CDA is bustling with activities and there is never a busier time of year than now!  There are so many wonderful things happening!  Please take a moment and read through the upcoming events, changes, make-up picture and hot dog day, announcements, and invitations. 

Friday Classes has a special schedule for 7th-12th graders.
Ties are required for High School students.  Logic level students should wear their oxford shirts.

• Special Friday Assembly:  Tomorrow (December 1st) we will have a special high school assembly.  This is a rare opportunity for our students and faculty to hear from alumni Hunter Grunden.  As such, we have re-arranged our Friday schedule as listed below:

1st Period 08:00 am 09:20 am
2nd Period 09:30 am 10:50 am
3rd Period 11:00 am 12:20 pm
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Lunch  12:20 pm 12:45 pm
Assembly 12:45 pm 01:20 pm
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4th Period 01:30 pm 02:50 pm

FESTIVAL RESCHEDULED
Festival is re-scheduled for Friday, December 1st at 7:00 pm.
Please come and join in the fun with the classical guitar class, the M/W 7th grade speech students, and Diane Walker-Gladney’s art classes.

MAKE-UP PICTURES
Make up pictures are December 6th and 7th

UPCOMING LUNCHES
Hot Dog Make-up Day for November 30, 2006 will be December 7th.

Chick-fil-A Lunches – (preordered) December 4/5
Hot Dog Day – (pre-ordered) December 7th (make- up day)
Hot Dog Days – (pre-ordered) December 11/12
Pizza Day (bring $4) – December 13/14

OTHER COMING EVENTS and important dates on the calendar:

 Great Books Discussion - December 5 - see previous posting
 Make-up pictures - December 6/7
 Music featuring the Symphonic Wind Ensemble – Thursday, December 7th 7:00pm
 Saturday Morning Prayer – See “Prayer and Planning” below
 Students prepare for another round!  Spell Down II is December 13/14 (W/Th.)
 Christmas Parties for 5th and 6th grades – December 13/14 – Please check with teachers for schedules
 Make-up Friday – December 15th may be needed for make-up of missed high school classes. Not all classes will meet and individual instructors will contact via TeacherEase if the class will meet that day.
 Christmas Break – December 16th through January 2nd

Please check the calendar for other important events.


PRAYER AND PLANNING
As we make plans and work to develop our Flower Mound campus, we seek God’s direction. We view this property as the cornerstone for our vision to train ethical leaders and wise thinkers for the glory of God.  We want to make wise decisions about the design and the fund raising for development of the property.

We invite you to join us in prayer, both in your own home at your own time and together on Saturdays, Dec. 2 and 9, and resuming every Saturday beginning again Jan. 6.
Dec. 2 and 9
Study Center
CDA Flower Mound High School
7 – 7:45 a.m.
Saturdays

Please pray for God to direct and bless this effort.


ANNUAL GIVING – You should have received a letter from Coram Deo Academy President Rodney Marshall, inviting you to share resources and make a contribution.  Please do not hesitate to telephone Louise Henry, CDA development director, at 800.465.0561 x 166, if you have any questions about contributions.


CORAM DEO CAFÉ Christmas Coffee
Thursday December 7
8:30-10:30am
Host: Leanne Beardsley 
4304 Native Oak Court in Flower Mound, 75022.
Join us as we celebrate our Savior’s birth with a time of devotion, fellowship and a cookie exchange. To participate in the cookie exchange, please bring three dozen cookies wrapped in quantities of six in each package (you will have six bags of six cookies in each bag). For more information about the meeting contact Donna Rector at DRYutzy@aol.com 

GIVING OPPORTUNITIES
There are always several opportunities for giving this time of year.  The Grammar School is collecting Macaroni and Cheese.  The Logic School is helping with Bisquick and hygiene items.   Coram Deo Academy is also joining with families of the Church at Wichita Creek to help the annual CCA food pantry drives. Collection boxes are in the Worship Center Foyer (Auditorium) and the church office. The Christmas collection deadline is Sunday 12/10/06.  All gifts go to CCA.  Thank you for considering what is right for your family and budget.

NEW STUDENT ADMISSION is well underway. If you intend to enroll another child in our school, you may submit a New Student Application using your family login.  Re-enrollment for current students begins in January.

TUTION ASSISTANCE
We are now taking tuition assistance applications for 2007-2008 school year.  Awards are available for re-enrolling students only and are based on financial need.  For more information on the application process please go to http://coramdeoacademy.org/content/admission/tuitionassistletter.php

STUDENTS IN THE SPOTLIGHT
Melodie Jack took 6th place in Dallas Music Teacher’s Association’s 2006 Solo Piano Competition in Division VI, Age 13, playing “Improvisation” Op. 84, No. 5, by Gabriel Faure.

First Spelling Bee Winners:
M/W
Preston Green - Winner
Emily Westbrook/Caleb Pond - Tie for Runner up
 
T/Th
Gill Lipton/Grace Frank - Tie for Winner
Jessica Gregory - Runner up

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL OUR TALENTED STUDENTS.
If i have missed something your child has done, please don't hesitate to let me know so I can post it and celebrate their accomplishments with them!

Dear Parents,

Due to the possible severe weather conditions, the Festival of the Arts, originally scheduled for tonight, has been moved to Friday, December 1st at 7:00pm in the CDA Flower Mound campus auditorium.  We look forward to seeing everyone on Friday. 

Have you been looking for a challenge for your child?  Great Books is a fun group and next week the selection chosen is from the Junior Great Books collection.  5th through 8th graders along with their parents are invited to join in the discussion.   There is no written work required and no test!  Great Books is an excellent way to encourage reading, analyze literary works, and hear what others think.  Pick up the complete selection in the Logic School Office.

Happiness for Sale at the Goblin Market

Prayer and Planning
As we make plans and work to develop our Flower Mound campus, we seek God’s direction. We view this property as the cornerstone for our vision to train ethical leaders and wise thinkers for the glory of God.  We want to make wise decisions about the design and the fund raising for development of the property.

We invite you to join us in prayer, both in your own home at your own time and together on Saturdays, Dec. 2 and 9, and resuming every Saturday beginning again Jan. 6.

Dec. 2 and 9
Study Center
CDA Flower Mound High School
7 – 7:45 a.m.
Saturdays

Please pray for God to direct and bless this effort.

CONGRATULATIONS!
First Spelling Bee Winners:
M/W
Preston Green - Winner
Emily Westbrook/Caleb Pond - Tie for Runner up
 
T/Th
Gill Lipton/Grace Frank - Tie for Winner
Jessica Gregory - Runner up

CALENDAR CHANGE
Hot Dog Lunches have been re-scheduled for December 11th and 12th.

“Now Thank We All Our God” is not an American hymn.  However, we sing it every Thanksgiving. Only a man after God’s own heart could have written a hymn of such rejoicing.  He had nothing in this world over which he could rejoice and once he had a chance of obtaining it – he saw it ripped away by war and the plague. 

“Now Thank We all our God, with heart and song and voices,
Who wondrous things hath done, in whom His world rejoices.
Who from our mother’s arms, hath blessed us on our way,
With countless gifts of love, and still is ours today.”

The words were written in 1636.   Since 1858, the hymn has been found in most hymnbooks.  German poet and pastor, Martin Rinkart, was the son of a cooper in Eilenberg, Saxony.  His father worked long hours for poor wages.  The family barely survived the Thirty Years War.  The war caused fugitives to flock to the walled cities for protection.  Rinkart stayed his entire life in his village helping his flock face the troubles of war as the armies pillaged the farms and shops, ate the food, and left ruin behind them.  Once the war had ceased, there was famine - for no one had sown crops.  If that wasn’t enough, the plague came upon the people as well.  All day, Rinkart visited the sick and dying.  He buried 5000 people, sometimes reading funeral services for 40-50 people at one time.  8000 people died in one year, one of which was his wife. 

“O may this bounteous God through all our life be near us,
With ever-joyful hearts and blessed peace to cheer us;
And keep us in His grace, and guide us when perplexed
And free us from all ills in this world and the next.”

Rinkart gave all he had.  He knew what it meant to depend upon God for everything, even his peace.  He had little time to write hymns but it is assumed that he sang to relieve the life he was called to lead.  When peace finally came to the land, Rinkart was around 30 years old and already dying.

While all of life was whirling around him, it is amazing that Rinkart wrote this hymn of Thanksgiving for his congregation.  He wanted to remind them of who God really was and is today.  We sing it today for our Thanksgiving as well.

“All praise and thanks to God the Father now be given,
The Son, and Him who reigns with them in highest heaven –
The One eternal God, whom earth and heav’n adore;
For thus it was, is now, and shall be evermore.”

Students in the Spotlight
Melodie Jack competed in the annual Dallas Piano Solo competition at Park Cities Presbyterian
Church and was chosen as a finalist in her division, ranking 6th out of approximately 24.  Congratulations!

November and December Dates:
November 16 and 17 – Shakespeare Festival 7:00 pm
November 17 – Festival of the Arts – 4th-6th grades 10:30am -12:00pm
November 20-24 – Thanksgiving Break
November 29-30 – Hot Dog Lunch
November 30 – Festival of the Arts 7th-12th grades 7:00 pm
December 4-5 Chick-fil-A Days
December 6-7 Picture Retake Days
December 7 Fall Music Festival 7th-12th grades 7:00pm
December 8 Festival of the Arts – Grammar School
December 11-12 Pre-ordered Hot Dog day
December 13-14 Last day of school (Logic School will release at 2:30)

In the next few days you should receive a letter from Coram Deo Academy President Rodney Marshall, inviting you to share resources and make a contribution. Many of you have generously contributed in the past, stepping forward to provide for needs you have observed; we are truly grateful for that initiative.

Annually inviting contributions is an important step in establishing a culture of philanthropy at Coram Deo Academy, which is one of the recommendations made to us by the Accreditation team this fall. You may designate your contribution to a specific area or campus. 

Some of our families are participating at the leadership level, giving $15,000 or more to a capital campaign to raise funds for phase one, to build a classroom building and improve athletics facilities. By early spring, we plan to reach all families who attend that campus with a face-to-face opportunity to see what is being planned. Gifts for property development will be fulfilled by December 2008.  Please do not hesitate to telephone me or Louise Henry, CDA development director, at 800.465.0561 x 166, if you have any questions about contributions.

We ask that you will prayerfully consider making a contribution to Coram Deo Academy. With your help, we will continue our excellent work, building ethical leaders and wise thinkers who will change culture for the glory of God

PICTURE RETAKES
We are going to have Life Touch retake day on (at each campus)
Wed    Dec 6
Thurs    Dec 7

November Dates:
November 14 – Great Books Discussion 7:30 pm at the Flower Mound Campus
November 16 and 17 – Shakespeare Festival 7:00 pm
November 17 – Festival of the Arts – 4th-6th grades 10:30am -12:00pm (noon dismissal)
November 20-24 – Thanksgiving Break
November 29-30 – Hot Dog Lunch
November 30 – The Arts Festival-  7th-12th grades 7:00 pm
December 4-5 - Chick-fil-A Days
December 6-7 - Picture Retake Days
December 7  - Fall Music Festival 7th-12th grades 7:00pm
December 8 - Festival of the Arts – Grammar School
December 11-12 - Pre-ordered Hot Dog day
December 13-14 - Last day of school

In the next few days you should receive a letter from Coram Deo Academy President Rodney Marshall, inviting you to share resources and make a contribution. Many of you have generously contributed in the past, stepping forward to provide for needs you have observed; we are truly grateful for that initiative.

Annually inviting contributions is an important step in establishing a culture of philanthropy at Coram Deo Academy, which is one of the recommendations made to us by the Accreditation team this fall. You may designate your contribution to a specific area or campus. 

Some of our families are participating at the leadership level, giving $15,000 or more to a capital campaign to raise funds for phase one, to build a classroom building and improve athletics facilities. By early spring, we plan to reach all families who attend that campus with a face-to-face opportunity to see what is being planned. Gifts for property development will be fulfilled by December 2008.  Please do not hesitate to telephone me or Louise Henry, CDA development director, at 800.465.0561 x 166, if you have any questions about contributions.

We ask that you will prayerfully consider making a contribution to Coram Deo Academy. With your help, we will continue our excellent work, building ethical leaders and wise thinkers who will change culture for the glory of God

PICTURE RETAKES
We are going to have Life Touch retake day on (at each campus)
Wed    Dec 6
Thurs    Dec 7

November Dates:
November 14 – Great Books Discussion 7:30 pm at the Flower Mound Campus
November 16 and 17 – Shakespeare Festival 7:00 pm
November 17 – Festival of the Arts – 4th-6th grades 10:30am -12:00pm (noon dismissal)
November 20-24 – Thanksgiving Break
November 29-30 – Hot Dog Lunch
November 30 – The Arts Festival-  7th-12th grades 7:00 pm
December 4-5 - Chick-fil-A Days
December 6-7 - Picture Retake Days
December 7  - Fall Music Festival 7th-12th grades 7:00pm
December 8 - Festival of the Arts – Grammar School
December 11-12 - Pre-ordered Hot Dog day
December 13-14 - Last day of school

Witty, intelligent, and well-educated, Ivan is the Karamazov family agnostic. He has written a little morality play in which God must answer for human suffering. From Ivan's perspective, Jesus would have done better for mankind by accepting those offers from the tempter: a miraculous earthly bread to feed and comfort humanity; a leap from the parapet to amaze and convince the rebellious masses; the acceptance of earthly rule to bring universal peace. This all sounds pretty good from the perspective of human wisdom. Ivan's brother, a monk of the Orthodox faith, struggles to answer why Jesus didn't follow a more sensible plan for human salvation. How would you answer? 
 
Join us Tuesday, November 14th at 7:30pm in the high school building to discuss a provocative selection from Dostoevsky's Brothers Karamazov, "The Grand Inquisitor." Nichole Vera will lead. Copies of the reading are available at the high school office.

NEW STUDENT APPLICATION
New student applications for the 2007-08 school year may be submitted beginning November 1. If you intend to enroll another child in our school, you may submit a New Student Application using your family login. (N.B., re-enrollment for current students begins in January.)
The week of November 13 brings several opportunities for new families to learn more about Coram Deo Academy’s rich curriculum and dedicated faculty. Reservations may be made by calling the respective school office.
Mon, Nov 13 - 7 pm  Evening Information Meeting at the Dallas School
Tues, Nov 14 - 9 am  Campus Visit Day at Flower Mound (Grammar, Logic, and High Schools)
Thurs, Nov 16 - 9:30 am Campus Visitation at CDA of Carrollton

If you know of others who may be interested in exploring CDA, please encourage them to subscribe to our new admission blog http://www.coramdeoacademy.org/content/blogs/admissions.php . This will provide them with regular notices from the Admission Office.

November Calendar of Events

November 6 - (4pm) Jog-A-Thon
November 6-7 – pre-ordered Chick-Fil-A lunch
November 17 – (10:00) 4th-6th grade Festival
November 16-17 – (7pm) Shakespeare Festival (7th-12th)
November 20-24 Thanksgiving Break
November 30 – (7pm) Fall Arts Festival (7th-12th)