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Lower School Election Results!

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While the nation was at the polls voting for the next President, PCA's lower school was also at the polls, voting for this year's Student Council. After all of the votes were counted, we are excited to announce the results: 

President: Greta Kate Surratt
Vice President: Andrew Pinkel
Secretary: Heyward Neely
Treasurer: Jane Craft
5th Grade Representatives: Emorie Ray and Will Terry
4th Grade Representatives: Madelyn Goulette and Caden Spear
3rd Grade Representatives: Hadley Silvester and William Newbern

When asked what she hoped to accomplish this year in her role as President, Greta Kate said, "I plan to make our school a better place by listening to other students and working to accomplish their ideas."

Student Council Members had their first meeting with Dr. Martin this past Thursday and already they are hard at work. First up, lower school students will be joining the upper school Student Broadcast team for Friday announcements starting this week!

Dr. Martin says that his goal for this year's Student Council is, "to work together to find what God is leading us to do for the school so we can be a blessing."

We can't wait to see what these young leaders bring to the PCA community.

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Apples For Atkinson's Kindergarten Class

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Fall is the season for changing leaves, pumpkins, and apples! Last week Caroline Atkinson's kindergarten class took learning about apples to a fun new level.

First lesson, taste testing. "We tested all three colors of apples," said Atkinson. "We predicted which one we would like before we tested them [by coloring] in a happy face or sad face based on [what we thought]. After, we decided which was our favorite and compared it to our predictions. Lots of friends predicted they would like red the best but ended up liking yellow!"

That was just the beginning of the apple-themed week. Other activities included drawing a diagram of an apple, testing to see if apples float or sink, using adjectives to describe apples, talking about Johnny Appleseed and making Johnny Appleseed hats, and reading, "Ten Apples On Top".

The apple filled week was brought to a close with, what else? Applesauce. Mrs. Atkinson added the ingredients to a crockpot before inviting each student to see what the apples looked like before turning into the final product. 

Four hours and a day later, the result was delicious! Eating their applesauce for snack Friday morning the class unanimously agreed that it "was really good!" 

Kindergarten sure knows how to welcome in the fall season!

 

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