Mrs. Niessen’s 4th grade class has been focusing kindness. Recently, they hosted a Random Acts of Crazy Kindness (RACK) Week! Every day they picked a card with a random act to bless people both inside and outside of their classroom. Here’s how their RACK week racked up!
Monday: Write a Thank you card to a school helper. Philimon and a friend in the classroom who had helped them recently.
Tuesday: Make a card for a friend. A friend in a different grade than 4th and a friend in our class
Wednesday: Ask someone how you can help them today. Mrs. Niessen emailed the staff and asked what we could do for them. The kids helped Mrs, Oberg, Mrs. Bruneau, Mrs. Smitsdorff, Mrs. Henderson, Ms. Buchelt, Mrs. Beyers, Mrs. Christian, Mrs. Kubiszewski, Mrs. Coolbroth, and Mrs. Kubly. They also helped each other clean our their desks.
Thursday: Throw away someone else’s trash in the cafeteria. They helped other kids at lunch. They helped pick up trash when it fell in our classroom.
Friday: Let only kind words come out of your mouth. We tried to curb our responses if someone said or did something we didn’t like both in the classroom and outside of it.
Over the week, the 4th grader handled themselves very responsibly and earned many compliments. It was neat to see them working in different classrooms, interacting with middle school and high school teachers, and blessing others.
This week was a complete success!!!!
We honored all branches of the military this morning with the presenting of the colors by Allegiant Honor Guard and a personal testimony from Marine Veteran Peter Wojciechowski. A special thank you to all who serve and the Legacy Showcase Committee for an honoring event.
We had an incredible day of service on Friday, October 4! YouthWorks partnered with us to provide service opportunities that were local, compelling, and authentic. Our students had the opportunity to use various gifts to serve like-minded organizations and the Twin Cities, and in doing so, glorify God. We want our students to be servants, and this day provided an opportunity for students to fulfill our vision for them! Mr. Keefe and Dr. Lohse were able to visit many sites while our students were serving and herd overwhelmingly positive feedback from the site leaders.
“To say that I am proud of them is an understatement.” – Dr. Lohse
“I know God was planting and watering throughout the day Friday in so many hearts, and I thank all of you for being a part of that process.” – Tom Keefe
Back to school class parties are an opportunity for classmates & their families to reconnect before the school year kicks off. Each summer, our admissions staff invites current Legacy families to host a casual class party prior to Open House week. These gatherings have been a great chance to welcome in new families and for current families to catch up before Day One of the new school year.
Thank you to all of our 2019 class party hosts! If you have pictures of your students class party please send them to [email protected] to be added to the gallery below.
(Note: If your student is posted in an image you would like removed, please contact [email protected] at any time for us to update our media requests.)
Congratulations! (¡Felicidades!) to Legacy Spanish students attaining national recognition for excellent performance on the 2019 National Spanish Examination (NSE).
The National Spanish Exam is a voluntary assessment; only top students choose to take the challenging test. Therefore, the placement medals were earned in competition between the elite Spanish students in the United States!
The percentile scores below are not simply a number of questions correct, rather they are a ranking within all testers. Among that elite group, our 14 Legacy testers garnered these medals:
Silver medal – 85-95%
M. Demars, Level 2 (90%)
Bronze medals – 75-84%
L. Thomas, Level 2 (83%)
G. Weissman, Level 1 (80%)
Honorable Mention – 50-74%
A. Domeyer, Level 2
T. Harrison, Level 2
T. Price, Level 2
E. Schiebout, Level 2
Profe Oberg says to all testing students – “You dared greatly! You stepped into the arena! And YOU learned, you achieved, and I AM more than proud of you!”
Attaining a medal or honorable mention for any student on the NSE is very prestigious because the exams are the largest of their kind in the United States with 146,000 students participating in 2019.
“It is my privilege to teach students who love a challenge and to watch our students compete and excel among the elites of Spanish!” Profe Oberg
Our first grade classrooms were transformed into a makers space as the students completed the plans for their robot and then spent time creating!
First, the students planned their design. Their robot needed to solve a problem or help others. We learned in our reading stories that many inventors created new things (like the light bulb) because there was a problem (the gas in the lights were causing homes to burn down). So, the students made a plan for their robot’s job and gave a description. We practiced writing helpful adjectives to describe their robots.
Next, the students used their plans to create their robot. We stayed busy for a long time! We learned some hard lessons – our ideas may not always go as we planned. Failure isn’t fun, but it sure is a good learning experience! When this happened, I saw students help others, give ideas, and work together. During work time, this was overheard:
“Inventing is hard — and FUN!”
“Woohoo!”
“This is really fun!”
“Everything is awesome!”
“Holy moly – that’s big!”
“Look at ____’s robot! Cool!”
“This is the BEST day of school!”
Legacy is proud to share that teachers Mrs. Henderson (3rd grade) and Mrs. Oberg (Spanish) were selected to receive the Heart of the Class honor through 98.5 KTIS.
Listeners were encouraged to nominate an educator who made a difference in their own life or someone they knew. The submissions were then evaluated by The University of Northwestern School of Education based on supporting evidence cited by the person submitting the nomination. The 50 teachers who were chosen for the award demonstrated the ability to go significantly above and beyond in a) helping students come to know God’s love, mercy, and strength and b) helping students become their best.
In recognition of this honor, Mrs. Henderson and Mrs. Oberg have been invited to a private event hosted at University of Northwestern by Thrivent Financial this month.
Please join us in congratulating both of these amazing teachers for being lights in the lives of Legacy students!
School canceled for Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2019
All Anoka-Hennepin schools will be closed Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2019, due to snowy winter weather impacting the safety of transportation and travel for students at dismissal time. School or district-sponsored after-school and evening activities will also be canceled.
Please know that this decision has been made for the safety of students and staff. Anoka-Hennepin has a large and complex student transportation system which limits the ability of the district to hold a late start or early release.
Share this message with family and friends via social media so all Anoka-Hennepin families are made aware.
For answers to frequently asked questions on winter weather and school closures, please visit ahschools.us/weather.
It began as two friends, Miranda and Lizzy, feeling prompted by God to help the homeless. The prompting led to an idea. The idea led to an amazing impact!
As part of Legacy’s Leadership Academy, Miranda Demars ’22 brought the idea of a blanket drive for the homeless to Student Life Director, Tom Keefe. With his help and the help of her fellow Leadership Academy classmates they partnered with Legacy’s Buddy Program to engage students across all age groups. Big Buddy’s joined up with their Little Buddy classrooms to see which group could collect the most blankets for the drive. Chick-fil-A, the Leadership Academy sponsor, jumped in and held their own blanket collection for two weeks at the Coon Rapids location! They also awarded the winning Buddy group, Mrs. Zieroth’s 1st Grade Class & Mr. Anderson’s 10th Grade, a catered Chick-fil-A lunch.
In the end, Miranda & Lizzy collected a total of 422 blankets and $1,041 to bless God Town of Minneapolis! Legacy families contributed 387 blankets and a total of $694.00 to the campaign. The results of the blanket drive exceeded God Town’s original needs so the girls continue to work with them in distributing the items to local homeless people groups and others in need. The money that was collected has been allocated to purchase various items (i.e. mittens, hats, diapers, hygiene items, etc.) to distribute along with the blankets.
It was a blessing for the girls, God Town and the Legacy community to partner in this opportunity to be the hands and feet of Jesus during the month of December…and beyond.
Miranda and her crew continue to visit those in need and share the love of Jesus and the warmth of their hearts.
We thank all of the Legacy families that participated in the blanket drive by sending blankets or donations to school during the campaign.
Fall was filled with wonderful opportunities for students to express themselves and discover new things. These outstanding October moments were memorable.
Third Graders Save Fred
The third grade students were tasked with saving Fred the Gummy Worm by getting him into his life jacket and on top of his boat without using their hands. Their tools were a few paper clips. They did great and had a lot of fun!
Applying Math
Ms. Thorson has found a way to teach math that gets our MS students excited to do more. This project of re-recreating a candy wrapper to scale is a top request in her classroom.
Harvest Bowl
The staff team of “Past Our Primetime” was successful in being named Harvest Bowl 2018 Champions, but we’re not sure if they really won! Days later the limp in their step was still evident, but ask any of them and they’ll tell you it was worth it!
College Tours
On Tuesday, October 30 our juniors and seniors spent the day touring colleges. The juniors visited the U of MN, Twin Cities campus and the University of Northwestern. They heard presentations about both colleges and toured each campus. They were able to compare a large public university with a small Christian one. The seniors visited Anoka Technical College and the University of Northwestern. They learned about two year degrees at ATC and heard from UNW staff about how to be successful in college by using your resources, getting involved and pursuing your passions.
