With Valentine’s Day just around the corner I am reminded of our Capturing Kids Hearts model. If you have a child’s heart, you have their head. Nothing is more evident of this than our Kindergarteners and 1st graders celebrating their 100th Day of school today. Students embracing dressing up as if they were 100 years old. Grey hair, crow’s feet penciled in on their eyes, canes, walkers and wigs with curlers. All evidence that our teachers have captured their hearts and their heads.
It’s hard to believe that our 8th graders have had meetings with the local high schools to talk about class schedules for their freshman year! During these meetings, however, I see the energy, excitement and enthusiasm from the students in picking their courses for next year. Through this process, students get to see how they have prepared themselves for the next level of education. Realizing that Aspen View Academy’s new theater classes can springboard them to be an active participant in high school theater. Our inaugural middle school Math Pathways has prepared them for advanced high school math courses. Finding an interest in our Engineering and Technology classes offered here at AVA can set them up for a ‘deeper dive’ into these classes at the next level.
However I would be kidding myself if I didn’t look at the entire picture here at Aspen View Academy. No matter what grade your student is in, rest assured that they have the best teachers. All of whom work together to capture your child’s heart, in order to capture their head.
Tony Lamb, M.Ed.
Assistant Principal, Grades 6-8
