Headmaster’s Notes

Laura Phillips • August 28, 2013

We recently commended the students who took part in our summer reading program.  Sadly, we omitted the name of Kirsten Osborne, 3rd grader, who took part in the program.  Our apologies are extended to Kirsten and her family and she is commended for her summer reading success. Our Rebel football team is commended for the […]

We recently commended the students who took part in our summer reading program.  Sadly, we omitted the name of Kirsten Osborne, 3rd grader, who took part in the program.  Our apologies are extended to Kirsten and her family and she is commended for her summer reading success.

Our Rebel football team is commended for the fine showing against Springwood last Thursday.  Since this was an “extra game” and did not count in any area standings, coaches had agreed to not use overtime rules in case of a tie.  The game did end in a  14-14 tie, but our Rebels were impressive in controlling the line of scrimmage and running the football, almost at will.

The Rebels will now travel to Crenshaw Academy Friday, 8/30, to take on former CA coach Rick Jackson and his Cougars.  Please support the Rebels as they embark on the first road trip of the year.

We also commend our volleyball team for their effort last Thursday against Cornerstone.  The young Rebel squad fell in three straight games but were competitive in all three games.  Improvement in the squad was obvious.  The next volleyball game will be on Thursday, 8/29, as we host SMCA in two matches, starting at 4:00.  Support our young ladies as they continue to improve.

This is a reminder that Monday, 9/2, is Labor Day and a school holiday.

Parents are encouraged to help your children in the PTO magazine drive underway at this time.  This is one of those really outstanding fundraisers in that it is a quality product at a reasonable price and returns a very respectable 40% profit to the school.

Many people simply do not want magazines piling up at home and choose not to order them.  If that describes you, but you would like to help with this drive, consider purchasing a magazine for our library collection.  This is a double winner for the school as the library gets the magazine and we get the 40% profit as well.  You may choose any magazine from the catalogue or you may choose from the “wish list” from Miss Jane.  If you donate a magazine to the library, please complete the deliver to address as follows:

Jim Childers
15048 Highway 431
LaFayette, AL  36862

 

Magazine Wish List

American Heritage

Car & Driver

Civil War Monitor

Discover

Field & Stream

Horse & Rider

Horse Illustrated

Hot Rod

Jack & Jill

National Geographic

National Geographic Kids

Newsweek

Off Road

Outdoor Life

Popular Science

Ranger Rick

Smithsonian

Sports Illustrated

Sports Illustrated Kids

Time

Young Rider

Your Big Back Yard

Cheerleading Squads 2020/2021

By Laura Phillips • March 7, 2020
Congratulations to all girls who tried out for both squads! The 2020-2021 Junior Varsity Squad members: Tyane Anthony Abigail Brooks Talley Carter Kayla Howard Halle Hurst Gabby Lamb Baeda McClellan Sarah McClellan Jordan Miles Meleah Tigner The 2020-2021 Varsity Squad Members: Bailey Allen Claire Allen Jamie Clark Lindsey Fuller Kaylyn Keebler Natalie Lovelace Audrey Miller Abbie Morgan Kamdyn Oliver Mattie Reese Brandalon Rombokas Alyssa Sorrells Kendall Talbot

Book Fair and Top AR Readers

By Laura Phillips • March 4, 2020
Media Mentions Our Book Fair is March 9-13. We look forward to visiting the “jungle” to search for some great books! February top readers are as follows: Kindergarten: Allison McElvy and Phoebe Benson (11 points) 1st Grade: Rowan Benson (21 points) 2nd Grade: Yates Lashley (20 points) 3rd Grade: Layton Caldwell (22 points) 4th Grade: William Lashley (29 points) 5th Grade: Beth Landrum (10 points) These students will enjoy lunch off campus!

Science News

By Laura Phillips • February 5, 2020
My seventh grade science class has been doing some labs this week. We grew bacteria that was collected from different items in an incubator. They got to see how much bacteria is lurking and what it actually looks like. They compared bacteria and fungus. They also used the scientific method in performing this experiment and discussed independent and dependent variables. This was a nice break from note taking!!!

Life in First Grade

By Laura Phillips • February 5, 2020
Hello Everyone HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! We hope you all had a GREAT winter break. We are happy to be back in class. First grade has been working hard in January. We celebrated our 100th day of school. We are working on the first story of our fourth reading unit. This school year is flying by. We are all working hard to reach our goals for AR quizzes. First graders ARE SMITTEN with books. Our top AR reader in January is Rowan. Keep up the good work First Grade. We are looking forward to February; we will be doing a “Tell me something good” project for Valentine’s Day. We will write a nice comment about each student in the class on hearts. The ground hog did not see his shadow so we hope we can start enjoying the warmer weather of spring. We had a great time doing an experiment to see if we could blow up a balloon inside a bottle. Thank you to Mrs. Flanary and everyone else who helped us conduct our experiment. Do you think you can do it? Give it a try! Well that is all the news for now. Have a Wonderful February!

History Updates

By Laura Phillips • February 5, 2020
In the month of February, our students ‘love’ learning about new events in history. The 9th graders are finishing learning about World War 1 and begin to study the roaring 20s and World War 2. The 10th graders are finalizing their studies of the Civil War and succession of the states. The 11th graders are moving into World War 2 and our 12th graders have moved into economics and politics. The speech class is writing speeches on important figures from the 1920s! We can not wait to see what spring has in store!

4th Grade News

By Laura Phillips • February 5, 2020
January was a busy time in 4th Grade! In Reading, we read stories about puzzles and mysteries. We focused on literary elements and plot/theme. In Alabama History, we started discussing Alabama’s Early Statehood – specifically the first 5 capitals. In Science, we talked about Earth’s Changes like erosion. We did our first Weird Science Wednesday and completed an Ice Castle STEM Challenge. WOW – it is hard to believe how quickly the year is passing! Our great year continues!

January Media Mentions

By Laura Phillips • February 4, 2020
January has been a busy month in the library! We’ve gotten back in the groove after the break, and we’ve enjoyed making books of our own, and performing Readers Theater scripts! Our Spring Book Fair is coming up! It will be held during the week of March 9-13. We will be open from 7:30-2:30 Monday-Thursday, and 7:30-11:00 on Friday. “ Finger Foods with Families ” will be held Monday morning from 7:30-8:00. Please come and join us for shopping and snacks. Grandparent luncheons will be held on Tuesday, March 10 for grades K-3, and Wednesday, March 11 for grades 4-6. More information will come home with students soon. Top AR readers for this month are: K: Phoebe Benson- 10 points 1st: Rowan Benson- 30.3 points 2nd: Yates Lashley- 34.4 points 3rd: Layton Caldwell- 18.3 points 4th: Eben Sasser- 14.4 points 5th: Beth Landrum- 36.5 points 6th: Easton Janowiecki- 18 points Congratulations to these students!

Second Grade News

By Laura Phillips • February 4, 2020
The second graders are learning a new way to write ----- cursive! Cohen had a tooth pulled and has now joined our Tooth Club. We have 6 members now! Harleen guessed the closest number of triangles in the Triangle Tree! She guessed 32. The first week after Christmas break was “Frog and Toad Week!” We listened to 4 books about two very good friends, wrote about our favorite Frog and Toad story, and practiced letter writing by writing 3 Frog and Toad letters. We read “A Lost Button” and did an activity with that story with K-5. We continued our letter writing the next week by writing 2 letters to our classmates and mailing them via Class Mail. After reading “Flat Stanley,” we mailed Flat Fred/Freida letters to someone who does not live with us! After visiting for a week, they wrote back telling us what Flat Fred/Freida did and saw. We are sharing our letters with our classmates as soon as the letters come in. January 27th was our 100th Day of School! We celebrated with activities, refreshments, and goody bags! Many thanks to Mrs. Dianne Lee for baking our cake. We ate every bit of it! For several years, Lowe’s Pharmacy has blown up 100 balloons for us! The children enjoyed weaving through all the ribbons in our hallway!

100th Day of School!

By Laura Phillips • January 31, 2020
Our elementary grades celebrated 100 days of school earlier this week! They each had special activities throughout the day as well as end it with some celebration and cake!

Kindergarten News

By Laura Phillips • December 13, 2019
We have had a great month! The students are making great progress learning sight words and sounding out simple words. We made Christmas ornaments and decorated our tree.
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