit, and from the past month! 

January 2011

Today we had the first few afterschoolers get their first touchdowns! That means that they have finally reached the end of the old testament! They have memorized them, along with knowing the first letter of the books in sign language. Here is the finished video that we made together to help them memorize the books!

Also, we are about to finish up our unit on jonah. Since I didn’t have much of a voice last week, luckily veggie tales had it covered with their full length Jonah movie. Afterschoolers had fun watching the video and learning about following God.

Bible Football Update (Nov 20th)

The kids have been playing hard during their time here at afterschool. They’ve had practice, drills, scrimmages, and games during the first few weeks of bible football. But now, to change it up a little bit, we are going to play brazilian bible football, which is soccer. 

Also, the students are working on learning the books of the Old testament. Later, I will add the video that we made together that we are using to help learn the books!