Curriculum

Faculty and Staff

Living Our Faith

All students participate in weekly chapel and are grouped into mixed-age chapel families.  Offerings are given to a selected monthly chapel project and have included Nation-to-Nation Ministries, Life Choices Pregnancy Center, House of Neighborly Service, ILC Pastor's Pantry, and Samaritan's Purse.  Often our students create and write "Heart Warmer" cards for those serving in the military, to celebrate birthdays and anniversaries, give encouragement, get well, and thank you notes to acknowledge special service to our school. 

At Christmas time, many classes collect gifts for needy Loveland area families. Our church and school prepares shoe boxes that share the love of Jesus to children around the world though Operation Christmas Child.

Our second graders are trimming, sorting, counting, and organizing the Box Tops for Education and Campbells Soup labels for redemption. The third grade class has adoptive grandparents that they visit monthly at the Good Samaritan Village. Fourth graders weekly clean, straighten, re-stock, and organize the books, pencils, and cards in the ILC sanctuary to get it ready for Sunday morning.  Fifth graders assist with outdoor clean-up of our facility.  

Homework

All students in 1st through 5th grade will have some homework, particularly on Monday through Thursday.  If the student is effectively using his or her class time, it should not exceed the 10 minutes per grade guidelines.  A minimum of fifteen minutes of reading per night is encouraged to establish strong reading skills.   Mathematics is the most common daily homework in elementary school.  Book reports are assigned on a monthly basis.  

Field Trips

While plans may change over the course of the year, these are the scheduled field trips:

1st Grade:

• The Discovery Science Center 
• Visit the Loveland Public Library
• The Environmental Learning Center in Fort Collins
• A play or stage show that is age-appropriate

2nd Grade:

• Reporter Herald Main Building and Production Facilities in Berthoud
• Celestial Seasonings 
• Leanin' Tree Art Museum
• A children's theater production at the Mizel Center for the Arts in Denver
• Coors Field and possibly the Mint

3rd Grade:

• Denver Zoo
• Monthly visits to adoptive grandparents at Good Samaritan Village

 4th Grade:  

• Environmental Education at Viestenz-Smith Park in the fall 
• Loveland Museum in the winter
• Plains Conservation Center in Aurora in May

5th Grade:

• Museum of Science and Nature in Denver in the fall
• Fiske Planetarium at CU Boulder in the winter
• Outdoor Education in the spring
• Denver Zoo in May