Love: I listened to deep learning last week in an intermediate classroom on what love for God, others, and self looks like when they are balanced correctly. Profound thoughts for an emerging worldview.
Joy: Hearing grade seven students describe their experience trying out curling was evidence of their joy of being a community.
Peace: Junior students (grades 3-5) practice being peacemakers on the playground after having been
equipped with skills to see and resolve conflicts that can often be solved in simple ways.
Patience: Grade six, seven, and eight students help in the JK & SK classrooms and learn just how long it takes to eat lunch and get on snow gear when you are five or six!
Kindness: A Leave Others Encouraged bulletin board in the south hallway has names of students “caught” being kind by LCES staff by doing something as simple as sharing a lunch item for someone who forgot theirs.
Goodness: Through class devotions, novel studies, and class discussions I hear a vivid picture held before students daily of God’s “very good” creation and the good He wants us to experience.
Faithfulness: Students in several classes have personally signed and decorated LCES thank you cards that will eventually be sent to community donors who pray and give to support our school.
Gentleness: In December I watched a grade eight bus buddy walk past my office window patiently leading a kindergarten student to the bus in the middle of a temper tantrum. Graciousness and gentleness got the child on the bus.
Self Control: We work actively at LCES to help students understand academic and social expectations that are good for them and help them realize how to make things right when they have gone off the rails. It’s a joy to hear them self-report how they made a wiser choice the next time.
We do important work at LCES. May God bless our orchard!
SJ
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