Early Elementary Program: Our Preschoolers, Young 5s, and Kindergarteners also presented an awesome ocean theme program on Monday, May 22. They sang songs like “Deep and Wide” and “Oceans,” did some poems and verses, and made movement to music with scarves and hand motions. Their energy and excitement was contagious! Thanks to Mrs. Arendsen, our music teacher, Mrs. Van Wyk, our preschool teacher, and the other classroom teachers for their help in presenting a great program!
Under God’s Sea in 3D: Our 1st – 4th grade Spring program last night was a success! Mrs. Arendsen led the kids through a musical about looking for God in our lives. We should be daily diving deeper into God’s Word and God’s World. Different 3rd and 4th graders had lead parts, including a song and acting out the Biblical story of Jonah. The students did a great job singing, and reminded us to realize the depths of God’s love for us!
Family Group Friday (our last Family Group devotion day together this year!): Today we took time to remember many of the things where we saw how God is faithful to us – his evidence all around us! The students shared these in their circles with their group and wrote them on charts. Then the Middle School leaders read these to all when we joined back together to remember, to celebrate, and to sing our theme song: “Evidence” by Josh Baldwin. We are so grateful for many things, like how God kept us safe at school, how God gives us many friends, how we can help in Hand 2 Hand, how God loves our family, for creation around us, how we can learn about God in Spanish too, for healing and doctors, how God helps us to be strong and make good choices, and how God is soooo good!
You are invited to our Elementary Programs:
5th - 8th Program night with Band, Choirs, and Dance Team. Great ways to give honor to our God by using our talents and abilities!
Buddy Friday: Kindergarten and 5th Spanish: We were being courageous designers and joy-filled collaborators working together to build towers with pasta and marshmallows. We made plans and foundations, worked together, and at the end, we reflected on what worked and what was a challenge!
Buddy Friday: 1st and 6th grades - We talked about being a community builder and good sportsmanship. Then we put it to practice by playing kickball! We end with popsicles and bubbles! It does not get better than that!!! 😊
Elementary Chapel today was hosted by the 2nd grades and Kindergarten. They talked about our theme this month: Serving and Loving. The different classes talked about the service projects that they were involved in this year, and Miss Durham shared about her future missionary trip to Prague, Czech Republic, to serve Jesus. Mrs. Yonker’s class led us in a song about “Learn it, Love it, Live it!” We also saw a video of pictures of the many serving happenings that our students, classes, and school has been involved in this year. We praise God that we can learn about him, and serve him and show love to others!
The SI 1st Graders were assigned 1 or 2 friends from Guatemala. Each child has the chance to write a book to their Guatemalan buddies and buy them shoes. They now are taking time after their lunch to pray for their Guatemala friends! Here is a note from the teacher:
"I am just amazed at how the Lord can use these little ones to make an impact in the world for Him! They are loving to show God's light to others. In their own words: 'Nosotros podemos hacer a esos niños sentirse especiales porque ellos son creados espciales.' (We can make those children feel special because they are created special.) The sweet prayers of children! What a special bunch!!!"
Friday Family Groups: Today we met with our groups to talk about perseverance. In our circles, we talked about frustrations, feeling like giving up, and what God says about persevering. Gal. 6:9 tells us “Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.” One of our activities was to try to get a frozen penny out of an ice cube with limited tools. We then talked further how we felt and acted during that, and then we wrote on a star a dream or goal that we could hope to achieve with God’s help.
Chapel Friday: Evidence of the Spirit: Humility. Adam Forbes from Harvest Church shared with us about “Thinking of yourself less, and think of others more.” Our theme verse is from Phil 2:3-4 “ Be humble, thinking of others as better than yourselves. Don’t look out only for your own interests, but take an interest in others, too.” We were challenged in humility when we are with our siblings, families, or the people in our classroom. We sang some songs in worship and remembered that we can build our lives on Christ’s firm foundation, and he will never let us down.
Forgiveness Rocks Chapel: This morning we remembered the truths of Good Friday and Easter in our chapel. Our focus was on Jesus’s Love and Forgiveness. Our Middle School Dance Team did movements to “My Victory” by David Crowder. We sang about "Christ Alone", "The Wondrous Cross", and "Resurrection Power". We had a video about God’s Story of Easter. In addition, we also had our own Forgiveness video where different students talked about salvation and forgiveness, including pictures of our forgiveness rocks that we made a few weeks ago, and we were challenged to remember about how Jesus forgives us and to forgive others.
Parents and friends are invited to join us at our Young 5s/K - 8th grade Forgiveness Chapel : Thursday, March 30, at the FCS Gym at 8:15 am.
This week the First Spanish Immersion students made unleavened bread. The kids wanted to experience the “special bread” that God’s people eat the day they were set free from the Egyptian and that so many years later Jesus eat with his disciples at His last supper. We made the bread. We compared with regular bread and then we ate it. We finally took time to remember what Jesus had done in the cross and thanked him in prayer for his ultimate sacrifice. It melts my heart to see how this kiddos are learning and applying the Word of God!
Four more students completed the 100 Hours Outside Challenge! Way to go Lilly, Dakota , Breslynn, and Liam!
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On Wednesday, Mr. Fox came to read to some of the classes in lower elementary! It was so fun to hear the books he read to us. We also learned how he is representing Christ in his position as a representative!
Two more students completed the 100 Hours Outside challenge this week! We congratulate Allysin and McLaren for taking on the challenge!
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Family Group Friday: Forgiveness Rocks! Today we talked about forgiveness in our family groups. We reflected on how Jesus forgives us, and we need to forgive others. Today’s verse, Col 3:13 says, “Bear with each other and forgive one another, if any of you has a grievance against someone. Forgive as the Lord forgave you.” We talked about how forgiveness is tough, like carrying around a load of rocks, but God’s love and Holy Spirit can help us. We wrote on rocks about forgiveness, and we will be placing them around our school grounds to remind us about forgiveness.
Fremont Christian will be closed today due to weather conditions.
All School Chapel Friday: today the 4th graders hosted our chapel about patience and self-control. They reminded us that patience is waiting happily, and self-control is learning to manage ourselves. We were able to share with those sitting around us some examples of patience and self-control. Mr. M. Folkema shared more on these virtues, and then we watched a Biblical video about David and King Saul. Maestra Dena shared with us about a story about sunflowers, and how we need to stop, think, and choose well, as the 4th graders held up choice pictures. It was great to worship together and hear lots of good examples of the Fruit of the Spirit.
