CLASS ACTS

A DAY AT THE MUSEUM

Best field trip ever! Our second-graders had so much fun at the Perot Museum building in the LEGO Towers of Tomorrow room, learning in the “What’s The Matter” lab, doing fun experiments and enjoying all the awesome exhibits.

SKY’S THE LIMIT

As part of their weather unit in science, kindergartners used cloud viewers to observe and identify the kinds of clouds they saw in the sky that week!

COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS

PreK students have been able to meet our amazing community helpers at TCA and in our community, including members of the Addison Police and Fire Departments, nurse Jessica Megison and local dentist Dr. Michael Solis. GEOGRAPHY GENIUSES

Our third-graders created their own versions of earth to help them learn about landforms. The creative places they made included Artworld (featuring Mt. Brushmore), Candyland, Sportsworld, Video Game World and so much more! DRESS TO IMPRESS

Lights, camera, adjectives! First-grade students strutted their stuff down the red carpet at the first-ever First-Grade Adjective Fashion Show. There were trendy, classic and silly outifts! These students can now confidently tell you what adjectives are and how to use them.

LET US ADORE HIM

Fourth-grade student worship leaders teamed up with a few faculty and staff members to bless our Lower School with a beautiful time of praise during chapel time just before our break to celebrate Jesus being born a man to deliver us!

A NOVEL APPROACH

Fifth-grade students enjoyed the verbal artistry of C. S. Lewis’s writing by illustrating the similes and personifications found in his novel The Magician’s Nephew from The Chronicles of Narnia.

POCKET-SIZED CELL MODELS

Our seventh-graders had fun creating a “Mint Tin Cell” to demonstrate their knowledge about cell structures.

LEARNING IN THE TRENCHES

To conclude their study of World War I, eighth-grade students partipated in Trench Day. They created makeshift trenches out of desks in the classroom, sang “Over There” and wrote letters home, picturing themselves as soldiers as a learning experience and also a way to remember those who served. And they of course wore camo outfits since World War I was the first time soldiers wore camouflage.

ABSOLUTELY “AMAYZING”

Middle School students became tiny Whos, jungle birds, mischievous monkeys, sassy kangaroos and all manner of whimsical creatures in their performance of Seussical JR., the musical version of Dr. Seuss’s beloved stories.

DELICIOUS DEDUCTION

Sixth-grade students worked on their number sense while they indulged their senses of taste and smell, enjoying some fine dining in their classroom-turnedinto-Italian-eatery. They used math skills from the classroom to calculate their bill, including tax, tip and splitting the check.

FARCICAL FOUL PLAY

This fall our Upper School Advanced Drama class staged one of the most hilarious productions in TCA history, The Farndale Avenue Housing Estate Townswomen’s Guild Dramatic Society Murder Mystery. Congratulations to all our fine comic actors and actresses!

SCIENCE OF FLIGHT

STEM Club launched its first meeting of the year by having student pilot Joshua Case explain the basics of aerodynamics. Then the students had a blast applying the principles they learned to design their paper airplanes. SUCCESS IN THEIR FIELD

The Field Ecology classes visited John Bunker Sands Wetland Center in Seagoville, learning about the East Fork Wetlands Project, which uses aquatic plants to filter the water and extends our Dallas water supply. Students tested the water quality, found many macroinvertebrates and collected plants to take with them for their class project. The young ecologists had a fantastic time being outdoors and studying God’s creation!

Photo: Julie Francis

REACHING FOR KINDNESS

Upper School Reach Every Corner (REC) Club has been meeting the first Tuesday of every month to create gift packages of snacks, water bottles, hygiene products and other supplies, along with handwritten notes of encouragement, for students to hand out to the homeless in our area. Seniors Mary Lauren Westover and Mary Neuhoff have been instrumental in spearheading the club this year.

SPREADING SPIRIT

Our cheerleaders, Trojanettes dance team and Trojan band helped to energize the student body and cheer on our athletes in pep rallies throughout the fall.

SPARKING THEIR INTEREST

For one of their lab activities this semester in Koshy Daniel’s chemistry class, sophomores performed a flame test to identify the metallic ion in the compound.