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Congratulations to all of the children and parents who participated in our first recitation contest. The preparation and joy that you displayed was beautiful to watch!
Awards for Participants:
Elizabeth Ortega
Reagan Kirk
Destiny Meza
Ciana Nicholls
Jonathan Smith
Johnathan Meza
Jack Fitspatrick
Jordan Terrell
Anya Nordquist
Gracie Rebbe
Alexis Kennedy
Mason Burke
Cole Burke
Kindergarten Winners:
1st Place – Claire Kang
2nd Place – Joey Moos
3rd Place – Geneva Smith
Lower Grammar [...]
Parents,
We are entering a very exciting time of the year. On Friday, I put two things in your child’s HW folder that I want you to take notice of. (1) They created an invitation for someone to come to Grandparents Day on Friday, May 11th. It is a small book they created and we want [...]
Parents,
We are going to the Camarillo Library this Wednesday, May 2nd just after lunch with the Kinder Club. If you want your child to check out a book from the library, please send their library card and the field trip permission form back to class with them on Wednesday. If you do not want your child to participate, [...]
Ladies,
Fire Safety
We will be discussing and practicing today what to do in case of a fire on campus. We will practice how to Stop, Drop & Roll if your clothes catch on fire. This may bring up new conversations at home. You are welcome to use the attached color page to practice at home. We [...]
Thank you for your patience as I am attempting to slow down the pace of our instruction without stopping, but the natural laws that surround inertia make that difficult. You may be feeling like you just got comfortable in your routine and now I am changing it up. Yes, I am. It will make it [...]
In her book, the Core- Teaching Your Children the Foundations of Classical Education, author Leigh Bortins, founder and CEO of Classical Conversations, gives us plenty of practice wisdom about what to teach our young children if we want them to have a classical education.
“Children are more willing to do hard things when they know they have achieved [...]
After reading some of your comments on the assignment sheets and observing the children in class, I have made a few adjustments to our curriculum. The first one is that for the rest of the school year, I will be the one to introduce new phonograms to the children in class and you will review [...]
We’re happy to announce that we’ll have a full time Kindy program next year! Amy Smith, wife of Headmaster Smith, will be teaching this class next year. She graduated from The Master’s College with a teaching degree, taught two years at West Valley Special Ed Center, and has five years of homeschool experience. She is [...]
Bible
On Tuesdays, you are welcome to open your family Bible or a children’s bible to read the passage that corresponds with the Bible Timeline color page. Although the 4th time through the Big Picture Story Bible may seem overly repetitive to you as the reader, I can assure you that your child enjoys the predictability of [...]
