Central Academy of the Arts

CAA teachers, Place your Amazon wish lists on this thread. We’ve got some amazing parents who want to help out.

How’s your summer going!? Some of our CAA staff had the opportunity to attend the Kennedy Center’s Arts Education Conference in Washington, D.C. this week. They enjoyed learning new arts integration strategies and sight seeing our nation’s capital!

CAA Families, see the attachment below for next year’s school supply list! 📓✏️🖍️

Lots of hugs, tears, and smiles all around today as we clapped out our 5th graders! We’re so proud of you all, and we can’t wait to see all of your successes in middle school and beyond!

After School Care ended the year with Awards Day where every student got recognized on stage with an award for the year from Mrs. Donald. They also celebrated the 5th graders who will be leaving this year with inflatables, pizza, and ice cream! It was a fantastic year in After School Care!

4th grade had a blast on yesterday’s walking field trip to Collins Ole Towne right in our own backyard! With a one-room school house, vintage general store, historic chapel, antique farm equipment and more; they had fun taking a step back in time!

Today Mrs. Smith’s class celebrated the end of the year with a Hawaiian celebration. Stay cool this summer! 🏝️

CAA families, don't miss this great summer opportunity! Pickens County Library System has their Summer Reading program running from June 3rd-July 26th. Students can complete activities to earn prizes! Click the link to learn more about it, and check out the flyer below to get information on the Summer Reading Kick-off!
https://pickenscountylibrarysystem.com/srp24/

Our kindergarten students enjoyed discovering Hawaiian culture through traditional language, dance, games, and craft-making, including creating their own skirts.

Huge thank you to the Clemson University College of Education for collaborating with Mr. Stinehart's class on several forest science lessons this year! The exciting lesson shown here featured the students creating art pieces of animals and hiding them in the forest. Then they got to find each other's animals in a giant hide-and-seek game, demonstrating camouflage and how animals are adapted to live in a forest ecosystem!

This week SDPC is celebrating Bus Driver Appreciation Week and we thanked our Central drivers with a breakfast this morning! We are so thankful for their hard work and dedication to getting our students safely to school and back home each day! 💙💛🚌

On Friday, our first graders walked up the street to Collins Ole Towne. Students took a trip back in time to this 1930’s town. Students toured a recreated school house, general store and a chapel. They also took a hayride around the grounds, played games and had a picnic lunch. CAA is lucky to be so close to this hidden gem.

Huge congratulations to CAA’s newest BETA Club members! These student-leaders were inducted into National BETA this week at CAA’s induction ceremony. We’re so proud of you all!

This morning at Central Academy of the Arts, we celebrated the women who helped us through thick and thin. Thank you so much for ALL you do, ladies! Happy Mother's Day!!! C.A.A. loves and appreciates you!

We are so proud of our students, and all the hard work they have put in over the last few weeks while completing state testing! Mrs. Brady worked with all of our students to make a school dance music video that reminded our students how to "get their head in the game!" A huge thanks to her for choreographing and teaching our students, and Mrs. Prosser for her tech help in pulling it all together! Enjoy the video! 🏀❤️

CAA Getcha Head In The Game 2024.mp4

Our kindergarten teachers and students would like to express their gratitude to Mrs. Bolin for providing the jump ropes for Jump Rope Day. Her hard work in PE teaching students how to jump rope was evident!

K is for Kite Day in Mrs. St. Peter’s class. Her students learned how to make their own kites then had a blast flying them at recess! 🪁

During "Kindergarten Camp," Mrs. Patterson's class spent the day reviewing some of the literacy and math skills learned throughout the school year. This camp left every camper begging for S’more! 🏕️

Day one of Bully Prevention/Red Ribbon Week

We SOCK it to bullies at CAA!