Will Sing for New School Students Perform for 10 Hours, Raise $45,000 Olympia Christian School (OCS) was built old. After World War II, surplus buildings were brought from Fort Lewis and patched together to create a school. Now, years later, it's time for a new school.Fundraising efforts in the last three years resu... Read more
Shh! These Students Are Reading SAS Implements Reading Program A simple paper chain is really all it is. Yet to the kindergarten through fourth-grade students at Skagit Adventist School (SAS) in Burlington, Wash., the chain means something more.The students love to read.Each link represents a number of pages ... Read more
Snapshots of Christian Education In Washington Conference First- and second-graders at Buena Vista Elementary School donated an assortment of coins totaling $565.14 to Adventist Development and Relief Agency's Feed the Children program.Teachers Margie Lyman and Ruthie McPherson told their students how li... Read more
LCAS Celebrates 'Family' With School Ohana Groups "What's so funny?" the mother of a giggling second-grader asked her daughter after school. "It was Ohana Friday," the vivacious child explained. "It was so fun!"The concept of Ohana—a Hawaiian term meaning family—brought together Lewis County Adve... Read more
The Academy Awards At Auburn Adventist Academy Auburn Adventist Academy (AAA) recently held its seventh annual Academy Awards ceremony and banquet to honor students for leadership, academics and excellence in school programs.The evening—complete with sparkling lights, a red carpet and a packed... Read more
Olympia Students Participate in Page Program Olympia Christian School (OCS) ninth-graders Mary Castrejon and Vanessa Denny served as pages for a week in the Washington state Senate during legislative session. The students were sponsored by Lt. Gov. Brad Owen.Pages assist with the work of the... Read more
All Aboard Students Learn Teamwork It's a lesson in delayed gratification, an application of creativity, and a workshop in teamwork and leadership.Eighth-graders at Buena Vista Elementary School in Auburn, Wash., were all onboard with a quarter-long railroad construction project. T... Read more
If Math Were More Like English PSAA Teacher Challenged to Make Math Fun For Colleen Brundula Radke, the math and physics teacher at Puget Sound Adventist Academy (PSAA), in Kirkland, Wash., the constraints of formulas pose a challenge on how to teach the field of mathematics as something other than memorized rules."I ... Read more
PAS Students Receive Grant From Poulsbo Garden Club Students at Poulsbo Adventist School wanted a new garden. So they wrote a grant request to the Poulsbo Garden Club asking for funds to create a school garden area.The students drafted letters and drew pictures of what they wanted, drafted letters.... Read more
