Lubbock Adventist News

Differentiated Instruction Differentiation is responsible teaching rather than one size fits all teaching. (Tomlinson, 2005) To put it yet another way, it means that teachers proactively plan varied approaches to what students need to learn, how they will learn it,...

When Lubbock Junior Academy (LJA) began in August of 2009, there were a few desks, some chairs and two kidney shaped tables. The school had no textbooks and very few library books. However, there was a great deal of hope and enthusiasm for the infant church school. A...

One of my favorite events is about to happen. Can you guess? I hope you guessed the Adventist Book Center Bookmobile coming to our Lubbock Adventist Church, April 11, from 5–7pm It’s one of my favorite times because it’s an opportunity for you to purchase a book or...

We currently have several happy students! They are excited because they have finished, or are nearly finished, with the required work for their grade level. The students have worked hard. Some have completed 16 to 20 pages of math in one week. When completed, every...

I’d like to take a few moments to talk to you about the children in our church. For those of you who are parents, I know you want your child to grow healthy and have a good life. I believe the best type of life will have Jesus at the very core of it. Every time there...

There’s only one way to celebrate the end of Lubbock Junior Academy’s 2010 – 2011 first semester. It has to be a sleep-over at the school. Seventeen students came at 6 p.m. Thursday, December 16, and didn’t go to sleep until 3:30 Friday morning. We started at 6 p.m....

This has been a busy and exciting time of the year for Lubbock Junior Academy students. It was a challenge to learn all of our parts for our Christmas program which we pray was a blessing to you. We’ve helped decorate our room and our weekly art class is dealing with...

The students were certainly in a pickle last Friday. We were the recipients of a huge jar of sour dill pickles. Our thanks to Mrs. Jan Yates for the hilarious donation. The students were thrilled to have large dill pickles as an addition to their usual sack lunch....

Most people don’t like to pack and repack boxes. However, if you had been in the classroom of the Lubbock Junior Academy during the week of November 22-26, you would have seen students happily packing toothbrushes, stuffed toys, washcloths, hard candy, bar soap and...

The greatest rewards of teaching do not come with the paycheck, but rather in seeing achievements of the students. In their first year of church school Lubbock Junior Academy students showed significant academic growth as measured by national Standardized Achievement...