Jenna Oetman, 4th-grade teacher at BCCS, shares the following note from one of her days teaching last week.

In science, we have been discussing animals and their habitats. Today, we explored our schoolyard habitat to find animals that live in this environment. As they were coming back inside after listening to and drawing many animals, Noah shared "I never noticed how many animals lived at our school. You just have to look". Many students agreed with him.

I asked them what that reminded them of (looking closely at things), and they said our school storyline of being fixed on Jesus! A student shared "sometimes we don't notice God's miracles or what he is doing for us, but we need to be fixed on him".

This led to a great discussion of how if we open our eyes to other neighbors in our environment (other than small animals!), we may notice a friend in need. Sometimes the most important learning takes place even in a simple science activity!