VALEDICTORIAN; SALUTATORIAN ANNOUNCED

Laura Phillips • April 16, 2019

April 15, 2019

Chambers Academy – 15048 US Highway 431 – LaFayette, AL 36862

Office – 334-864-9852 – Fax – 334-864-9691 – david.owen@chambersacademy.com

Chambers Academy is pleased to announce that Mary Tate Reese will serve as the valedictorian for the senior class of 2019 and Mikayla Martin will serve as the class Salutatorian.

Mary Tate Reese is the daughter of Buster and Kerri Reese of LaFayette. “Tate” maintained an impressive 99.364 numeric GPA while completing a challenging advanced diploma academic track. Additionally, she earned a 27 composite on her ACT as well as a scholarship to further her studies at Auburn University. Tate has attended CA since Kindergarten and plans to study pre-pharmacy at Auburn. Tate set the bar high working hard in both academics and extracurricular activities without sacrificing her academics. She served on CA’s varsity scholar’s bowl team as well as on the school’s annual staff. Tate has also served on CA’s Math Team and in the school’s BETA Club. Tate also served as the Vice-President for CA’s Student Government Association. She was also a nominee for the AISA’s All State Academic Team. Additionally, Tate’s leadership was evident as a member of our school’s state tournament basketball team where she earned recognition to the AISA’s Girl’s All Star Team in February. She participated as a member of the school’s varsity basketball team since the ninth grade. Also, she has participated as a member of our school’s varsity softball team since her ninth grade too. In basketball, she started as a forward for both her junior and senior seasons. In Softball, she has started in left field for the last three seasons. Tate also played varsity volleyball here at CA for three years through the end of her junior year. She has competed in a varsity sport for 8 of the last 9 seasons possible since beginning her sophomore year. Finally, her teammates chose her to serve as team captain for the basketball team in both her junior and senior seasons.

Mikayla Martin is the daughter of Doug and Angela Martin also from LaFayette. Mikayla also completed a rigorous advanced diploma academic track while maintaining an outstanding 99.083 numeric GPA. She also earned a 32 composite on her ACT College Entrance Exam as well as a scholarship to Auburn University to continue her studies. Mikayla has attended CA since the ninth grade and plans to study Interior Design at Auburn. In addition to her scholastic pursuits, she accomplished much more as an integral part of the school’s varsity scholar’s bowl team. For the last four years she has competed as a leading team member on our school’s academic team. She has also served as a member of the school’s BETA Club, Math Team, and Annual Staff. Additionally, she too was a recent nominee for the AISA’s All State Academic Team.



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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