I have time this morning to contact you because I am needed to stay behind with some students who are feeling too sick to go on the overnight camping trip with the Bilingual Students from Oaxaca (pronounced wuhawka) Mexico. Sad for me, but I'm the only Canadian female chaperone so it is my job to look after the girls. I don't mind. If I was sick, I would want someone like my mom to stay behind with me too. :)
So, I need your help on something. I got an email from Mrs. Schmid in the office asking me to send her the names of the winners of the awards this year. YIKES!! I was hoping to do this when I got back, but they are needing to order the awards now, so I am going to have to get your input this way.
This isn't something you necessarily need to do in class. You can do this at home and send it to me from there. The school work Mr. Hannem has for you today takes priority.
What I want you to do is send me an email to my jrobideau@heritagechristian.ca address giving me your suggestions for the following awards. Please just don't pick your friends. Yes, you can choose yourself. Think about the whole year, not just the last week or month. Pray about it and ask God to give you wisdom about your classmates and how the year has gone for them. Please really think about who you think should be honoured with each award.
Discipleship Award Winner: This is the 1 student (we can only pick one) who best represents the class in the following areas:
- Leadership - he/she is someone who the class looks to for guidance, order, direction when the teacher is not there or when in small groups This person tries to serve others before him/her self.
- Academics - he/she tries hard in every subject and is responsible to complete assignments and study for tests - will also help other students who need it
- Spiritual - he/she has a strong relationship with the Lord and is not ashamed to show it
- Relational - he/she is friendly and kind to every member of the class regardless of whether that student is in their "friend group".
The Discipleship Award Winner should also have the traits described in the Christian Character and Christian Service categories.
Christian Character: We can pick up to 3 students in the class who have these qualities:
- God focused
- desiring of growth in his/her Christian journey
- humble - able to apologize when he/she has done wrong and forgive others when they have done wrong to him/her
- someone you might consider going to with a prayer request or to ask a spiritual question
- someone who looks out for others and cares about how they are doing
- considers the needs of others before him/her self
- there is evidence of some of the fruits of the spirit in his/her life (joy, peace, love, patience, gentleness, faithfulness, self-control, kindness, goodness)
Christian Service: We can pick up to 3 students in the class who have these qualities:
- servant's heart in attitude and in action
- someone who often volunteers to help out (eg. lunch monitoring, computers, other class jobs)
- someone who does things without being asked (eg. cleans up messes in the class, holds the door for people, offers to help carry things for others)
- serves the school in a greater way by supporting school events, and participating in fundraisers
Now, of course, those are pretty amazing qualities and no one fits them perfectly (except Jesus) so choose people who you think are the closest. If you can't think of anyone, don't choose any one.
Now I would appreciate your input into the Outstanding Merit categories. These are awards that recognize people's special and unique qualities/abilities in areas that aren't listed.
For example, a student may receive an Outstanding Merit Award in Humour for having a great sense of humour. Another one may be in Story Writing. It could also recognize them in a character area such as Outstanding Merit Award for Generousity. These are not specified awards, but come from what we as a class have seen them excel in during the school year. You can pick as many of these as you want.
When you send me the email, you should write it like this:
Hello Mrs. Robideau,
Here are my suggestions for the End of the Year Awards.
I think __________________ should win the Discipleship Award.
I think __________________, ____________________ and ___________________ should win the Christian Character awards.
I think __________________, ____________________ and ___________________ should win the Christian Service awards.
I think ____________________ should win an Outstanding Merit Award in __________________.
If you feel like you want to explain your choices then please, go right ahead. I would love that.
eg. I think ______________________ should win an Outstanding Merit Award in _____________________ because ____________________________________________________.
I look forward to receiving your emails. Now here is a picture of one of the bugs that are EVERYWHERE in Oaxaca. People treat them like ladybugs here. They don't kill them, they just let them be. You find lots of them on their backs with their little legs kicking until they get turned back over.
