"This day could not get any better!"

This past weekend my co-worker, Katrina, and I, took six middle school students to the International History Bowl and Bee a few hours away. The weekend consisted of traveling via train and metro, sightseeing, lots of eating, and many quotable moments! On Sunday our team competed against 5 other teams in a variety of history questions and came out in first in the Junior Varsity Bee, Middle School Bee, and the Junior Varsity Bowl!! I am so incredibly proud of how well our kids played and how they cheered each other on. I couldn't have asked for a better group of students to take on a trip like this. Here are some pictures from our fun weekend away! 

"This day could not get any better!!" - M.S. (grade 8)

MS Activity Day

Last Friday, February 28, was our annual "take over the high school campus" day! Each year around this time the high school vacates their campus and goes on a weekend retreat. The middle schoolers love this because it means we can invade!

In the morning we took a bus about half an hour away to an indoor water park. The kids LOVED the water slides and I am pretty sure they just ran up and down those stairs non-stop for two hours.

When we returned to the high school campus in the afternoon, we had a time of worship and watched part 1 of an intro video (Butterfly Circus) to our new theme on transformation. After chapel the students had the choice between watching "How to Train a Dragon," board games, or open gym time in the high school's full-size gym! I helped with the board game room and ended up playing "In a Pickle," which was new to me. Definitely a fun game for those with large imaginations!

After weeks of planning transportation, facilities, and activities, I think it was a fun and successful day! It even had me in bed before 9:00PM on a Friday!

MS Olympics

There were many conversations about the Sochi 2014 Winter Oympics in our Middle School hallways these past few weeks. It was a highly competitive atmosphere as we weren't all cheering for the same country. As you may have seen on Facebook, our 7th grade Geography class worked on updating an Olympic Medalists bulletin board as the games went on! It was neat to see the final results in each category! 

This past week at Chrysalis, we had our very own Chrysalis Olympics! The evening began with the lighting of the torch (football inside of a cone) and the passing off of the torch to 3 different Olympic athletes! Each country consisted of a girls and boys Chrysalis group that had to create their own flag and country name. Our program team came up with 3 different events (curling, 3-legged race, finger wars) that our 6 countries rotated between. The winners in our olympics, however, did not receive gold medals but lots of candy (which is probably more appropriate for our audience!)!!

Chrysalis Olympics 2014!!

"Let the games begin!"