"But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law." Galatians 5:22-23
 

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     I CAN'T WAIT TO SEE YOUR SMILING FACES!!!

Senior parents:    PLEASE SEE ENCOURAGING NOTES - Bottom of page

Please check your child's reading book. Do you endorse what he/she is reading?                                                                                                

REMINDERS:  In His Steps will be read as an entire high school.

                    Community/Church service hours, log, paperwork due December 6.

                    Outside reading due October 11.

We need to replenish our lunch supplies:

                                                  10th grade  -  plastic spoons and forks

    Again, thank you so much for your sacrifice, commitment, and encouragement!!

 

English 12

Classical reading: Keep your eyes open for your own copy of these books:

    Iliad, Les Miserables, Mere Christianity, Animal Farm, A Separate Peace.  These novels will be a part of our curriculum this year.

 

Supplies: 2 highlighters of different colors

               2 ruled spiral index cards

               1 pkg. 3x5 index cards (may be colored)

               1 pkg. 4x6 index cards

               PLANNER

               notebook paper

    

 

 

English 11

    Supplies:  2 highlighers of different colors

                    2 ruled spiral index cards (may be colored)

                    1 pkg. 3x5 index cards

                    1 pkg. 4x6 index cards

                    PLANNER

                    notebook paper

                    roll of paper towels

English 9

     Supplies: Box of kleenex

                   2 highlighters of different colors

                   2 ruled spiral index cards (may be colored)

                   1 pkg. 4x6 cards

                   notebook paper

                   PLANNER                              

 

         Kuykendall, Carol, Give Them Wings

"Naming Their Losses"

First, there is the loss of childhood, which means the loss of protection, innocence and a more carefree way of life.  There's the loss of security and predictability within the context of a familiar life pattern; and there's the loss of place within the family (being the older brother or oldest child). There's the physical loss of home, which includes the loss of a bedroom and its privacy, the loss of access to a car, and the loss of a refrigerator and cupboard stocked by someone else...

Then there's the loss of a high school class that, for years, carefully wove itself together through shared experiences. Though some class members will gather for reunions in the future, graduation means this class will cease to exist as a unit moving together through time.

Within the larger class is a smaller, more intimate circle of friends, and the senior faces the loss of a place within that carefully constructed group.  It's a body built around both differences and similarities, but the bond is strong, because the group has a history and has endured the test of time. There is great comfort in knowing and being known, and great grief in losing the sense of belonging to such a close-knit group.

There's even the loss of accountability and guidance as the senior begins to cope with the fact that "the person in charge of me - is me!" It shouldn't be surprising that seniors who are trying to separate from their caretakers act out their mixed-up feelings in so many confusing ways. From their viewpoint, their carefully constructed world is crumbling apart.

"Give your child roots and wings," the old saying goes. But for the adolescent on the brink of leaving home, the roots do battle with the wings. Parents can help teenagers through this difficult transition by encouraging them to identify and acknowledge their feelings whenever possible. Parents can also help by responding with patience and not taking adolescents' negative behavior personally.
The irony is that we parents face similar fears of losses as our seniors prepare to leave home. We fear their leaving will forever change the family structure, our definitions of ourselves, and our parental job descriptions. The anticipation of their leaving often coincides with-or precipitates-the feelings connected with midlife transitions. We, too, face an uncertain future.

Here are some anticipated losses: Loss of being needed. Loss of identity. Loss of clear priorities and excuses.

"Why, Lord, if we do it the way You tell us to - sacrificing, pouring our lives into the lives of our children - why does it hurt so much when they go? Is pain the price we pay for doing it Your way?"

I seemed to hear an answer as gentle as a whisper: "Yes, My child, because love costs; it cost Me My Son."

What a simple but powerful truth! When we love the way God calls us to love, there are costs and sacrifices. To love deeply means we'll sometimes hurt deeply. That's the price of the kind of love God demands. The pain of loving well is a good pain. The grief is a good grief.

Dr. James Dobson described his moment of great grief for the Focus on the Family friends in a letter after his second child and only son left home. "It was not that I dreaded or didn't look forward to what the future held. No, I mourned the end of an era - a precious time of my life when our children were young and their voices rang in the halls of our house."
My personal testimony is to daily decide to focus on what I have and will have instead of the past. Deidra and Luke's marriage on June 12 has changed our family's shape, and I can honestly share that I am ecstatic and thankful for God's faithfulness and many blessings!
No work in the world pays like a mother's work. What you leave IN your children, should be more than what you leave TO them!
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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