October 2014

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Volume 11, Issue 1

...the heights and strength of the hills are His...

Educating in Truth and Righteousness

Grandparents visitby A. Ellwein

Students honored their grand-parents and shared a little taste of school life Friday, September 12 as part of a Grandparents’ Day celebration. The event allowed students to invite all grandparents from anywhere, even adopted grandparents and was scheduled close to National Grandparents Day observed September 7.

Grandparents and students enjoyed muffins, juice and coffee in the morning. The high school choir sang “Be Thou My Vision” and “Amazing Grace.”

Mr. McDonald spoke to the guests and then the grandparents were invited to visit classrooms and observe activities.

Students run for moneyby K. Vandorn

Thirty six elementary and junior high students got up early on a Saturday morning in September to raise money for the school. Students ran distances ranging from 1/4 mile to two miles at Anneberg Park as part of the Body First School Fit-ness Challenge.

Students from area schools participated with monetary prizes awarded for participation. FHCS got first place for highest percentage of students participating at 32.14%. The school made $10 a person for the first 30 people. With 36 of 112 students going, the school received about $1200.

Miss Williams, who coordinated participation for the school, said, “It was a great time of fellowship that provided family and school collaboration.”

One of the kindergarteners said his favorite part was the new water bottle he got. Lily B., third-grader, said that her favorite part was running through the woods near the end of the course.

Students hike up Jesus is Lord Hill at Living Water Ranch in preparation for worship at sunset during the retreat. Students were silent during the prayer walk and stopped to look up and meditate on verses along the way.

Muffins, juice, coffee and tea are ready for the guests and

students.

Third graders line up to start the 1/2 mile run.

photo by B. Linville

photo by J. Williams

photos by K. VandornAJ introduces his grandfather

to the first grade class.

Mr. McDonald receives a $1000 check for the second place winner in Manhattan Town Center’s Grand for Grade Schools’ contest in August.

photo by E. Dunaway

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Recycling pays offby M. El-Aasar

The English Class recently received some new MacBooks. Howie’s Recycling donated these Macs and Mrs. Wilson said she feels “blessed”.

There will be some new changes in the English Class since the Macs arrived. The students will be doing some papers and noredink.com, an internet site to learn grammar in the English language, on the Macs instead of in the library.

Mrs. Wilson was very excited when the computers arrived. The English room will be getting a new cabinet soon so she can put the Macs in them.

Last year she often said that we didn’t have any good laptops that worked well so these Macs really do go above and beyond.

The Bible 7&8 class did skits on the book of Luke. Above Dominic plays a Roman soldier and stabs Matt ‘Jesus’ in the side. Below

Niamh nails Elijah ‘Jesus’ to a cross.

Mrs. Wilson is excited about the new Macs.photo by J. White

photo by L. Linville

photo By E. Dunaway

Wake up singingby L. Linville

While some students struggle to get to school on time, sev-en secondary students come to school forty minutes early to prepare and practice music for weekly chapels.

Praise Band is made up of seven members: eighth graders Mary El -Aasar, Austin Ellwein, Lily Linville, freshman Kelsey Warren, sophomore Caleb Linville, junior Ashlyn Shultz and senior Chaustin Root.

Lily, Kelsey and Ashlyn are singers, Mary plays keyboard, Austin plays piano, Caleb plays drums, and Chaustin plays guitar.

Praise Band performs contemporary Christian music at the beginning of chapel for about ten minutes, and some other events, like retreat. They practice every Tuesday and Thursday from 7:40 to 8:15.

While the Praise Band members all work together, they all had different reasons for joining.

“I joined Praise Band because it is very fun and Mr. Carter sometimes buys us muffins,” Mary said. She encouraged new students to join because it really is a great experience.

Austin said, “I wanted to just play piano for the band origi-

nally, but when I didn’t get that opportunity, I decided to join Praise Band. It is a good experience, because I think I should get involved praising the Lord more often.”

He encouraged more people to join because they often get breakfast and it is really fun.

This is Mr. Carter’s second year advising Praise Band. As much time as he focuses on his other classes, he still helps Praise Band make great music every week.

October Birthdays3 Michael S.6 Mitchell G.7 Sophie D. Parker E.9 Danielle D.12 Mrs. Mullin Miss Seley17 Sienna H..19 Harvey A. Mrs. Helmick21 Daniel G.23 Evan H. 26 Mrs. Root31 Dyontae D.

November Birthdays8 Elizabeth F.10 Leah S.14 Samuel D. Elizabeth D. Jacob G.21 Simon S.22 Brady S.23 Kelsey W. Mrs. Evans25 Kiaria C.26 Mr. Woods30 Kendall V.

Classroom Features Warrior NeWs/october 2014

page 3Mrs. Shaffer

by E. Dunaway and J. WhiteMrs. Shaffer’s favorite part of

the school year may already be over. That is because her favorite part of teaching is right after the first few weeks of school when all the kids start really opening up and being goofy.

Although Mrs. Shaffer, the new fifth grade teacher, has been teaching for six years, this is her first year teaching at a private school and she really likes it.

“I like that I can pray out loud any time I want,” she said.In her spare time, she loves to cook. Her mom used to say,

“Never trust a skinny cook.” Mrs. Shaffer loves to cook roasted mashed potatoes “because it’s super easy, but it tastes really good. It just tastes so scrumptious.”

She loves cheese, but is lactose-intolerant so she has to be careful about what kind and how much she eats. Mrs. Shaffer just got married a month ago.

She goes to New Hope which is a non-denominational church. Before she moved to Manhattan, she lived in Texas and went to another non-denominational church.

“I grew up in a Nazarene church and I went to a Wesleyan college, so, I’m kind of a denominational mutt.”

She has taught at a school in a big city as well as in a small town.

She said, “Manhattan is kind of between city and small town.”

She really enjoys teaching, especially the first few weeks of school. She is excited for this year.

“The first days of school are always fun because you never know what they are going to say and everyone’s on their best behavior. Then kind of after that you get to find out who ev-eryone really is.” she said.

Miss Reynoldsby M. El-Aasar and L. LInville

¿Te gustan los nuevos pro-fesores? To understand and answer this question, go no further than first year Span-ish teacher Miss Reynolds.

A Kansas State Univer-sity graduate with degrees in both theatre arts and Spanish, Miss Reynolds has been speaking Spanish for four years. She decided to come here to work with students with a strong faith in Christ. The need for a Spanish teacher confirmed her decision.

She said that she enjoys sharing Spanish with others, and wanted to teach Spanish so that students can have a second language to open their minds. She also wants to teach Spanish just because “it’s cool.”

Miss Reynolds has a one-year-old dog named Bingo. She also has one brother named Matthew and one roommate named Marilyn.

Miss Reynolds goes to University Christian Church or UCC, a non-denominational church in town.

Miss Reynolds favorite things to do in her spare time are singing and theater. Her favorite foods are potato soup, tacos and quesadillas.

As the school year started, she got a new-to-her, used car in blue, her favorite color. She likes closed-toed running shoes and has about four pairs of shoes in her closet.

The Sombrero is a hat in her classroom which the Spanish students will wear on their birthday. She will wear the Som-brero during finals week.

She has a Batman obsession which is, “As big as the Bat-cave.” The only country she has been to is America, but her favorite country is Ecuador.

Miss Seleyby A. Ellwein and K. Vandorn

This is Miss Seeley’s first year teaching and she seems to be enjoying it. She has a little expe-rience of teaching beforehand as a teachers assistant. Miss Seely said “I love to come into school every day to see all of my won-derful students in class.”

As a basketball player in high school, she had played some games here, and the memory of the school stuck with her. Now she is teaching full time for the kindergarten class. Her all-time favorite class to teach is Bible.

She has two cats named Marley and Charley. She loves Christian music, especially “Your Word, My Life.” She attends church at New Hope.

She said that she liked Flint Hills in general and would not want to change anything so far. She has decided that this is “a wonderful place to work”

photo by E. Dunaway

Austin Ellweinby M. El-Aasar

The secondary band not only has new members but also a different looking instrument—a white plastic trombone. The student behind the white trombone is new eighth grader Aus-tin Ellwein, who also plays the piano in Praise Band.

He has been playing piano for about eight years, and his favorite composers are Mozart, Beethoven, Pachelbel, Franz Liszt, Joe Hisaishi, and many Christian Artists.

His favorite song to play on the piano is “The Merry Go Round of Life.” He doesn’t have a favorite song on the radio. He has also been in four plays.

A son of military parents, he has lived in four other states and he may be moving in January. The states where he has lived are South Dakota, Virginia, Maryland and Kansas.

Austin enjoys the classes history, English, band and news-paper. He does not like the amounts of homework. he also thinks there are a lot of new standards to follow. Austin enjoys our “eighth grade posse”.

His favorite types foods are Chinese, Italian, Asian food. His favorite desserts are cookies, donuts, and ice cream.

photo by M. El-Aasar

photo by A. Ellwein

Sportspage 4Warrior NeWs/october 2014

“This season was very fun. This year was very competitive and I have never been this competitive before.”—Ashlyn Shultz Senior high volleyball

Saydi passes a tip from the other team and sends it to the setter.

Volleyballhighlights

Cross Country and Ultimate

The football team huddling, with a beautiful sunset behind them at Sunrise

Christian Academy.

Warrior News is a monthly newsletter for students, families, and friends of Flint Hills Christian School. The purpose of this newsletter is to enable students to develop and enhance their gifts and abilities while helping to build the Christian community within our school. Comments or suggestions for improvement may be emailed to fhcsnews@gmail.com. Past issues of Warrior News may be found at issuu.com/warriornews.

2014-2015 Newspaper Staff—Elizabeth, Austin, Jordan, Austin, Mary, Kaden and Lily

photo by K.Vandorn

photo by C. Linville

Mr. Brusk catches the Frisbee in the Ultimate Frisbee match.

Football

Jordan, Kirk and Barnabas warm up before their Cross Country meet at Riley County

October 11.

Thoughts on the season

“I think our team continued to grow in unity with each other, and strong friendships were built within the team.”—Jordan White JH volleyball

“I like the volleyball season because I got to grow in my relationships with my friends and they became my sisters.”—Lily Linville JH volleyball

Dani takes a hard serve from the

other team. “I really enjoyed it because I have never done sports before and it was a good chance to build team unity and to get to know my teammates.”—Elizabeth Dunaway JH volleyball

“It was a lot of running , and I beat my my own running time and Coach Brusk’s running time.”—Joey Crespino Cross Country

“It was very fast paced when I got to throw the winning score.” —Sam del Toro Ultimate Frisbee

“It was good and hard, but it was really worth it.”—Josh Ward Football

photo by J. Jackson

The senior high girls huddle after a play.