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  • Collie Qualifies for Nationals

    Posted November 28, 2011

    ACA fourth grader Reece Collie recently finished third in the 9-10 age group at the USA Track and Field Southeast Regional Junior Olympics cross country race in Myrtle Beach, SC. Collie completed the 3K race in 11:32 and qualified for the national championships on Dec. 10. The championships will be held at the Whispering Pines Golf Course in Myrtle Beach, where 3,000 runners will compete in six two-year age divisions featuring racers 7-18 years old.

  • Living Museum a Success!

    Posted May 17, 2011

    Once again our fourth grade students have pulled it off. This year's Living Museum went off without a hitch. Lower school students, parents, and visitors from New City Christian school had an opportunity to meet and hear from many notable historical figures.

  • Lower School Science Fair a Success!

    Posted March 24, 2011

    “Which gives you more exercise a Wii or an elliptical?” “How does the color of your house affect your energy bill?” “How well do green bags keep your vegetables fresh?” These are just a few of the many questions answered by ACA’s fourth and fifth grade classes at the Lower School Science Fair. Each fourth and fifth grader was instructed to use the scientific method to ask and answer a question through observations and experiments. The students than analyzed their data to draw a conclusion and finally gave an oral report to their peers.

  • Students Collect, Distribute Gifts to Prisoners

    Posted December 20, 2010

    Samuel, a middle school student from Asheville Christian Academy, picks up a black trash bag and a slip of paper reading, "Tasha, female, 4 years." He walks over to the pile of toys for 3-4 year old girls and wonders what Tasha might like. Samuel picks out a baby doll and then goes to collect a book and a small stuffed animal. After he places these gifts into the black bag it will be labeled for Tasha's mother and put in a pile to be picked up by the Swannanoa Correctional Center for Women. Tasha's mother, an inmate at the facility, will wrap the gifts for Tasha to open when she visits for Sunday dinner.

  • Lila Ford wins ACA's National Geographic Bee

    Posted December 19, 2010

    ACA hosted its annual National Geographic Bee on Friday, December 10. The National Geographic Bee, an educational program of the National Geographic Society, is a nationwide geography competition for United States schools with any grades four through eight. It is designed to encourage the teaching and study of geography. ACA students in grades four through eight participated in grade level bees and the top two winners from each grade level were invited to compete in the final round last Friday.

  • ACA Students Place High at Junior Olympics

    Posted November 9, 2010

    Three young runners from Western North Carolina placed among the top three in their respective age divisions Sunday at the USA Track & Field's North Carolina Junior Olympics Cross Country 3K race, which was held at Hagan Stone Park. - Asheville Citizen Times, 11/9/10

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  • Korean Children's Choir Visits ACA

    Posted October 20, 2010

    It is not often that we have the privilege of being ministered to by foreign missionaries. On Wednesday, October 20, the entire ACA community was blessed by the Korean Children's Choir.

  • Overmountain Victory Celebration

    Posted September 23, 2010

    ACA’s fifth graders traveled to Gillespie Gap on the Blue Ridge Parkway to participate in the 18th annual Overmountain Victory Celebration. The day, filled with demonstrations of how people lived in the 1700’s, remembers the defeat of the British at King’s Mountain on October 7, 1780. The defeat was the first in a chain of setbacks that led to their defeat at Yorktown.

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