Important Dates

 

Friday, April 29 – Kindergarten Mother’s Day Tea – Please make sure to arrange childcare for younger siblings.  This time is just for Mom and Kindergartener!  You are invited to take your child home following the program for some additional special time together.

• • When: 10:30 – 11:30 A.M.
  • Where: CCS Gym

 

Friday, April 29 – Lost and Found – All items from the Lost and Found bins will be outside. Any items remaining at 3:00 P.M. will be discarded.  Please remind your students to check the bins regularly for any missing items. 

• • When: 9:00 A.M. – 3:00 P.M.
  • Where: K-2 Playground

 

Tuesday, May 3 – Teacher Appreciation Day – We love our teachers! Remember to send in a note or some flowers to show appreciation for your child’s teachers. Flowers will be collected at morning carpool and arranged in vases to be shared among all the teachers, teacher assistants, and specials teachers. Thank you!

 

Thursday, May 5 – Saturday, May 7 – The 3 Musketeers – The Rhetoric School Drama students have spent all year preparing and they are looking forward to a great show! Don’t forget to purchase your tickets! Click here to buy now!

 

Friday, May 6 – Grandparents’ Day – Grandparents, we welcome you to our campus to enjoy presentations from our Kindergarten through 5th Grade students. Please feel free to stay for the entire program or to take a break between the presentations. The program will be from 8:45 – 10:45 A.M., followed by classroom visitations and lunch.  You may choose to bring a picnic and have lunch on campus or take your grandchild(ren) to lunch off campus. Please be sure to sign students out with the classroom teacher before leaving. If you plan on returning for the end of the day (optional), please have students arrive by 2:00 P.M. for afternoon activities and to prepare for carpool.  

 

Monday, May 9 – Thesis Encore Night – If you weren’t able to come and hear our Seniors present their Senior Thesis Presentations, you have a second chance! Come hear from and ask questions of four of our Senior presenters. They are looking forward to sharing this culminating event with CCS parents, families, and friends.

• • When: 7:00 P.M. 
  • Where: CCS Theater

 

Tuesday, May 10 – 1st Grade Strawberry Patch Field Trip – Our first graders are culminating their unit on plants with a trip to the Strawberry Patch where they will apply their knowledge as they observe plants in the environment as well as enjoy the sweet fruit of their studies.

 

 

Announcements

 

May 2022 Tuition Draft – This is a reminder that the new tuition rates for the 2022-23 school year will go into effect starting with the May 2022 draft.  Your account will be drafted on the date of the month you selected when you enrolled/reenrolled your students. If you elected to pay your student’s tuition in one payment, that payment is due by May 10, 2022. If you have any questions regarding your tuition draft, please contact Traci Cooley at tcooley@carychristianschool.org. The new rates are as follows:

• • Kindergarten – $5,904 ($492/month)
  • Kindergarten Extended Day – $7,668 ($639/month)
  • Grades 1-12 – $8,952 ($746/month)

 

Elective Course Request for Current 5th Grade Students & Parents – The electives for next school year are now available on Parent and Student portals.  Look for more information on how to set-up Student portals and requesting electives in your student’s Monday folder. Please take time to review the new elective class offerings. Click here to access the Logic School Elective Offerings. 

 

Save the Date – Upper School Band and Choral Arts Spring Concert (Logic and Rhetoric) – Join us for an evening of music, witness, and worship at our annual spring concert. The concert will take place on Saturday May 14, 2022, at 6:00 P.M. on the CCS Upper Field. Bring a blanket or lawn chair and a picnic meal that you can share with your family and friends while enjoying a great selection of music. Admission to this very special event is free. You will be blessed to hear our students perform a tremendous variety of music and we are so proud of the hard work and dedication they have put forth in preparing for this performance. In addition, we will be celebrating our seniors who have participated in these programs for many years. We hope to see all of you there. You will not want to miss this very special musical celebration!

 

 

Grammar School 4th Quarter Novels

 

3rd Grade – Third Graders have enjoyed their study of The Magician’s Nephew by C. S. Lewis. They had beautiful and lively discussions all along the way. They introspectively wondered whether or not they would have rung the bell like Digory or wanted no part of it like Polly. We loved the sound of the Voice, and were in awe as a new world was created from a song. They dug deep into the many scriptures about light and darkness, and concluded that Jadis and Uncle Andrew hate the Lion’s music because they are evil, while the Cabby, the children, and Strawberry love the music because they love light. After all, they decided, Aslan is a picture of Christ, and Christ is the Light of the World. The students prayed that they too would be lovers of light. The story ended with the core of a lifesaving apple being buried with some magical rings. Any predictions about what might one day be built with the wood of that apple tree?

 

4th Grade – Prince Caspian by C.S. Lewis is the fourth book of The Chronicles of Narnia series. In this coming-of-age story, Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy must learn what it means to put away childishness and embrace childlikeness. The world of Narnia has fallen into the hands of a wicked king, who is not the rightful ruler. Narnia is groaning under the weight of oppression and is longing for Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy-the Sons of Adam and Daughters of Eve-to rejoin their partnership with Aslan to set right this world, restore harmony to all its inhabitants, and inaugurate the reign of its rightful ruler, Prince Caspian. In this struggle, there is great need for Faith, Courage, Justice, Self-Sacrifice, and Love. Though a fiction text, through reading this novel, the students vicariously experience and have their eyes opened to many things that are true. This book embodies the tension of the New Testament thematic framework “already, but not yet.” Already, the Lord Jesus Christ is enthroned as rightful king at the right hand of the Father, but all of creation is still groaning under the weight of sin and the effects of the fall. God’s children must persevere in faithfulness in the battle against sin and its effects as they eagerly await full restoration of the world at the return of Jesus Christ, “when all sad things will come untrue.”

 

5th Grade – Fifth graders will finish the year by reading Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH.  This is a fun, engaging mystery that deals with many personal struggles, albeit from a mouse’s perspective. The major conflict is that Timothy, Mrs. Frisby’s child, is sick and about to die. She goes to ask for help from some of the nearby animals and begins an adventure that eventually unravels a mystery about her late husband. Main themes in the novel include courage, especially in those who are small or young, loyalty to friends and family, love and sacrifice, and the integrity of work. Fifth Graders will enjoy some higher level thinking and activities to connect with who they are in Christ, academic knowledge from the perspective of a biblical worldview, and the function and purpose of being able to read.

 

Important Dates

 

Friday, April 29 – Senior Skip Day – The Seniors will enjoy a day off campus to fellowship with each other and celebrate as they approach the last few weeks of their time at Cary Christian School.  Students and parents are responsible for planning the day as this is not a school sponsored event.

 

Friday, April 29 – Lost and Found – All items from the Lost and Found bins will be outside. Any items remaining at 3:00 P.M. will be discarded.  Please remind your students to check the bins regularly for any missing items. 

• • When: 9:00 A.M. – 3:00 P.M.
  • Where: K-2 Playground

 

Tuesday, May 3 – Friday, May 6 – Elective Course Requests for Current 6th – 11th Graders – We have several new elective options for the 2022-2023 school year. The lists of electives are now available on Parent and Student Portals, under “Academics.” The opportunity for students to request electives will be available on their Student Portals. Please take time to review the new elective class offerings.

• • Logic School Elective Offerings 
  • Rhetoric School Elective Offerings

 

Wednesday, May 4 – Senior College Shirt Day – For this final Senior Day, our Seniors will wear a shirt that signifies where they plan to go after Cary Christian School, whether that is a college, career, gap year, or trade school. We are proud of our Seniors and so excited to see what the Lord has in store for them!  A class picture will be taken at the Oak Tree at noon. Seniors, please be on time so you don’t miss this Cary Christian School tradition.

 

Wednesday, May 4 – Friday May 6 – 8th Grade Resurrection Debate – The 8th Graders have been preparing for this culminating event. Through the interdisciplinary study of the Resurrection in Bible, Logic, and Composition, they are equipped to engage in this important debate. Our prayer is that this Debate challenges and strengthens their faith.

 

Thursday, May 5 – Saturday, May 7 – The 3 Musketeers – The Rhetoric School Drama students have spent all year preparing and they are looking forward to a great show! Don’t forget to purchase your tickets! Click here to buy now!

 

Friday, May 6 – House – This is our last House of the year!

 

Monday, May 9 – Parent Meeting Introducing Dual Credit with Colorado Christian University – Next school year, Cary Christian School and Colorado Christian University will jointly offer several of our standard CCS courses with the Dual Enrollment/Dual Credit option for Rising 11th and 12th Graders.  Come and hear from Mr. Seitz and Ms. Smith about how it works, the benefits of dual credit, what courses may be offered, and how to enroll your rising Junior or Senior. For your convenience, we will offer parents two identical 30-minute meetings. Students are welcome at the 4:30 P.M. meeting after school.   

• • When: 8:10 A.M. and 4:30 P.M.
  • Where: Theater  

  

Monday, May 9 – Thesis Encore Night – If you weren’t able to come and hear our Seniors present their Senior Thesis Presentations, you have a second chance! Come hear from and ask questions of four of our Senior presenters. They are looking forward to sharing this culminating event with CCS parents, families, and friends.

• • When: 7:00 P.M. 
  • Where: CCS Theater

Announcements 

 

 

College Counseling

 

Sunday, May 1 – National Decision Day – Seniors, be sure to pay your enrollment deposit. If you need to meet with Ms. Smith, sign-up here. Don’t forget to enter your decision into Naviance.

 

Monday, May 2 – Friday, May 13 – AP Exams – Click here for exam times, locations, and reminders.

 

AP Meeting for Rising 10th-12th Grade Parent Meeting – If you missed the meeting on April 26, click here to learn more about signing up for AP classes and exams for the 2022-2023 school year. 

 

 

Seminar

Arts

 

Sunday, May 1 – Kaleidoscope Art Contest – A few of our students have entered the Cary Living Kaleidoscope Art Contest. The art pieces are due May 1. If your child is interested in participating, there is still time to submit! Click here for more information.

 

Thursday, May 5 – Saturday, May 7 – The 3 Musketeers – The Rhetoric School Drama students have spent all year preparing and they are looking forward to a great show! Don’t forget to purchase your tickets! Click here to buy now!

 

Monday, May 9 – Choral Arts Fellowship Banquet – To celebrate the beautiful year we have had, we are looking forward to a time of fellowship with our students and families. Click here to register for this fun event!

• • When: 6:00 – 8:00 P.M.
  • Where: MacGregor Downs Country Club

 

Save the Date – Upper School Band and Choral Arts Spring Concert (Logic and Rhetoric) – Join us for an evening of music, witness, and worship at our annual spring concert. The concert will take place on Saturday May 14, 2022, at 6:00 P.M. on the CCS Upper Field. Bring a blanket or lawn chair and a picnic meal that you can share with your family and friends while enjoying a great selection of music. Admission to this very special event is free. You will be blessed to hear our students perform a tremendous variety of music and we are so proud of the hard work and dedication they have put forth in preparing for this performance. In addition, we will be celebrating our seniors who have participated in these programs for many years. We hope to see all of you there. You will not want to miss this very special musical celebration!

 

Athletics

 

Wednesday, May 4 – Spring Sports Signing Day – Come support Will Howell as he signs his letter of intent to play baseball at St. Andrews University in Laurinburg, NC.

• • When: 12:30 P.M.
  • Where: CCS Gym