YANKEE MANIA is HERE!

Yankee Mania has arrived at Long Island Baptist Academy and signs of the upcoming World series are showing up all over the place! Mrs. Graf, a true-blue Yankee fan, encourages all the students to wear Yankee paraphernalia.and to support the finest team in baseball! Here she is with Bernie sporting his "Battle Royale" shirt:














Mark, Noel Justin, and Marcus all had the same shirts on to show how much they are looking forward to the World Series. Let's go YANKEES!

And here's Gracie, sporting her "Jeter Jersey." You look great LaGrace!

Thanks for stopping by our blog!
Yours for LIBA Cliff,
Tyler

Yankee Mania

As pretty much everybody who reads this post knows, the Yanks are moving on to the World Series! Yeah! So, in honor of the best baseball team on earth, we are having Yankee Mania Week here at school. This week means a lot to most of us because it’s just the start of a soon coming, great World Series with Phillies vs. Yankees. For all of the fans in our school, we can’t wait to see the Yankees… well you get the idea—I don’t want to brag right away.

Yours for LIBA Cliff Notes,
Tyler Albani

PS—Let us all remember something… “LET’S GO YANKEES! Pics are coming soon!

Here is the pkedge we say for the best baseball team on earth:

PLEDGE to the YANKEES
by Liz Graf

I pledge allegiance
To the Yankees,
The best baseball team on earth.
And to the legends
Upon whose shoulders they stand.
One team,
Undefeatable—
With records
Surpassing the rest.
I will root for the Yankees,
Wear Yankee paraphernalia,
And respectfully
Regard the opinions of
John Sterling and Susan Waldman.
So help me!

Happy Birthday Maddy! by Tyler Albani

Friday, October 23rd, was Madison Fryman’s birthday. Madison, a.k.a. Maddy, is not yet officially in our school but she’s preparing for it by getting homeschooled. She does sing in our choir though. I would have to say that Maddy is one of the sweetest, most respectful, and one of the funniest five-year-olds I have ever known! She is going to make a great addition to our school next year and Maddy, Long Island Baptist Academy wishes you and hopes you had a very, very special birthday! Love from your friends at Long Island Baptist Academy

Mrs. Graf’s World

Pickle Problems

One of my students—not mentioning any names—placed a huge jar of pickles we purchased for our snack shop in the freezer. This morning we looked for them and found the entire jar frozen solid (why do things like this only happen in my class?)! So, several of the kids in our school decided to try a “frozen pickle” and here is what they decided:

La Grace – “They were juicy and cold!”

Marky – “They were icy but really good!”

Justin R. – “They were crunchy on the outside and soft on the inside!”

Bernie – “They were sweet and good.”

Brianna – “Very different but mine had ice in the center.”

Shayna – “It was fantastic—I loved it and I would definitely eat it again!”

Civil War Days

The students of Long Island Baptist Academy participated in Civil War Day during School Spirit Week and really put together some terrific costumes - so much so that many of these photos look authentic. Check out the following pictures and see for yourself - and remember, you can click on any image to make it bigger.

Megan Mrs. Graf's class...

Mrs. Pratnicki's class and Madison...

The junior and senior high students...

The boys...

All the lovely ladies...

Chris and Noel - quite convincing, wouldn't you say?

Bernie, honest Abe (Stephan), and Mark

Justin, Thomas, Stephan, and Josh

Rachel, Megan, and Silvia

Brooke and Bella

There's a new interview on our interview page!
Click on the microphone to the right to read about this wonderful student at Long Island Baptist Academy.

A Most Spectacular Yankee Game!
By Tyler Albani

On Tuesday, September 29th, the Junior and Senior high school young men got to go to the Yankees vs. Kansas City Royals game. This game was a present to us from Pastor Graf because of all the work that we did at the church with helping out with different things. Now, about this game, it wasn’t just a game, it was much more than that… here’s how our day went—

We were at school “doing work” until about 1:35 p.m. when we stopped what we were doing and we started heading towards the old faithful church van. As we were heading to the van with Bro. Josh Fryman, we saw Barry Greer and Jonathan Rivera sitting out in Bro. Greer’s car. When we walked out of the building, Bro. Greer saw me wearing my Cardinals stuff. He said that he respected me wearing this paraphernalia, but he also feared for me walking into the stadium with that on. Anyway, so after he said that I put my Ohio State sweatshirt on. So we finally loaded up the van and went to go to Yankee Stadium to catch the 4:00 pm. batting practice.
We made it to the stadium at 3:15 p.m. which gave us time to look at the Yankee stores near the stadium. They were very expensive. I tried to look for a Yankee hat to replace my Cardinals one, but they were just too expensive. Back to the story…

We got into the stadium at 4:02 p.m. and went down to right field to watch the batting practice. Almost every one of us got a baseball from the players down on the field. Justin Johnston got a signed baseball from one of the relieve pitchers. When batting practice was over, we got some food and then went to our seats. They were great seats. At around 6:45 p.m., they started a ceremony for Derek Jeter and Mariano Rivera. It was a great surprise. We stayed for the whole game. Our group even started a wave at around the 8th inning and the whole stadium participated! The Yankees had a great comeback and we all lost our voices! Yay!! It was a great time! It was the best game that I (and pretty much everyone else) had ever been to!

Now for other news—the reason I mentioned my Cardinals hat and shirt is because during our batting practice enjoyment, I went with a few other guys to Monument Park. While we were on our way there, I stopped at one of those little shirt and hat vendors and bought myself a Yankee hat. By the end of the game I realized my true colors are blue and white pinstripes, and not red and white. I, and almost Bro. Josh Fryman, got converted to Yankees fans by the end of the game. So, all I can say is, “Go Yankees!” Here’s a picture of my new Yankees shirt. C.C. Sabathia has been very good lately, let's hope he keeps it up!

Brianna's Plastic Zoo

Brianna is an animal lover and has collected quite a menagerie of mini pets! She has cats, dogs, rabbits, mice, and everything in between - she even has a hedgehog! All of them are painted and very life-like, with much attention given to the smallest details. She has names for nearly all of these little plastic creatures and takes very good care to keep them neat and organized. I enjoyed seeing Brianna's beautiful collection of animals and can't wait until she shows me her other animals (yes, she actually has MORE!) Click on any image for a larger view of these tiny creatures.

See if you can find the hedgehog in the photo above.
The photo below shows all the cats Brianna has collected.

These are some of my favorites, I especially like the sheepdog in the background.

Look at all those dogs!