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Revival
Revival will start Sunday at Centerview Baptist Church.
It will continue through Oct. 1, with the Rev. Ken Sausedo of Grassy Branch Baptist in Asheville. Preaching nightly is at 7:00, as well as music. The public is invited.
Also at the church, champion fisherman Hank Parker will appear on Oct. 5 at 6 p.m. This event is also free. Call the church office at (704)827-2061 for details.
The church is at 2300 Acme Road in Belmont.
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Teacher encourages self expression
Children explore feelings through poetry
By TARA MANJARRES
- Thu, Feb 21, 2008
BELMONT—Fifth-graders aren’t especially expressive and that’s precisely the reason teacher Erika Whitesides had her class write bio-poems.
Short for biographical, the bio-poems help students verbalize their thoughts, feelings and possible desires for the future. They also help her students bond into a classroom family.
Emily Filchuck composed a bio-poem. She enjoyed the assignment but admits the part where she had to write about her feelings was difficult.
“Putting down my feelings was the hardest because you really had to think. And we feel so many different feelings.”
Though the task required some inner reflection, Emily felt it was a positive experience overall.
“I learned how to write a new kind of poem and I learned a lot about my myself,” she said.
Whitesides said the poems have a purpose over their face-value.
“I want my students to be comfortable in here. I want this room to be one where we can share our feelings. If they need to share something about their academics, behavior, or some kind of trouble I want them to know this is a safe place.”
The bio-poems hang outside the wall as you enter Whitesides’ classroom. Each student composed a personal poem. Underneath their biographical verse is also their picture.
Whitesides said placing the poems in the hallway in a prominent location served a purpose.
“I wanted them to feel a sense of belonging,” said Whitesides. “And to have their pictures and poems out their everyday and keep them up all year helps them to have ownership of their classroom.”
Eleven-year-old Trevor Burdick also authored a bio-poem. Burdick wants to see the world change and included his wish for the future in his poem.
“Sometimes people are not good to the earth. They trash the earth and it’s not right to mess up the earth,” he said. “This will come back on our grandchildren, and I would like to see people stop polluting the earth so that’s why I put that in my writing.”
Burdick says being in fifth-grade is cooler than the other grades as they are finally upperclassman. And he likes that his class pictures are on the wall for everyone to see.
“Yeah it’s a lot more fun than being in the other grades. But you also can’t do anything bad because the other kids look up to you.”
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