Honors Biology

Students in honors anatomy wrapped up the integumentary system by testing the SPF of different products using UV lights.  Students drew a line with yellow highlighter on black paper.  Using blank microscope slides to represent skin, students put a coat of sunscreens of different SPF values on each slide, in addition to plain hand lotion and shampoo.  The brightness of the yellow line as seen through the slide when the UV light is on corresponds to the SPF value.  Honors biology students are working on taxonomy.  Small groups of students were assigned taxa to research.  Students then compiled the data on 22 total groups and are applying this information in a cumulative project.  Given a list of scientific names, students are discovering the common name and matching the organism to one of the researched taxa. Students will then create a dichotomous key for all 22 groups.

Dual Anatomy

Dual enrollment anatomy and physiology assembled a disarticulated skeleton and examined real human bones in lab at APSU this week. 

FCA

Good morning! Wednesday is See You At The Pole. This event is open to all students, faculty, and parents. We will meet at the Flag Pole in the front of the school starting at 7:15 a.m., for a time of fellowship and prayer. An alternate site will be available if weather becomes a factor.

  

Retake Day

Photo retakes will be held on November 6.

 

Golly G’s

Golly Gs is offering a 10% discount to students who come after Friday night football games. If you tell them “Go Cougars!,” you will get 10% off. After each Friday night, the school with the most tallies will receive 10% off the next Tuesday. At the end of the season, the school with the most participation will have a limited edition ice cream named after their mascot.

  

Box Top Contest

The CAA invites everyone to participate in our Box Tops Contest this year! When you turn in your Box Tops please label the baggie with your student’s name, grade and teacher (Lower School). A tally will be kept of all box top returns and a Pizza party will be awarded to the class with the most labels returned!

 

FCA

The Fellowship of Christian Athletes would like to invite everyone to be a part of FCA this year! High School will meet in room #118 Coach Trent’s Room, Intermediate School will meet in Mrs. Drake’s room. Please make plans to attend Wednesdays at 7:15am, everyone is welcome!

Latin 1

Latin 1 just finished an art project to connect Ancient Rome to modern times, or to take a historical event and make it creative and fun.

FCA

Good morning! Wednesday is See You At The Pole. This event is open to all students, faculty, and parents. We will meet at the Flag Pole in the front of the school starting at 7:15 a.m., for a time of fellowship and prayer. An alternate site will be available if weather becomes a factor.

 

Retake Day

Photo retakes will be held on November 6.

 

Box Top Contest

The CAA invites everyone to participate in our Box Tops Contest this year! When you turn in your Box Tops please label the baggie with your student’s name, grade and teacher (Lower School). A tally will be kept of all box top returns and a Pizza party will be awarded to the class with the most labels returned!

  

Golly G’s

Golly Gs is offering a 10% discount to students who come after Friday night football games. If you tell them “Go Cougars!,” you will get 10% off. After each Friday night, the school with the most tallies will receive 10% off the next Tuesday. At the end of the season, the school with the most participation will have a limited edition ice cream named after their mascot.

  

FCA

The Fellowship of Christian Athletes would like to invite everyone to be a part of FCA this year! High School will meet in room #118 Coach Trent’s Room, Intermediate School will meet in Mrs. Drake’s room. Please make plans to attend Wednesdays at 7:15am, everyone is welcome!

Kindergarten

Kindergarten enjoyed M&M math today. We sorted, graphed, and determined the greatest number and fewest number of M&M candies. Of course we enjoyed eating a few afterwards.

FUSE Math

4th graders in the FUSE program recently enjoyed a presentation from local businesswoman, Casey Jenkins, whose family owns Jenkins and Wynne Ford Lincoln Honda dealership in Clarksville, TN.  Casey shared with students how she uses math in her day-to-day activities in the vehicle business.  She specifically focused on the use of large numbers through the millions place values and the real-world use of ordering, comparing, rounding, estimation, adding, and subtracting of large numbers.  Casey’s presentation coincided with the topics 4th graders have been studying in math in relation to place value through the millions and to kick off the “If I Had a Million Dollars” project.  For this project, students will spend a pretend $1,000,000 on various big ticket items including new vehicles.

Writing

5th grade FUSE Writing students used a scrambled paragraph strategy to practice identifying and organizing structured writing.

 

Social Studies

4th grade FUSE students worked on research projects about their favorite group of Natives from Mesoamerica. Students worked to identify and share their location, clothing, shelter, food, and other interesting facts.

5^th Grade

Clarksville Academy’s 5th graders in the FUSE program were excited recently to present a check for $535 to Pam McCaslin, sister of Dawn Stanfill, to be donated to The Dawn Stanfill Foundation.  The Dawn Stanfill Foundation is a foundation that honors the memory of local teacher, Dawn Stanfill, who passed away from breast cancer.  In her memory and for her love of children, the foundation provides financial and emotional support to local area families and children dealing with childhood cancer.  September is Childhood Cancer Awareness month, and the support color for childhood cancer is yellow gold, the 5th grade Color Wars color, which inspired the 5th graders to choose childhood cancer awareness as their community service portion of the Homecoming Door Wars competition.

1^ST Grade

First Grade students sequenced events in a story by telling what they did on their summer vacation.

Science Lab News

1^st grade

First graders reviewed the parts of plants – roots stems and leaves.  We had cornstalks to identify stems and leaves.  We also used the sense of smell to observes a variety of leaves: mint, rosemary, sage, and even chives.

 

2^nd grade

Second graders discussed how things move.  We investigated Force, Motion and Friction by Bowling!  We observed how much force it takes to knock our pins down, and how friction changes the results.

 

3^rd Grade

Third grade observed Ornamental corn and discussed heredity and how characteristics are transmitted to offspring.  We also conducted and experiment to note the flow of water through a variety of stems.  We looked at how celery stalks (stems) transport colored water changing leaves to blue and red.

Retake Day

Photo retakes will be held on November 6.

 

Golly G’s

Golly Gs is offering a 10% discount to students who come after Friday night football games. If you tell them “Go Cougars!,” you will get 10% off. After each Friday night, the school with the most tallies will receive 10% off the next Tuesday. At the end of the season, the school with the most participation will have a limited edition ice cream named after their mascot.

 

Box Top Contest

The CAA invites everyone to participate in our Box Tops Contest this year! When you turn in your Box Tops please label the baggie with your student’s name, grade and teacher (Lower School). A tally will be kept of all box top returns and a Pizza party will be awarded to the class with the most labels returned!

Annual Cougar Classic

The Cougar Classic golf tournament was held on September 16th.  We had 21 teams play at the beautiful Clarksville Country Club.  Of the 84 players, 21 of them were CA Alumni!  Over $14,000 was raised for the Athletic fund!  A big thank you to everyone who played, sponsored the tournament, donated a door prize or helped with the planning of the event.

 

Retake Day

Photo retakes will be held on November 6.

 

FCA

Wednesday is See You At The Pole. This event is open to all students, faculty, and parents. We will meet at the Flag Pole in the front of the school starting at 7:15 a.m., for a time of fellowship and prayer. An alternate site will be available if weather becomes a factor.

 

Golly G’s

Golly Gs is offering a 10% discount to students who come after Friday night football games. If you tell them “Go Cougars!,” you will get 10% off. After each Friday night, the school with the most tallies will receive 10% off the next Tuesday. At the end of the season, the school with the most participation will have a limited edition ice cream named after their mascot.

  

Box Top Contest

The CAA invites everyone to participate in our Box Tops Contest this year! When you turn in your Box Tops please label the baggie with your student’s name, grade and teacher (Lower School). A tally will be kept of all box top returns and a Pizza party will be awarded to the class with the most labels returned!

 

FCA

The Fellowship of Christian Athletes would like to invite everyone to be a part of FCA this year! High School will meet in room #118 Coach Trent’s Room, Intermediate School will meet in Mrs. Drake’s room. Please make plans to attend Wednesdays at 7:15am, everyone is welcome!

 

Photos

Throughout the year if you take photos at various school events and would like to submit them for possible use in the yearbook or for marketing purposes, please send them to photos@clarksvilleacademy.com.

 

Important Dates

Oct 6-13—Fall Break—NO School

Oct 28—Fall Festival

Nov 6—Photo Retake Day

 

Box Tops

This is a reminder that CA collects Box Tops through our CAA.  The money raised from this project funds various school improvement projects.  Last year we raised over $3000 through the Box Tops program alone!  Please turn yours into your child’s teacher or Ms. Turnage in the front office.

 

Social Media

Please like us on Facebook—Clarksville Academy, follow us on Twitter—CACougarsTN, and on our new Sports Information Twitter—CACougarsSports.

Studio Art

Mr. Neitzke’s Studio Art class students are working on an all white still life assignment. The monochromatic still life drawing project is done in a low level of light environment and employs spot lights to increase the dramatic range of gray scale values. In an early stage of the project students use a view finder to assist art students in finding their composition.

 

 

Honors Anatomy

This week honors anatomy students determined the two-point threshold in different areas of the body to test the density of touch receptors.  They also tested tactile localization and demonstrated adaptation of touch receptors.   At the end of the week we looked at fingerprints.

 

Magazine Sales

Clarksville Academy’s Magazine Drive tabulations have been finalized and we are happy to share that we achieved our school wide goal!  Congratulations to you all!  Our fall break will now begin on Friday, October 6.  Thank you all for your hard work and enthusiasm throughout this fundraiser.

 

Retake Day

Photo retakes will be held on November 6.

 

Golly G’s

Golly Gs is offering a 10% discount to students who come after Friday night football games. If you tell them “Go Cougars!,” you will get 10% off. After each Friday night, the school with the most tallies will receive 10% off the next Tuesday. At the end of the season, the school with the most participation will have a limited edition ice cream named after their mascot.

 

Box Top Contest

The CAA invites everyone to participate in our Box Tops Contest this year! When you turn in your Box Tops please label the baggie with your student’s name, grade and teacher (Lower School). A tally will be kept of all box top returns and a Pizza party will be awarded to the class with the most labels returned!

 

FCA

The Fellowship of Christian Athletes would like to invite everyone to be a part of FCA this year! High School will meet in room #118 Coach Trent’s Room, Intermediate School will meet in Mrs. Drake’s room. Please make plans to attend Wednesdays at 7:15am, everyone is welcome!

6^th Grade Science

In recent weeks, the students began a unit on our naturally occurring satellite, the Moon. The students participated in a lab in which they measured how far they could jump on Earth and mathematically calculated how far they could jump on our moon and other planets. The students learned the phases of the moon and created a graphic organizer of the phases. Last week the focus has been on the moon causes ocean tides and how the earth’s tilt causes our 4 seasons.

 

Social Studies

Sixth Graders played a few intense rounds of Quizlet Live Vocabulary in preparation for their quiz next week on Mesopotamia and the Fertile Crescent.

 

 

IS Music

Music theory is the understanding of written music, and it provides a language for composers and musicians to communicate with each other. Students that understand musical theory can read a page written by a composer hundreds of years ago, and understand what that composer wanted them to play, and how. How amazing is that?

 

For students, music theory is mostly about how music is written on a page, and how to interpret that written music. This can include understanding what a note is, what a scale is, what a key is, and what accidentals (sharps and flats) are.  In Artistic Performance, students are taught music theory through lectures, games and opportunities to write down music concepts that are being taught.

 

To further enhance the students music experience in the classroom, Piano Maestro App as been added to their iPads. Piano Maestro, ranked #1 Education App, Piano Maestro helps students practice and learn their sight reading, rhythm, technique, playing with both hands and much more.

 

 

Magazine Sales

Clarksville Academy’s Magazine Drive tabulations have been finalized and we are happy to share that we achieved our school wide goal!  Congratulations to you all!  Our fall break will now begin on Friday, October 6.  Thank you all for your hard work and enthusiasm throughout this fundraiser.

 

Retake Day

Photo retakes will be held on November 6.

 

Box Top Contest

The CAA invites everyone to participate in our Box Tops Contest this year! When you turn in your Box Tops please label the baggie with your student’s name, grade and teacher (Lower School). A tally will be kept of all box top returns and a Pizza party will be awarded to the class with the most labels returned!

 

Golly G’s

Golly Gs is offering a 10% discount to students who come after Friday night football games. If you tell them “Go Cougars!,” you will get 10% off. After each Friday night, the school with the most tallies will receive 10% off the next Tuesday. At the end of the season, the school with the most participation will have a limited edition ice cream named after their mascot.

 

FCA

The Fellowship of Christian Athletes would like to invite everyone to be a part of FCA this year! High School will meet in room #118 Coach Trent’s Room, Intermediate School will meet in Mrs. Drake’s room. Please make plans to attend Wednesdays at 7:15am, everyone is welcome!

Science News

First grade observed Leaves, Flowers, Roots, and Stems.  We measured fern fronds and compared them with other leaves. We looked at live flowers and artificial flowers  and observed the difference between living and non living things.

 

 

Second graders dissected tomatoes to observe the seeds inside the fruit.  We had examples of cherry tomato plants and identified the yellow blossoms that will become the fruit. We identified leaves and stems.

 

Third graders observed the lab results they began last week.  We noted after seven days our pea seeds had germinated and the roots measured 2 inches. We discussed what was needed for our seeds to sprout.

 

 

2^nd Grade

Ms. Phillips’ class had fun writing friendly letters to the students in Mrs. Clemments’ class.

 

3^rd Grade

Third grade students are estimating differences by practicing board problems, sharing their math steps and participating in discussion with their classmates.

 

 

Music News

This month in music we are discovering the many talents of our Composer of the Month, Johann Strauss II.

Strauss wrote so many waltzes he was known as the “Waltz King”! Students had a fun time learning how to waltz!

 

Congratulations

Congratulations to Jeremiah West, a 2^nd grade student at CA who has been chosen to perform in the Nashville Ballet’s Sleeping Beauty at TPAC this weekend!  Way to go!

 

Magazine Sales

Clarksville Academy’s Magazine Drive tabulations have been finalized and we are happy to share that we achieved our school wide goal!  Congratulations to you all!  Our fall break will now begin on Friday, October 6.

Thank you all for your hard work and enthusiasm throughout this fundraiser.

 

Retake Day

Photo retakes will be held on November 6.

 

Golly G’s

Golly Gs is offering a 10% discount to students who come after Friday night football games. If you tell them “Go Cougars!,” you will get 10% off. After each Friday night, the school with the most tallies will receive 10% off the next Tuesday. At the end of the season, the school with the most participation will have a limited edition ice cream named after their mascot.

 

Box Top Contest

The CAA invites everyone to participate in our Box Tops Contest this year! When you turn in your Box Tops please label the baggie with your student’s name, grade and teacher (Lower School). A tally will be kept of all box top returns and a Pizza party will be awarded to the class with the most labels returned!

Homecoming

Thank you to everyone who worked so hard on Door Wars, Color Wars, Fence Designs, collecting donations, organizing events, etc. A big thank you to  our Student Council who worked so hard to make the week amazing.

Congratulations to our 2017 Homecoming Queen Madison Fisher! The entire court looked beautiful!

 

 

See more photos from homecoming 2017 »

See photos from Door Wars »

 

Magazine Sales

Clarksville Academy’s Magazine Drive tabulations have been finalized and we are happy to share that we achieved our school wide goal!  Congratulations to you all!  Our fall break will now begin on Friday, October 6.

Thank you all for your hard work and enthusiasm throughout this fundraiser.

 

Retake Day

Photo retakes will be held on November 6.

 

Golly G’s

Golly Gs is offering a 10% discount to students who come after Friday night football games. If you tell them “Go Cougars!,” you will get 10% off. After each Friday night, the school with the most tallies will receive 10% off the next Tuesday. At the end of the season, the school with the most participation will have a limited edition ice cream named after their mascot.

 

Box Top Contest

The CAA invites everyone to participate in our Box Tops Contest this year! When you turn in your Box Tops please label the baggie with your student’s name, grade and teacher (Lower School). A tally will be kept of all box top returns and a Pizza party will be awarded to the class with the most labels returned!

 

FCA

The Fellowship of Christian Athletes would like to invite everyone to be a part of FCA this year! High School will meet in room #118 Coach Trent’s Room, Intermediate School will meet in Mrs. Drake’s room. Please make plans to attend Wednesdays at 7:15am, everyone is welcome!

 

Photos

Throughout the year if you take photos at various school events and would like to submit them for possible use in the yearbook or for marketing purposes, please send them to photos@clarksvilleacademy.com.

 

Important Dates

Oct 9-13—Fall Break—NO School

Oct 28—Fall Festival

Nov 6—Photo Retake Day

 

Box Tops

This is a reminder that CA collects Box Tops through our CAA.  The money raised from this project funds various school improvement projects.  Last year we raised over $3000 through the Box Tops program alone!  Please turn yours into your child’s teacher or Ms. Turnage in the front office.

 

Social Media

Please like us on Facebook—Clarksville Academy, follow us on Twitter—CACougarsTN, and on our new Sports Information Twitter—CACougarsSports.

Senior Buddy

Kindergarten and Senior Buddies had a wonderful time at the annual picnic.  The Seniors also got to spend time with the parents too.

 

 

Interact

Ten Interact members attended the Sunrise Rotary Club meeting on Thursday, September 7, 2017. CA Interact helped lead the meeting including a prayer, the pledge of allegiance, and the 4-way test. The students also presented to the Rotarians about the goals for the club this year, the importance of the RYLA program, and what Interact means to them. Interact members who attended are pictured before the meeting and with the Sunrise Rotary President, David Davenport.

 

 

Homecoming Week

Homecoming Week begins Monday, September 11.  We have a full week of activities planned including dress up days for all ages, class competitions (6-12^th), pep rally, football game, and dances (6^th-12^th).  Below you will find a complete list of dress up days and activities.

 

Monday, September 11: Red, White, & Blue Day

Tuesday, September 12: Tacky Tourist Day

Wednesday, September 13: Disney Day

Thursday, September 14: Color Wars Day

Friday, September 15: Blue & Gold Day

 

• Bonfire Times – This will take place at the Cougar Sports Complex on Thursday, Sept. 14 beginning at 6.  The fire will be lit at dark and the event will end by 8PM.
• Pep Rally –  will be held on Friday, September 15 at 2 in the Main gym.  All grades are invited.
• The Football game –  will begin with tailgating at 5:30, the Cougar Walk at 6:50, the kick off at 7PM, and the coronation of Homecoming Queen at halftime.
• Intermediate School Dance –  will be on Saturday, Sept 16 from 7:00-10:00 PM in the Auxiliary Gym.
• Upper School Dance –  will be on Saturday, Sept 16 from 8:00-11:00 PM at the Waterstreet Event Center located on Riverside Dr.

 

 

Clarksville Academy
2017 Homecoming Court

Freshman Class Attendants:
Ehma Herrera
Campbell Moore

Escorts:
Dalton Daniels
James Downing

 

Sophomore Class Attendants:
Joie Giarrizzo
Caroline Giles

Escorts:
Franco Basso
Garrett Bragg
Landry Forte

 

Junior Class Attendants:
Grace Parbs
Beverly Anne Pugh

Escorts:
Griffin Blackman
Hunter Kueter

 

Senior Class Attendants:
Madison Fisher
Taylor Knight
Cambree Reed

Escorts:
Hunter Bracy
Bradley Burger
Jason Longwell

 

Photo Contest

See your email for full details on this fun activity this week!

 

Code of Conduct

Please review the updated Code of Conduct as a family and sign the conduct form.  Forms can be returned to the front office and must be signed by both parent and child.

https://clarksvilleacademy.com/academics/code-of-conduct/

 

Golly G’s

Golly Gs is offering a 10% discount to students who come after Friday night football games. If you tell them “Go Cougars!,” you will get 10% off. After each Friday night, the school with the most tallies will receive 10% off the next Tuesday. At the end of the season, the school with the most participation will have a limited edition ice cream named after their mascot.

 

Box Top Contest

The CAA invites everyone to participate in our Box Tops Contest this year! When you turn in your Box Tops please label the baggie with your student’s name, grade and teacher (Lower School). A tally will be kept of all box top returns and a Pizza party will be awarded to the class with the most labels returned!

  

FCA

The Fellowship of Christian Athletes would like to invite everyone to be a part of FCA this year! High School will meet in room #118 Coach Trent’s Room, Intermediate School will meet in Mrs. Drake’s room. Please make plans to attend Wednesdays at 7:15am, everyone is welcome!

Robotics Club

The robotics club had our first meeting and it was a great one! We are so excited to finally receive the Lego pieces. This week we are starting to build our robots and mission stations. A big thanks to Mrs. Catellier for her time and expertise.

 

 

Homecoming Week

Homecoming Week begins Monday, September 11.  We have a full week of activities planned including dress up days for all ages, class competitions (6-12^th), pep rally, football game, and dances (6^th-12^th).  Below you will find a complete list of dress up days and activities.

 

Monday, September 11: Red, White, & Blue Day

Tuesday, September 12: Tacky Tourist Day

Wednesday, September 13: Disney Day

Thursday, September 14: Color Wars Day

Friday, September 15: Blue & Gold Day

 

• Bonfire Times – This will take place at the Cougar Sports Complex on Thursday, Sept. 14 beginning at 6.  The fire will be lit at dark and the event will end by 8PM.
• Pep Rally –  will be held on Friday, September 15 at 2 in the Main gym.  All grades are invited.
• The Football game –  will begin with tailgating at 5:30, the Cougar Walk at 6:50, the kick off at 7PM, and the coronation of Homecoming Queen at halftime.
• Intermediate School Dance –  will be on Saturday, Sept 16 from 7:00-10:00 PM in the Auxiliary Gym.
• Upper School Dance –  will be on Saturday, Sept 16 from 8:00-11:00 PM at the Waterstreet Event Center located on Riverside Dr.

 

 

Photo Contest

See your email for full details on this fun activity this week!

 

Box Top Contest

The CAA invites everyone to participate in our Box Tops Contest this year! When you turn in your Box Tops please label the baggie with your student’s name, grade and teacher (Lower School). A tally will be kept of all box top returns and a Pizza party will be awarded to the class with the most labels returned!

 

Golly G’s

Golly Gs is offering a 10% discount to students who come after Friday night football games. If you tell them “Go Cougars!,” you will get 10% off. After each Friday night, the school with the most tallies will receive 10% off the next Tuesday. At the end of the season, the school with the most participation will have a limited edition ice cream named after their mascot.

 

FCA

The Fellowship of Christian Athletes would like to invite everyone to be a part of FCA this year! High School will meet in room #118 Coach Trent’s Room, Intermediate School will meet in Mrs. Drake’s room. Please make plans to attend Wednesdays at 7:15am, everyone is welcome!