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Academics
Academically, our students are challenged in the classroom on a daily basis. In addition, to enhance our students gifted in academics, TCS offers the following extra-curricular experiences:
Speech Meet The objectives of the Speech Meet are: 1. To encourage effective speech in an audience situation. 2. To help students to speak audibly, articulately, and expressively with poise and vitality. 3. To develop effective communication which contributes to effective leadership in Christian activities. A student demonstrates his ability by delivering a memorized poem, speech, or passage to his audience. Poems, Bible passages, fables, patriotic prose and Bible prose are taken from selected materials provided by ACSI. Contestants do not compete against each other. 1st grade students may select one Bible passage or one poem to memorize and recite at tryout. 2nd, 3rd, and 4th grade students may select one Bible passage, one poem, or one fable/folklore piece to memorize and recite at tryout. 5th and 6th grade students may select one Bible passage, one poem, one patriotic, one Bible prose, or write their own original speech to memorize and recite at tryout. One student for each category will be chosen from each classroom to represent TCS at the Speech Meet. Dates for the Speech Meet will follow at a later date. Please see Mrs. Woodford if you have any questions regarding this event. ACSI Spelling Bee The students from grade one through eight are now preparing to participate in the ACSI Spelling Bee to be held at Carol Stream Christian Academy in Carol Stream, Illinois on January 26, 2007. Students are studying word lists and will soon be participating in their classroom spell downs. First through Fourth grades classes will have their spell downs to select the top speller and the alternate. The top speller from each class will attend the ACSI Spelling Bee. Students from fifth through eighth grades will complete in their classrooms to select the top four spellers. Those students will compete in the Trinity Christian School Spelling Bee on November 21. The top speller and alternate from each of those grades will be selected at this competition and will go on to compete at the ACSI Spelling Bee. Math Competition Joliet West High School has a math competition for all the junior high schools which feed into it. For the last two years we have sent selected 7th and 8th grade students to compete. Last year, TCS won first place overall in its division. Chess Club We are blessed to have a fully-trained Chess Master and
Educator leading our Chess Team. Students as young as second
grade meet weekly in Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced
levels and learn the strategies and intricacies of Chess.
While basics are taught, students learn special moves, how
to score and proper terminology right from the beginning. |
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