Grandparents’ Day, Oct. 19; Registration Now Live

Please take a minute to invite your students’ grandparents to register for Grandparents’ Day here. This is a wonderful morning they won’t want to miss! 

Little Siblings' Playdate, Now THIS Thurs., Sep. 21

Let’s try again this week! Parents are invited to bring your littles who are not yet in school to the playground outside of the North entrance. While the kids play, parents can enjoy some fellowship in the cool fall morning!

Volunteers Needed

Volunteers are needed to read tests to students. If you are interested in helping provide this service, please contact Mrs. Lehmann.

Incorporating Bible Reading in Our Busy Days

For busy adults, Bible reading often becomes one more (often neglected) item on a long to-do list. On busy home days, practicing Bible memory work or completing the chapel reading can feel like an inefficient extra. Try mentally reframing those checklist items from yet another duty to an opportunity you don’t want to miss.

“This is how God has designed the Scriptures to work for human transformation and for the glory of God: the Scriptures reveal God’s glory. This glory, God willing, is seen by those who read the Bible. 

“This seeing gives rise, by God’s grace, to savoring God above all things—treasuring him, hoping in him, feeling him as our greatest reward, tasting him as our all-satisfying good. And this savoring transforms our lives—freeing us from the slavery of selfishness and overflowing in love to others.”

-John Piper, Reading the Bible Supernaturally

Rhetoric School Retreat 

Our 9th-12th grade students gathered this weekend for a special time of worship, fellowship, and community. Thanks very much to all of our staff and parent volunteers who made this such a wonderful retreat, especially Mrs. Riddle, Mrs. Hamson, our hosts, Beloved and Beyond camp, and our guest speaker, Kyle Shipp.

Questions?

Now that we have a few weeks behind us, home days will start to become routine.  We anticipate that there will still be questions about assignments or activities, so please feel free to email your child’s teacher with your questions. We are happy to answer and help you continue to make progress through your lesson plans.

Kindergarten teacher Mrs. Jarolik demonstrates how fractions are just as important as freshly-squeezed lemons in making sweet lemonade.

Co-Teacher Meetings

We’ve enjoyed visiting with parents who have been able to come to these meetings.  There is time to meet other parents, interact with teachers, and receive additional training.  Next up? 6th grade tomorrow morning, with Kindergarten in the afternoon. 

September 19: 6th Grade at 8:20 in the small sanctuary. 

September 19: Kindergarten at 2:15 in the Pearl Street Foyer. Please enter through the north entrance. 

September 28: 4th grade Long Division Workshop after school in Mrs. Porterfield’s room. 

Fastest Providence Time: Rubik’s Cube Now Sep. 29

We’ll be rescheduling the Rubik’s cube FPT to September 29 in House Chapel.. Any student who wishes to compete must bring a standard 3x3x3 cube. No need to register in advance.

Logic Retreat, Nov. 7

Logic School is returning to the Baylor Challenge Course for its annual retreat on Tuesday, November 7. We will depart in the morning after chapel and return just before pickup time, so it is an all-day event.  Stay tuned for more details as we get closer to the date of the retreat. 

RamFam Friday Feast

Rhetoric School students (9th-12th) and Faculty/Staff are invited to place your order for Raising Cane’s by Thursday, September 21 at 4pm.

PSAT, Oct. 25

Save the date! All students in 9th, 10th, and 11th grades will take the PSAT at school on Wednesday, October 25. This year’s test will be in a digital format for the first time which brings significant changes both to format and content. It’d be a good idea to take a practice test, found here. We have a few laptops to share, but we’ll need most students to bring a laptop (requirements here). Note that Chromebooks are not able to run the necessary software.

College Entrance Exam Registration Deadlines

Juniors and Seniors, it’s not too late to register for the SAT, ACT, and CLT this fall.

For the SAT, register here before Sep. 26 to take the test on Oct. 7 or by Oct. 5 to take the test by Nov. 4. For the ACT, register here by Oct. 6 to take the test on Oct. 28. For the CLT, register here by Oct. 9 to take the test on Oct. 14.

Basketball Registration

Registration for Logic School and Rhetoric School basketball for girls and boys will take place through Blackbaud this week through October 1.

Week in Review

Volleyball

Logic School - Green & White teams both walked away with wins against Sterling last Monday and fell to St. Helen’s on Thursday, Green in 3 sets and White in two!

Rhetoric School - Varsity won their first district game of the season against Sterling. On Thursday of last week, both JV and Varsity lost to Founders Classical in Leander.

Flag Football

The Rams won another road game at St. Helen’s, 32-24, to move to 2-0 on the young season.

Upcoming Games

Flag Football

Tuesday, September 19

Providence vs. Divine Savior

at Temple Crossroads Park, 5:30 PM

Thursday, September 21

Providence vs. Sterling

at Temple Crossroads Park, 5:30 PM

Soccer

Thursday, September 21

Providence vs. Fulton

at Heritage Park, 6:30 PM

Saturday, September 23

Providence vs. Arredondo

at Heritage Park, 9 AM

Volleyball

Logic School - no games this week.

Monday, September 25

Rams v. St. Mary’s at Temple Nazarene

Logic School-Green, 5:30 PM

Logic School-White, 6:45 PM

Rhetoric

Tuesday, September 19

Varsity at Keene Chisholm Trail,

6:30 PM

Thursday, September 21

Varsity at Killeen Memorial, 6 PM

Saturday, September 23

JV Tournament at CTCS, 9 AM - 7 PM

Christy Porterfield,

Fourth Grade

Mrs. Porterfield has been teaching at Providence since 2011, serving as a teacher for first, third, fourth and fifth graders since the school’s first year. 

“I am passionate about fostering my students’ love for learning, discovery, and exploring that takes place in and beyond the classroom. It has been rewarding to receive videos, photos, and emails from home days in which students wanted to share something new they had discovered about the creatures we are studying.

As with many lessons, I enjoy the opportunity to bring in and provide actual animals for the students to observe, compare and draw to encourage depth of understanding. 

The egg incubation lasts for 21 days, and my prayer was that the students would be able to observe this process completely. We arrived at school on a Tuesday to see two little ones had already emerged from their shells and were exploring the inside of the incubator. There were several more eggs and my prayer was for the students to experience this hatching fully. One of our chicks hatched right at the beginning of science class!! There were great gasps, enthusiastic cheers, and appreciation to the Lord for being able to see this happen live. My prayer is that as we study zoology, we will all fall deeper in love with the Designer and Creator of all things.”

Arthur Young,

AP Calculus, Pre-Calculus, Algebra II

Mr. Young has been teaching at Providence since 2018. He has a  Bachelor and Master of Science in Physics from UCLA with a Master of Arts in Christian Apologetics from Biola University. 

“[One of the things] I've enjoyed [about our school is] the question-asking culture we have at Providence. For example, in Calculus [and …Pre-Calculus], we were discussing the reasons for stating that a vertical asymptote existed for a function…The students asked many questions to help them clarify the point for themselves. It was exciting for me to watch them process their new understanding and for the light to turn on for them. I didn't have to do much except answer their questions. 

[As for collaborating with co-teachers,] I have very much enjoyed the support, encouragement, and prayers that I have received from parents. The interaction with parents here is very different than in the public sector where I sometimes felt that I was by myself or at odds against the parent. At Providence I feel there is more of a shared responsibility between the parent, student, and me in achieving success for the student.

My foremost goal is helping each student draw closer to Jesus whether that student has accepted Christ or not. I want to help every student know that there are good reasons to place their faith in Him. Math also helps each student to train their mind in rational thinking and to see the beauty in what God has created.”