Work Continues on Building 3

Start the Week

How does MCCS start the week? With Monday opening for the elementary school. Complete with music, scripture, and a missionary story.

Volleyball Prayer

Overheard on way home: "We should pray before every game!

Our girls' volleyball team does pray before every game, but not always with the opposing team.

Pictured: Praying with the Peace Lutheran team in Bremerton.

Kindergarteners Go to the Fair

The kindergarten class took a field trip to the Puyallup Fair. As they say, "A good time was had by all."

Uniforms Available

If your student outgrew all his or her school uniforms, check out the used and new uniforms downstairs in Building One. Right now used uniforms are available for $1 each. Sweatshirts are $5.

You can drop off those polo shirts, blouses, pants, jumpers, and school sweatshirts that are too small but are in good shape.

Love to Dig

The kids love to dig in the sand. But what they don't know is that MCCS has new sand. Volunteers removed the old sand and put in donated clean, washed sand.

Start with Prayer

It's 7:30 a.m. Do you know where your teacher is? The staff at MCCS gather every morning for devotions and prayer. What a great way to start the day.

Golf at School?

Thanks to Justin Holzgrove and friends, we now have an exciting addition at Mason County Christian School! It is a fun game called Frisbee Golf or Disc Golf.

Justin and friends created maps that lead the way to poles (or holes) that you aim to reach within a certain amount of throws (par). It starts in the parking lot, goes over to the volleyball court, down around Building 3, into the woods around the trail and back out at the other end of the field, up to the playshed and then back to the middle of the field.

The students enjoyed trying out this new sport, even though it included time searching for the discs in the woods! All in good fun!

Full House

It was a full house. The entire MCCS school plus a 40-member band and choir packed the chapel room today. Including drums, saxophones, a tuba, and lots more.

Sunnyside Christian School's high school band and choir blessed us with a fabulous concert. Their high school has 70 students, and 40 of them were with us today. They are welcome any time!

Pictured: MCCS student Becky was the guest conductor for one song.

Gospel Girls

It was open to any fourth through sixth grader who wanted to sing. Mr. E. ended up with the Gospel Girls. They have been practicing during recess and after school. Their hard work showed in their concert Thursday night. Nicely done, girls!

With special thanks to Emily on the keyboard, MCCS grad Tyler on the guitar, and Mr. E. on the guitar and banjo.

Alivia Sandquist, a 7^th grader at MCCS, won this year’s Mason County Forest Festival button design. Her artwork was selected from 900 applicants. During the annual awards ceremony, she was presented with two framed versions of her design and also a cash prize. What a wonderful gift from God to be blessed with such artistic ability. Great job Alivia, we are proud of you!

Final Count Down

Only 23 days until they leave for the ultimate field trip. Fourteen students, eleven adults, and two teachers will travel east to make history come alive.

The itinerary includes Jamestown, Williamsburg, Washington D.C., Mt. Vernon, Monticello, Gettysburg, and New York City.

Come support their last fundraiser on Friday night and enjoy an evening of entertainment.

Dessert Theatre: 7 to 9 pm Friday, March 5 @ First Baptist Church $5 per person or $15 per family.

100 Days of School

How do you celebrate the 100th day of first grade? Start by reading Psalm 100.

Mr. Lofthus' first graders traced and cut out a total of 100 footprints and made a path out of their room.

Math lessons included number sentences that equaled 100. They each counted out 100 pieces of Froot Loops® cereal and sorted by color.

They tallied how many minutes of reading they did in one day and were only 10 minutes short of 100.

Don't miss Jerry Pinkney

The One-Wall Gallery (more commonly known as the entry hall in Building 3) is now featuring the work of children's book illustrator Jerry Pinkney. Known primarily for his unique watercolors, Pinkney is a multiple award winner, and deservedly so. His colorful illustrations consistenly deliver a beauty and dignity that is too rare in kid's books today.

A Special thank you from the Bamford family

Dear Mason County Christian School,
Thank you for the generous gift you gave to buy and ship rice to the people in our village. They are so thankful!

Mr. Bamford was able to fly 2 airplane loads of rice to the village in February which totaled 1,200 lbs. Thanks to your gifts and the gifts of others, we will be able to send 7 more plane loads to help the people.

While Mr. Bamford was in the village, someone gave him a small bag of locally grown rice from what he was able to salvage from his field. When he handed the bag to Mr. Bamford, seven grains of rice spilled onto the table. The man noticed and carefully picked each one up to return to the bag. Each grain of rice is valuable and the Isnag are thankful for your help to them.

God bless,
Heidi for the Bamford family

Welcome new students!

This week we welcomed the Faust family to MCCS. Dan and Mary have two children attending--Rachel is in Mr. Endicott's class (Yea, another girl!) and Jotham is in Mrs. Settle's room. The Fausts have home-schooled up until now, so this will be a big adjustment; thanks to those of you who have already stepped up and offered to help with transportation.

Do you love books?

Many of you know that we are aggressively building a quality school library, entirely with donated cash, books, and time. Right now we are most in need of TIME. We have hundreds, many hundreds, of books ready to be cataloged and put on the shelves. This is enjoyable work (if you like books) and can be done from home if you have an internet connection. I can train you to do this job in about one hour, and then you can do as much or as little as you like, whenever you like. Please give me a call at the school if you are interested. Thanks. David Roller 426-7616 or 463-0997

See the Buttons

With Christmas still ahead of us, Forest Festival seems a long, wet winter off. But preparations are already underway, including the Festival button design contest. Be sure to see our students' entries that are displayed in the hallway of Building 3.

Christmas Cheer

Fourth and fifth graders did double duty today. They practiced for the Christmas program and blessed local nursing home residents at the same time.

The Great (temporary) Noodle Ban

After repeated pleas and reminders, students are still leaving messes of noodles/ramen on the table and in bathroom sinks. So, no noodles or ramen will be allowed in 4th-8th grades in December. We will try again in January. We can do this correctly, students.