Powhatan Today, November 4, 2020 experiences relate to our curriculum (earth science) and have learned a lot about our students. Additionally, having taught in the county for more than 10 years, I have a couple of virtual students who I have Jimmy Roberts, earth science and physical science taught their older teacher at Powhatan Middle School siblings, so I feel this works to my adare the foundation for evJimmy Roberts erything for the year, Rob- vantage.” Roberts is able to meet hen he was erts said. It is important for with his virtual students his students to know he is asked twice a week, which about his there to support them equates to two hours and throughout their learning preferred 20 minutes. By compariteaching pathway this experience, and he ac- son, he sees hybrid stuyear, Powhatan Middle knowledged it has been a dents for only 90 minutes School earth science and challenge to form those each week, meaning he physical science teacher relationships. Roberts actually teach- actually “sees” his virtual Jimmy Roberts responded students more frequently. he could do either hybrid es his virtual class collab“Even though I am able or virtual, whichever was oratively with a colleague, to interact with my virtual needed more. But while he Dawn Monson. The two students more each week, felt comfortable going teachers cater to their the relationships I am decompletely virtual, his strengths and keep the mo- veloping are lacking by heart was to be in the mentum of the virtual comparison. In order to classroom. This semester, class rolling, he said. “While one of us is in- combat this issue, my colRoberts is teaching four league and I make it a hybrid courses and one structing, the other is tend- point to give plenty of opvirtual class and said he is ing to the Google Meet portunities for students to 100 percent pleased with Chat and vice versa,” he participate in class discussaid. “We strongly encourthe placement. sion. We consistently pull The relationships he age student participation by asking how personal see ROBERTS, pg. 7 develops with his students
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representing The Very Hungry Caterpillar, ice cream cones, UFOs, Minions, spiders, Disney characters, Charlie Brown, Pokémon characters, birds, unicorns, and much more. This year’s winners were: first place, Virginia Housing (Star Wars); second place, Kenmore Envelope (Jurassic Park); third place, DPR Construction (spiders attack building); fourth place, Paycor USI Insurance Services (ice cream cone), and fifth place, First Choice Quality services (Macho Man). “Everybody has really done an amazing job,” Massengill said. Of course, some adjustments had to be made this year. The contest moved outside of the club house and people there to drop off or stay and watch the judging were asked to social distance. The other hospitals and senior living facilities that usually display some of the pumpkins had to go through
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special approval processes because of new guidelines. Leading up to the event, Massengill said she had about 15 to 20 companies who usually participate drop out. Some had too many restrictions in place because of COVID-19 to make it feasible, and some had many of their employees teleworking. However, new volunteer Aimee West of Powhatan helped Massengill reach out to a bunch of new companies who made up the difference and provided some great entries, she said. Blake Rogers, who works for Colony Construction Inc. in Powhatan, designed and built an entry for his company, which entered for the first time after West reached out. He happily spent about 50 hours building a wooden truck with small pumpkins for wheels hauling a larger pumpkin in the back. “It is very exciting to get the community involved, whether you are a construction company or an individual, to raise awareness that
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renda Bell knew she could be teaching virtual or hybrid this year, so she wasn’t surprised when she was assigned her class schedule at the beginning of the semester and saw both. Bell is a seventh grade life science teacher at Powhatan Middle School with one virtual class as her first class of the day. On the block schedule, first period meets every day, so she has her virtual class every day. Bell starts her class 10 to 15 minutes early so she and her students can talk. She asks them about their day, their weekend, or if they want to share anything. Other days they might talk about pets, birthdays, or topics they are interested in discussing. In a group discussion, Bell asked her students about the positive and negative aspects of virtual learning. Most of the positives were about not getting up early to get dressed and come to school. All of the negatives were about missing their friends and being social. “It is the format of using virtual. They are 12. You are sitting in a room and you have another person someplace else in another room. You are looking at little icons. How do you interact with each other on a personal level? How do you build that connection between kids when the kids can only see each other’s icons,” she said. Despite her efforts to get to know them better, because she has never met most of them in person, Bell, who has been teach-
Holly Hills Baptist Church
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(Independent Bible Believing)
Pastor Gregory L. Beechaum Sr. “The church where Jesus is Alive”
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Randy Blackwell, Pastor Sunday School - 10:00 a.m. Sunday Morning Worship - 11:00 a.m. Youth Ministry 6:00 p.m. Adult Bible Study 6:30 p.m. Wednesday Prayer Meeting 7:30 PM
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375-9212
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Contemporary – 8:30 a.m. Sunday School – 9:45 a.m. Worship – 11 a.m. Children’s Worship – 11 a.m. Prayer/Bible Study – Wed. 6:30 p.m. 2095 Red Lane Road Children’s Worship (all ages) – 1/2 mile off Rt. 60 on Red Lane Road Wed. 6:30 p.m. 804-598-2455 New Generation Praise & Worship – www.redlanebaptist.org Sunday 6 p.m. Worship Service 9:00 a.m. Lighthouse Youth – Wed. 5:30 p.m. Small Groups 10:30 a.m. Miracles of God Sp. Needs Service: 2 p.m. the 2nd Sat. of each month Wednesday Night Classes for all ages at 6:15 598-3481 • 975 Dorset Road Dr. James Taylor, Pastor www.gracelandbc.org
Sunday School 9:45-10:45 Sunday Morning Worship will begin at 11:00 a.m.
2591 Ridge Road Powhatan, Virginia 23139 804-598-2051
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Dr. Ronald Wyatt, Jr., Pastor
Praise and Worship Service
Sunday School: 10:00-10:45 a.m. Worship Service: 11:00 a.m. 4731 Bell Road, Powhatan, VA 23139 804-598-5491
ing 28 years, believes she hasn’t been able to build the rapport with her students that she would like to have. “Relationships here are certainly different than if I did face-to-face. First of all, they don’t have to use their cameras, so all I see are icons for the kids. One kid will be a horse or another kid will be Shrek. Some of the kids I have never even seen their faces,” she said. “I develop relationships by talking to them, joking around with them, sharing my pets, sharing something that happened positive that week.” One of the topics that really engages her students is the animals Bell has in her classroom, such as a guinea pig named Ash or a leopard gecko named Sonny. She will use her camera to get close-ups of the animals,
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Reverend Mark A. Divens, Sr. Pastor
“God uses ordinary people to do extraordinary things. We walk by faith and not by sight” – Pastor Darnell Carruthers
Brenda Bell, seventh grade life science teacher at Powhatan Middle School
children are there and they do have needs,” Rogers said, adding whether he won or not, he was glad to help the children. Another first-timer, George Brauburger of Powhatan, spent about three days working on a pumpkin unicorn with his wife and daughter to submit for Work Versatile Merchant Solutions, a financial consulting business. “I thought it was super cool. Anything you can do to bring children some Halloween joy is obviously a positive thing. And to see all of these businesses come out, this is incredible,” he said. While Pumpkins for Kids was always intended to be a fun decoPHOTOS BY LAURA MCFARLAND rating contest that brought smiles The Pumpkins to children’s faces, Massengill apfor Kids Project preciates that it also developed held on Oct. 28 at into a fundraiser for the foundation Independence Golf along the way. This year the event Club brought out the raised more than $4,000 for the creativity in busiChildren’s Hospital Foundation. nesses competing to Laura McFarland may be have their pumpkins reached at Lmcfarland@powdisplayed at the Children’s Hospital of Richmond. hatantoday.com.
1059 Dorset Road Powhatan, VA 23139
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OLD POWHATAN BAPTIST CHURCH 3619 Huguenot Trail Powhatan, Virginia 23139 www.finecreekbaptist.org Sunday School: 9:45 a.m. Worship Service: 11:00 a.m. Traditional Rev. David A. Simpson, Pastor
2202 Old Church Road www.powhatanbaptist.org
“Your Community Church”
598-2763 Sunday School at 9:30 am Morning Service at 11:00 am Bible Study Every Wednesday Night at 6:30 pm 3964 Old Buckingham Road
Sundays 10:00 AM Wednesday 6:30 PM Experiencing the presence, power and person of Jesus Christ
Loving, Investing, Fulfilling, Empowering Senior Pastor Justin Wilson Sunday Service 10:30am 2410 New Dorset Circle www.Communitylifechurchpowhatan.org Feeding Powhatan Open 3rd Wednesday of the month
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Sunday 10am, 11am & 6pm Wednesday 7pm
3920 MAIDENS RD., POWHATAN
804-598-2301
Evening Bible Study 7:00 p.m.
Worship on the Lawn Service Times 8:30AM and 10:15AM OPBCKids during 10:15AM service
Family Worship Center 2901 Judes Ferry Road Powhatan, Va 23139 804-379-8223
Sunday School 10:00 a.m. Sunday Morning Service 11:00 a.m. Wednesday Mid Day Bible Study 11:30 a.m.
Brad Russell, Pastor 598-4241
Travis L. Keith- Pastor Church Office: 794.7054 1530 Cook Road (Rt. 636)
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