Whigham Receives Full Scholarship

Congratulations to Senior, Tatiana Whigham for receiving a 4-year, full scholarship to Auburn University courtesy of the U.S. Army. Durning Awards Day on Thursday, Titiana was presented a check for $93,648 representing the value of her education at A.U. Congrats Tatiana! We are so proud of you!!

Ward Receives Athletic Director's Award

Congratulations goes to Senior Jon Ward for being selected to receive GCA highest sports honor, the Athletic Director's Awards. Jon was presented this award on May 12th at the annual Cougar Sports Banquet by Athletic Director, Justin Gravlee. Congratulations Jon!!

Soccer & Boys Basketball Awards

Basketball: Seniors Anthony Henderson and Leonard Sheppard were honored as teh Co-MVP's for the year. The Coaches Award went to Jarad Long and Jon Ward received the Character and Most Improved Award.

Soccer: Offensive Player of the Year went to Marcus King, Jon Ward received the Defensive Player award and Kyle Harris was named the MVP of the Region Champion Varsity Soccer Team. Congratulations Guys for a great season!

Henderson Receives Academic Award

Congratulations to Senior, Anthony Henderson for being honored with The Academic Award for his stellar academic career throughout his high school career at GCA.

Other Award Winners:

Volleyball - Brock Bailey was named the Most Valuable Player on offense and Emma Heard was selected MVP on defense. Alex McLendon was the Most Improved and Mogan Baker received the award for leadership.

Cheerleading: Sydney Harrell won the Coaches Award for the Varsity Squad and Shelby Woodrum won the Coaches award for the JV Squad. Sloane Wiggins took away The Warriors Heart Award and Perra Harrell was selected as the Rookie Of The Year.

Girls Basketball: Defensive Player of the Year went to Logan Worsham and Brock Bailey was awarded the MVP award. The Most Improved Player was Jocelyn Jacobs and the Coaches Award for Leadership went to Ladson Simmons.

J.V. Basketball: T.J. Carlisle was honored with the Most Improved Award. The Best Offensive player was Paul Randall Soden and the Defensive player was Marcus King.

Softball: Award winners were Brock Bailey with the Coaches Award; Jessica Register received the Top Bat Award; and Morgan Baker and Emma Heard received the Co-Defensive players of the year.

Baseball: Tyler Friday and Taylor McDonald were selected as Co-MVP's; T.J. Carlisle won the Most Improved and Grand McDonald received the Workhorse Award.

6th Graders Explore Starfish

After completing a study on invertebrates, Mrs. Smith’s 6th grade class had the unique opportunity on May 14th to dissect starfish which is an invertebrate animal in the phylum Echinodermata. Mrs. Smith noted that it was a challenge to host a lab for 22 students who have never dissected before but thanks to some great parent volunteers it made it very doable. This year, GCA chose to invest money, time and resources to fund exciting science experiments along with giving our Science Lab an Extreme Makeover. It has certainly been money well spent as we all know science in a textbook is important but backing it up with hands-on experiments really brings science to life.

Boosterthon $$ Due Tuesday, May 12th

Please take time this weekend to round up your final pledges from the Boosterthon Fun Run. We have had 87% of the pledges collected, but we would love to reach 100%.
Thank You...Thank You...to everyone for making this the best Spring fundraiser ever!!

Baseball Team makes Final Four

After two great games this past weekend in Panama City, the GCA Baseball team placed second in the Region and won a slot in the Final Four this weekend in Loxley, AL.
Good luck guys!!

All Conference Baseball & Softball

Congratulations to Tyler Friday, Taylor McDonald, Emma Heard, Brock Bailey, and Jessica Register for being named All Conference this past weekend in Panama City, FL.

Way to Go!!!!

Baseball/Softball Regionals this Weekend

Good Luck to the GCA Baseball team and the GCA Lady Cougars Softball team as they travel to Panama City to participate in the PCC Regional Tournament this weekend!!

Teacher Appreciation Week

Mark Your Calendars..... Next week (May 4th - 8th) will be GCA's Teacher Appreciation Week. Please take some time during the week to thank all of our outstanding faculty and staff for all they do for your children and Grace Christian Academy!!!

Finer Things

Finer Things....Awesome Event!!!

On Friday, April 17 the middle school and high school students treated a large crowd to the 2009 spring edition of Finer Things. Finer Things is thefine arts program at GCA where students showcase their talents and creativity centeredaround a theme each semester. Fine arts at GCA includes a diverse array of subjects suchas choir, praise band, drama, film, and most recently orchestral strings. For this FinerThings the student's pieces took on the theme of love as depicted in the Bible. With arange of musical genres, various film pieces produced entirely by students, and twogripping student-written plays, the theme came to life on stage and challenged everyonepresent to live out God's perfect love. One of the major points of emphasis is that eachpiece be done entirely by students, from the writing to the live performance to themultimedia technology utilized. Hats off to our students for their outstanding work!

7th Graders Design Coasters

During the study of “Force and Motion” the GCA 7th graders researched, designed, and built a “Marble Roller Coaster.” Students were required to write a paper on simple machines, draw a blue print, construct a roller coaster with at least 4 different simple machines, keep a science journal of the sequencing and problem solving they did, and demonstrate their roller coaster while answering questions from Mrs. Smith and a panel of scientists and engineers from the community. According to the National Science Standards, science inquiry is basic to all science. Students and judges alike were amazed at how different each roller coaster was. Other classes enjoyed the demonstrations as well.

Book Reports Come Alive

Mrs. Susan Sheffield’s Fourth Grade students at Grace Christian Academy decided to make their book reports a little more exciting by letting their book character come to life. Each student selected a book about a famous person from the GCA Library. On Monday, April 13th the students dressed in the attire of their character and gave a brief speech about this person. The students were told to get special information that other students would find interesting and to make sure they included information about their personality, a story of their childhood, and the person’s life accomplishments.

Bootherthon Challenge Weekend!!

The Boosterthon Fun Run kicked off with an exciting Pep Rally on Tuesday morning with lots of high-energy music and fun!! As of today, pledges are coming in great and everyone is working hard. To make it more fun and exciting the Booster Team has made a WEEKEND CHALLENGE - if your child brings in $3 per lap worth of pledges on Monday, they will receive a "Cool" new basketball along with all their other prizes!!

Take time this weekend to make those calls and get your pledges!
Don't forget to join us on Wednesday, April 22nd for the actual run. We will have two runs - one for K3-1st at 9:00 a.m. and the second will be 2nd - 7th at 10:15 a.m. Please come help cheer your child on!!