Blogging in Word is so very RAD!

There are so many different features for blogging when you blog from Word. For instance, there are more fonts.

Blogging in Word

In Middle School Computer class, we are learning about blogging in Word. This is a test to show off the features available using Word.

Mrs. Cauthen

Spirit Week!

Whew! Spirit Week 2009 was a blast! We saw so many great outfits and most importantly saw lots of students showing off tons of School Spirit!

Mrs. Cauthen

The Knights are Red Hot!

Friday was Spirit Day and our Pep Rally! It was fun to take a break and scream like crazy!

Tacky Day

In honor of Spirit week, here are some videos of students and teachers sharing why they love NCA!



...footage shot by Seth M., fifth grader.

Computer Lab Rules

Check out our Computer Lab Rules...

Computer Lab Makeover

Check out pics of the newly transformed Computer Lab!

Letter to Parents 2009

Here's a little letter all about heading back to school... ☺

Letter To Parents

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Extra, Extra...

This is a year of change for me! I am switching from fifth grade classroom teacher to... drumroll please... Computer Teacher for K-8!

I am very excited about my new role, and I'm furiously working to prepare for the exciting year we're going to have.

In light of the big switch, I am changing my fifth grade blog over to a Computer Class blog... "Cauthen's Computer Crew." I hope to share all the great things we'll be working throughout the year so stay tuned!

Here is a "bio" I wrote up to be included in the middle school packet...

All About Me

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Student of the Week... Michael Byrd

I am a member of: Band and a basketball team

I am most proud of: My mom and dad

People tell me I'm good at: Football

The person who most inspires me is: Jesus Christ and Steve Smith

My favorite book is: Where the Red Fern Grows

My favorite food is: Pizza

My favorite TV show is: Deal or No Deal

My favorite sport is: Basketball / Football

My favorite part of school is: Recess

My least favorite part of school is: Math

When I am 25, I will be: Football player

My favorite color is: Green

My favorite musical group is: Casting Crowns



Thank you, Michael! Great Job!

Roving Reporter... Dejah W.

ROVING REPORTER 11/14/08
DEJAH W.

Hi, I’m Dejah and I’m going to tell you all about Friday, November 14, 2008.

Our school day begins when we recite the Pledge of Allegiance, the Christian Flag Pledge and the Bible Pledge.

Our teacher, Mrs. C., moves on to Bible class. We read from our book, The Songbird. It’s about a boy named Truxton and his gift of helping birds.


Our next subject is math. We have started a new chapter! It’s about how your calculator works and function machines. We especially like the part about using calculators. When we finished, Mrs. C. said we could play the metric unit game. You have to guess which metric unit the pegs lands on and continue from there.

This is Taylor and Alexis having a good time playing this game.

Meanwhile, Micah and his buddy are enjoying the metric unit game as well.

Next, it’s English. We are working on our diamantes. Diamantes are so much fun! Mrs. C. said “Can’t you notice how the diamante is in the shape of a diamond?” I guess that is how they decided to name it.

Eventually, we move on to reading. We had a reading quiz on our vocabulary words. Taylor and Michael finished their quizzes. I think we studied really hard for the quiz because everyone was very excited.

Finally, it is my favorite part of the school day - lunch!!! They are serving hotdogs and macaroni. There are many students who decide to have hot dogs. Other students select something else. For the first 5 minutes, we have red cup which means we can’t talk to each other.

Afterwards, we line up to go to music class. We play the chimes that we have been practicing for awhile. This goes extremely well.

Before you know it, we have to head back to our classroom for recess. We are playing inside because of the rain. We, therefore, resume our metric unit game since we have to stay inside.

Next, it is time for science. We recently started a new chapter. It is about force and work. Doesn’t everybody work in some way? I like science mostly because it talks about the human body and staying healthy. Force and work is very important to the human race. If we did not have all of the appliances that we need, it would take a long time to accomplish everyday tasks.

Finally, it is time for history. We are learning about Africa. We discovered that many Egyptians are from Africa. They make glass and ceramic bowls. It was very interesting learning about the Egyptians.

Now it is the end of this school day. It is 2:55 - dismissal time. We had an interesting day and we learned a lot. We also had a lot of fun.

Signing off,

Your Roving Reporter,

Dejah W.

Fly your banner high!

We are close to finishing up our novel, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and we had a good time designing our own flags and banners that we could fly at the Stone Table. They really turned out super, and after Briana had the good idea of sticking hers on the front of her desk, we got everyone to put theirs on display as well.

Here's some pics of the finished work... (click on each pic to see it larger)

We can't wait to finish the book this week! We will be watching the movie on Tuesday afternoon (the 24th) in the Hudson Chapel right before we get out for Thanksgiving Break!

So cool!

We are participating in Operation Christmas Child this year. OCC is a great program that gives Christmas gifts to needy children all over the world some of whom have never gotten a Christmas gift before!

Our class learned about writing business letters recently in English class, and we decided to write letters to various businesses and ask for donations for our OCC boxes.

This morning I got a call from Michael at the Walmart on University. He received a letter from Micah and Andrew. His Walmart agreed to donate a $50 gift card to help our cause.

Since we are running really close to the deadline to get these boxes in, Mrs. Reyborn ran out and did some fun, fun shopping for these needy kids.

Here's Andrew and Micah "packing" the boxes to send out. We were able to fill four boxes with the gift card!

Great job, guys!! Thank you, Walmart!

Spell, Spell, Spell!

We have a spelling bee coming up soon!! Two winners will be selected from each fifth grade class to go on and compete against the winners from 5th to 8th grade on December 9th in the School Spelling Bee.

So get started studying and let's do our best to represent the fabulous fifth grade!

Roving Reporter by Karigan M.

SPIRIT DAY AT NCA

BY: KARIGAN M.

10/14/2008

Today, Tuesday, October 14, 2008 was “twin day”. Twin day is the second day of the Homecoming activities planned for the week. All students were encouraged to dress as a twin or either dress up like a famous person. This morning we had chapel and Mr. Seger was our speaker. He talked about Jonah and how he did not obey God and because of his disobedience, he ended up in the belly of a big fish ! During chapel, Mrs. Gramms said, “ Wow, everyone really looks like twins”.

Afterwards, we came back from chapel and started our math work. We checked over our homework. Yesterday, Mrs. C. taught us about money and decimals. She also taught us how to always put a decimal in when you have money. But today, we are learning about place value and decimals. Next Mrs. C gave us some assignments that we needed to do for practice.

It was now time for English. We got our English books out. Mrs. C explained to us what dishonest tactics were. We then finished with English and started to work on Reading. In addition, we always say our vocabulary words each day. Then we opened our reading book and started to read paragraphs in order. Meanwhile, we finished our reading and we headed off to lunch. There we saw Mrs. C. with her twin, Mrs. Fernandez.




After lunch, we went to our special class which was Art. Mrs. Brown taught us how to draw trees with a piece of cardboard. It was a very neat project. Mrs. Brown always has the most creative projects for us to do ! She makes art fun !!! Finally, it was time for recess. This is where all the 5th graders get to come together. We were able to see all of the twins in other classes. My twins were Meagan I., Samantha M. and Kayla M.. Here is a picture of us.

After recess, we went back to the classroom. It was time for History and Science. That is the last thing of the day. Today was a neat day. Spirit week is so much fun and I look forward to the activities for the rest of the week. Spirit weeks ends Friday night with the Homecoming parade and football game. Let’s go Knights !!!

Student of the Week... Micah B.

All About Me!!

I am a member of: NCA Elementary Band

I am most proud of: My brothers

People tell me I'm good at: Sports


The person who most inspires me is: My dad

My favorite book is: The Big Field

My favorite food is: Tacos

My favorite TV show is: Baseball Tonight

My favorite sport is: Baseball

My favorite part of school is: Recess

My least favorite part of school is: English

When I am 25, I will be: Pro Baseball player

My favorite color is: Red

Thank you, Micah! Great Job!

Student of the Week... Josh B.

Student of the Week! All about Me!!

I am a member of: Band, First Tee

I am most proud of: Chicken (What???)

My favorite food is: Chicken

My favorite TV show is: Chowder

My favorite sport is: football

My favorite part of school is: History

My least favorite part of school is: Math

When I am 25, I will be: Actor or football player

People tell me I’m good at: Football

The person who most inspires me is: My Dad

My favorite color is: Green

Thank you, Josh! Great Job! You really like chicken, don't you?? :)

A Terrific Day at NCA... Roving Reporter by Michael B.

“A Terrific Day at NCA”
By Michael B.

On Thursday, it was a pretty good day at NCA. Let me tell you all about it.

On Thursday, the first thing that my class did was that we said the pledges to the American flag, to the Christian flag, and to the Bible. Afterwards we did a Bible Lesson in class. Soon after that, we did a Spelling worksheet where we had to unscramble words in addition to fitting words into sentences. We also did lessons in Math, English, and Reading.

Finally, after all that hard work we went to Lunch and it was good!!! We had tacos. After that, we went to P.E. Our teacher is Mr. Z. We played a game called speedball, which is sort of a mixture of soccer and football. Speedball is kind of hard to describe, but we had lots of fun playing the game. Mr. Z always makes P.E. super fun!




After P.E., we went to recess and played football.Soon it was time to go back to work. In class, we worked on lessons in Science and History.

Not long after that, it was time to pack up our book bags and go home. I had a pretty good day and I hope my classmates did also!

Student of the Week... Briana B.

STUDENT OF THE WEEK! ALL ABOUT ME!

I am a member of: Friendship Baptist Church

I am most proud of: my sisters

People tell me I’m good at: softball and dancing

The person who most inspires me is: my parents

My favorite color is: baby blue

My favorite book is: Narnia

My favorite food is: pasta

My favorite TV show is: Icarly

My favorite sport is: softball

My favorite musical group is: Jonas Brothers

My favorite part of school is: English

My least favorite part of school is: homework

When I am 25, I will be: Pharmacist

Thank you, Briana! Great Job!

Roving Reporter by Taylor L.

Title: Another Exciting Day in Mrs. C.’s Class
Date: September 23, 2008
Roving Reporter: Taylor L.

Hi, my name is Taylor L. and I am the Roving Reporter for Tuesday September 23rd. Each of us in Mrs. C.’s class is taking a turn at being a Rover Reporter for our class blog. The Roving Reporter’s duty is to take pictures and write about our day. Our class had lots to do today so I’ll get started.

We began our day by saying 1 Peter 1:15-16. We approached Mrs. C.’s desk one-by-one to say our verse. 1 Peter 1:15-16 states, “But as he who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct; because it is written, “Be holy for I am holy.”

After we finished our quiz we went to chapel. Mr. Gibbs talked to us about Jonah. Jonah began his journey not being holy and tried to run away from God. He took a shortcut that caused him much grief. After being swallowed by a fish and living in its stomach for three days and three nights, the fish spit him out. He learned a valuable lesson. We are learning this same lesson this year at school. The lesson is to listen to God and obey His commands.

Upon returning to the classroom, we began our math lesson. Mrs. C. taught us about division remainders. This means that not every number divides equally into other numbers. Some have remainders, or “leftover” numbers. During our math lesson, we were interrupted by a Boosterthon member.

The Boosterthon Run is our fundraiser project for this year. Each student is able to run up to 35 laps in a race that is sponsored by our friends and family. We met our goal as a class by getting over $100 per lap sponsored (yeah!). The Boosterthon member came into our class to give us the prizes that we earned for reaching our goal. Some of us received “glow-in-the-dark” wristbands, wristwatches, booster beach balls, vortex footballs and the hall-of-fame pack.

After lunch, it was time for Mrs. Brown’s art class. We started a new project on hair. Each student received a blank piece of paper, and then drew different hairstyles. We drew straight hair, curly hair, wavy hair, braided hair, Mohawk cuts and Afro styles. Mrs. Brown’s class is lots of fun; she always has cool projects for us.

For the rest of the afternoon, we went to recess and studied spelling, science and history.

Our class had a lot of excitement today. We are enjoying our school year. There is so much happening in our class. I am thankful for the opportunity to tell you about a little of it.

Taylor B. Lawing

2008 Member, Mrs. C.’s Fifth Grade Class