HEADMASTER'S NOTES
- By Laura Phillips
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- 07 Dec, 2018
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On a festive note, CA captured third place with our float entry in the Greater Valley Area Chamber of Commerce Christmas Parade this month. Special thanks to all of you who helped make that a great event for CA.
In regard to school activities, our varsity boys and girls basketball teams are both undefeated with the boys at 2-0 and the girls at 3-0 overall. Our Fine Arts theatre team is hosting their annual Christmas program on Monday, December 10th, beginning at 6 p.m. in the gymnasium. Finally, our organizational meeting for our new Bass Fishing Team will be Tuesday, December 11th, at 5:15 p.m. in the upper school building.
Exams are coming up with the semester closing on December 14th. Exams will be on Tuesday, December 18, thru Thursday, December 20th. Testing will begin daily at 7:53 A.M. until 9:30 A.M. Each day’s second exam will run from 10 A.M until dismissal at 11:30 A.M. Periods 1 and 2 will be Tuesday, periods 3 and 4 will be Wednesday, and periods 5 and 6 will be Thursday.
Elementary classes will have normal schedules Monday thru Wednesday. They will dismiss at 11:30 A.M. on Thursday.
All students will return to classes on Tuesday, January 8, 2019.
On behalf
of the faculty here at Chambers Academy, we wish you a Merry Christmas to you
and your family.
“Go Rebels!”
Sincerely,
David Owen, Headmaster
Chambers Academy
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!
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!!!
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!
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 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!
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!
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.
