School Door, Thursday, March 15, 2012 | EAST PALMYRA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL

March 15, 2012 (pdf)

EPCS Girls’ Volleyball and More

If you get the chance to see our EPCS Girls’ Volleyball team in action, you should take advantage of that! The girls played a double header on Tuesday and, although they lost both by a 3 – 1 margin, games were close and the young ladies represented our school well. Overhand serves were distributed in abundance, underhand serves went over when otherwise they had not yet, several bump, set, and over sequences were established, and smiles were plentiful. Score? Who cares about scores. We were having too much fun!!

Our team is a small one–8 players–and a young one–one seventh grader, five sixth graders, and two fifth graders (the youngest team I’ve ever had)–and a short one–tallest player is 5’ 4”. But it is also one of the liveliest, smileiest (is that a word?), supportive, and cooperative teams I’ve ever had. Each one listens to suggestions I give on technique and method, and each tries hard to make the necessary changes. I’m already looking forward to what the future will bring for these fine young ladies.

And what I appreciate as well is their desire to live (and play volleyball) as God’s children, for that is what and who they are! They understand what it means to support one another, to complement, even the other team members, when a ball is well-played. They understand that playing the game well means waaay more than what a score says.

We are blessed, here at EPCS, with the quality of our students, with the power of God’s Spirit in each of our students’ lives. Yes, we struggle with issues from time to time, with behavior situations, or with selfishness, or with (you fill in the blank). Sometimes life gets messy! But the Spirit roams these EPCS hallways and classrooms and playing courts and fields and offices and your homes, and that Spirit is in the hearts of these precious children. Sometimes God’s presence is just so obvious!

I am sitting in a double study with the students who are not in Band and Jazz Band. It is quiet here, very quiet, except for one of my ninth-grade students, who is carefully practicing her Pachelbel’s Canon guitar piece. We are all in awe of the beauty of the sound she is making. I, too, am in admiration of the talents of our students, some in their ability to play volleyball, some to write poetry, some to be so knowledgeable of history, some to be able to understand the relationship between “x’ and “y” in the slope y-intercept equation, some to make amazing art, some to play football at noon hour, some to be actors in drama, some to understand the moods and situations of others, some to realize how to apply their faith to actual day-to-day living, and this one, picking and strumming, making amazingly beautiful noise unto God, mistakes and all! We are God’s children and I for one praise God for that!!! Our God is greatly to be praised!

Again, if you get the chance to see our EPCS Girls’ Volleyball team in action, you should take advantage of that! But if you get the chance to come and visit our school, to sit in on and help with some of our classes, to experience our high schoolers, to have Hot Lunch with us on Wednesdays at noon, to just walk around in our halls and pray quietly for our school and for each of these hearts and for our finances and for, well for EPCS, then do that! Visit us. Come see who we are. We are a place of grace. We are where God’s children live and work, messy as it sometimes gets!. May God be praised!

EPCS High School Students Sing With Houghton College Choir

Several of our EPCHS students will join with other local Christian high school students to sing with the Houghton College Choir. The choir concert is scheduled for Friday evening, March 15, at 7:30 pm and will be held at the Asbury First United Methodist Church. Asbury First UMC is located on 1050 East Ave, Rochester, NY. Tickets are $10, $5 students and seniors. www.asburyfirst.org

EPCS Calendar

Thursday, March 15, 2012

NYS Trooper Robert Frost–Internet Safety Grades 6 – 12 9 am start
Noon Pizza Sale
Girls’ Volleyball AT Greece Christian 4 pm start
EPCS Open House–Tour and Information Night 7 pm – 8:30 pm

Friday, March 16, 2012

Teachers GRACE Conference Day–No School
HS Students Sing with Houghton College Choir–Asbury First United Methodist Church
Students at 4:30 pm Concert at 7:30 pm

Saturday, March 17, 2012

Wayne County Jr/Sr High instrumental All-County–2 pm at Marion High School

Monday, March 19, 2012

Girls’ VB Practice until 4:15 pm

Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Girls’ VB Match AT St. Paul Lutheran 4 pm start

Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Hot Lunch Today
EPCS Play Practice until 4 pm
Registration/Busing Deadline

Thursday, March 22, 2012

Girls’ VB Match vs Rochester School for the Deaf 4 pm HOME

Friday, March 23, 2012

Noon Pizza Sale

Monday, March 19, 2012

Girls’ VB Practice until 4:15 pm

And Beyond

Friday, March 30 Middle School Skills Competition
Friday, March 30 Young Artists Festival Concert
Tuesday, April 3 Report Card Distribution
Tuesday, April 3 (Aft and eve) Parent-Teacher Conferences–Half Day–Noon Dismissal
Wednesday, April 4 (Afternoon) Parent-Teacher Conferences–Half Day–Noon Dismissal
Wednesday, April 4 EPCHS Tenebrae Service–7:15 pm
Thursday, April 5 Good Friday Break–No School
Friday, April 6 Good Friday–No School
Monday, April 9 – Friday, April 13 Easter Break–No School
Thursday, April 19 EPCS Play–Crumpled Classics
Friday, April 20 Dutch Dinner
Tuesday, May 1 Charitable Giving Seminar
Thursday, May 3 Red Cross Blood Drive
Friday, May 11 St. John Fisher Science Exploration Day
Saturday, May 12 EPCS Middle/High School Pancake Breakfast and Dessert Auction
Friday, May 18 EPCS Spring Program

EPCS Calendar Changes

Please note the calendar changes for April 3rd through 5th. Parent –Teacher conferences will be held on Tuesday and Wednesday, and there will be no school on Thursday and Friday before the Easter break. Please change your calendars accordingly. Thank you.

WNYCSAA Girls Volleyball Schedule 2012

Tuesday, March 20       EPCS at St. Paul Lutheran       4pm       Away
Thursday, March 22       EPCS vs. Roch. Sch. Deaf       4pm       Home
Tuesday, March 27       EPCS at Roch Sch. Deaf       5:15pm   Away
Thursday, March 29       EPCS at Rochester Christian       3:45pm   Away
Tuesday, April 3       EPCS vs. Rochester Christian   4pm       Home

Cleaning this Week

Monday – Malach
Tuesday – Elliott
Wednesday – Paid
Thursday – Paid
Friday – VanCamp

EPCS Promotion and Enrollment Committee

We are looking for people to help with the promotion and enrollment committee. Most of the work is done by email but there will be a meeting here and there. Please call Erica VanCamp for more information. 926-0119.

Adopt-A-Bill

Our Adopt A Bill program is looking for people to consider “adopting” a bill. When you donate all or part of a bill, EPCS is truly grateful. Here are the bills that are available:

 Houghton Mifflin – text books – $169.92
Time Warner – phone / internet – $125.28
Natural Green – snow plowing – $200
Messenger Post – open house ads – $111.28

Young Artists Festival

We are looking for workshop leaders and helpers!! If you can draw (charcoals) or paint, you are especially needed.
If you are free the afternoon of March 30 and are willing to help out in any way, please contact me at or call the office. I promise you, it will be a fun and rewarding experience. Thanks!
jrachow@eastpalmyrachristianschool.com

EPCS Dutch Dinner

Mark your calendars for our Annual Dutch Dinner to be held on Friday, April 20th. MANY people are needed to cook and/or bake the dishes we serve, as well as people to work shifts. Please call Cheri Winslow (986-4240) or Linda Kellogg (331-6424) to sign up. Thank you!

Preschool and Kindergarten

Field Trip
We will be heading to the Everson’s Maple Farm this Tuesday. We will leave at 9:45 and be back before dismissal. If you are able to drive, please let me know ASAP, and be here by 9:30 so we can load up. If you are unable to join us, please leave your child’s car seat with me in the morning so I can have another parent drive them.

Word of the Week
‘off’ and ‘on’

Reading/ELA
(PK) Emphasis on letter ‘V’;
(K) Short vowel review and high frequency words

Math
We will have our assessment on Monday and then head into our new chapter – readiness for addition and subtraction.

Bible
We start the New Testament this week with stories of Jesus’ Ministry.

Health
Finishing up our senses with touch on Monday.

Science
We will be beginning a unit on the solar system.

There is no show and tell this week!

First and Second Grade

Assembly Video
If you would like a copy of the invention commercials, please send in a blank DVD (not CD).

Upcoming Field Trips
Tuesday, March 20th, to Everson’s Maple Syrup farm. If you haven’t already, please send in $1 for each child/adult attending. Car/booster seats must be here if your child is required by law to be in one.
Wednesday, March 28th, to the Planetarium. The cost is $5 per person (student/chaperon). Please send this in immediately if you haven’t done so already.

**Change for the Museum of play – it’s now Wednesday, April 25th, rather than Thursday the 26th.

Conferences
Please watch for the conference sign-up sheet coming home. I have some conflicts with the new conference schedule (remember we now have half days with conferences Tuesday (4/3) and Wednesday (4/4) with no school Thursday (4/5), so I will attach a sheet to the form with any times I cannot meet.

Writing
Nonfiction

Math
First Grade Money
Second Grade Test on time, data, and graphs on Tuesday. Then we’ll be starting length and capacity.

Bible
Easter. Memory work is Romans 5: 6, 8 and Matthew 28:18-20.

Science
Solar System

Social Studies
Work

Spelling
First Grade Words with the long /a/ sound spelled a_e (ie: cake, late, gate…) and ay;
Second Grade Words ending with -s (all are animal words).

Third and Fourth Grade

Spelling
We will be doing spelling List 27.

Artist of the Week
Henry Seurat

Bible
We will be learning about King Saul.

Social Studies
We are starting a Unit on Washington, DC.

Science
We will be continuing our rock unit. Students who have rock collections may still bring in their collections. We will be looking at their rocks throughout our unit.

Math
Third Graders The concept of division.
Fourth Graders Multiplying two digit by two and three digit numbers. If they don’t know their multiplication facts, flash card practice (either with cards or online) will be very helpful.

Field Trip
On Friday, April 27, we will be going to Tinseltown in Gates to see Disney’s “Oscar”. We will leave at 9 am and be back to school around 2 pm. I need drivers to help! The cost is $5 per person. Please let me know ASAP. Mrs. Fernaays

Have a great weekend!

Fifth and Sixth Grade

Spelling
We will Unit 22 next week.

Reading
We are starting a new unit (“A Question of Values”) in our readers. Our first story will be one of Aesop’s fables called “The Miser.”

Math
Fifth Grade Continuing to learn about fractions. They will work with greatest common factors, fractions in simplest form, and ordering and comparing fractions.
Sixth Grade Continuing a unit about percentages.

History
We should have a test over our unit on Ancient Rome early next week.

Bible
We will start a new unit about Jesus’ birth and early ministry.

Seventh and Eighth Grade

Old Testament Survey
We will continue looking at the Israelites’ journey through the wilderness.

St. John Fisher Science Exploration Day
Mr. V is looking for drivers to the St. John Fisher Science Exploration Day field trip on Friday, May 11. We are leaving EPCS around 8 – 8:15AM and leaving the college at 1:00PM. You are welcome to stay for the day if you’d like!

High School

Old Testament Survey
We will continue looking at the Israelites’ journey through the wilderness.

St. John Fisher Science Exploration Day
Mr. V. is looking for drivers to the St. John Fisher Science Exploration Day field trip on Friday, May 11. We are leaving EPCS around 8 – 8:15AM and leaving the college at 1:00PM. You are welcome to stay for the day if you’d like!

ELA 9
Nature poem/ description is due on Tuesday.

EPCS Band, Chorus, and Drama

Drama Practices
Crumpled Classics: Rehearsal Wednesday after school, 2:45-4:00 Act 2

Lessons

Monday 7:45 Alex, 8:15 Liam, 10:00 Jaelyn, 11:20 Leah
Tuesday 7:45 Hannah S., 8:15 Caitlin, 11:20 Kayla, 12:35 Claire, 1:05 Michelle, 1:30 Katie
Wednesday 10:00 Jordan
Thursday 1:30 Hannah T.
Friday 1:05 Hannah L., 1:30 Connor

Circle News

Hot Lunch
Hot lunch will be tacos or taco salad, fruit and dessert. Workers will be Laura Boss, Michelle Malach, and substitute worker.

Produce Sale
Produce sale packets went home this week. Please remember that orders are due to the school office by March 29th, and the money is to be collected at the time of the order. Orders can be picked up on Tuesday and Wednesday, April 3 and 4 during Parent Teacher Conferences. Please do not come before Noon on Tuesday the 3rd. Thank you.

Bottle and Can Redemption
We now have an account at the EZ Bottle and Can Return in Newark. The address is 1167 E. Union Street, Newark (right across from Colburn Park). You can still bring bottles and cans to school, or take them directly to the redemption center. Our account # is 1264. Thank you!

Boxtops for Education and Campbell Soup Labels
Please bring in your boxtops for education tabs and the complete label from Campbell Soups.

St. Pauly Clothing Box
Please continue to bring your used clothing to our St. Pauly shed located in the school parking lot. Please be sure your items are in plastic bags.

Cell Phones and Ink Cartridges
We continue to collect old cell phones and used ink cartridges.

Reflections
Reflections accepts household items and clothing on behalf of EPCS. Please place all items in bags and mark them for EPCS with our account number 95018 clearly written on them.

Donations Wanted
EPCS will take your scrap metal, old auto/motorcycle/lawnmower batteries or old appliances and recycle these items for cash, which will go towards the school. We cannot accept microwaves, TVs, or computers, since we have to pay to have these recycled. Please call Edison O’Brien at 331-4622 if you can help out. Thank You.