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WILDWOOD NEWS
2-25-10
Dear Parents,
CALENDAR
Tuesday, March 2nd
– PAC Meeting – 6:30 p.m. – Dining Hall
Babysitting provided by the OM Team. Donations
accepted!
Friday, March 5th
– Mothers’ Tea – 8:30 – Dining Hall
Saturday, March 6th
– Odyssey of the Mind Regional Competitions
Wednesday, March 24th
– Banking Day
WELCOME!
Wildwood welcomes Macartney
Reinhardt to the PreSchool 3’s program. Macartney is
the daughter of Joseph and Misty Reinhardt.
PAC MEETING – NO HOMEWORK NIGHT
The next PAC meeting is scheduled
for Tuesday, March 3rd at 6:30 pm in the
Dining Hall. This is our big Gala planning meeting and
we need your ideas, feedback and support. To make this
evening easier for you, this is also a “NO HOMEWORK”
night. We hope to see you there. Babysitting will be
provided by the Odyssey of the Mind Teams and adult
faculty sponsors for a love offering donation benefiting
OM. Children of preschool age or older are welcome.
CHAPEL
Mother
Mary Johnson, former minister of Holy Family Episcopal
Church, will be our speaker for Chapel. The program
will include a presentation by the Third Grade class.
We welcome all parents to join us each Wednesday at 8:30
for worship and fellowship in the Dining Hall.
ANNUAL FUND
Please
see the enclosed letter regarding Annual Fund.
ODYSSEY TEAMS COMPETE
Wildwood
Christian Academy’s two Odyssey of the Mind teams will
compete Saturday,
March 6th
at Harrison High School in the Kennesaw Regional
Competition. The Division 1 Team (Caroline Singleton,
Oscar McMullen, Garrett VanWambeke, Alexis Cook, Skyler
Denton, Sean Duffy and Hope Bobak – coached by Elizabeth
Cook and Leslie Head) will perform at 10:15 in the
Theater. The Division II team (Lindy Beasley, Tori
Hicks, Katie VanWambeke, Susannah Melton and Morgan
McCurley – coached by Ranettia Beasley and Melissa
McCurley) will perform at 11:00 in the Gymnasium 2.
All are
invited to cheer for our OM teams. Go Wolves!
BOX TOPS CONTEST
Keep
clipping!!
WILDWOOD TRADING POST
Last
chance!!! Make a purchase from the Wildwood Trading
Post before the end of February to have your name
entered in the drawing for a free gift! Congratulations
to our January winner – The Davis Family! Also, last
chance for the February buy one get one FREE used
uniform sale.
THANK
YOU
Thank
you to all the parents who helped with Wildwood’s recent
Open House: Beth Davis, Barbi Burris, Mike and Jill
Taylor, Amy Teague, Jonetta Womack, Bill and Patricia
Hopkins, Nancy Fernandez, Kim McCurry, Season Loner, and
Misty Reinhardt. A big Wildwood “Woof” to the faculty
and staff, who helped make this event such a success.
Sally Dozier volunteered her time on Saturday to help
us, and Joe Disharoon was our “handyman extraordinaire,”
who completed countless repairs. Thanks to you both!
Wildwood
appreciates the gift of an outside Wolf thermometer from
the Duffy family. We’ll always know when coats are
needed now.
Bob
Curry volunteered in our PE classes on Monday and
Wednesday. Thanks, Bob!
Thank
you to Joy Smith for arranging our special assembly this
week: Parrots for Pupils.
What
would we do without our trusty helpers for Chapel? Once
again, thanks go to Season Loner for setting up Chapel
and the Upper School students for reassembling the
Dining Hall after Chapel.
HEAD
OF SCHOOL’S COMMENT
As a
follow-up to Wildwood’s Day of the Heart, I wanted to
share comments from a letter sent by Dick Scharf to the
506th Expeditionary Civil Engineer Squadron,
along with the 15 boxes of goodies assembled by our
students:
Yesterday I accepted and mailed 15 boxes of fudge, candy
and assorted goodies
prepared by the kids at
Wildwood
Christian
Academy, a
K-8 school just outside
the gates to Big Canoe. In accepting for your team, I
stated that despite loving your jobs, you all missed
three things: watching your kids learn; seeing great
happy faces with wonderful smiles; and, hearing children
laugh.
I have taken pictures of the load and several of the
personal notes contained in the packages. I hope that
your troopers will know how much effort these
kids put of themselves into the boxes. It was truly
amazing.
I also
thought that you would enjoy reading some of the
responses from members of the 506th:
I'm an Engineer assigned to the 506th ECES and as the OIC of Force
Protection, it was a privilege to witness the joy your
packages brought to the
Force Protection Airman & NCOs. Most are not far removed
from High School and
on their 1st deployment, so this was a pleasant surprise
and a special treat.
I'm
deployed from Robins AFB (in middle GA) and a former
teacher. Having
volunteered my time at a couple of Christian schools in
Macon, your
pictures
were a touch of home for me.
Thank you very much for your generosity.
We
are forever grateful at your generosity, and at the
generosity of the children for remembering us.
It's a very, very special thing to receive goodies from
home, especially when
they come from the hearts and hands of children and
teacher. Thank you!
Wouldn’t you agree that our
students helped these soldiers in Iraq feel supported?
Lyn Cates
Head of School |
