Academics News
Updated Elementary Curriculum Overviews
3/8/2010, Zachary Schroeder
Interested in what your child will be learning next year? Check out the updated Elementary Curriculum that Carolyn Sherrod, Sheri Aurand and the elementary teachers have put together.
ITK Earns Another Victory
1/26/2010, Laura Stier
The high school In the Know team of Derek York, Kyle Meeks, Zach Tomcik and Jillian Koval beat Upper Arlington last Tuesday night by a final score of 335 to 255. With this win the team advanced to the quarterfinals of the WOSU tournament where they will take on Delaware Hayes. This next match against Delaware Hayes is on February 2nd at 7:00 p.m. at COSI. Everyone should arrive around 6:30 to get in. Both matches will be televised on WOSU Channel 34. The match against UA will be televised at noon on February 21. The Delaware Hayes match will be televised at a time to be announced -- most likely in early March.
Guest Author Visits the Elementary Branches
1/24/2010, Carolyn Sherrod
Rene Meloche, the author of the “Heroes for Young Readers ” series, visited our elementary branches in December and inspired our students and staff with her own life story along with the riveting true stories found in the YWAM Christian biographies. These were stories about real people who chose to follow God and serve Him, no matter what the cost! For a full day our students listened to book readings, and participated in hands-on activities relating to the lessons learned. Our fourth and fifth graders also attended a writing workshop where they learned some basic principles to becoming a great writer. This time included trying their own hand at writing after being given a prompt, discovering how normal it is to have writer’s block and what to do about it! The best part of the day was seeing their interest in wanting to have some of these wonderful stories for themselves. In today’s world, our children need great heroes to look up to. Who better to have as some of their heroes than Jim Elliot, George Washington Carver, Mary Slessor, Eric Liddell, Harriet Tubman, Abraham Lincoln, Rachel Saint, and many, many more! Students in the upper elementary grades also will do a study of a Christian hero later in the year. This special day just whetted their appetite for more great reading!