Message from the Head of School “Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in

spirit, become a child again at Christmas-time. – Laura Ingalls Wilder

Our return to school this week has been filled with the joy of the Christmas season! But unlike the hustle bustle noise you hear in most places, the atmosphere at our sweet Charlotte Mason school is one of quiet contentment as students engage in hearing a Christmas living book, or making a Christmas craft to instrumental music playing softly in the background. Students begin each day joyfully singing a Christmas hymn together and then proceed to their classrooms, passing by home-like Christmas decorations adorning our hallways. While the younger students enjoy practicing math and spelling with candy canes, our middle and high school students work together to plan and create this year’s CCS Christmas parade float. It’s so much fun to hear their ideas and see their creativity and problem solving skills in putting it all together. There have also been unplanned Christmas moments such as when our 1st graders spontaneously broke out in a chorus of “Jingle Bells” during their class chore time! Yes, Christmas-time at Covenant truly rings of celebration. And each and every student here knows the reason why we’re celebrating - Jesus has come! Thank you for sharing your children with me as I daily get to experience the wonder of Christmas through their eyes. In Christ, Christine

Vol. II Issue 11 November 30, 2018

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Upcoming Events Dec 1 Christmas Parade Dec 10 Enrichment Day Dec 11 Lessons & Carols Dec 14 Service Day 1/2 Day Dec 17-19 Exams 1/2 Day Dec 20-Jan 1 Christmas Break Jan 2 School Resumes Jan 7-11 Spirit Week Jan 11 SCA Movie Night Jan 15 Blaze Spirit Night Jan 21 MLK Day NO SCHOOL Jan 28 Open House Feb 1 Enrichment Day Feb 18 President’s Day NO SCHOOL

Lessons and Carols

Our annual Lessons and Carols

service will be held on Tuesday,

December 11 at 6:30 pm at Grace

Covenant Presbyterian Church,

1677 Jamestown Road.

All CCS students will participate

in this special worship service

celebrating the Advent of

Jesus Christ.

Students should arrive at the

church by 6:15 pm dressed in

their Christmas best.

There will be a rehearsal at Grace

Covenant on that Tuesday at 2

pm. Students should be PICKED

UP FROM THE CHURCH

by 3:30 pm.

Form II Next week we will be studying the

following:

● Math: Word Problems

● Phonics: Glued sounds am, an

● Grammar: Pronouns

● Bible: God talks with Abraham, Genesis 13,15,16,18

● History: The Revolutionary War

● Science: Water

● Memory Work: Genesis 12:2

Please pray for the Kraus family.

Form III For the week of December 3 we will study: ● Memory Verse: Matthew 5:16

● Bible: This week we will be reading Matthew 6:5-24.

● World Geography: We will be finishing up our study of the United States.

● Writing: We will be doing some free writing this week centered on Christmas.

● Grammar: We will continue learning about nouns, especially the

differences between common and proper nouns.

● Reading: We will spend the week reading The Polar Express. We will focus on

various comprehension skills and vocabulary as we read the poem.

● Read Aloud: Cameron Townsend

Form IV ● Language Arts: Students worked on the following: Spelling words for the week. Dictation passage for the week. Handwriting

exercise. Reading our literature selection, Homer Price, and narrating. Verbs and where we use them; using verbs in sentences.

Writing a story from our key word outline on The Lion and the Mouse.

● Math: Mental Math; Weight and Mass. We weighed objects in kilograms. Grams were introduced.

● Bible: The students completed their memorization of Psalm 1:1-6. We read about how Saul was chosen to be the first king of

Israel. Students started decorating their Christmas journals.

● History: In History we read about the Gupta Dynasty in India and the students did some map work of what the Gupta dynasty

included in territory. They also wrote about the dynasty.

● General Science: We did an experiment to see if we can grow algae. We read about plants and how they produce food, where

they get chlorophyll and what they use to make food. Students also drew a diagram of the division of plants.

Form II students work on “gum drops” for the Christmas Parade float.

Middle School Form V History, Language Arts and Literature: In History, students explored how Bartolome Las Casas changed his views on enslaving Indians and encouraged Europeans to fight against the social constructs where the powerful oppress the vulnerable. Students continued in their reading to learn how the French and Spanish faught against one another for control of northeastern Florida as well.

Students in Language Arts One are currently in the midst of a unit on adverbs and are learning how adverbs give context and add depth to their writing. They wrote (and rewrote) a paragraph on Christopher Columbus to practice using adverbs. Students in Language Arts Two are currently working on their first persuasive essay and are learning to use the "invention" stage of writing. In this stage, students learn to develop ideas, analyze and examine a subject, and generate information to use as proofs for their first essay.

For Literature, students continued reading in The Sign of the Beaver and answered questions about the context of the material they read.

Physical Science: For this week, students continued their data gathering by doing their experiments on randomly chosen test subjects. Some students have built their prototypes and tested on it. After data gathering, students arranged their data in different ways (tables, graphs, etc.) and are preparing to do the analysis by next week.

8th graders hard at work on Christmas float decorations.

Christmas Shop and Give to the School!

If you will be Christmas shopping on Amazon - or any time during the year - go to Amazon Smile and

select Covenant Christian School as your charity of choice. If you plan

to give gift cards, come by the business office and find out more

about how to use Scrip. A percentage of every purchase

from either organization goes back to the school! And remember to link

your VIC card to do your holiday grocery shopping at Harris Teeter!

2018-19 School Verse

“Let the favor of the Lord our

God be upon us, and

establish the work of our

hands upon us; yes, establish

the work of our hands!”

Psalm 90:17 (ESV)

December Habit: Generosity

Enrichment Day

On Monday, December 10 at noon all

CCS students will attend the Nutcracker

at Kimball Theatre. The cost is $5 per

student which will be billed to your child’s

account in December unless you contact

the office to pay another way. We will

need PARENT CHAPERONES

for this event; if you are able

please complete and submit your

parent driver packet as soon as

possible.

The joy of Charlotte Mason education is younger and

older students sharing time together!

MIDTERM EXAM SCHEDULE: GRADES 7-12

Period 7 Final Exam will be given on Thursday, 12/13 from 1:15 - 2:45

(Monday Schedule)

* Period 1 will end at 11:00 on Friday and Homeroom Party will be from 11:05 - 11:45.

Monday 12/17 Tuesday 12/18 Wednesday 12/19

8:20-9:50 Period 6 Period 2 Period 5

9:50-10:00 Break Break Break

10:05-11:35 Period 3 Period 4 *Period 1

11:40-12:00 Dismissal Dismissal *Homeroom Party

Pre Algebra:

●Writing Expressions for Word Phrases

●Word Sentences and Equations

●Points, Lines and Planes

Algebra I:

●Graphing Linear Equations in Two Variables

●The Slope of a Line

●Equations of a Line

Geometry

●Parallel Lines and Angles

●The Angles of a Triangle

●AAS and HL Congruence

●Quadrilaterals

High School

Form VI Bible and Literature: As students continued working through the Hebrew Scriptures, they surveyed the books of 1 and 2 Kings to trace the timeline of when the prophets Amos and Isaiah prophesied to the kingdoms of Israel and Judah. Students learned through the book of Kings just how frequently the leaders of both kingdoms allowed idolatry, injustice, and the political influence of neighboring nations to destroy their allegiance to the one true God. Students read through various passages in Isaiah and identified how often Isaiah referred to the coming of Jesus, even predicting his death and resurrection.

Students recapped the events of the first five chapters of Black Ships Before Troy and illustrated one scene from each chapter that explained what was taking place. Students chose two characters who allowed their pride to negatively impact the story (chapters 1-5) and analyzed in writing their observations of the theme of pride.

Biology

This week the Biology class learned about the following topics: Classification of Bones; Design of a Bone; Life of a Bone; Structure of a Freely Movable Joint; Types of Freely Movable Joints; Problems of the Joints; and Classification of Muscles. Also, as a culmination of what they’ve learned about bones, students are divided into two groups and each group is tasked to create a video where they can use a Christmas tune and sing about the appendicular bones.

Math

Happy faces of all ages at the Thanksgiving Feast.