LUNCH BUDDIES! Two Thursday’s each month, a few of our Student Government and House leaders visit with the 1st and 2nd grade classes for the last 10-15 minutes of their lunch! They fellowship and laugh together!
House Audacia collected 300 books in their book drive for Promising Pages!! Each book was carefully cleaned and stickered with notes of encouragement from the members of Audacia. This generosity of CCS students and parents gives children in need the opportunity to experience the joy of reading. THANK you to all who donated and participated!!
CCS had 65 students, faculty, family members, and alums signed up to serve at Operation Christmas Child this December. It was an amazing time for all!!
The boxes processed while we were serving were shipping out to Uganda.
Serving 5 hours on your feet calls for a little break to refuel and fellowship with friends.
Lastly for a little fun, I attached one of the videos from the Senior’s Rube Goldberg project for their Physics class, taught by the wonderful Mrs. Quillen. Watch and enjoy! (Note: the videos embedded in the House blog do not show up if you are reading the post via email, so go to the blog and check it out!)
The House Gingerbread competition continued this year, but due to time and interest we only had one gingerbread house per House. It’s amazing what the students can create in a short amount of time!!
1st Place – House Sapientia – “Sapientia Blue Light Christmas Cabin” (40 points)
2nd Place – House Fides – “Covenant Christmas Cabin” (30 points)
3rd Place – House Audacia – “Christmas Cabin” (20 points)
4th Place – House Constantia – “Cabin at the Beach” (10 points)
The CCS Ugly Christmas Sweater Competition is always a lot of fun to see and judge.
Winners for the most “creative or crafty” sweater – Audacia’s Lilly Allen and Anna Booth
Winner for Tackiest Sweater – Tyler Hicks (Audacia) and the Winner for the Ugliest sweater – Ryan Gasparrini (Constantia)
The 7th-12th grade classes decided to compete in the Christmas door competition! The judges were Mrs. Thipgen and Mrs. Russell and the prize was donuts for the class!
Seniors
Juniors
Sophomores
9th grade
8th grade – WINNER!!
7th grade
Though not in the competition, Mrs. Quillen’s door deserves recognition!
House Audacia decided to get together to celebrate Christmas at the Benham’s home. From the pictures it looks like a roaring good time was had.
And the CCS 7th-12th grade moms continued the tradition of the “Ornament Exchange/Steal Party” at the Hudson home. We picked a day/time that was difficult for many of the moms to attend, but those that could make it laughed until it hurt!
And of course there were some simple, non-embarrassing, competitive games to win additional ornaments to keep, exchange, or steal.
And lots of food and fellowship! This is such a sweet time to celebrate our precious community of upper school mamas. AND in case you didn’t know, the moms earn points for their student’s House every time they attend events, donate food to events, etc. So there are many reasons for the WHOLE family to stay involved at CCS!!AND it is FUN!!
Speaking of fun…we all know our CCS teachers are true GIFTS! Below one of our teachers recently and literally became a gift. For fun and some House points for proving to Mrs. H that you read this email to the end, send Mrs. Haycox an email or text if you think you know who the teacher wrapped as a gift is! (3 pts for reading and guessing and 5pts if you guess correctly!)
The CCS Houses and Clubs know how to make memories during 2nd Quarter! With so much going on, I missed sending out separate posts for each event and so this post is a summary!
House Constantia hosted their first social event – a fun Bowling event at Foxfire Lanes! Hopefully this will become a tradition.
I, for one, want to see Constantia’s President, Andrew Faircloth, perform his trick bowling move again…and for those of you that missed it, check out the video below.
House Sapientia continued their tradition of hosting fun movie nights, but this time they moved the event into the Commons instead of the gym. From the student feedback, everyone liked the Commons much better, as it felt more like a movie theater. The movie choice was great too – Into the Spiderverse!
Our Clubs have been having fun too! SABM’s Advisor, Mr. Morton, taught the guys the tricks and techniques to grilling a perfect steak. Not only did it smell yummy, but all the guys had the chance to partake in the goodness!
And the first weekend in December the SABM guys went on a hike of Crowder’s Mountain! And after the hike the went to the Rose’s home for pizza and games!
The ladies know how to have fun too! (If you consider dissection fun! HA!) The Anatomy and Physiology Club (which happens to have all girl members) dissected pigs during their most recent club meeting.
House Fides and House Constantia partnered together to organize a canned food drive during the month of November. The Grammar school classes were paired with an Upper school class to compete for the most amount of cans collected.
Mrs. Mahaley’s 3rd grade class collected the most cans and were rewarded with some doughnuts as a thank you! All the cans were donated to the food pantry at New Life Baptist Church in Concord. Senior Pastor, Tommy Steele, said that they had been praying for more donations in order to be ready for Thanksgiving and our donation was the unexpected answer from the Lord. God is Good! All the Time!
