Important Dates
Feb. 4: ACT Workshop at ACA.
Feb. 6: Deficiency Reports are issued for the 3rd 9 weeks period.
Feb. 9: Cap & Gown Pictures for Seniors will be taken in the Library.
Feb. 12: National Honor Society induction ceremony will be held at 2 p.m. in the MPR.
Feb. 17: Student Holiday/ Teacher In-service Meeting (ACEA Conference).
Feb. 20: Presidents' Day Holiday
Feb. 27: Balfour will make a class ring presentation to 10th graders in
the library at 1:30 p.m.
Feb. 28: Balfour will take class ring orders from 10th graders in
the Library at 8 a.m.
Feb. 29: Happy Leap Year (You get an extra day to attend school this year and learn more.
Feb. 10: Track and Field Tryouts will be held after school at ACA. Students wishing to tryout should have ALL athletic forms and paperwork turned into Coach Ainsworth NO LATER than MONDAY, FERBRUARY 6th.
If your paperwork is NOT completed by then, you will NOT be allowed to tryout. E-mail acatrackcoach@gmail.com for more details.
Congratulations!
Our congratulations are extended to senior, Will Clemmons, on having been selected as the Montgomery Quarterback Club's winner of the "Andrews Institute High School Comeback Player of the Year" award. Will will be honored at a banquet to be held Tuesday evening, Feb. 7th. Way to go, Will! We are proud of you and of all of your accomplishments.
Congratulations are due to Danny Madison. On Friday, Feb. 3rd, he accepted an athletic scholarship from Faulkner University. He will be playing football with Faulkner's Eagles during the 2012 season. We wish for Danny nothing but the best.
Our thanks and congratulations are extended to Mrs. Cindy Savage, our National Honor Society members and other volunteers who helped sponsor, direct and conduct ACA's annual Red Cross Blood Drive which was held on Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2012. As usual, this event was a huge success. We had 158 individuals sign up to give blood and 125 of them were successful donors. Additionally, 10 ALYX units were donated for a grand total of 135 units being collected. This amount ties our second highest effort ever. Thanks are also due to our wonderfully generous students, parents, employees and stakeholders for their contributions to this effort. This drive continues to be one of the largest blood drives held in Central Alabama each year. It's a powerful demonstration of ACA's "servant heart" and willingness to share with the Montgomery community.
Send Our Library on a Maximum Ride!
Vote daily for our chance to win a box of free books!
Acclaimed author James Patterson has written many popular books for adults and is now writing for teens and middle schoolers. Patterson is committed to getting parents help their kids become better readers. The following article by Patterson quite interesting. http://www.cnn.com/2011/09/28/opinion/patterson-kids-reading/index.html (Thanks to Sarah Housley for sharing!) In the article, Mr. Patterson gives links to several sites that help parents find good books for their children. I encourage you to read the article. In the last five years, he began writing for teens and middle schoolers, including the popular Maximum Ride series for teens. You can help us get a box of his books for our library-FREE.
In his own website for parents, http://www.readkiddoread.com/home , Patterson lists many good books for students of all ages. At the top of this website is a "FREE BOOKS FOR LIBRARIES" tab. Twenty-five high schools a month will receive a box of his books for their libraries. Won't you please submit ACA for the free books? After you enter, you will get a message that "Your response has been recorded." Look above that and find a green box for Middle schools to enter. I entered for us as a high school and a middle school last night and today. That's 4 times our school will be entered. If all of our ACA family enters, our chances of getting a box of free books will be greatly increased. You will need the name and address of the school: Alabama Christian Academy, 4700 Wares Ferry Road, Montgomery, AL. 36109.
Thank you so much for your help! And thanks for saving Box Tops for us. That helps us get extra books, too!
Charlotte Patterson
Librarian
Alabama Christian Academy
NOTICE for Secondary School Parents:
Please note that middle and high school
students must NOT bring lunches from "outside
vendors" into the school. Students
may bring lunches from home OR purchase
them from our "inside vendor".
Thanks for your cooperation.
From the Nurses Corner:
PLEASE read the information in the Student
handbook regarding "medication administration",
if your child requires medications whether
RX or OTC!
If you have questions regarding this please
feel free to contact me.
Thanks,
Melany Hatcher, RN
School Nurse
Alabama
Christian Academy recently won First Place
for Private Schools in this year’s Reader’s
Choice Section of the Montgomery Advertiser.
Thanks so much to our parents,
teachers, students and supporters. We
are deeply humbled by this honor and give
God the glory for such wonderful recognition.
Students needing to take the
ACT may register on-line at www.actstudent.org
