Headmaster’s Report

Laura Phillips • September 19, 2013

*Our Annual White Plains Country Fair is now just around the corner.  As you know, this remains the largest single fund-raising event of the school year.  We have again joined forces with the Sheriff’s Department and will hold the Country Fair in conjunction with their Rodeo, October 4th, 5th and 6th, at the arena near […]

* Our Annual White Plains Country Fair is now just around the corner.  As you know, this remains the largest single fund-raising event of the school year.  We have again joined forces with the Sheriff’s Department and will hold the Country Fair in conjunction with their Rodeo, October 4th, 5th and 6th, at the arena near the junction of highways 431 and 77.  This is a great opportunity to enjoy top  quality rodeo action, feast on wonderful foods, and visit the many vendors on the grounds.

* We certainly hope all members of the CA Family come out to support the White Plains Fair.  We also hope you will be available to work one or more shifts at one of several Chambers Academy booths.   You may call the school office to sign up for a work detail.

* In recent years, the final event of the fair has been our raffle drawing.  This year is no exception in that scores of items will be raffled, highlighted by a 43″ Samsung Flat Screen TV.  Other choice prizes include gift certificates from Lowe’s Pharmacy, The Mane Event, Parker’s Foods, The Steele Magnolia, and many others.  Prizes are still being added to the list.

Raffle tickets are only $5.o0.   For every 5 tickets sold by a CA student, one additional ticket is given to the student.  For example, a student who sells 20 tickets will have 4 tickets added to the drawing in his/her name.

* Congratulations are extended to Coach Allen and the Varsity Football Rebels for their victory over Ashford last Friday.  The Rebels will now take on Meadowview here Friday night.  While we are confident of another victory, we need the support of the CA family.  Come out and enjoy great football, great food, and the family atmosphere of Chambers Academy.

* Our Pee Wee and JV football teams are back in action Thursday.  The Pee Wee team will take on Valley here at 4:30.  We will then travel to Camp Hill to support our JV Rebels as they take on Lyman Ward at 6:00.  Come support our young Rebels.

* Good luck to our varsity volleyball team as they travel to EMCA Thursday. The girls have shown great improvement in this first year of volleyball at CA.  Our very young squad is preparing for great success in volleyball in coming years.

COMING EVENTS:

Tuesday, 9/24 – Volleyball at Calloway Tech in LaGrange.  JV Pep Rally at 2:00.  JV Football at Springwood at 6:00

Wednesday, 9/25 – 12th Graders to visit Alabama Supreme Court in Montgomery.

Thursday, 9/27 – Balfour Senior Supplies order at 8:00, $100.00 deposit.  Varsity Football at Sparta at 7:00.

Monday, 9/30 – Volleyball -SMCA here at 4:00.

Thursday, 10/3 – Volleyball at  Edgewood at 4:00.

Friday, 10/4 – Varsity Football at Cornerstone at 7:00.  White Plains Country Fair

Saturday, 10/5 – White Plains Country Fair.

Sunday, 10/6 – White Plains Country Fair.

Monday, 10/7 – AISA Professional Development – Montgomery.  Student Holiday

 

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.
More Posts