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Tuesday Note, November 1, 2011
- 1. TUESDAY NOTE ON-GOING EVENTS Cougar Gear Store: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday— 2:00-4:00 p.m.—Jireh Hall COVENANT CHRISTIAN ACADEMY Moms In Touch: Tuesdays 8:15-9:15 a.m.— TUESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2011 CUPCAKE BAR FUNDRAISER, OCTOBER 13 SCHOOL CALENDAR German language students will be selling cupcakes for $3 during ALL lunch periods in the Monday & Tuesday, October 10 & 11- Grammar School and Logic & Rhetoric School on Thursday, October 13. Logic & Rhetoric No classes Pre-K—6th grade students may customize their own cupcake with icing (including German chocolate!) and an Wednesday, October 12- assortment of fun toppings. Grammar School families may use the attached order form to pre- PSAT, 9th-11th grade order your customized cupcakes. Order forms for Grammar students MUST be turned in to the Wednesday, October 19- office by Wednesday. Logic & Rhetoric students only will be entered into a drawing for a spirit CCA day at Chick Fil A wear prize or a cash prize—one entry per cupcake. There will be a total of 10 prize winners. Buy Thursday, October 20- Junior Parent College Advising meeting a cupcake for your child, a teacher...or a class! Help support the students as they raise money for Saturday, October 22- their upcoming trip to Germany. Foreign Language Concert COUGAR GEAR STORE The Cougar Gear Store will not be open on Tuesday, October 11 but will reopen Wednesday VOLLEYBALL Tuesday, October 11- and Thursday, October 12 and 13 for regular store hours. In addition, the store will be open CCA vs. Prince of Peace, home from 3:00 to 4:00 p.m. on Friday, October 14. Have you seen the new jewelry and hair bows JV 5:00, Var 6:00—Black Out that the Cougar Gear Store has to offer? Stop by and take a look at all the new items! FOOTBALL ADVANCED LOGIC SCHOOL CANNED FOOD DRIVE Thursday, October 13- Logic School (7th-8th) Student Council is sponsoring a canned food drive throughout the entire CCA vs. Sacred Heart Muenster, home CCA month of October. It’s a competition between 7th & 8th grade boys and 7th & 8th grade girls JH 5:30 to see who can bring in the most canned foods. If the boys win, then Mrs. Harvell will dress like Friday, October 14- a monkey and serve them monkey bread at lunch. If the girls win, then Mr. Rutherford will wear CCA vs. Sacred Heart Muenster, Nolan HS a kilt all day long! Please drop off your canned goods in either Mr. Rutherford’s or Mrs. Harvell's Var 7:30 ** - Black Out room----depending on who you are pulling for. All donations will be taken to the Tarrant Area Friday, October 21- Food Bank. Varsity game vs. Amarillo CANCELLED (Arbor Amarillo had to cancel the remainder of their season due to low numbers of players.) CALLING ALL DADS Men of Covenant, God is calling you to prayer - prayer for our nation, our families, and our ** District game school. Will you consider investing 45 minutes each week to meet with other CCA dads to join together to pray and trust God for miracles? We will kick off our first gathering of the CCA CROSS COUNTRY Men’s Prayer Group, The Watchmen, on Thursday, October 13 from 6:45 to 7:30 a.m. in the W2 Thursday, October 13- Classroom of Building A. The prayer group will meet weekly and will be co-led by Headmaster, Var 5:30, Trinity Park Keith Castello and Athletic Chaplain, Ray DeBord. Don’t miss this opportunity to be a part of Saturday, October 22- what God would like to do through your prayers as you storm the gates of heaven together with TAPPS State Meet, Bear Run, Waco other Covenant dads. The Athletic department is looking for a coach for the 7th grade boys’ basketball GRANT MONEY FOR CCA team. For more information, contact Please read the attachment for details about how to earn $25,000 grant money for our school. Barry Morgan or Steve Turner at: Learn how you can quickly do your part to enhance our classroom computer technology. We Barry.morgan@covenantchristian.net need everyone to go VOTE, VOTE, VOTE!! 817-281-4333 x 123 Steve.turner@covenantchristian.net SCRIP ORDERS 817-281-4333 x 120 Have you started using SCRIP shopping cards, yet? They are easy to purchase and use, and help you with your budget (it’s like cash)! Did you know that you receive 10 cents off at the pump by For Athletic schedules, refer to our athletic website: using a WalMart shopping card through December 31? Just purchase a WalMart SCRIP shop- http://www.leaguelineup.com/ ping card from CCA and start receiving the discount and earning $$ for CCA! If you don’t colleyvillecovenant shop at WalMart, then check out the entire listing of SCRIP shopping cards that are available You can also go to the school website: (see attached order form). Return your order form to CCA, send an email to www.covenantchristian.net , click on SCRIP@ccanet.org or go online to: www.shopwithscrip.com to place your order. Questions? Athletics>Athletic Schedules. Contact Lisa Campanella at: 817-281-4333 x 153.
- 2. Page 2 TUESDAY NOTE OCTOBER 11, 2011 JUNIOR PARENT COLLEGE ADVISING MEETING Parents of Juniors are invited to a college advising meeting on Thursday, October 20 at 7:00 p.m. Topics discussed will include an academic timeline, financial aid and scholarship primer, and motivation tactics. Location of the meeting is to be determined. Hope to see you there! “THROUGH THE YEARS” BENEFIT CONCERT Support CCA’s Foreign Language department by attending a benefit concert on Saturday, October 22 at 7:00 p.m. in the Jireh Hall Cafeto- rium. Come hear Classical, Christian, and Contemporary music “hits.” Acapella, Gershwin, Les Mis, and more! Donations will be accepted. YEARBOOK NEWS Don’t forget to order your 2011-2012 yearbooks! Order forms are available in the attachment, in the Pre-Grammar, Grammar and Logic/ Rhetoric School offices, and on ParentsWeb under Resource Documents. Online ordering is also available using a credit card at http://jostensyearbooks.com. The first order deadline is December 15 to take advantage of a $5 savings on personalization. Completed order forms can be turned in with payment (cash or check) to any school office. Ordering a yearbook for your student would make a great Christmas gift. Please contact Cindy Hauser (cindy.hauser@covenantchristian.net or 817-281-4333 x135) with any questions. ATHLETICS Junior High Boys Soccer is beginning at CCA. If you are interested in the program, please send the following contact information to Scott Friedman at scott.friedman@sabre.com and he will make sure you are kept informed as things develop: father and/or mother’s first and last name, phone number, email address, son’s first and last name, son’s grade, brief soccer experience. FINE ARTS NEWS Have you marked your calendar for the Rhetoric School Fall Play? Thursday and Friday, October 28 and 29, our Rhetoric theater students will be performing in Waiter, There’s Some Comedy in my Soup! Performances will be at 7:00 p.m. both nights in the Jireh Hall Cafetorium. Adult tickets are $5 and student tickets are $3. You won’t want to miss this fun evening! SAVE THE DATE Make plans now to invite a girlfriend to our 2 nd annual “CCA Come as You Are Coffee” on First Friday, November 4 from 8:15 to 10:15 a.m. There will be door prizes, food, fellowship, and an awesome speaker who will bless your slippers off. Auction Gift Baskets will also be on display for viewing and bidding. COMING SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12 “Covenant Chick’s Christmas Connection and Holiday Market” Enjoy a pre-Christmas shop- ping experience with all kinds of gift and craft items, from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. in Jireh Hall Cafetorium. If you have a business with gift items you would like to sell, please fill out the attached Reservation Form and return it to Brenda Huckins in the Marketing Office. Cost for a booth space is $20. CONCERT OPPORTUNITY On Thursday, October 13, there will be a benefit concert to raise money for the program “Tree of Life.” In memory of Luke Steinmann, a student from Faith Christian, who suffered from a brain aneurism and died earlier this year, friends are raising money to build a house in Zambia, Africa to house 12-14 African children, getting them off the street. The house will be named “Luke’s Lighthouse.” To learn more about this concert and how you can be involved, go to www.treeoflife.org/luke or www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDBjxrNK1rA. LOGIC & RHETORIC NEWS Friday, October 14 will be a spirit wear day for 5th-12th grade students. Remember, it’s Black Out week! Black spirit shirts are not re- quired but are encouraged as we all show our Cougar spirit. Go Cougars! NATIONAL HONOR SOCIETY Please take a moment to read the attached letter and view the donation/order form regarding a fundraiser that our NHS students are lead- ing. Help them raise money to end human trafficking. Love CCA and the wonderful teachers here? Go to Yelp and Stay connected to CCA on leave a nice review. Your positive Facebook and Twitter! reviews of CCA help us with Google and Yahoo searches.