CCA Newsletter October 22, 2015
"Taster's Choice" Food & Fellowship Event
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Join us as we start a new tradition with Food & Fellowship! The new event will be a "Taster's Choice Cookbook Contest!" Friday November 6th, we will fellowship after a busy week while showing off our cooking skills. From this event, the PTF will create a CCA cookbook to raise money for the students. Check out the details in the flyer and submit your recipe card to Mr. Hoff. 

10/29-ACSI Leadership Conference
10/30-Lion Pride Reschedule!
11/02-06 - Fall Food Drive
11/03-Picture Re-takes
11/06-F&F Taster's Choice Event
11/11-NO SCHOOL - Veteran's Day
11/13-Early Release - In Service
11/19-MS 3D Thursday
11/23-24 - Conferences
11/25-27 - Thanksgiving Break
12/15-Christmas Program
12/18-MS Christmas Party
12/21-1/01-Christmas Break
1/04-School Resumes
1/15 - NO SCHOOL - In Service
1/18 - NO SCHOOL - MLK Day

Anyone who goes too far and does not abide in the teaching of Christ, does not have God; the one who abides in the teaching, he has both the Father and the Son.
2 John 1:9
Elementary Library Storybook Pumpkin Patch
 
Our Elementary Library is growing a Storybook Pumpkin Patch, and we need your help! Decorate a pumpkin to look like one of your favorite book characters, and bring it to the library to plant in our Storybook Pumpkin Patch! Full details can be found on our Storybook Pumpkin Patch FlyerHave questions? Contact Mrs. Reed...she will be tending the patch!
 

MIDDLE SCHOOL CHEER TRYOUTS - Our Cheer Squad for the 2015-16 Basketball season is about to be chosen! Is your 6th-8th grade student wanting to try out? Please check out the CCA Cheerleading Form for all the details. Date for try-outs will be announced soon. 

 

MIDDLE SCHOOL MASCOT TRYOUTS - Does your MS student want to try out to be Sampson?  This is a very important job! Our CCA Mascot Form needs to be turned in by Monday 10/26 in order to try-out. All the details can be found on the form. Date for try-outs will be announced soon. Go Lions!

 

PLAYGROUND TOYS - Now that the rain has started, we need more building blocks for kids to play with under the covered area. If you or anyone you know has Legos, Lincoln Logs, or any other building blocks they would like to donate to our elementary playground, please email Tracy Stevens.


CCA FAMILY NEEDS OUR HELP! We have a parent who is having surgery and needs our help. We need volunteers to help watch her children one or more days a week. For more information, please contact Mr. Hoff. Thank you!
 
DOES YOUR STUDENT NEED HELP WITH MATH? We've got a solution for you! Mr. Smith, our Middle School math teacher is offering after school tutoring. Please contact him for available dates/times.

SERVICE HOURS OPPORTUNITY!  Our Elementary school lunch crew needs your help! Pizza Wednesday's are growing and we need an extra pair of hands. If you have one Wednesday a month to spare, we could use you! Please contact Mrs. Thulin for more details. 
 
LION PRIDE VOLUNTEERS - Our PTF needs your help! They are looking for a few volunteers to help with our Lion Pride assemblies this year, the first one being 10/30. If you think you would enjoy getting a crowd of awesome students excited about our school, they sure could use you! Another great service hours opportunity! Please contact Mrs. Thulin for more information.

MIDDLE SCHOOL NEEDS NEW MICROWAVES! Do you have an extra microwave you could donate? The lunch room needs an additional oven for the students and the teacher's lounge could sure use one too! Please contact Mrs. Pesacreta or Mrs. Thurlow for more information. Thank you!
CCA FILMS PRESENTS

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Highlights from the
2015 Cross Country Team


NEED SERVICE HOURS?
 
The following are the current opportunities!
 
Pizza Day Servers - 2hr./month
Lion Pride Assembly Help - 10/30
 
Service hours are due at the end of each trimester. November 13th is the first due date. Use this Service Hours Form to record your hours or follow these instructions for recording through RenWeb.

Middle School Projects/Test/Quizzes
Mrs. Blair

History 6

History 7

History 8 

Time Capsule - 10/26

Personal Heralds - 10/23

Colony Project & Paragraph - 10/26 

Mrs. Cassel
All English
Selection Test - 10/23
(Pages on Edmodo)
Mrs. Jacquet

Science 7

Bug Project due 10/27
Mr. Wise
Bible 7
Lesson 3 quiz - 10/27
Mrs. Gaston
Bible 8
Memory verse quiz - 10/29
 
Parents - are you aware that we have an awesome resource for practice/game schedules and locations? Click on our Athletic Calendar for up-to-the-minute details. Everything you need to know is right there - it will even link to your map program and give you directions! And, if you subscribe, you will be alerted via text or email whenever there are any changes!
 
CROSS COUNTRY
Next Meet: 10/25 - PDX State Championships
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VOLLEYBALL
Next Game(s): 10/26 @ Horizon
10/27 @ Home vs. Riverdale
 
We have an opening for a Middle School Girl's Basketball coach. If you are interested, please contact Robert Mason.

Health & Wellness
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The Wellness Committee has put together a list of excellent websites that provide ideas for school lunch ideas for your children. They also provide ideas for healthy snacks for during the day and for after school. The committee will publish links in each newsletter for your review. We hope that these sites will provide resources that assist in creative lunch ideas, snack ideas, and general good health for the kids of CCA.
Great lunch ideas for your hungry student!
Making lunches can be a challenge in the morning. You're rushing to get the kids ready, trying to get your work things together, and then you realize you need to make lunches! What to do?!
There are a couple simple things we parents can do to make this "Oh, no!" moment a bit less stressful.
  1. Plan ahead: plan your lunches a week in advance. Know what fruits and vegetables you need to get at the store and what they will accompany; a sandwich, a wrap, and so on. If you plan on having a dinner that will have leftovers, use those as the main course of the next day's lunch (NOTE: there will not be access to microwave ovens at the Elementary school).
  2. Talk to your kids. Find out what they like for lunch and talk to them about healthy choices of foods that will give them energy and help them think throughout the day.
  3. Make lunches for the kids (or have the kids make them) the night before. This saves the step in the morning that seems to bring the most stress.
  4. Teach your kids to grab their lunch from the fridge and get it to school. This is the hardest step, so you'll have to remind them each morning for a month or so as you walk out the door.
We have found a few website with ideas and helps to make the lunch process a simple one each day:
Our Point of Service lunch system, Mealtime, makes it much easier to track, pay for, and order lunches for all students! This link will give you helpful instructions to set up and use your account.
 
 RenWeb Sign-on Procedures

Click here to get started.
 From the "LOGINS" pull-down menu at the top right, choose "ParentsWeb". Our school ID is:
CCS-WA
If you ever have any questions or trouble
 with RenWeb, please let us know.
We are here to help!
Box Tops & Campbells Labels

Did you know that CCA earns money for each and every Box Top & Campbells label you turn in? This money has been used for much needed items from PE Equipment to Art Supplies. As an added incentive, we have quarterly contests to see which class can bring in the most! If you have any questions, please contact the PTF.
Effortless Fundraising

CCA has partnered with Fred Meyer and AmazonSmile in an opportunity to raise money. For Fred Meyer customers, it is as easy as linking your rewards card. For Amazon.com shoppers, all of the same products, prices, and service you are accustomed to are accessible through AmazonSmile, which donates 0.5% of each purchase to CCA. By taking a few simple steps you may aide in the raising of funds. For more information about the necessary steps, see our flyer.
Helpful Document Links
 
For more information, please contact:

Early Childhood                     360.256.9714
Elementary Campus              360.256.9715
Middle School Campus        360.896.0781

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Elementary School Address: 7708 NE 78th St, #100, Vancouver, WA 98662
Middle School Address: 8803 NE 76th St, Vancouver, WA 98662