November 2013

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School Carnival (w/ dunk tank)


On Friday, November 15, we had the school carnival (fairy tale / fantasy theme). This is put on every other year; International Day occurs during the other years. Different grades have different booths and the kids and parents and teachers take rotations manning the booths. The 7th graders had a dunk tank, which our employees built. It was great! The kids asked students and teachers to take shifts in the dunk tank.

People purchased tickets and each booth had a sign identifying how many tickets were needed.

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3rd grade had a Rapunzel rope for people to climb and then they went own the slide afterward.

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4th grade had a bean bag toss game. If you landed on a square with a frog you had to kiss a frog (there was a bucket with a bunch the kids caught from around school). If you really didn’t want to kiss a real one you could kiss the plush one. Then you could get a piece of candy.

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I think it was 2nd grade that had the limbo game.

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5th grade had golf games with a Minecraft theme.

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Here’s the first grade booth.

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8th grade had mystery boxes. The kids were searching for keys amidst the dragon intestines (spaghetti noodles) and other “nasty” substances.

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The high schoolers had a face painting booth.

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The 6th grade booth had water guns to shoot off ping pong balls (the heads of giants who had captured a princess). (I think that’s the proper explanation of this booth.)

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The 7th graders had a dunk tank. Our employees built it during the 2 weeks before carnival. It was a big hit! Most of my pictures are from this booth.

 

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The 7th graders took shifts being in the dunk tank (some of them), collecting tickets, retrieving the soft balls after a person threw them, and manning the back of the target in case it malfunctioned (and the person needed to be dunked manually).

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Mr. Becker, our band and music teacher, took a turn in the dunk tank. This is his oldest son dunking him.

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My student teacher took a shift.

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Some of the students were so excited to dunk a teacher.

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Some of them threw really hard too!

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The wooden target fell off, so here it is being attached more firmly. The throws were so hard it loosened the screws.

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Some of the high school students took shifts as well.

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There was always a line of people ready to have a throw at the dunk tank!

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This kinder student had a great arm.

 

 

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Even some of the parents enjoyed dunking people.

 

 

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One of our middle school teachers, Mr. Miller, had a rather long line.

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I took the last shift in the dunk tank.

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After drying off a bit a couple of the girls wanted a picture. We had a fun day!

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7th & 8th Grade Classes


I thought you might enjoy seeing pictures of my classes this year.

These are my 7th graders.

One of the boys was only here for the 1st quarter; I was glad to get a picture before he left.

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Of course we need a wacky picture not just a nice one. 🙂

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And here are my 8th graders!
The boys are outnumbered in this class.

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Some of these students are in my pre-algebra class as well.

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Spirit Week – Part 2


I just realized I never posted pictures from the rest of the week. I realize this is about 2 months late, but here is part 2!

Thursday was nerd day.

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Here are some of our middle school boys.

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And some of our middle school girls!

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Some of them really got the look down well!

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And others took a creative approach!

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Friday was backwards day. My look only lasted before classes began.

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Some of the kids looked almost creepy with how well they did their costumes.

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Here are some of my girls.

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And some of my boys.

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One of our teachers shaved part of his head and had a face there!

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Calling all teachers!


We recently completed a new recruitment video for our school – Faith Academy Mindanao!

It gives you a glimpse into the school campus, some of our teachers, and (most importantly) some of our students!

It is such a joy to teach here and I am so blessed to work with “my kids” every day at school.

If you’re interested in serving here please send me an email or comment here on the blog and I’ll get you connected with the right people.