Inside this issue:

Yearbook Distribu-

tion Day

2

Piano Recital

All School Awards

Kindergarten

Graduation

2

Eighth Grade Cele-

bration

2

Chalk Drawing

Day

3

Exam Schedule 3

Field Day 4

Band Concert

Rising 5th Grade

Band Meeting

4

School Calendar 5

Mark your calendars now for July 11, 7:00 p.m. for the annual BCA Summer Meet and Greet at Bethesda Christian Academy. This is a special time when students and families gather together to meet their child’s new teacher(s) and staff. You will pick up your child's information packet filled with helpful information for the upcoming school year. Refreshments will be provided. Don’t miss out on the fun time of fellowship!

Summer Meet and Greet

Crusader Chronicles Christian School Sunday

May 1, 2017

Come Worship With Us at BCA

Each year the students and staff of Bethesda Christian

Academy come together and create an amazing interactive wor-

ship service to thank Bethesda Baptist Church for hosting a

Christian school. This service is scheduled for Sunday, May 7th

at 10:45 am. This worship experience gives us an opportunity

to share the gifts and talents God has blessed us with and al-

lows us to remind our BCA families that at BCA, we have the

joy of worshipping and serving Jesus while at school. This year

our 8th grade students will be presenting a short skit entitled,

“Baggage”. Our praise team will be leading us in worship. The

middle school band students will share the gift of music and the

elementary students will be singing a very special song with

Mr. Manning. One of our BCA students will be baptized on this

date as we seek to encourage students to share their story!

We ask you to mark your calendar for Sunday, May 7 at

10:45 am. This is the one service, each year, we ask you to at-

tend. It is important that we pack out the auditorium to show

Bethesda Baptist Church how much we love Jesus and our

school. Student greeters will welcome you as you come into the

sanctuary and will thank you for your dedication to Kingdom

Education. We are sure this will be a service you and your chil-

dren will not want to miss.

through music, presen-

tations and videos. We

will honor each gradu-

ate with a completion

certificate. Special aca-

demic awards are pre-

sented as well.

Tuesday, May 23rd,is a

special evening for our

BCA eighth grade as

they celebrate the com-

pletion of middle

school. This culminat-

ing event will be held at

Croasdaile Retirement

Community. The even-

ing allows the gradu-

ates and families to re-

member the special mo-

ments of the many

years spent at BCA

Kindergarten

Graduation

May 25

6:30 p.m.

Spring Piano

Recital

May 16

6:30 p.m.

Fellowship

Baptist Church

The yearbook staff "put the pencil to the paper" and we are excited to present this year's story! Braeden Cifers, next year's Senior Editor, assisted by Nicole Rekrut, current Senior Editor, will lead the students in an exciting activity that you will not want to miss! Our staff will be "in character" as well and are available to assist in any-thing that you or your students might need.

Come prepared to add your mark on the books of your friends and have a great

time!

What to Bring: a pen or pencil

Optional: $1.00 ice pop $2.00 yearbook

cover

Yearbook Distribution Celebration

Continuing God's Story! May 24th 8:15 - 9:00

Eighth Grade Celebration

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May 26

8:15 a.m.

All School Awards Chapel. BCA will

be honoring students in grades K-8

during our annual All School Awards

Chapel. This exciting program will

begin at 8:10 am. Students from each

class will be recognized through a va-

riety of events, including citizenship,

perfect attendance, servanthood

awards, academic awards and physi-

cal fitness awards.

Chalk Day is Tuesday, May 9th. Students do not wear Chapel dress, as they will be on their knees drawing on the side walk. Students may bring a towel to help cushion their knees if they want. This event will take place between 1:30 and 2:30 p.m. We

would love to have par-ents join us. It is al-ways a fun time to see the student body work-ing together to create their masterpieces. This year’s Chalk theme is “Under the Sea” and “Beach Life”. The artist we have been learning about is "Robert Wyland.

In an attempt to help our middle school students finish the year

strong, the staff of BCA has created the following final exam schedule. This

schedule will allow the students an opportunity to review and recall the

most important aspects from their four core classes. The students will be

asked to complete 2 exams on a given day, with review days scheduled prior

to exams.

Tuesday, May 23, 2017 @8:00-9:30

8-A Language Arts

8-B Science

6 History

7 Math

Tuesday, May 23, 2017 @10:00-11:30

8-A Science

8-B Language Arts

6 Math

7 History

Chalk Drawing

Day

Middle School Exam Schedule

Page 3

Thursday, May 25, 2017 @8:00-9:30

8-A History

8-B History

6 Science

7 Language Arts

Thursday, May 25, 2017 @10:00-11:30

8-A Math

8-B Math

6 Language Arts

7 Science

ATTENTION ALL 4TH GRADERS AND THEIR PARENTS!!!

Monday, May 22, at 6:30 pm in the multi-purpose room, we will have a meeting concerning all 4th graders

signing up for 5th grade band next year!! You will receive information about the BCA Band Program, and a

representative from Music and Arts will be here to show us all of the instruments, and discuss your oppor-

tunity to put a deposit down that night to reserve your instrument! This will save you a trip to the music

store to rent an instrument or purchase supplies before the start of the new school year! If you put a deposit

down this night, your child’s instrument and supplies will be delivered to Mrs. Sinclair in Au-

gust. Instrument slots available for sign up, first come first serve at the meeting (please come with a 1st, 2nd,

and 3rd choice of an instrument you want to play), are:

4 Flutes 5 trumpets

7 Clarinets 5 trombones

3 baritones (school owned) 1 Bass Clarinet (school owned)

2 Alto saxophones 3 percussion-must have already taken 2 years of piano

I look forward to seeing you on Monday, May 22.

Mrs. Selena Sinclair

Field Day is here!! BCA

will be hosting its annual

field day event for elemen-

tary students on Friday

May, 5th. This year’s field

day is full of fun water

games and students should

be prepared to get

wet! Students will need to

wear old clothes or a bath-

ing suit covered by a t-shirt.

They will also need to bring

a towel and a change of

clothes. K-2 is scheduled to

kick off the event from 9am-

10am followed by a large

group activity from 10am-

10:30am and 3rd-5th grade

will participate from 10:30-

11:30. Parents, we need

your help! If you are will-

ing to volunteer for your

child’s event please email

Coach Overcash at Bran-

don.Overcash@BCACrusade

rs.org. We need help moni-

toring stations, filling up

water balloons and buckets,

etc. Come

out and

join us for

an awe-

some day

of fun!!

Field Day

4th Grade Band Meeting

Band Concert May 11

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Our 5th-8th grade bands will perform their Spring Concert on Thursday, May

11! (Please note: if our baseball or golf teams have a long tournament game the

afternoon of May 11, we will have our concert on Tuesday, May 16. We will noti-

fy you of this change asap). Please clear your calendars (for both May 11 and

May 16) and plan to be a part of our 2:00 pm or 6:30 pm concert! Band awards

will be given during the 6:30 performance! Thank you for your support of

instrumental music education at BCA!

Avery Pope-1st grade

May

2017

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

1 2 3

K-5 Maple View

Farm field trip

4

3rd grade Sym-

phony field trip

5

K-5 Field Day

6

7

Christian

School Sunday

@ Bethesda

Baptist Church

8 9

No Elementary

Chapel

Chalk Day

10

2nd grade

Farmers Mar-

ket field trip

11

Spring Band

Concert

2:00 p.m. &

6:30 p.m.

12

1st grade Mu-

seum of Life

and Science

field trip

13

14 15 16

1st Grade Pre-

sents Chapel

Spring Sports

Award Chapel

17 18

Sports

Banquet

19

7 & 8 Band to

Kings Domin-

ion

Middle School

goes to Lake

Crabtree

4th grade Caro-

lina Beach field

trip

20

21 22

Rising 5th

grade Band

parent meeting

6:30 pm

23

No Elementary

Chapel

Middle School

Exams

Middle School

Welcomes 5th

grade Celebra-

tion 1:30-3:00

8th Grade Ban-

quet 6:00-8:30

p.m.

24

5th Grade

Breakfast 8:10

Yearbook

Distribution

9:00 am

25

Middle School

Exams

All bands to

Fujisan

Kindergarten

Graduation

6:30 p.m.

26

All School

Awards Chapel

at 8:15

Soccer Field

Dedication

Last Day of

school

Dismissal at

11:30 a.m.

27

Last Day of School May 26

School Dismisses at 11:30 Happy Summer!!!