Cornerstone Christian Academy

Rylie Jones' 18 virtual recital song...Merry Christmas: https://www.youtube.com/watch

Congratulations to Jake Camarda '14 for being named SEC Special Teams Player of the Year and a finalist for the Ray Guy award (top punter). https://www.gwinnettdailypost.com//article_9cc39f86-4475-1

Lower School teachers loved meeting with students virtually this week. The first visit to their "Seesaw Classroom" together was a huge success!

One for the Cornerstone vault! Amazing!

8th Grade Homeroom Teachers are the best! Here's a fun video they sent their students.

Special thanks to the PTF gift wrapping elves who make our teachers' lives so much easier!

Christmas Chapel looks a little different this year!

Cornerstone swim team swam well yesterday against Marist but fell short of the victory. Individual winners include: Carson Credendino (200 Free), Alice Griffin (200 Free, 100 Fly), Ethan James (200 IM) Madeline House (200 IM, 500 Free), and J.J. Neeb (50 Free NEW SCHOOL RECORD).

Cornerstone current and former students sharing their gifts this past weekend in CYT's production of The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe.

A Cornerstone family started JMAM Ministries to bring the gospel to families around the world. This ministry hand-sewed and donated over 160 masks so that our students could share them with the residents of a local assisted living facility, Ivy Hall. First grade students creatively wrapped donated masks for the residents and even included homemade candy cane ornaments for each resident. What a wonderful service partnership!

#1 Reason to redirect your tax dollars to Cornerstone through Georgia GOAL...watch this video from Connor Schenke '21 for the whole story. https://cornerstonecougars.org/connor_ga_goal/

First and second grade students brought cheer to the residents of Village Park by decorating Bible verses for the residents to decorate their rooms. Even Covid can't stop our students from serving!

Fourth grade students "Zoomed" with a forensic scientist in Texas today. They loved learning about the role science plays in solving crimes. It was an interesting look into how a love of science can turn into a career!

The Atlanta Zoo Mobile came to visit the Lower School today! Carlos (the tortoise), Finnigan (the armadillo), and Nanda (the skink) made special guest appearances. The students loved meeting the animals and learning about their special animal adaptations.

Middle School students enjoyed another visit from Illusionist, David Garrard today! https://davidgarrardmagic.com/

Special thanks to Regina Owenby for the great pictures! Praying we're able to have this program as normal next year.

See Cornerstone's Lower School students perfom songs of thanksgiving and hear from our families on why they love being part of the Cornerstone family.

Special thanks to Christy Archibald for the great pictures.

Congratulations to the Cornerstone swim team for defeating Wesleyan on Tuesday night. The girls’ team tied and the boys’ team won which resulted in a combined win. Madeline House, Carson Credendino, and Ethan James broke school records in the 200 Free & 100 Fly, 100 Fly and 100 Breast respectively as well as winning their events. Other individual event winners included Carson Credendino (200 IM), Alice Griffin (200 IM), J.J. Neeb (50 Free), Ethan James (100 Free), Alice Griffin (500 Free).

A big thank you to Lower School families for your generous donation of peanut butter and jelly for the third grade service project. With your wonderful support, the third graders were able to collect over 890 jars to help Cooperative Ministries! Peanut Butter was narrowly victorious!

This young lad was busy today!

Special thanks to Blue Bell Ice Cream for sharing a special treat with our school to celebrate Cornerstone being named a Blue Ribbon School for 2020.

Second grade students hosted a virtual patriotic sing-along for the residents of Village Park in honor of Veterans Day. The students loved serving and bringing joy from afar and the residents loved hearing traditional patriotic songs being sung by some very sweet students!

Congratulations to the Cornerstone swim team for defeating GACS last night. Alice Griffin, Carson Credendino, Madeline House and Ethan James led the way by breaking school records in the 200 Free, 100 Fly, 500 Free and 100 Breast respectively. Special thank you to GACS for hosting us and sharing their wonderful livestreaming technology so our families were able to watch remotely.

Sign up for Georgia GOAL today! https://youtu.be/AmbyK51wIv8

Hannah Schemmel '19 finishes second in state, ensuring St. Pius a state championship. https://ga.milesplit.com//289183-2020-ghsa-xc-state-meet-s

Miguel Schlicht'17 leads Norcross to the podium - highest team finish in school history. https://www.gwinnettprepsports.com//article_b596885c-81ea-

Special thanks to Will Jordan '18 for helping with sound and lighting and Lily Owenby '19 for supporting her fine arts friends. It wasn't too long ago these two were on the Cornerstone stage!

Huge thank you to Brett Davis for the fantastic pictures. The cast did a wonderful job tonight. Special thanks to Cornerstone parent, Brant McCaskill, and Josh Whitlock for spearheading the live streaming effort. Believe it or not one person, Mr. McCaskill, was running all of those cameras!

Due to Covid-19, in lieu of a live speaker, we asked a few veterans with ties to Cornerstone to share some thoughts with our students. Thank you so much for your service and your words!

Everything looked and felt much different than usual, but we were grateful to celebrate our Veterans today. We look forward to next year when (hopefully) we'll be able to offer our full program.

Join us for the livestream event of Cornerstone's fall musical, The Sound of Music, on Friday, November 6 at 7 pm. Host a watch party and invite your friends and family to watch with you! You won't want to miss this production of one of the most beloved musicals of all time. We hope to "see" you there! CORNERSTONECOUGARS.ORG/SOM

Mrs. Dunlap's 6th grade world history classes are delving into ancient Egypt. In order to understand the elevation variations of Upper and Lower Egypt, they created salt dough maps of the ancient Nile river valley civilization. They have also been learning about the amazing achievements of the ancient Egyptians, including the four-sided pyramid. Students participated in a pyramid building contest using toothpicks and marshmallows to gain an appreciation for the precision and knowledge needed to build these extraordinary monuments to the pharaohs. Each pyramid, some still in existence after thousands of years, took many thousands of ancient Egyptian farmers to build. Each pyramid, three still in existence after an hour, took 2-3 Cornerstone students 15 minutes to build.

Hannah Schemmel '19 & Miguel Schlicht '17 looking to lead their CC teams to new heights this weekend. https://ga.milesplit.com//288882-2020-ghsa-state-meet-5a-g https://ga.milesplit.com//288884-2020-ghsa-xc-state-meet-7

Some of our 3rd and 4th graders had the opportunity to Zoom with a microbiologist from Georgia Tech today. Dr. Lewin is currently researching bacteria that leads to cavities and gum disease. The students were extremely interested to learn that there are over 3 billion bacteria in our mouths! Thank you Dr. Lewin for providing such a wonderful learning experience for our students and for answering the long list of questions from our aspiring scientists.

First grade students learned about voting today by hosting their very own election! They transformed their classrooms and voted on which cookie tasted the best. They had to register to vote, go to their polling place and cast their ballot for the tastiest cookie.

Third grade "Cornerstone doctors" performed character analysis surgery today! They put on gloves, masks and protective gear to determine character traits using dialogue, feelings and actions.

Kindergarten celebrated fall by going to the "Pumpkin Patch" today. They took a special trip to the PCBC Fields and participated in a variety of fun fall activities including a corn maze, wagon ride, pictures with a scarecrow, pumpkin ring toss and a yummy tasting of apple cider. Special thanks to the amazing kindergarten team for creating this unique event.

Middle School Principal of the Day (Gala Winner) was all business today.

Great testimony from Jake Camarda '14 in the AJC. https://www.ajc.com//georgia-p/CJLUGTBFDRBY3E3RDYXZ6JTX4M/

Great first meet by the Cornerstone swim team last night versus Pace Academy. This was a "Sprint" meet so the events were different than a typical meet. Girls: Cornerstone 172, Pace 95 Boys: Cornerstone 150, Pace 112 Total: Cornerstone 322, Pace 207 Individual winners include: Ethan James (100 Free, 200 Free), Alice Griffin (100 Free, 200 Free), Carson Credendino (100 IM, 50 Fly), Madeline House (100 IM, 50 Fly), J.J. Neeb (50 Free), Kahlan Minton (50 Free, 50 Back). Derek Lee (50 Br). Great performances by all.

Middle school students gathered together Friday afternoon to serve our Cornerstone community. Students covered new library books for our school library. This act of service will help our books last for many years to come!

A special thank you to whomever gave us this fabulous sign!

Finleigh Zack '15 choreographed and performed this piece at NYU's Tisch School of Dance where she attends.

Alexander Glover's '19 Halloween Light show (about 3 minutes or so) runs between now and Halloween - 7:00-9:15 each night. Tune your radio station to 87.9 FM. I asked Alexander why he did this, "2020 has been a rough year and I wanted to brighten others' days with a fun light show." I don't want to put his exact address out there on facebook, but if you know the Glovers, you know they moved recently. If you are out and about, swing by it's sure to put a smile on your face.

Our 8th grade students are touring local High Schools today. Xavi Balderas '17 and Annie Fogle '17 toured our students at Norcross. Both students are in the IB program.

Look who's on national TV cheering on her son, Jake Camarda '14.

Congratulations to all of the MS runners today at the MS State Championships. The girls team placed 4th with Elkin Regina leading the way. Here are the complete results for the girls' race. https://ga.milesplit.com//387432-georg/results/708808/raw

Our fourth grade students participate in Test Prep Boot Camp today. They put on camouflage and had a fun day of practicing math and language arts concepts with Sergeants Dyer, Hufham and Rose!

Come out to Newk's at the Forum on Thursday evening between 5-7pm for Spirit Night! Out of Uniform passes will be awarded to the winning house for Middle School and for the winning grade in Lower School. The socially distanced dining room will be open or you can take your meal to go. See you there!

Special thank you to all the schools who participated in our socially distanced high school fair. Our 8th grade students attended in two different waves.

A week before the state cross country meet and the girls team is ranked in the top 10. https://ga.milesplit.com//1344-2020-m/4376-ms-girls-week-8

Numerous Cornerstone students and families are highlighted in this month's issue of Peachtree Corners Magazine (primarily pages 24-30). Cornerstone student submissions may be found on pages 28 & 30 (mainly 7/8th grade, but a handful of 4th graders on page 30). https://issuu.com/livi//oct_-_nov_2020_peachtreecornersweb

Special thanks to Christy Archibald for the great pictures!

Special thanks to Christy Archibald for taking so many great pictures!

8th Grade NAML Champions! Cornerstone defeated Dominion 25-7, 25-13.

7th Grade NAML Champions for the 6th straight year! Cornerstone defeated Eastside Christian 25-9, 25-18.

Congratulations to the Boys & Girls Cross Country teams for sweeping the NAML championships with perfect scores of 15. Complete results here: https://ga.milesplit.com//392295-naml-championship/results

On Friday, Mrs. Fogle's Bible classes made 90 lunches for a local church to distribute to those in need.

Second graders blasted off for a fun week of mathematical learning. They wore capes and bravely solved two and three-digit addition problems like true learning superheroes!

Fourth grade students wrote letters of encouragement for the residents of Village Park Assisted Living Home. The recreation director shared, "Please let your teachers and students know how much of an inspiration each and every talented letter inspired. We read scriptures, jokes and viewed all of the creative artwork while enjoying National Coffee Day!"