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News from Teachers and Students at Grace
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Second and Third Graders Experience an Old-Fashioned School Day
On Tuesday, November 24, Grace's second and third grade classes, experienced what school was like a century ago. Students greeted their teachers, Mrs. Calhoun and Mr. Glock, with bows and curtsies, dipped drinks of water from a bucket, played hoops and leapfrog at recess, and wrote their spelling words on slates.
Volleyball Team Finishes Second in State Tournament
Grace Lutheran School's Boys Volleyball team took second place in the Lutheran Sports Association's state tournament in Springfield, November 6-8. Eighth graders Trent Nordberg and Aaron Allen were named to the all-tournament team. The Grace River Forest Vikings were undefeated during their fall season and took first place in tournaments at Walther High School and Trinity Lutheran School, Roselle. Coach Diane Carioscio said, "The boys played their hearts out. I'm proud of them all!
Service Project Feeds Hungry Children Around the World
On October 29th Grace students in grades 3-8 participated in a Feed My Starving Children packing session at Concordia University. Working in teams, they measured ingredients, weighed and sealed the bags, and packed completed meals into boxes to be shipped around the world. Participants in the Concordia event packed 100,872 meals!
Grades 2 and 4 Visit Naperville Art League and the Jurica-Suchy Nature Museum
Grace's 2nd and 4th grade classes recently traveled to Naperville to see the illustrations by Mike Venezia painted on the outside of the Naperville Art League's Fine Art Center and Gallery and to meet the artist in person. Venezia, a friend of Grace's visiting art lecturer, Rhea Sprecher, is the author/illustrator of the "Getting to Know" series, books for children on the world's greatest artists, composers, inventors, and scientists.
In the weeks before the field trip Mrs. Calhoun and the second graders had read many of the biographies of artists in the series and the children recognized many of the book's illustrations in the mural. Students were able to buy their own copies of the books and Mr. Venezia autographed them! Cries of "Who's got Calder? Who's got Cassatt?" were heard all the way home on the bus as students read and exchanged the books they had purchased.
On this trip the classes also visited the Jurica-Suchy Nature Museum on the campus of Benedictine University in Lisle. The museum houses nearly 10,000 specimens, helping visitors to appreciate the diversity of animal life and the necessity of being good stewards of our earth. Grace students were "detectives," searching the museum for answers to questions about animals and ecology.
