FAITH ACADEMY CALENDAR OF EVENTS
 2007-2008 School Year

August

• Aug. 13 - Faith Academy starts it’s 2007-2008 school year!  Have a blessed first day of school!
• Aug. 14   REQUIRED parent/teacher meeting. Ridgecrest Baptist Church Fellowship Hall.  Please make plans to bring your family for fellowship and orientation.   5:30 New Parents will meet for an orientation meeting. 6:15 returning parents will join us  for a short announcement time in which we will go over our school year plans, talk about requirements and encourage each other in our home schooling journey.   Both new and returning parents - Please bring finger foods   (sandwiches, chips, fruits, etc.) for a fellowship time in between meetings...enough for your family plus 5 more and a 3 liter drink or gallon of tea. 
• No Co-op classes or family community service projects until September!

September

• September Co-op Classes begin on  Friday as follow: Sept. 14, 21, 28
• Sept. 18th – Field Trip -  Birmingham - Various locations listed below.
  Vulcan Park – 10 a.m. (all ages) We will have grade-appropriate scavenger hunts. Bring a picnic lunch to enjoy on the overlook. $3.00 for students; $5.00 for adults.  www.vulcanpark.org
  McWane Center (prices vary)   www.mcwane.org  
  Birmingham Zoo Twilight Tour – 7-10 p.m. (all ages) Includes animal show, interaction with the show animals, lesson about animal adaptations, related craft, activity, snack, carousel ride, and night zoo tour. $18.00  www.birminghamzoo.com    
• Sept. 24 - Shark Tooth Creek Outdoor Adventures (all ages) Includes orientation presentation and hay ride to the creek to search for fossilized shark teeth.  Also includes picnic area and Playworld. $15.00   www.sharktoothcreek.com     Deadline: August 31st  
• Sept. 30th - Family community service project due

October

• Co-op classes as follow: October 5, 12, 19, 26th
• Oct. 4th or 6th (TBA) – Moundville Native American Festival (all ages) Deadline: September 17th  www.moundville.ua.edu
• Oct. 9th – American Village in Montevallo: American Chronicles (all ages) 9 a.m. – 1 p.m. Includes 30-min. lunch period (sack lunch or McDonald’s) $8.00   Deadline: August 31st   www.americanvillage.org
• October 16 - 6:30 REQUIRED  Parent teacher meeting.  Forms due with grades and days of attendance.  Lesson Plan Books checked.
• Oct. 18/19  Bama Fanfare - Wind in the Willows  Grades 1-6 
• Oct. 29th – Critter Creek Farm and Wildlife Center’s Pumpkin Patch Days (all ages) Includes opportunities to feed the animals, a petting zoo, picnic tables and large play area. Activities include scarecrow stuffing, hayrides, and inflatables. $10.00 for everything Deadline: September 4th www.crittercreekfarm.com
• Oct. 31 - Family community service project due

November

• Co-op classes as follow:  November 2,9 
• Nov. 1 – Disney on Ice: Finding Nemo at the BJCC (all ages) 10:30 a.m. $12.00 Deadline:  Sept. 4
• Nov. 9 - Pre K - 6th.  Bama fanfare - Mad Science: Newton’s Revenge
• Nov. 16 -  Thanksgiving Feast and Talent show.  10:30 AM at Ridgecrest Baptist
  Please come prepared with whatever talent your child would like to share.  (this could be singing, piano, dance, dramatic reading, short skit, sharing art work, a school project  in which you are especially proud, etc.)  Also please bring a meal, enough for your family plus 5 more, and a 3 liter drink.  We will share the food and fellowship time as well as sharing what we are thankful for in our lives.
• Nov. 22, 23 - Thanksgiving Holiday  NO SCHOOL or office hours. Please remember to give thanks!
• Nov. 30 - Family community service project due

December

• December Co-op days as follow:  December  7 14.
• Dec. 1 -   School Christmas Formal / Party.  For all ages.  This WILL be a formal event. Boys will wear suits/tux and girls a formal or very dressy Sunday dress. This will be a Christian get-together of food, fellowship, conservative dancing and music.  Parents are  encouraged to chaperone.  Time & Place TBA
• Dec. 3- Field trip to All Fired Up to make Christmas gifts  10:00 AM - all ages
• Field Trip::  TBA – Christmas Nativity Hay Ride at Hannah United Methodist in Gordo (all ages) A candlelit hay ride with stops at scenes depicting the prophecy and fulfillment of the birth of our Savior, Jesus Christ. Warm up after the ride with complementary hot chocolate. No charge.
• Field Trip - TBA Polar Express Train Ride 
• Dec. 18  6:30 REQUIRED  Parent teacher meeting.  Forms due with grades and days of attendance.  Lesson Plan books checked.  Please bring your items for our school community project. 
• Dec. 19:  Christmas Break NO SCHOOL or office hours until January.  Merry Christmas!   May your family enjoy this time together as we celebrate our Lord and Savior’s birth.

January

• Jan. 7- Faith Academy starts the new semester.  Happy and Blessed New Year!
  Co-op classes as follow:: January 18, 25
• Jan. 24th  – Ringling Bros.,Barnum & Bailey Circus at the BJCC (all ages) 10:30 a.m. $12.00 Deadline: November 16th 
• Jan. 31 - Family community service project due.

February

• February Co-op classes as follow:  February 1, 8, 15, 22. 29
• Feb. 1- All National Christian Honor Society applications due. No applications accepted after this date.
• Feb. 7 - Tour FBI building in Birmingham - 7th thru 12th grade only.  All adults over 18  participating must have available before the trip  name, address, date of birth and social security number to attend.  If this isn’t done in advance you will not be allowed in the  building. 
• Feb. 20 -- Westervelt-Warner Museum of American Art (all ages) Docent-led tour $5.00 Meeting time to be announced. Deadline: January 19th www.warnermuseum.org 
• Feb. 28-29 -  Pre K-3rd grade - Bama Fanfare -Henry and Mudge
• Feb. 29 - Family community service project due

March

• Co-op classes as follow:  March 7, 14, 28
• Mar. 5 – U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville (all ages) Includes a self-guided tour of the Museum, Rocket Park and Shuttle Park; an IMAX Movie in the Spacedome theater; access to all simulators and scheduled demonstrations in Rocket Park and the Museum. $11.00 Pre-arranged lunch choices include hamburger meal for $4.00 and hot dog meal for $3.00. Deadline: January 20th  www.spacecamp.com
• Mar. 11  6:30 -REQUIRED Parent teacher meeting. Forms due with grades and days of attendance.  
  National Christian Honor Society Tapping  -   Dress up affair, please bring cameras and friends and relatives to this very special event
• Spring Break   March 17 -21.  No school or office hours.  Enjoy this break with your family
• Mar. 24 - Classes resume
  Field Trip  CHOM of Tuscaloosa  grades K-6th. TTBA
• Mar. 31 - Family community service project due.

April

• Co-op classes as follow:  April  4 12, 20, 25.
• Apr. 24th – Bama Belle (all ages) 1 hour tour of The Black Warrior River on Tuscaloosa’s paddlewheel boat. 10 – 11:30 a.m. Individual cost will be determined by number of participants (total cost: $370.00 for group). Deadline: March 1st  www.bamabelle.com
• Field Trip  TTBA   Montgomery tour : Capitol tour, Alabama Science Center, Civil rights Memorial, First White House of the Confederacy, Old Alabama Town, Senate and Legislature buildings. Montgomery Zoo are a few of the sites we might want to see.  More info on this trip later in the year.  This trip is better for 6th thru 12th graders
• Apr. 30 - Family community service project due

May

Field Trips in the Works: 

Al Power Co. in Clanton, Tour of Tuscaloosa, U of A Arboretum,  Blue Bell plant in Sylacauga, Tuscaloosa Police Dept., Tuscaloosa, Fire Department, Hardin’s Bakery, Tuscaloosa Water Works. T-Dot, Ochoee White Water Rafting, Biltmore Estate, Gatlinburg, TN, Zoo, Sloss Furnace, Terrific Tuesdays (SSCC), Alabama Adventure, Georgia Aquarium.  Please share any ideas for good field trips.

Summer School applicants:

First semester will begin Monday May 19 and goes through  June 27.  Second semester summer school will begin June 30 and go thru August 8.   Each student that completes his semester’s work will receive the normal academic credits on their transcripts.