No school next week. HAPPY HOLIDAYS.
School offices will be closed.
Bill Rector gives a geometry lesson…
Parents and Grandparents are invited.
Come on November 29 from 1:45-2:15 (location: gym) to hear Mr. Rector’s lecture on:
“The Birth of Christ and the Origin of the Degree”
Bring your coffee and enjoy a great teacher of CDA.
Spelling and Geography Bee
Please check teacher documents, pdwyer, for fliers concerning Spelling and Geography Bees information.
New Students to CDA - Please pass this information on to your friends
Applications for siblings of current CDA students may be submitted online using the same family account. Login and click on Students; below the list of your current CDA student(s) you will see a button for New Student Application for 2008-2009; click on this to fill out the specific information for the additional child (you will not need to fill out general family information).
Re-enrollment for current students begins in January. No action is needed at this time for continuing students.
Please note the addition of some wonderful new programs. PreK for 4-year-olds will be offered at all three CDA campuses next year. Dallas is expanding into some Mon/Wed sections. A 5-day (‘full-time”) option will be available for 5th-8th graders at Carrollton and Flower Mound. The full-week program for high schoolers continues at the FlowerMoundSchool.
Although there will be limited staffing during the Thanksgiving Break (November 19-23), we will continue to process applications when school offices reopen November 26.
CoramDeoAcademy’s mission is to educate youth in a historic Christian worldview through a vigorous classical curriculum. We aim to train ethical leaders and wise thinkers who will shape culture for the glory of God. If you know of others who may be interested in learning more about our program, please feel free to pass this information along to them. A complete listing of visitation dates is available at http://www.coramdeoacademy.org/content/pages/visit.php.
Soccer Team
The LogicSchool has a soccer team. Thank you for signing up.
High School Notice
TAPPS Fine Arts and Academics Teams forming now.
Students in 9th – 12th grade are invited to represent CDA at the District Level TAPPS Fine Arts and Academics competitions in February. There are many events to choose from.
Check the High School blog for specific events.
Interested students should contact Mrs. Lester or Mrs. Gladney for more details.
A THANKSGIVING HYMN
Now Thank We All Our God is a Thanksgiving hymn that we often sing in our churches around this time of year. We often think about the Pilgrims, etc. However, this hymn began its journey in 1636 in present-day Germany and was not translated into English until 1858. The author was Martin Rinkart. A preacher and a poet, he was born the son of a poor cooper in Saxony. His father worked hard and was barely able to feed and clothe the family. When the Thirty Years’ War began, Martin was sent away to school. He loved books and music so his parents hoped he would become a scholar. In 1601, Martin Rinkart attended St.Thomas’ School of Theology. He returned to his town as the Archbishop of Eilenburg.
During the war, the towns were ravaged. Eilenburg was a walled city and offered some protection for its citizens and flocking refugees. Great armies crossed the land, pillaging the farms and shops, eating all the food, and leaving ruin behind. After the armies, the plague followed. Rinkart traveled from house to house nursing, cheering, and praying for the dying. In one year, 8000 died, one of which was Rinkart’s wife. Rinkart buried 5000 of the 8000. During several services it is recorded that he presided over 50 bodies at time. After the war and the plague, famine followed for Eilenburg. Since no one had planted crops, there was no food and no goods to trade. Rinkart gave away all he had. He was still a young man when he died one year after the war ended. He wrote this hymn because he wanted his congregation to keep their eyes on God and not on the events around them.
What kind of a man is it whose whole life can be summed up as: impoverished, lived through constant war and famine, lost his wife to the plague, buried thousands and still could write a hymn that speaks only of the thankfulness toward God. Only a man after God’s own heart. What do we consider hardship? How do we react to hardship?
“Now Thank We All Our God with heart and hands 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.
O may this bounteous God through all our life be near us,
With everjoyful 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.
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.”
Happy Thanksgiving. Have a safe and restful holiday.