CTK School Clubs

Sponsors: Melissa Karnes & Andrea Clarke, 7th-8th grade

Do you love to read and talk about books? Are you good with crazy bits of information and trivia? Book Bowl is for you! This club is based on the archdiocesan book contest held each February. Team members read 12 books through the course of the school year. Practices are spent writing questions about the books and quizzing each other. Book bowl competitive teams are made up of 3 contestants and an alternate. Each school is allowed to send 3 teams to competition. Each year many students join Book Bowl just to be a part of the conversations about good books! This club meets September through February.

Sponsor: Kim Hansen & Tina Preuss, 5th-8th grade

Christ the King’s Student Council consists of 5th through 8th grade students working towards school improvement and community service. Students submit an application to be on student council and are expected to attend each meeting. Student Council is an opportunity to learn leadership skills and cooperation.

Sponsor: Lizzie Mason, 6th-8th grade

Calling all writers and orators! This club provides an opportunity for dialogue, research, writing and competing! Students will learn competitive debate skills in the fall and debate their peers on current topics assigned by the NSAA. Competitive speech (forensics) begins in the spring semester. Students choose an event to focus on (there are 9) and prepare a speech for competition. There are typically 4 contests on Friday evenings in April and May. Students do not have to attend any contests, but once they go to one…they want to go to them all!

Sponsor: Dave Clements, 1st-4th and 5th – 8th

The CTK Chess Club is open to all students, including beginners who wish to learn the moves and strategies of chess, and those seasoned players looking to improve their skills, and to share their knowledge of this beautiful game. But mostly, the chess club is there to make friends, have fun and learn sportsmanship. Your move. Elementary Chess club meets on the first Monday of each month. The Middle School Chess Club meets every other Wednesday, alternation with Middle School Math Club.

Sponsors: Jenny Christensen & Dave Clements, 5th – 8th grade

When Ashley was 15, her mother was 37. Now, her mother is twice her age. How old is Ashley?

If you know the answer (or would like to learn), then the Math Club is right for you! Math Club is open to students in grades 5-8 who are interested in challenging math problems, problem solving conundrums, and best of all, snacks. In the spring, you will have the opportunity to try out for competition teams, where you can represent CTK in the Omaha area. Meetings are twice a month on Wednesdays, with extra practices around competition time. So, if you are ready to strut your smarts (or doing it for the t-shirt), see Ms. Christensen or Mr. Clements to sign up today!

Sponsor: Sid Eckerman, 7th-8th grade

The club will consist of two sessions, one in the fall and another in the spring, both lasting around 9 weeks. Optimal size will be 15-16 seventh and eighth grade students. The students will receive hands-on lab experience with:

• Fingerprint analysis with a full set of personal prints
• Handwriting analysis
• Fiber analysis
• Hair analysis
• Facial recognition using computer generated software
• Artificial blood typing
• Bite and dental impression lab
• Deductive reasoning

The students will use practice cases throughout the session to improve their skills.

In the final sessions the students will solve a mock crime scene using the process of deductive reasoning and lab skills. There may be a field trip at the end of the session to either the Douglas County Crime Lab or Omaha Police Department Headquarters.

Sponsor: Jennifer Reding, 5th – 8th grade

The Robotics Club for grades 5th -8th is where classroom STEM concepts are put to the test as students learn lifelong skills in teamwork, leadership, communications, and more! The VEX IQ Challenge has teams of students given tasks with designing and building a robot to play with other teams in a game-based engineering challenge. Next fall, I hope to take the team to a regional competition around the metro! This year will be focused on everyone learning the basics of design and building the robot to complete many different challenges. Robotics will meet on Fridays 3:20-4:15.

Sponsor: Jeff Gordon, 1st- 4th grade

The Elementary Math Club is for students in grades 1-4. This club will meet on the second Monday of each month from 3:20-3:50 in Mr. Gordon’s room. This club is limited to the first 16 students who sign up. Students who participate will need to follow the classroom rules and cannot miss more than 3 times in a year. Math Club will focus on one concept a month. We will practice this concept through hard work, having fun, and playing games.

Sponsors: Melissa Ridder & Kelly Woodin, 1st- 4th grade

The Elementary STEM Club is for students in grades 1st-4th. The teachers for the Elementary STEM Club are Mrs. Woodin and Ms. Ridder. This club will meet on the 4th Monday of each month from 3:20-3:50 in Ms. Ridder’s room. This club will allow students to participate in a variety of STEM based projects, activities, and investigations.

Sponsor: Parent Volunteer

An extracurricular reading program which combines discussion and activities with children's literature. Book titles by grade are published in the School Update monthly along with meeting times and dates. Sessions are available to students in grades K-4 and middle school and meet once per month during the school year. CTK Bookworms is organized and ran by parent volunteers. More information will come out separately for Bookworms!

Sponsor: Stephanie Lovejoy & Meghan Martin

The school musical is for any students in grades 5-8. All interested students will need to prepare a short audition (singing/dancing) in order to be in the show (more information to come). Students will have weekly practices with one Saturday rehearsal for choreography to prepare for the show in April. Be on the lookout for more details in January and see Mrs. Lovejoy for questions!