Monthly Archives: October 2023

On October 26, Immanuel Academy St. Louis started a weekly narration skills training for teachers in grades 4-7. They began to use the classic narration book “Know and Tell” written by Karen Glass for continuous training. Teachers use a narration as a main approach to study this book. They found this very useful and meaningful. Narration is an important method in Charlotte Mason education. If used well, students’ comprehension levels will solidly improve with each lesson. It has proven to be a powerful tool for developing profound thinkers, eloquent speakers, and excellent writers. May their training journey be fruitful and effective.

Immanuel Academy St. Louis 4th-5th Grade Students Conduct Beautiful Nature Study of Asiatic Dayflower And Snowy Stonecrop – succulents at school. 

Asiatic Dayflower, in flower terms, means Hope and Positive Future Dreams. They gave their flowers to teachers with love and positivity!

Immanuel Academy St. Louis spent a week from October 9-12 completing the first NWEA MAP testing of the new school year. Students in kindergarten through seventh grade paid close attention during exams. The results are out and teachers will communicate the results to parents in the next few days.

Beginning with the first week of school, grades 4-7 at Immanuel Academy St. Louis began a Bible study of the Four Spiritual Laws. Teacher Michelle teaches students 40 minutes a day.

The two lead teachers, Mr. Sam and Ms. Valerie, also attend daily Bible study. They enjoy Bible study and feel it helps them integrate God’s Word into various subjects more deeply.

May all students and teachers gain strength from the Bible studies and draw closer to God every day.

Immanuel Academy St. Louis holds a fresh morning assembly every morning. Each morning, they begin school with teacher’s prayers/devotional and a whole-school morning assembly.The morning assembly includes prayer with response, scripture reading, hymn singing, daily affirmation and pledges. Each section is led by a main teacher, with students also participating. The atmosphere of the morning assembly is very bright, fresh and graceful. May God delight in this occasion and bless each school day with the first fruits of each day.

On September 1, Immanuel Academy St. Louis host Orientation for the 2023-2024 School Year. This is the first time that Immanuel Academy held an orientation event in the new school building. After the opening song “He Makes All Things New”, Immanuel Academy Director Michelle Lai delivered a sermon titled “The Sermon on the Mount” (Matthew 5:1-11). The school has come to a new beginning, a new level, a new dimension, and they want all blessings mentioned in Beatitudes to be guaranteed. As they start a new school year, all need the wisdom to know how to be blessed.During the sermon, Ms. Michelle studied together with the teachers and students how to get blessings and get rewards from God. These scriptures teach the wisdom and essential meaning of life. They want to seize these blessings, bear beautiful fruit and glorify God. Both teachers and students want to challenge themselves to become more like Christ in the new school year. After the sermon, Ms. Valerie and Ms. Krisstal explained the school policies, including student arrival & dismissal, attendance& tardies, academics & field trip privileges, discipline & consequences, and habit formation, etc. They explain the rules in a fun and dramatic way. Everything is well received and remembered. All faculty and staff were introduced to students and parents. The two new teachers, Ms. Janice and Mr. Sam, were warmly welcomed by everyone.All students sang “Shine Jesus Shine” as the closing song. When the teachers asked them if they wanted to follow Jesus in the new school year, they replied “Amen” loudly. May God bless Immanuel Academy St. Louis 2023-2-24 new school year. May this year be fruitful and full of loving memories.