🔷🔴🟨Our talented first-grade artists have been hard at work, unleashing their creativity with a palette of primary colors, a dash of imagination, and a sprinkle of abstract shapes. The result is beautiful three-dimensional art.
🧠🌟 They're learning to see the world through a new lens, where every shape and color holds endless potential for expression and creativity.
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🐠🌳 For the past month, our biology students have been observing ecological interactions and nutrient cycling. They crafted miniature worlds teeming with life inside of two, 2 Liter bottles. An aquatic and a terrestrial ecosystem were created and then connected, and then the magic began!
🌿💧Inside their ecosystems were minnows, aquatic plants, wood sorrel (terrestrial plants), grass seeds, a cricket, and worms. Students gained a deeper understanding of the delicate balance that exists within ecosystems, and the interconnectedness of all living organisms. 🌎
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🧤🔍 Hands-on discovery and learning is the name of the game in 7th grade Life Science class.
🔬🐸Their latest adventure was uncovering the inner workings of frogs and what amazing little creatures God created. This unit brought mixed reactions and levels of enthusiasm, but they all came with their curiosity and good attitudes!
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🪨 🌅 He is not here, for he is risen! May we be encouraged by the promise of hope, the power of forgiveness, and the victory of light over darkness.
🙏🕊️ We pray you and your loved ones have a blessed Easter filled with the assurance of God's unfailing love.
🏫 We can't wait to see you back at school on Tuesday, April 2nd!
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🇬🇹Guatemala Update:
Today kicked off a one-day VBS for Nueva Vision School, run by Nueva Vision Church. This is the school’s second academic year, and it came about as a dream to reach the community through Christian education to disciple children and turn their hearts toward Christ. Pastor Lester shared several testimonies of how their students have become excited to attend school–even coming early to talk to their teachers and help out–and have also turned entire families’ hearts to Jesus as the children learn truth, speak wisdom, and pray. With many of us students and teachers having been around since the start of UCA almost five years ago, we’ve experienced that investment and seen the impact for ourselves.
The VBS was amazing! Our teams worked to share the story of Moses learning courage at the burning bush (fully presented in Spanish!), create bracelets with the word “valor,” and play soccer in the courtyard. The highlights after dinner included love, gratitude, and perspective shifts about life and faith. We’re excited to spend time with the Provee scholarship students tomorrow as we treat them to a day off at the water park and beach!
As always, thank you for your prayers for our team!
–The UCA Travel Team
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🏆 👏 The third quarter has ended, so we have another opportunity to select and honor "Students of the Quarter." These students are chosen based on their display of our House Essentials as part of our House System. These are character traits we aim to foster in every UCA student: trustworthiness, humility, compassion, reverence, and more.
💚💛 For elementary, we have a kindergartener Linnea, representing the Fide House. For middle school, we have 7th grader Bella, representing the Scriptura House. Well done, girls!
Next week, we will announce the selection for high school.
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🌿👋 Hosanna!
What a joy to see our adorable PreK students in their very own parade, waving palm branches with excitement! With smiles as bright as the sun, they marched the halls and toured the office, sharing the significance of this story. 🌞
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🙏 🇬🇹 Pray for our Missions Team!
16 students and 5 teachers are on their way to serve in Guatemala. This team is giving up their Spring Break to share the gospel and be the hands and feet of Jesus.
Join us in praying for our students: Alec, Winston, Tobias, Joyce, Ava, Josh, Julia N, Ana, Kaya, Julia D, Makaela, Nick, Lauren, Jeremiah, Matea, and Hayden. And our teachers are Mrs. Larson, Miss Hawthorne, Mr. Hendrickson, Ms. Luttio, and Mrs. Nerdahl.
Stay tuned for updates!
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📸🚌Throughout this school year, our Photography and Photo Editing students have been honing their craft, and exploring various genres of photography. This week they put their skills to the test on a field trip to the Mall of America.
🏃♂️📷From stop-action shots freezing a moment in time to show motion images capturing the dynamic energy around us. They also delved into tilt zoom techniques, experimented with different perspectives, and explored the endless possibilities of visual storytelling through our lenses. 🌀🔍
Our students demonstrated a remarkable range of skills. 👏
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📽️🎞️Our Film Studies students have spent the last two units studying film composition and mise-en-scene. Mise-en-scene encompasses every element and its placement inside a frame of film, and in a movie, we assume all of it has meaning.
🎥🎬Not only have students analyzed individual and overall film composition, but in small groups, also planned and photographed their own images. These images included some of the 15 elements of film composition, such as rule of thirds, lines & shapes, dominant & subsidiary contrasts, density, open/closed form, framing, character placement, balance, depth, etc. They finished off by analyzing each other's images in class.
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🧪🔍Our sixth-grade science class delved into the world of chemical reactions! Our curious minds took on the challenge of testing three separate experiments to uncover evidence of these reactions and determine what makes an endothermic or exothermic reaction.
🧂🥄💧They observed closely as they combined yeast with hydrogen peroxide, water with salt, and vinegar with baking soda. Each time, they were eagerly awaiting signs of a chemical reaction. 💥
This introduction has left our young scientists eager to continue exploring the wonders of chemistry together!🤩
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"Camping Day" in the first grade🏕️
Science, Math, and other subjects were centered around a camping theme. Students had fun turning their classrooms into campgrounds with tents, campfires, s'mores, and more! 🔥
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🥧 Happy Pi Day!!
Our middle school math students enjoyed pie and other circle-shaped treats on 3/14, Pi Day, in honor of this important mathematical day!
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👶🍼Mixed emotions in Mrs. Brown’s classroom as last Friday was her final day of teaching for this school year. Our beloved 5th-grade teacher is preparing to welcome her third bundle of joy! The students and parents came together to organize a baby shower to express our gratitude and best wishes for Mrs. Brown and her growing family.
👋🎉As we bid a temporary farewell to Mrs. Brown, we also warmly welcome our new 5th-grade teacher, Mrs. Charlton! This will be a seamless hand-off, as she was with us first semester in the 3rd grade as a student teacher, and we are confident that she will bring a fresh perspective, energy, and passion to our classroom.
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🏀 👏Congratulations to Sophomore Josiah for scoring 1,000 points!
Welcome to this elite club, job well done!
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🗳️🏛️ Our Civics classes had an unforgettable experience this Tuesday! They visited the precinct polling place at BGU to witness the democratic process in action and fired away with their burning questions. 🤔 Plus, they were able to see an adaptive voting machine - now that's some seriously cool tech! 🤖
They were then given the chance to earn extra credit by visiting their very own polling places. Experiencing democracy firsthand and making their voices heard! 🇺🇸👏
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🧼👐Our 7th graders just wrapped up an amazing hands-on experiment! They delved into the world of bacteria and viruses and conducted a super cool handwashing lab.
🦠💡Using glow powder to mimic germs and a black light to unveil the "yuck," they put their hypotheses to the test.
🤔🔬After some serious investigative work, our young scientists discovered that 20-25 seconds of washing with soap, paying particular attention to fingernails, wrists, and the sides of their hands, proved to be the most effective technique.
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Don't miss out! 🐦⬛🎟️ Early bird ticket prices end soon!
Denim & Diamonds 2024 is an amazing community event at which funds will be raised to support every UCA student.
We invite you all to participate. It won't be the same without you!
Prices increase (by $15 per ticket) on March 17, so take advantage of this deal!
💎$35 per ticket
💎$280 per table of eight
Find more information and purchase tickets here: onecau.se/denimanddiamonds2024
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✋ ✋Many hands make light work!
Thank you to our PreK community who came together to get the job done. Fourteen cubic yards of wood chips were delivered recently to top off our PreK playground area. All of these hard workers tackled this project in less than one hour! They earned their well-deserved snack break!
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🏀 Last home game for our Varsity Girls Basketball team!
The section quarterfinal game will be held on our homecourt Saturday at 6pm.
👏 Come cheer the girls on as they take on Christ Household of Faith and try to advance to the next round.
Go Thunder!
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