jstefan posted on February 03, 2010 10:34
Crest Lane celebrated a School Spirit Day by wearing a hat to school on January 14. What a wide variety of hats! After lunch everyone gathered in the music room so they could enjoy each other’s finery. Students then voted on different categories. The categories and winners were as follows:
Silliest hat - Matthew Ullom and Abby Smuda
Most practical hat– Gabe Bonds
Tallest hat - David Wong
Fanciest hat – Mackenzie Chavious
Most Colorful Hat - Rachel McNeave
Most hats worn – Matthew Pesek
Smallest hat – Cory Sipes
Floppiest hat with a wide brim – Akira Misselhorn and Hayden McGuire
Most Creatively made or altered hat – Astrid Tejel and Garrett Short
Plainest hat – Naomi Crawford
All who participated enjoyed a treat, and winners chose a prize from the prize box.
The students have decided that for the next semester our mission project will be Haiti. We have not set a goal, but all donations will be given to ADRA for all the relief work that needs to be done. We all felt very strongly impressed about this decision. We pray that the church and the Holy Spirit will join in this new direction these last months of school.
The students and I hope you enjoy the Haiku poetry they created. For those of you are unfamiliar with this Japanese style of poetry, it is a 17-syllable word painting. It has 3 lines and is nature based. It follows the outline of 5 syllables in the first line; 7 syllables in the second line; and 5 syllables on the third line. It never rhymes and is filled with sensory images. Imaginations engaged!
Leaves
Lovely veins run through
Change hue through the long hard year
Soon they die peacefully
- Brooke Barbour
A blanket of snow
Covers the hills in whiteness
Everything is still
- Rachel McNeave
Raindrops fall on trees
Leaves collect pools of water
Birds sip from leaf cups
- Abbie Smuda