The field trip to the George Ranch Park originally scheduled for today has been re-booked for this Thursday-November 17, 2011. Please have your child wear their jeans and spirit shirt.
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Hello, parents!
Vision screening is this week.
Thanksgiving holidays are next week, Nov. 21 – 25. Have a wonderful week!
Field Trips – please remember that permission slips need to be signed and returned! Students must wear jeans and spirit shirt.
The first grade field trip for tomorrow is cancelled because of weather. We will let you know our new date.
Fifth graders and middle school students will be going to Houston Museum of Natural Science this Thursday, Nov. 17.
Lots of goodies in Lost and Found! Please label items clearly! Here is some of what we have: jackets, gym bags, hair ribbons, books, notebooks and stuffed toys. We will be donating items to charity soon if not claimed.
Come experience your very own African safari! Please join CCA’s Social Connections at Bayou Wildlife Park on Tuesday, Nov. 22 for $6 per person! CCA’s official train ride will be at 11 a.m., and the come-and-go event will be from 10 a.m. – 3 p.m. Meet us on your way in or you way out at 12:30 p.m. at Casa Ole at 1483 East Highway 6. They have very reasonable prices, and the food is delicious! To get the discounted price at the park, say you are with the Cornerstone group when you enter. They only accept cash or check. For more information, email Amy Abels at atvu@comcast.net or go to wwwbayouwildlifepark.com.
Cougar Sports
Go Cougar Basketball! Our girls won first place in a tournament over the weekend! Check out the trophy in the front office. The boys came in fourth place. Congratulations to all the Cougar basketball players!
Basketball
CCA vs. HCYA in CCA gym
Girls at 4:30 p.m.
Boys Gold team at 5:30 p.m.
Boys Maroon team at 6:30 p.m.
Check out our blog at www.cornerstonecca.org and follow us on Facebook and Twitter!
Thank you, families, for all you do! Have a great week!
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Cornerstone Wednesday News
Something to chew on…
November 9, 2011
“Search me, O God, and know my heart; try me and know my thoughts.” - Psalm 139:23
Inspect What You Expect!
When I was a restaurant manager, we had a simple but profound phrase: “Inspect what you expect!” If we expected the best from our employees, we needed to do constant inspections of our company and personal standards, our guest relations and most importantly, how we ourselves did our job.
As Christian educators, we need to follow the same simple but profound phrase: “Inspect what you expect!” If you expect your students to do their very best – are you doing yours? Are you prepared for class each day (physically, mentally and spiritually)? Did you get ample rest? Is your head in the game? Last, but definitely not least, did you spend time with God today?
If we expect our students to have high standards – do we? If we expect our students to be young men and women of character – are we? If we expect our students to honor the Lord in everything they do – how do we measure up? These are tough questions that need a real and personal inventory of the heart! Psalm 139:23 says “Search me, O God, and know my heart; try me and know my thoughts.” Be willing to allow God to check what’s in your heart and mind. Be honest and transparent with Him!
Corey Waters – Campus Minister
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Cornerstone Tuesday Morning News
Good Morning Cougar Parents,
Today in Cougar sports:
CCA BOYS vs TCS at Calvary Episcopal Basketball Tournament at 5 pm . GIRLS play at 7 pm against FBCA.
BGK – K are going to Dewberry Farms tomorrow. Sack lunches provided by SAGE. Please wear long jeans and spirit shirt. The bus will leave at 8:15 and return at 2:30.
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Have a blessed day!
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Cornerstone Christian Monday Updates
Hello, parents! Hope you had a wonderful weekend! Pull up a chair. There’s a lot going on!
Want some coffee and breakfast goodies? Want to hear how the fall fundraiser went? Want to see how the auction planning is coming? Want to volunteer for the school? Come do all of this and more at CCA’s Parent Auxiliary meeting! It will be this Friday at 8:35 a.m. in the hospitality room. Childcare will be available.
Moms-In-Touch, a prayer group, will be meeting at 9:30 a.m., right after Parent Auxiliary. Come pray for our children! Childcare will be available.
The middle school choir is looking for a pianist to play for the Christmas concert. If you are able to help, please contact CCA’s music teacher, Rachel Sabol, at rsabol@cornerstonecca.org.
This Friday, Nov. 11 at 8:15 a.m., we will be a having a special chapel program put on by The Around World Yoyo Entertainment Company. The company will teach godly principles while demonstrating yoyo tricks. Yoyos will be available for purchase after the chapel. Prices will range from $7 to $15. They will also be selling extra string and yoyo holsters. This should be a great chapel, and as always parents are invited to join us!
CCA’s nurse, Rachel Tonick, will be doing hearing/vision screenings for the next two weeks. Please fill out the top portion of the form sent home and return it to school this week. She will notify the parents if their children need to be rescreened.
Book shelvers needed in the library. If you are available to shelve books on Monday, Wednesday or Friday afternoons, please contact CCA’s librarian, Missy Edgmon, at library@cornerstonecca.org. She would like to get a rotation of parents trained to help put material back on the shelves. Email her to come in for training and to set up a schedule.
Fun Field Trips! Please remember that all permission slips need to be signed and returned for your child to attend the field trip.
Bridge-kindergarten and kindergarten classes will be going on a field trip on Wednesday, Nov. 9 to Dewberry Farm. The bus will depart at 8:15 a.m. and will return at 2:30 p.m.
First graders will be going to the George Ranch Park on Tuesday, Nov. 15.
Fifth graders and middle school are going to the Houston Museum of Natural Science on Thursday, Nov. 17. Permission slips will be sent home Monday.
Come experience your very own African safari! Please join CCA’s Social Connections at Bayou Wildlife Park on Tuesday, Nov. 22 for $6 per person! CCA’s official train ride will be at 11 a.m., and the come-and-go event will be from 10 a.m. – 3 p.m. Meet us on your way in or you way out at 12:30 p.m. at Alvin’s Family Restaurant at 1109 Highway 6 in Alvin. They have very reasonable prices, and the food is delicious! To get the discounted price at the park, say you are with the Cornerstone group when you enter. They only accept cash or check. For more information, go to www.bayouwildlifepark.com.
Thank you, families, for all you do! Have a great week!
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WEEKLY UPDATE
Cornerstone Christian Academy – Fort Bend’s PREMIER private school – is proud to announce the posting of our MONDAY MAIL on the website for your convenience.
Nothing will change for you. You will continue to receive your Monday Mail via email with a link to our new website. On our website, you will find things like:
Lunch Menus.…Athletic Calendars & Schedules…..Library & Technology links…as well as other pertinent school information.
Please visit our site often as things regularly change!
GO COUGARS!
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Little Things
A group of men were carrying on a friendly conversation. One of them remarked that he had learned to be especially careful about small things. “Would you believe,” he said, “That a little thing like a pair of socks changed the entire course of my life?”
“I can hardly believe that,” replied another man. “Well, it’s true! Once I planned to take a trip with some of my friends on a canal boat, but two days before we intended to leave, I injured my foot while chopping wood. It was only a small cut, but the blue dye in the homemade socks I wore poisoned the wound, and I was compelled to stay at home. While my friends were on their journey, a powerful preacher came to our town to hold revival meetings. Since I didn’t have anything else to do, I decided to attend. The message touched me deeply, and as a result, I surrendered my heart to the Lord. New desires and purposes took hold of me. I determined also to seek an education, for I trusted that this would enable me to life more usefully for the Lord.” The man who made these comments was a former President of the United States — James A. Garfield!
Sometimes it’s the little things that matter the most. For President Garfield, it was blue dye that changed the direction of his life. For me, it was coming home early from work and my wife talking me into going to a church, where I gave my life to Jesus. Sixteen years later I can see the difference a little thing makes.
Please do not get so busy with the big things that we over look what God is doing in the little things. It could be as little as a smile exchanged between strangers, or a simple brush of the hand as you walk by your child. It could be as simple as the words, I am sorry or saying hello to the cashier at the grocery store! A call to your spouse just to say, “I love you,” may not seem astronomical in nature but it is. A little boy had a couple fish and a few loaves of bread and Jesus used it to feed 5,000 people. I think little things matter to God!
Here at CCA, we hope to take the little moments God gives us each day to make an impact for eternity. We do this through our chapel programs, and our personal interaction with our students. It could be as simple as a high five to a kindergarten student, or as complex as sitting with a middle school student and having a heart to heart. Whatever the case, we want to make the most out of the little things. Why? Because, little things change lives!
God bless,
Corey
Pay It Forward
Pay It Forward
I hope the schoolyear is progressing well for you! Last week marked the first day of fall and, in our fast-paced world, means the holiday season is right around the corner. Don’t fret, there’s still plenty of time to Christmas shop! I wanted to take a moment and reflect on the season of giving, which really can happen all year round.
In my perusing of giving on Google, I found this story, which sums up paying it forward rather nicely. Of course, Christians’ giving should be heightened simply because we are Christians, but here it is from fright novelist and avowed non-churchgoer Stephen King…
A couple of years ago I found out what “you can’t take it with you” means. I found out while I was lying in a ditch at the side of a country road, covered with mud and blood and with the tibia of my right leg poking out the side of my jeans like a branch of a tree taken down in a thunderstorm. I had a MasterCard in my wallet, but when you’re lying in a ditch with broken glass in your hair, no one accepts MasterCard.
We all know that life is ephemeral, but on that particular day and in the months that followed, I got a painful but extremely valuable look at life’s simple backstage truths. We come in naked and broke. We may be dressed when we go out, but we’re just as broke. Warren Buffet? Going to go out broke. Bill Gates? Going out broke. Tom Hanks? Going out broke. Steve King? Broke. Not a crying dime.
All the money you earn, all the stocks you buy, all the mutual funds you trade—all of that is mostly smoke and mirrors. It’s still going to be a quarter-past getting late whether you tell the time on a Timex or a Rolex. No matter how large your bank account, no matter how many credit cards you have, sooner or later things will begin to go wrong with the only three things you have that you can really call your own: your body, your spirit and your mind.
So I want you to consider making your life one long gift to others. And why not? All you have is on loan, anyway. All that lasts is what you pass on. …
Need is not a pretty picture, but we have the power to help, the power to change. And why should we refuse? Because we’re going to take it with us? Please.
…Giving is a way of taking the focus off the money we make and putting it back where it belongs—on the lives we lead, the families we raise, the communities that nurture us.
A life of giving—not just money, but time and spirit—repays. It helps us remember that we may be going out broke, but right now we’re doing O.K. Right now we have the power to do great good for others and for ourselves.
So I ask you to begin giving, and to continue as you began. I think you’ll find in the end that you got far more than you ever had, and did more good than you ever dreamed.
We at Cornerstone try to teach the concept of paying it forward in everything we do. We also know, as Christians, that our actions now have long-term ramifications, both on this earth and beyond. We hope you consider the notion of paying it forward as we come upon the Catch the Vision dinner this Friday.
I’ll repeat what Stephen King said, “Giving is a way of taking the focus off the money and putting it back where it belongs – on the lives we lead, the families we raise, the communities that nurture us.” Help Cornerstone have a positive effect on all three – your lives, your families and your communities.
See you Friday!
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First Day of School
Do you remember your first day of school? My memory is vague, but I do remember my mother walking me to my kindergarten classroom, wiping breakfast remnants off my mouth, and then leaving after a quick hug. She has told me since that she cried every first day of school I had, even when I was in college. I have had my share of first-day-of-school tears as a mother, too and expect them to continue when my children leave.
As a student, I remember the feelings surrounding the first day of school. They are exciting, as there’s a hopeful optimism to starting a new year. New teachers, new classrooms, new textbooks, new kids in the classroom, new notebooks, new clothes. There are promises and commitments we make to ourselves and others. To finish our homework on time. To become the best athlete, cheerleader, singer, student, friend. Minds swirl at the possibilities.
There are also uncertainties – will I like my teacher? Am I wearing the right thing? Will I have any friends?
There are prayers we pray as parents at the beginning of school. These prayers we continue through the year. Protection, preparation, good choices, thankfulness, mercy, and grace are themes that bounce around in our prayers.
Here at CCA, we share the same concerns as our parents, because we are parents, too, and we strive to make those uncertainties fade. We direct the focus to things other than clothes and things of this world. Our teachers are kind and loving, and we expect the same from our students. We pray every day to teach your children well while they are here with us.
To our parents who have never sent their children to school, be it preschool or any other school, please know that we are loving on your children. We are happy to have them here with us. They are learning about God and how to get along with other people and how to love other people.
We have been working tirelessly behind the scenes to create an atmosphere conducive to learning. We want our students to be interested in learning about the world around us. Learning about the Bible. Learning how to be successful in the world. Our aim is our mission – Skills for life. Faith for eternity.
We are thankful you chose to send your child to CCA. We are prayerful that God will work through us to teach your child.
Until now, blogging at Cornerstone has taken a back seat, mainly because of such rapid growth and transition within the school. We are catching up with technology now. Bear with us as we try to keep you updated with the goings-on at the school, from the perspective of the students and staff.
But, enough about us. We would love to hear what you think. What would you like to see us blog about? How often do you think we should post a blog? Would you like to contribute an entry? Feel free to leave comments below.
With all that said, we hope YOU have a great first day of school!
About the author:
Amy Lary, a full-time wife and mother of two CCA students, is a part-time writer and president of the CCA Parent Auxiliary.
She can be reached at amylary1999@yahoo.com.
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