Roaring Lions of the Month

Congratulations to our

September Roaring Lions!

Tyler Walsh 4th

Sarah Adams 5th

Patrick Pehr 1st

Andrew Colravy 3rd

Kenan Cain 2nd

Kalani Dempsey K5 

Ashley Minter K5

Moms In Touch Prayer Group

 

Join us each Thursday from 8:15 - 9:15am in the fellowship hall as we pray for our children, staff, and school. Don't forget to place any prayer requests in the prayer request boxes located in the office and  classrooms.   Contact-Ann Talkington for more information

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Sonrise High School Bible Study 

Each Thursday morning at 7:15am,  all high schoolers are welcome to come to the school for a high school Bible study. The Bible study is led by other high school students. This time is here for those who wish to see their lives as well as others changed by God's word. Please come, and see how we can change the world for God!  7:15 -7:45am

Senior Class Portraits

Seniors Class of 2009 remember to call and schedule your appointment at RoMo Photography for your Sr.Portraits.  Your photos will be taken at the studio. Please call the studio at 769-6277 to schedule your session for any days that there are appointments available, starting in the month of September 2008. You must have your photos taken by November 1st.  Contact Roseanne Culpepper if you have any questions.

Alumni Scholarship Information for Covenant Seniors

CCS Alumni Association is pleased to announce the 2nd annual Covenant Senior Scholarship Competition, sponsored by the Alumni of Covenant Christian School. As alumni, it is our desire to reward a senior for the contribution that he or she has made to Covenant, and we wish to help that senior to excel beyond graduation. The entries will be judged by a panel of Covenant alumni, and the winning senior will be awarded a $500 scholarship to be applied to the institution of his or her choice. Scholarship requirements must be completed and turned into the Covenant office by Friday, April 24th. Scholarship requirements must be completed in full by the deadline, your entry will be disqualified. See Roseanne Culpepper, our campus contact, for your application and requirements for scholarship information.

School Pictures Make up and Retake Days

Proof packages are due Thursday, October 2. Turn into teacher or office.

School pictures will be retaken Tuesday, October 21 and Wednesday, October 22. Students requesting retakes are required to sign up in the office for a scheduled day.

School uniforms do not have to be worn for photo day.  Students are to wear attire within dresscode. Students may change back into school uniform after photo is taken to keep from soiling outfits worn for photo.

Spirit Day

First Friday of each month is designated as School Spirit Day. Students may wear Covenant school t-shirts with jeans. Friday, October 3 is Spirit Day! Covenant Lions wear your BLUE and WHITE!! Go LIONS!

Library News

This month our preschoolers have enjoyed their first Author study of Doreen Cronin, author of the popular "Click, Clack, Moo" series. We have also enjoyed some familiar Bible stories told with big, bright pictures. The K5 classes began a study of the Author/Illustrator Don Freeman with his popular "Corduroy" books. They enjoyed activities such as "sewing" a pocket for Corduroy. 1st & 2nd Grades learned about the works of Marc Brown, the Author and Illustrator of the favorite "Arthur" books. They are also very excited to have begun taking Accelerated Reading quizzes and are keeping my printer very busy. 3rd,4th & 5th grades have completed their read of "School Days" by Laura Ingalls Wilder and enjoyed making and tasting their own homemade butter. This brought the book to life for them as it was a typical school lunch for Laura and Mary Ingalls. It was interesting to compare the differences in school during the 1800's and our school today.

Coming soon to our Library: A new A.R. incentive program for students where everyone can benefit from their successful reading!

Art News 

We're off to a great start in art. We've already broken in the new markers, crayons, paint AND oil pastels! In first grade we made a "Giant Me" and decorated the art room with lots of 1st graders. We've also learned about warm and cool colors and made a sailboat painting using warm colors for the sky and cool colors for the water. In Second Grade we are studying The Masters. We have reviewed facial proportions and learned to use overlapping to create a family portrait. We used strings to paint our family's, it is VERY hard to paint an accurate face using a piece of string. We have fantastic family portraits. Painting with string gives the splatter effect is similar to the work of Jackson Pollack and we will continue with a study of Pollack followed by Andy Warhol. We continue the study of The Masters in Third Grade. We've started with Marc Chagall, an artist famous for saying "Great art begins where nature ends." We've discussed God's beautiful creation and that, though th ere is no end to His ability, we sometimes add to what we see in our artwork. We've made a drawing of our houses, the sun (complete with a smile) and ourselves holding something we love. In line with Chagall's idea of putting a little twist on nature, we have drawn them all facing different directions and with dream-like colors. The Fourth Grade has begun a study of the different styles of art. We've started with Surrealism and one of the artist in that movement named, Frida Kahlo. Kahlo is a Mexican artist who struggled with her love of her homeland and the luxuries of life in America. Her self portrait is surreal in that she includes an exaggerated view of both Mexico and America. We've created our own self portrait and included our sometimes unrealistic view of our circumstances around us. Fifth Graders are learning the Principles of Design this year: balance, contrast, movement, emphasis, pattern, rhythm and unity. The principles are tied in with famous painters and their work. Paul Klee is famous for his painting called "Sinbad and the Sailor". We've started by creating a 1" grid (very difficult to get all of those lines straight) and added our own boat and fish. We will complete these with watercolor. This painting is an example of contrast, balance and pattern.  

Congratulations to those with artwork in the Bay County Fair!   1st Grade-  Riley Gillman and Reanna Thompson 2nd Grade- Madison Phillips and Faith Gunn 3rd Grade-  Eleanor Beshearse and Madison Todd 4th Grade-  Lela Branning-Pilla and Gabrielle Eilf 5th Grade-  Madeline Lovejoy and Margaret Smith Middle School- Ariel Kleimeyer and Peyton Hess   
 

Fair Hours:  Monday-Tuesday, September 29-30th, Open at 6:00 p.m. Wednesday, October 1st, Open at 2:00 p.m. Thursday, October 2nd, Open at 4:00 p.m. (students admitted free!) Friday, October 3rd, Open at 4:00 p.m. Saturday, October 4th, Open at 2:00 p.m.

Computer News

Computer Basics is the key to laying the ground work for computer skills.  The elementary students have have successfully covered tutorials in their curriculum this 9 weeks in data storage, technology symbols, printer, and scanner. The students are learning keyboarding skills also. Typing Instructor for kids program enhances the students practice with keyboarding. The typing program helps to make typing practice fun.  Middle school students have covered their basic fundamentals of computer skills as well as browsing the internet for research sources.  The students have learned how to discern if a web site is valid and accurate with its information. Mavis Beacon Typing and Typing Instructor II offer paced typing practice to sharp their typing speed and accuracy skills. We look forward to the next unit on spreadsheet projects

Music Notes

The year so far in music has been wonderful!  Some of the elementary classes are bigger, therefore producing a more powerful sound!  The children always amaze me as to how fast they pick up on new songs that we sing.  I just get a blessing out of being your child's music teacher and I am blessed to be here at Covenant.    I am excited to announce that this years Christmas program will be on December 1 at 6:30 pm.  The theme this year is "3 Wise Men and a Baby".  I can't believe that the holiday season will soon be here!  The students are very excited about performing this years program.  The K5 will begin the program and then they will be able to go sit with their teachers and watch the rest of the program.  This years attire will be khaki pants, and Christmas colored shirts - (of course, no Santa Claus).  I will make sure more information is given at a later time.   I hope that your student is coming home singing songs to you which we've learned in music!  Happy Fall Ya'll!   Musically Speaking,   C. Keel CCS Music 

                                   Sr. Beta Club

Florida Senior State Convention April 19-21, 2008 Tampa, Florida  

Meetings are mandatory for membership and are on the first Wednesday of every month in the art room.   

Preschool News

Whitney Grant K3
Mrs. Whitney's Busy Bees have certainly earned the title this week! We have added letter recognition to our program and have had fun crafting most of our day around each letter and it's sound. Last week we celebrated the letter "A" with apples galore, and this week we are making backpacks to use on our nature hike for items that begin with "B." We have also added visits to the treasure box as a reward incentive for good behavior. The busy bees are coming around to school fun!

Jennifer Adams K4
September started off with lots of learning in Mrs. Jennifer's "Froggy Four Class".  Manners were the subject when we made our 'Manner Mouse' puppet and practiced good manners with them.  When we learned about shapes, signs, and symbols we were so excited to tell our parents that a stop sign has eight sides and is called an octagon!  We had an awesome time in chapel when Mrs. Anna had some of us help her act out the story of the good Samaritan.  Spanish is exciting, too.  We learning how to say the parts of our face in spanish!  The Froggy Fours are singing and shouting in music waiting to sit at Jesus' side.  Fall is here and we are so happy.
 
Jane Partee K4
Mrs. Jane Partee's Partners have had a wonderful celebration of all things "Me" this past month. We concluded our "all about me" units with a portfolio of our favorite things, our families, and our personalities. What a wonderful time we have had discussing all the wonders our God has given us. We concluded our month with a Johnny Appleseed celebration which helped us wrap up the family trees we have been working on as well as introduce graphing, patterns, and handwriting. It's fun to Partner together!
Kristin DeVries K4
The fifteen "Fishy Fours" are off to a great start in Mrs. Kris's class.  The children are doing a great job of cutting and gluing, and we've finally begun our studey of the alphabet.  We made caterpillars out of circles for letter _C_ and we're painting with vegetables for letter _V_. We love going to the library and music and having Spanish lessons with Sra. Dietrich, but the all-time favorite is still the playground! It's so much fun just to be together with new friends our own age!  We can't wait to got to the fire station next week!
 
Mara Harrison Preschool Director
What an exciting time we are having in Preschool! We started our Special Areas this month, and the children are having a blast! We are focusing on color recognition in Spanish, Storytime in Library, and "Singing, Shouting, Praising the Lord" in Music. We concluded our month with a Preschool-wide movie day in the Fellowship Hall where we ate popcorn, watched Johnny Appleseed on the big screen, and gave praises to God. We also hosted our first ever Preschool Open House with great success and are looking forward to our first fieldtrip to the Fire Station next week. Come see our scarecrow decorations-Fall is in the air!

Elementary Summer Readers 

Our summer readers enjoyed a wonderful day at Frank Brown Park September 24 for their celebration of their summer reading accomplishments.  Great Job Students! Thank you to all our parents who made this event possible with your help driving and chaperoning our students. We look forward to next year. Don't forget to READ COVENANT READ!!

Elementary News

K5 Walker
September was such a fun month.  We enjoyed our field trip to the post office as part of our community helper's social studies unit.  The children were very excited to see and hear the special machines and to learn about what they do.  We are looking forward to having other community helpers visit our classroom.  Perhaps there will be an alumnus among them! We started our fall celebration with a focus on apples, which included water color painting, hand & finger print trees, apple printing, apple tasting, a bar graph of favorite apples, and counting apple flavored cereal.  We learned a little about God's omniscience as we pondered the fact that, though anyone can count the seeds in an apple, only God can count the apples in a seed.    Our kindergarten students are learning short vowel and consonant sounds. We are learning how these sounds relate to each other as we use this information to build and decode words. Some students would like to jump into reading groups right now! But we will have to wait until November. (Waiting is another thing that we practice in kindergarten!). The children are also learning to sing A Mighty Fortress is Our God.  They are expanding their vocabulary as they joyfully sing this great hymn of our Christian faith.  It is such a pleasant sound in the classroom when the children spontaneously sing as we transition from one lesson or activity to the next.

K5Mitchell 

Mrs. Mitchell's Kindergarten has had a great month!  We are busy learning letters and sounds as well as numbers and pennies!  We made muffins and read the story "If You Give a Moose a Muffin" when we studied the letter "Mm".  We also had a field trip to the Post Office and mailed a letter.  We shared stories of Abraham and Noah and made an ark complete with animals!  It was a busy month but such a fun month!
1st Earnest
We had a terrific month in Mrs. Earnest's First Grade Class! There were several highlights for the month. Our Service Project for the 152 Campaign saw us give $1,132.25 to help purchase an ultrasound machine for a center in Uganda. The children were delighted to receive an email from a lady in Africa thanking us for raising monies to help new moms see pictures of their babies before they are even born. It was a great lesson to be able to teach children the value of life from the time "God places the baby in mommy's tummy" until the time the baby is born. We also had a wonderful celebration to honor Johnny Appleseed. We learned how he not only spread apple seeds across America, but how he also spread the message of Jesus. In our Bible studies we are learning about Abraham and how his life was so important in God's plan. Our life is also important in God's plan. We are learning how even when we make poor decisions that God will somehow use them for good. We are enjoying our Reading and English classes with Mrs. Weber. She has really shown us a love of reading and we are always excited to go to her classes.
2nd Martin
Second graders continue to learn many new things as we progress through this school year. In Bible, we are seeing how God used prophets to speak to both Israel and Judah. We are counting money combinations, as well as, adding and subtracting two-digit numbers. We tried cooked apples and grabbed an apple tied to a string (no hands allowed) as we celebrated Johnny Appleseed Day. Our favorite though is Science where we are learning about the animal world that God created. Be sure to ask us how we should be more like the beaver.
3rd Street
Our third grade class has been busy learning all kinds of new things. In math, we have started long division and are continuing to work on our multiplication facts. In English they just finished writing the step by step instructions to play a game. We are moving on to learn about common and proper nouns. Our Bible lessons have taken us on to God's promises to Abraham and will soon be moving on to Moses and the exodus. The students are excited to watch the grass seeds we planted grow and are waiting for our potato to grow. Our next unit is on animals. They will be working on animal notebooks. We will be taking a trip to the zoo to culminate this unit. We are definitely busy in third grade!!
5th Kent
5th grade is busy with our DARE classes again this year. We are having a 10 week study taught by Officer Sherry Bagwell of the Bay County Sheriff's Department. The students enjoy having Officer Bagwell in our classroom. They will have their own graduation ceremony in November here at CCS. We are also keeping our eyes on the Presidential campaign. We discuss current events and pray for our leaders. It's not too soon to be aware of how our country's leaders are put into office, and certainly they all need much prayer!

Guidance News

As I told you last month the we took a group of students to the University of Mobile on
Thursday September the 4th.  We toured the campus, sat in on a "WorldViews" class,
and ate lunch in the cafeteria.  The students have told me they had a great time and
would like to do it again.          
               
Four of our juniors have been selected to participate in Junior Leadership Bay this year.
This is a monthly program sponsored by the Bay County Chamber of Commerce.
The students are:  Julia ConRoy, Alex Cowden, Nia Naumann, and Emily Trumbull. 
               
In preparing for college, the part that most students dislike is taking the ACT or the
SAT.  Parents please encourage your child if, he/she is a junior or senior, to take
either of these test as often as they can.  I would also like to encourage the sophomores
to take both of them at the end of this school year.  I have provided the test and
registration dates below.           
               
SAT               
Test Date            Regular Registration Deadline            Late Registration Deadline
               
11/1                   9/26                                                 10/10
12/6                   11/5                                                 11/18
1/24                   12/26                                                1/6
3/14                   2/10                                                  2/24
5/2                     3/31                                                 4/9
6/6                     5/5                                                   5/15
               
               
ACT               
Test Date            Regular Registration Deadline            Late Registration Deadline
               
10/25                  9/19                                                10/3
12/13                  11/7                                                11/20
2/7                     1/6                                                  1/16
4/4                     2/27                                                1/13
6/13                   5/8                                                  5/22 

 Box Tops for Education

 

What is "Box Tops"?  Simply put, Box Tops For Education is a year-round fundraiser that helps your school earn cash. You can follow these three easy steps to help Covenant Christian School earn cash this year:
Step 1: Clip box Tops
Clip the familiar Box Tops coupons from hundreds of products and bring them to our school. Each Box Top is worth ten cents.
Step 2: Your school coordinator collects, counts, and mails them to Box Tops for Education.
Step 3:  Your school earns cash! At the end of the year (May) your school receives a check for the coupons you've submitted. Last year Covenant received $750.00. Our goal this year is $1000! Encourage your family and friends to clip and save Box Tops. They may be turned in to your child's teacher, or brought to the collection box in the school office. Thank you so much for your help. You may direct any questions about this project to our Box Tops coordinator, Karen Napier. 271-2061 Please note that our school no longer collects Campbell's soup labels.

 Free Covenant Magnets

Show your Covenant Christian School Lion Pride!  Do you have one of our school vehicle magnets?  If not, please see Becki Swartz in the office or Debbi Earnest in Room 17.  Your first magnet is free, and additional magnets may be purchased for $5.00.  These are a great way to show our school spirit and advertise for the school.

 Yearbook Advertisement Sale

 Angelia Yearbook is starting its annual campaign this month to sell business advertisement space and personal ad sales for the yearbook.  Please contact Roseanne Culpepper or any yearbook staff member for pricing and availablity.  1/8, 1/4, 1/2, and Full pages are currently available.  For more information and order sheets log on to our school website.

Did You Know??

Panama City now has a recycling program. The program has been established by the Panama City Rescue Mission to help in its support and give those in need some work to sort items given. For more information, go to their website and register to become part of this great program (http://pcrmission.org/recycling.html ). You can register online or go to a local Regions Bank to get a starter kit. You will contacted by the Rescue Mission as to when your pick-up day is. When your recycling bags are picked up, new bags are left for you for the following week. Please consider taking a part in reducing the amount of trash put into our landfills and join this recycling program.

Uniform Updates

Uniforms are available through Lands End and KLW only.

Please go to our website:

www.ccs-pc.net and the links to both should be there to place your orders on line.  Please feel free to contact Becki Swartz with any questions.  PE uniforms may still be ordered through the office.
Lands End: www.landsend.com/school  

School # 9000-9605-8
KLW:  www.klwsportswear.com  (our link will be shown)

Lost and Found Items

Lost and Found Box is located in the gym near the restroom area! Make sure you come quickly to claim your forgotten clothes and various items.

Oct 3 - Pizza Lunch - Jr. Beta

Oct 10 - Pizza Lunch - J. Melvin

Oct 17 - Pizza Lunch - Jr. Beta

                                          Bake Sale - Weber K5

Oct 24 - Pizza Lunch - Walker K5

Oct 31 - Harvest Festival - no pizza served 

Covenant Connections Newsletter

The Newsletter is published monthly by the Angelia Yearbook Staff of Covenant Christian School. Contact-Roseanne Culpepper, adviser. If you have not received a newsletter via email please contact the school office to update your email address. November Covenant Connections Newsletter Deadline is Monday, October 27 .  Don't forget to REMEMBER!!.

Use link at bottom to Forward email to family and friends. Newsletter is also located on our website.