Box Tops for Education

Box Tops for Education is a simple and terrific way to support HCA! Look for the label (shown on the left) on General Mills Products. Cut out that label and bring it to Mrs. Joy Usher at school. (Mrs. Usher also collects labels from Campbell's soup.) 




Mrs. Usher submits those labels, and in return, the company sends us a check for all the box tops received. The box tops are usually valued at .10 or .15 a piece.  




This money goes to purchase new books in the library, AV equipment, videos,  items to help with classroom curriculum or reading program needs.




We certainly appreciate all the efforts of our parents to help our school obtain needed materials!




If you have questions, please contact the school! Thank you for supporting HCA!

HCA Cloggers Participate in NC State Competition

The 2012 NC State Clogging Challenge was held in Raleigh at the NC State campus on January 7, 2012. Many teams competed as they showcased traditional and contemporary clogging.

HCA Students Joseph Lee and Emily Searles participated in this event. Searles and Lee dance with the junior, traditional clogging team. The name of their team is Cripple Creek Cloggers. This teams practices each week in Burgaw, North Carolina.

Teams comprised of members of the Cripple Creek Cloggers were awarded the Grand Championship in many categories. These categories included Running Set Hoedown, Eight Couple Southern Appalachian, and  Country Hoedown. Congratulations Emily and Joseph!

Sampson County Chamber of Commerce Member of the Week!

Chamber Member of the Week goes to HCA
By: MaryKate Murray

On January 9, 2012, the Sampson County Chamber of Commerce awarded “Chamber Member of the Week” to Harrells Christian Academy. This award is granted to a different member each week.  Recipients of this award receive the “Chamber Member of the Week” sign to put in the front of their business, balloons, and a box of donuts. If you are granted with this award, you get your picture taken with the sign, and given the opportunity to fill out a local business profile. Then, the Chamber will send this to local newspapers for publication and it will be displayed on the Chamber’s website. Chamber of Commerce President, Gary Mac Herring, presented HCA with this award. Also joining Mr. Herring was Star Telephone, Safe Data, and many other businesses. HCA has been a member of the Chamber for a number of years and this is the first year they have ever been granted with the honor of this award. When asked if he expected this award, Headmaster Dr. Ronald Montgomery replied, “No, it was not anticipated, we did not know anything about it until last Thursday.” Dr. Montgomery also stated that he hopes we are awarded with this honor again in the future, because it is always good to be recognized for the excellence that goes on at HCA.

Cereal Box Reading Project

All Kindergarten- Fifth grade homerooms recently talked about tall tales during Media Skills.  A tall tale is an exaggerated story.  We read the book “Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs” by Judi Barrett.  Afterwards we created a cereal box covered with foods that could have fallen from sky, like in the story.  

The students had to work together as a group to decide who was doing what on the box, what was going where on the box, and how they wanted their class cereal box to look when finished.  The older students had to write about their favorite part of the story and tell about their experience of working as a “team”.  

The older students then had the opportunity to share their writings with the class orally.  The younger students had to draw a picture of the favorite part of the story and tell the class orally about their experience of working as a “team”.  The students all seemed to enjoy the book and the group activity.  I hope you enjoy listening to them tell you about their learning experience.  

Where in the World...?

The knowledge exuded by HCA students was out of this world at the 18^th Annual HCA Geography Bee! The bee was held on January 5^th in the HCA auditorium. Mrs. Joy Usher, HCA’s librarian, sponsored the event. Mrs. Usher believes that this experience is a wonderful way to allow students to demonstrate what they have learned about geography.

Fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth graders were given an opportunity to participate. The official participants were selected from classroom geography bees. A list of participants and with their grade levels in parenthesis is shown below. Mr. Ben Roberts, HCA student and former participant in the North Carolina Geography Bee, hosted the event. Ms. Emily Jones, HCA student, assisted Mrs. Usher with the judging.

All participants received a dictionary, a thesaurus, and a certificate. The names of the winners were placed on a wall plaque on the library wall. Congratulations, winners!

Participants

Amos Lanier (7)

Chase Overpeck (6)

Brayden Sutton (6)

Brooke Raynor (7)

Davis Bryant (8)

Lucas Thornton (6)

Rance Creech (6)

Holden Quinn (7)

Noah Warrick (6)

Blake Phillips (6)

Winners (pictured from left to right)

1^st Place: Rance Creech

2^nd Place: Noah Warrick

3^rd Place: Holden Quinn

What Our Sixth Graders Love About HCA

What I love about HCA is how it influences me. It influences me because it has a great Christian environment. HCA also has great people. The teachers and the students are very nice. The curriculum is very challenging now, but I know that it will be helpful later in life. Everyone treats you so well. That's what HCA is like. –Lee

 I like Harrells because it is a Christian school. We can talk about and pray with God. You can also get a good education here. Also coming up soon is a field trip to the mountains! We have many opportunities here that are unique! We also have a new gym and new high school building. -Kaleb

What I love about HCA is the fact that we're all Christians so I can tell them anything and not be embarrassed. I love the teachers here! They're REALLY NICE!!! Another thing I like is P.E. We get to play to play a lot of games. I'm glad that we've  moved into the old high School building, it's a WHOLE LOT BIGGER!!! –Mallorie

Harrells Christian Academy has a very good educational and Christian environment. I have been attending HCA since Kindergarten. I have enjoyed all 7 years! I am now in the 6th Grade here at HCA. There are so many loving teachers everywhere you look! We have chapel every Friday. During this time, we sing, enjoy entertainment, and worship together! We usually have a guest speaker also. I love HCA because you are getting an education through Christian motivation! We have prayer before lunch as a class and pray throughout the day! You can pray with everyone watching and not get in trouble at HCA! We have a very nice Principal also. His name is Ron Montgomery. He is kind and always has a smile on his face! You can't forget about Mrs. Newkirk! She is our Secretary. She has been there since my dad attended HCA! You have to LOVE HCA! –Abbigail

I think that HCA is a great school because they have very nice teachers and students. They have a great gym and they sometimes have book fairs with really good books in there. They also have a nice library where you can go and check out the books. We have a variety of food at Harrells! We even have a salad bar too! -Dominic

HCA Middle School Students are on the Move!

The students returned after Christmas break to new classrooms and lockers.  Last month the high school moved into their new buidling and now the middle school is moving into the "old" high school buidling.  Even though the middle school students are really excited about moving, they are more excited about getting lockers.  What a great way to start the new year!