All Nations Community School

The time is ticking!! ⌚️ Have you bought your GALA TICKETS yet? We need a head count soon for the catering staff! Get yours, invite your neighbors, and share with friends!! 😍
https://secure.givelively.org/event/all-nations-community-school/lasso-the-land-2021-ancs-spring-gala

The time is ticking!! ⌚️ Have you bought your GALA TICKETS yet? We need a head count soon for the catering staff! Get yours, invite your neighbors, and share with friends!! 😍
https://secure.givelively.org/event/all-nations-community-school/lasso-the-land-2021-ancs-spring-gala

What is Spanish (or any language) class without FOOD? Food is a key way to experience CULTURE and practice language in context. The middle school heritage speakers are doing a Mexico unit, so they brought food. 👏🏼🍚🍰The beginners are learning food names and phrases like “quisiera” so they received a “menu” with the drinks and dishes available, and they had to order from their “wait staff” (the advanced students) in our restaurant classroom. 😋😍👍🏼👍🏼

We were honored to have nationally recognized literacy consultant and curriculum author (and ANCS godparent!) Dr. Joyce A. Carroll visit on Friday and teach a guest class on poetry to our 1st-4th graders. They had a great time and even composed their own beautiful poems. #reading #poetry #literacyeducation #privateschools #thewoodlandstx

We were honored to have nationally recognized literacy consultant and curriculum author (and ANCS godparent!) Dr. Joyce A. Carroll visit on Friday and teach a guest class on poetry to our 1st-4th graders. They had a great time and even composed their own beautiful poems. #reading #poetry #literacyeducation #privateschools #thewoodlandstx

Our team ran the #milesformeals5k this morning! Kudos to the finishers, especially Mr. Michalik who won 1st place 🥇in his division! Dr. Puig, Ethan W. and Elena W. also landed in top ten in their divisions. 👏🏼 We missed those who couldn’t make it. ❤️ So much fun and we are already looking forward to the next one! #funrun #mealsonwheels @mealsonwheelsmc

Thank you to our commercial pilot friend Brian, who came to discuss weather, aerodynamics and ROCKETS with our STEM Rocket Builders this afternoon! #stem #rocketscience

Thank you to our commercial pilot friend Brian, who came to discuss weather, aerodynamics and ROCKETS with our STEM Rocket Builders this afternoon! #stem #rocketscience

Overheard with the littles in PE: a beautiful discussion about "making mistakes." Went like this:

Coach: "Raise your hand if you've ever made a mistake! [hands go up...MOSTLY 😂] Yeah, you know, we *all* make mistakes sometimes. What do you think is *really great* about making a mistake?"

And then they all jumped in about what you can learn from mistakes, why you shouldn't be afraid to make them, why making mistakes is a good thing, and so on. It was so heartfelt and fit in so well with our "growth mindset" we try to instill every day in the classroom! 🥰

Kids need that positive attitude toward learning from mistakes, instead of (falsely!) trying to shoot for perfection. Think about your best learning in school and in life. Has your growth and wisdom usually come from the things you did perfectly the first time?

What do you do as a parent to help instill a growth mindset in your child?

Overheard with the littles in PE: a beautiful discussion about "making mistakes." Went like this:

Coach: "Raise your hand if you've ever made a mistake! [hands go up...MOSTLY 😂] Yeah, you know, we *all* make mistakes sometimes. What do you think is *really great* about making a mistake?"

And then they all jumped in about what you can learn from mistakes, why you shouldn't be afraid to make them, why making mistakes is a good thing, and so on. It was so heartfelt and fit in so well with our "growth mindset" we try to instill every day in the classroom! 🥰

Kids need that positive attitude toward learning from mistakes, instead of (falsely!) trying to shoot for perfection. Think about your best learning in school and in life. Has your growth and wisdom usually come from the things you did perfectly the first time?

What do you do as a parent to help instill a growth mindset in your child?

Morning PE! Throwing two balls at the SAME time with a partner is super hard! 😆 #motorskills #playoutside

Heyyyy y'all! Lasso yer tickets fast, 'fore they git gone!

Help ANCS "Lasso the Land!" and start a seed fund for our permanent location! Our Spring Gala is coming up fast.

We are already almost 10% to our goal of $100k! Will you help us reach our goal by May 8?

Join us for an outdoor, rustic "night at the ranch" for the Gala, at Blue Moon Farm (feel free to dress in your finest denim and boots!) - or you can give directly without attending. Thank you all for your prayers and support!

https://secure.givelively.org/event/all-nations-community-school/lasso-the-land-2021-ancs-spring-gala

#spurthespirit

Heyyyy y'all! Lasso yer tickets fast, 'fore they git gone!

Help ANCS "Lasso the Land!" and start a seed fund for our permanent location! Our Spring Gala is coming up fast.

We are already almost 10% to our goal of $100k! Will you help us reach our goal by May 8?

Join us for an outdoor, rustic "night at the ranch" for the Gala, at Blue Moon Farm (feel free to dress in your finest denim and boots!) - or you can give directly without attending. Thank you all for your prayers and support!

https://secure.givelively.org/event/all-nations-community-school/lasso-the-land-2021-ancs-spring-gala

#spurthespirit

Hot off the press!!! Our elementary AND middle school teams BOTH won third place in their division!!! 💪🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 AND the elementary team won the Design Award, so they will go to the Vex IQ Virtual WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP!!! Congrats to Julián and Manuel for making World! And to Colton and Jay for their placing third! Thank you to our parent coaches and @stemichalik for your fantastic leadership and commitment! Special thanks to Coach Williams for taking the middle school team all the way to winning third in Texas! #vexiq #stem #robotics

We have two robotics teams competing today against the other top winners from all over Texas! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 Wish them luck! #vexiq #robotics #stem

We have two robotics teams competing today against the other top winners from all over Texas! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 Wish them luck! #vexiq #robotics #stem

The 1st-4th graders got a demonstration this afternoon of how a “voice” (tablet with communication software to speak for people in lieu of verbal speech) works from our Journey friend Bryson’s mom Jennifer. They were challenged to say several sentences and try to find where the right buttons were. It was a super informative discussion and also a fun activity! #autismacceptance

Marcella (kinder parent) brought sushi makings for pre-k through 2nd lunch today! They LOVED it and some even had seconds! #sushi #privateschool #yum #dualimmersion #culturalawareness

April is Autism Acceptance Month! Did you know some people with autism use devices to speak for them? The devices have menus with lots of different vocabulary available, so that the person can interact, communicate, and converse with complex language even in the absence of verbal speech.

Our 3rd-4th grade ELA class has been doing a read-aloud the last few weeks of a novel whose protagonist, Melody, is a non-verbal 5th grade girl who uses both a wheelchair AND a device to speak. She narrates in 1st person and highlights her thoughts and opinions on school, classmates, and the frustrations of living with disabilities that hamper her communication and mask her actual high level of intelligence.

Thanks very much to our friends Jennifer and her son Bryson at Journey for sharing these great pics!

Happy Easter to all! Our Lord is risen! ✝️

Happy Easter to all! Our Lord is risen! ✝️

Inch worm! 😍😄 Lunchtime fun and beautiful smiling faces on this sunny day at #recess #elementaryschool

Have you heard about our Spring Gala yet? Link below.

Help us "LASSO THE LAND!" and start a seed fund to acquire a permanent location for ANCS. With your help, we can prayerfully #SpurTheSpirit and meet our goal of 100k! Share with friends, or invite them to the Gala!

https://secure.givelively.org/event/all-nations-community-school/lasso-the-land-2021-ancs-spring-gala

Group tag game is super challenging! 😆👍🏼💪🏼 #physed #outdoors #texasweather

Sharing from Journey's page!

This Saturday we had students from our Explorers class compete alongside their teammates from All Nations Community School at the Santa Fe VEX IQ Rise Above Robotics Tournament. They all did incredible and worked so well with their teams! We are so thankful for the ConocoPhillips Rice University AMP! Innovation Grant for making all of this possible!

A beautiful spring day to be outside in the #garden! #learnbydoing #scienceiscool

This quarter’s elective options include a STEM “Space Rocket” class - which, as you can imagine, was a popular choice! Today they have started off learning about aerodynamics and making some simple paper rockets to understand what structural components affect flight thrust and so on. Future #aerospaceengineer students around here!! #stemeducation 👏🏼

Recent adventures in cooking club! The last Friday of the quarter we celebrated with a fun no-bake dessert. Each student mixed their own sweet cream cheese mixture which they put into individual pie crusts with fresh fruit on top! Messy but fun 😆👍🏼😋 #cookingwithkids #privateschool #nobakecheesecake

Join us for a free virtual workshop on raising bilingual children! Practical strategies and troubleshooting ideas from Dr. Nicole Puig, Ph.D. - longtime language learner, teacher and parent. Sign up for the Zoom link at allnationscs.org/calendar.

Give yourself the night off from cooking and join us next Wednesday at Crust Pizza Panther Creek! Mention ANCS at checkout and Crust will donate 15% of your bill to our school! Win-win!

Help us spread the word about our Dual Immersion program for Pre-K through 2nd!

We are so thrilled that our youngest classes have greatly expanded this year. This precious bilingual darling joined us just recently part-time in Pre-K! 😍

We would love to increase the younger grades' enrollment enough next year to split them into three groups instead of two. Tell your friends with young children! :)

On Friday, the upper-level Spanish students celebrated finishing their first group read for a full-length novel together. Esperanza renace (Esperanza Rising in the original English) has chapter titles named after fruits and vegetables. It is a CHALLENGING read in Spanish due to the level of vocabulary involved.

We brought in asparagus, peaches, avocados and more to analyze the meaning of last two chapters and reflect on the structure of the book as a whole. It was a "delicious" discussion, and well-deserved for the amount of effort they put in! :D

Pop quiz: What does "Russian mountain" actually mean in Spanish? Can you figure it out from the illustration? 😆

Check out this 3rd grader's sense of accomplishment after overcoming a struggle! Read on if you want to hear the full story. :)

At ANCS, we are proud to have a 1:1 laptop ratio for 3rd grade and up, along with a host of other technologies and online tools for all grade levels.

But these tools are to be used judiciously in education. At ANCS, we are careful to choose technology when it is helpful, and we are mindful of the research that supports continuing to use fine motor skills and hand-written materials, especially for younger grades.

One of our 3rd graders was struggling with feeling challenged by an "adaptive" (i.e. the question level adapts to whether you get it right or wrong, and your score out of 100 goes up or down accordingly) online program to practice a particular Spanish skill. Rather than see him continue to be frustrated, Doctora Puig made him cards for a matching "game."

After *only 2 days* of practice, the student could match up the verbs and then pounded his way correctly through the online version in only one sitting. He was SO proud of himself, rightfully so!

Did you know today is International Women's Day? Today celebrates women's achievements, but it is also a call to action for justice and parity.

On Friday, ANCS students together packed over 100 gift bags that will make their way to refugee women, who need and deserve every bit of help to survive and thrive.

What can you do this year to help make the world a more just and loving place for those in need around you?

Look at this beautiful exploration of textures and colors under Maestra Dehaquiz's guidance! 😍

Human beings *need* creative outlets to explore ideas, regulate emotions and decrease stress. Students at ANCS have art 2x/wk and music 1x/wk.

Even Einstein, the quintessential scientific thinker, said in a 1929 interview: "I am enough of the artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge.” To be strong in sciences and other areas, students need that creative processing and imaginative exploration!

#finearts #art #creativity

Oak Ridge North approves 2-year permit extensions for All Nations, Journey schools

Have you heard yet?! (Read on...!)

Monday night we had a lengthy but productive meeting with Mayor Paul Bond, the City Council, and the Planning and Zoning Committee of Oak Ridge North, TX.

In a public hearing, they considered our request (along with Journey School's) for a 1-year extension of our special-use permit for staying at our current location behind Sojourn Baptist. Over 80 people were on the Zoom call!

We are thrilled to announce that instead of one year, they gave us TWO. We are grateful to the Lord, who provides beyond what we might think is possible (Eph. 3:20).

Thank you so much to the Council members in Oak Ridge North, who were so supportive of both our schools! We look forward to the next two years of a fruitful relationship.

Thanks, too, to Ben Johnson from Community Impact The Woodlands for covering our news!

communityimpact.com City Council renewed specific-use permits for two Robinson Road schools housed in the Sojourn Baptist Church building during a special session March 1.

We can surely all agree that children should love coming to school and learning, and that school is a place where they feel welcome, loved, and at home.

PE spotlight! Our middle schoolers have really stepped up to help mentor the younger students. The littles LOVE that they get to play with the big kids. This is not a requirement for the older kids; it’s just campus culture of positive mentoring in action. The younger students yelled “Thank you, Coach Ethan! Thank you, Coach Ivan!” as the older kids left. 😍❤️❤️ This was practice throwing, then they broke into groups for a game.

#privateschool #outdoorplay

Friday before the storm, we had our Talent Show! The students really brought amazing talents to the stage. Unicycling, an original skit, singing, gymnastics, and so much more.

Thanks very much to Sojourn Baptist for the use of the sanctuary since the weather didn't cooperate for outside!

#talentshow #privateschool

"Best of Woodlands" voting EXTENDED through tomorrow, Feb. 23! Get your friends on to vote for us! We are listed for two categories - preschool and K-12. Go, All Nations! 💪

ANCS will be OPEN on Monday, Feb. 22. We look forward to seeing everyone back on campus!