Headmaster’s Report

Laura Phillips • February 13, 2013

Congratulations to our local school science fair competitors and especially to our winners who will now advance to district level competition next week. The array of original projects and work invested was truly impressive. Read further for “Miss Kim’s” list of categories and winners. Congratulations to Coach McGinty, assistant coaches, and the Lady Rebels basketball […]

Congratulations to Coach McGinty, assistant coaches, and the Lady Rebels basketball team. While the season ended earlier than expected, our CA Ladies had another great year. The Lady Rebels advanced to the Elite Eight at Huntingdon College before falling to Patrician 49-43. The Ladies finished the season at 15-8. The season was highlighted by 2 out of 3 victories over long time nemesis Coosa Valley, 2 out of 3 victories over regional arch foe Cornerstone, and another sweep of of cross county rival Springwood. Two seniors ended their CA basketball careers with probably more victories than a Lady Rebel has experienced in 20 years. Aly has been a two year starter and has been a reliable rebounder and outstanding defender. Britne’ has been a multi-year starter and leaves a legacy of consistent scoring, rebounding, and defending. What Britne’ mostly leaves is her quiet leadership and ability to remain calm in the storm and thus rally the troops. Both will be sorely missed. Returning players who will be asked to step up and fill the void of graduating seniors include: 7th grader, Tori; 8th graders, Jessica and Klancy; 9th graders, Hannah, Anslee, and Baleigh; 10th grader, Cheyenne; and 11th graders, Deven and Heather.

For the second straight year Chambers Academy will have a girls basketball player represent our school in the AISA All-Star basketball game. Congratulations to Britne’ who has been recognized by regional coaches for her outstanding career at CA. Britne’ will participate in the AISA All-Star game to be played Friday, February 22th, at 6:00pm in the Crampton Bowl Complex. Please come out and support Britne’ as she represents our school and community in this state wide stage.

Parents, please don’t forget to send us potential students names and addresses if known. These identified prospects will be personally invited to an Open House at our school on Thursday, February 28th. All personnel will be in place to greet and talk to these prospects. In order to continue current services with even a minimum tuition increase, we need more students. Please help!!

Our lunchroom payment program has gone away. The program was begun to be a debit type program with student purchases being deducted from a previously paid amount. Instead, many have used the program as a credit type program whereby purchases are charged to be paid later. Our charges have reached into the thousands, and we struggle to pay for lunchroom supplies and food. All high school students are being advised that effective Tuesday, high school students with more than $10.00 in past charges will not be served. We simply must “catch-up” so we can begin to use the program as intended.

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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.