HEADMASTER'S NOTES
Laura Phillips • December 7, 2018
With the arrival of
the Christmas season, let’s all remember that we have so much to be thankful
for here at Chambers Academy. Most
recently in November, our varsity football team captured CA’s first AISA State
Championship in our school’s history with a perfect season.
Not only have our students excelled in
extracurricular competition, but they have also distinguished themselves as
well in academic endeavors.
CA had school wide
winners selected to represent our school in the AISA’s State Creative Writing
Contest. Baylee was the overall
winner for our elementary division and Claire was our winner for the high
school division. Both students' entries
were submitted for the state level contest. We also had five students advance to
represent CA in the AISA’s District Level Spelling Bee.
Levi finished as the runner-up in the
seventh grade contest and Easton also finished as runner-up in the
fifth grade contest.
Finally, our Middle
School Scholar’s Bowl Team posted an impressive 3-1 record at the district
competition this month with a big 140-130 win over our rival, Springwood.
I am also pleased
to share that
we will be bringing Mrs. Cheryl Blanks on board to be our Academic
Support Coach for our students. Mrs.
Blanks will be working with students referred by their classroom teachers for
improving targeted areas of need. Mrs.
Blanks is a retired teacher from both the Chambers County Schools and a former
CA teacher, having taught first grade here from 2006-11. Additionally, she worked as a reading
coach. We will be setting up a room to allow
her to work with our students on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons from 11:30 A.M. to 2:30 P.M. Mrs. Blanks will start
second semester in January.
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
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
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!
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!
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!
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!
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.
