December in 4SA

Merry Christmas from 4SA

Service Hours Begin This Term!

For many, the concept of service hours is a new one. This post is written to help both students and parents understand how this works.

Grade four students are asked to earn a total of 8 service hours between now and early March. Service hours can be earned at home, school or at church. Regular chores should not be counted as service. Some ideas include gardening, snow removal, washing the car, vacuuming out the car, organizing recycling, child minding, chores over and above ones that are regularly done at home, and helping out at church. There may also be opportunities to earn service hours at school doing small jobs for teachers or picking up garbage outside.

The key is that students need to actively pursue opportunities rather than expect them to materialize.
Every time your child earns an hour of service time please send a note to school so the teachers can track them. We hope that this will help inspire our students to think beyond themselves and seek out opportunities to serve. Please contact your child's teacher if you have any questions.

French Numbers 1-20

Handel's Messiah for Young Voices

Please join us tonight for the grades 4-7 Christmas concert!  We are delighted to share this wonderful arrangement of music and singing with you!  All cast needs to arrive at the church for 6:00 pm and the choir for 6:30 pm.  The performance begins at 7:00 pm.

4SA Explores Balloons and Air

4SA Dialogues with Materials

4V - Energy Shift Workshop

Energy Shift 4 Workshop

A huge thank you to Miss Lamb who visited each of the three grade four classes today!  Miss Lamb presented Surrey's Energy Shift 4 - a program developed by the city of Surrey to provide students with an opportunity to explore renewable and non-renewable energy sources as well as energy conservation.  We learned about the connection between energy, greenhouse gases and climate change.  The highlight of the workshop was building solar powered cars!

Opportunity to Be a Blessing!

Surrey Christian School is partnering with the Cloverdale Christmas Hamper Program this year.  Each grade has been assigned an item to collect for the program.  Grade four has been asked to collect jars of store bought jam.  If you are able to help us help the Cloverdale Christmas Hamper Program, please send along some jam with your child. 

4SA in October/November

Remembrance Day Ceremony

As you know our story-line  this year is Journey Together to Discover God's World. Part of our journey was leading a Remembrance Day chapel where we helped others remember the many men and women who sacrificed their lives fighting for freedom. We never want another world war. We are working on peaceful solutions to the conflicts in our own life. We counted 118,000 red squares to represent all the lives that were lost during the many wars. We poured the squares slowly on the table in front of the school populations so they would have a visual as they remembered as well. BElwo is a short video of our chapel. 

We illustrated In Flanders Fields with our own art so that others too could see the importance of remembering. This will be featured in our next video. 

Enjoy!

Click on this link to see the video - created by Mr. Fernhout 

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4V - CDC #1

4V - Feed Peter Fish!

In 4V, we are exploring the idea that we are blessed to be a blessing.  We are learning that many people around the world do not live the same kind of life that we live.  For the next month, we are collecting coins and bills in a Peter Fish just like the one in the picture above.  Our goal is use this money to bless others.  A number of thoughtful ideas have already been discussed as potential options!  Students are encouraged to bring their own money - whether it is from their piggy bank or earned doing extra chores.  We will be collecting until December 8.  

500th Anniversary of the Reformation is TODAY!

Yes, today is Halloween. More importantly, today marks the 500th anniversary of the Reformation.

Camouflage as an Adaptation

In 4V today, we learned about physical and behavioural adaptations. This video is an AWESOME example of how cephalopods use camouflage as a survival tool.

4V at The Seymour Watershed

Our 4SA Journey in September

First Week in 4SA

4V - Inspiration for Learning Multiple Languages

Welcome Back!

We are SO excited to meet each and every one of you! We hope that you had a fabulous summer break and are ready to come back to school. Our prayer is that as you settle in to your new classrooms and get to know your teachers, you feel a sense of belonging and are eager to begin a new learning journey!

Mrs. Antonides
Mrs. Stegeman
Ms. Vander Heiden
Ms. Wiebenga

Last Day of School in 4SA

Tea Time with Ms. Stegeman in 4SA

SCS - Year in Review 2017

Video courtesy of Mr. Fernhout

SCS - Year in Review 2017 from Eric Fernhout on Vimeo.

1st Annual SCS Walkathon for Global Partners for Christian Education

1st Annual SCS Walkathon for Global Partners for Christian Education from Grade 5 @ SCS on Vimeo.

4V Field Work at the Surrey Museum

Spring in 4SA

4SA Learns About Sequoia Trees

Grade 4s @ Surrey Sports & Leisure

4V - Surrey Museum Field Work

ATTENTION: 4V Parents and Guardians

THURSDAY, MAY 11

4V will be doing field work around our First Nations unit at the Surrey Museum.  We are in need of parent drivers to take us there and return us to the middle campus.  Our plan is to leave at 9:30 am to be at the museum for 10:00 am.  The program ends at 11:30 so we will be back at the middle school by noon.  If you can drive, please email me at  jvanderheiden@surreychristian.com or write a note in your child's planner and let me know how many students you can take.  Thanks!

March/April in 4SA

Easter Food Bank Drive

As we prepare for Easter, we have been given a unique opportunity to serve others by bringing in contributions for the Langley Food Bank next week. Each grade from Kindergarten to grade 12 is competing to bring in the most food items. Students are asked to bring in a variety of items including: * cash donations * grocery store gift cards * canned fruits and vegetables * peanut butter / jam * canned stews * rice and pasta * baby food and diapers Please bring items between Monday, April 10 and Thursday, April 13.

An Ode to Mrs. Mahon, Our AWESOME Musical Director!

A HUGE thank you to Mr. Fernhout for putting this video together!

Back to the Cross - Director POV from Grade 5 @ SCS on Vimeo.

Back to the Cross

4V - Big Buddy Afternoon

We spent part of this afternoon colouring a variety of butterflies to be used as decorations for Grandparents' Day in April.  It was a great way to finish off the last day before spring break!

DRESS CODE FOR BACK TO THE CROSS MUSICAL

All grade four students need to bring the following items to school BY MARCH 28 in preparation for the Easter musical...

All choir members need:
 1) A PLAIN WHITE, short sleeved, loose fitting t-shirt. (No words or designs please. Students won’t be able to wear t-shirts backwards or inside out due to some of the choreography.)

 2) One fingerless glove.  They can be long or short gloves.  Bright colours would be great if possible since this is for the 1980s song.

 3) A pair of blue full length jeans - this doesn't need to come to school until the dress rehearsals on Monday, April 3.

 4) Dark solid coloured socks. (Students won’t be wearing shoes on the risers.)

5) A bandana.

Grade 4 Visits Fort Langley

January and February in 4SA

Chinese Dinner in 4SA

4V

Today was Luke's birthday and Samuel brought along his guitar so that he could play 'HAPPY BIRTHDAY' in honour of Luke's special day.  Thanks, Samuel!

4V - Pink Shirt Day!

4V agrees that every day should be anti-bullying day!  

Attention all grade four students and parents: 

THURSDAY, MARCH 9 
FIELD WORK AT FORT LANGLEY

Bus leaves at 8:45 am -  Returning at 12:35 pm

We need a few parents from each class to lead a brigade 

of 15 students through the fort. 

Please email your child’s teacher if you would like to be considered for this task.

4V Visits the Surrey Arts Centre

Sailing into Adventure by 4SA

4V Participates in Surrey's Energy Shift 4 Workshop

Congratulations to Matthew, Luke and Andrew for being the first group to successfully construct a solar powered car during our workshop today.  We learned a lot about the different energy sources that are available to us, as well as how choosing renewable energy is better for our planet in the long run.

Grade Four Learns About Hunting and Trapping from Mr. Miedema

4SA Acts Out the Story of God Calling Samuel

This Week in 4V

Recorder Karate - Brown Belt - Amazing Grace

Recorder Karate - Red Belt - Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star

Recorder Karate - Blue Belt - When The Saints Go Marching In

Recorder Karate - Purple Belt - Old MacDonald Had a Farm

Creative Friday in 4SA

Happy New Year