2010-2011 Monthly Highlights

SEPTEMBER
- Learn the Procedures That We Will Follow All Year
- Begin Class Meetings
- Study California’s Geography
- ITBS Testing
- Magazine Sale
- St. Joseph’s Fun Festival

OCTOBER
- Study California’s Earliest Inhabitants and Explorers
- Halloween Parade and Carnival
- Blessing of the Animals
- Fire Safety Presentation in AV Room

NOVEMBER
- Student-Led Parent Teacher Conferences
- Book Fair
- Begin Science Fair Projects
- Begin Trading Voyage to the California Missions
- Thanksgiving Feast
- Reconciliation Retreat

DECEMBER
- Test Science Fair Project at Home
- Finish Trading Voyage and Reward the Master Trading Ship
- Santa’s Secret Shop
- Christmas Musical
- Classroom Christmas Party
- Visit Mission San Juan Bautista

JANUARY
- Test Science Fair Project at Home
- Experience “Adobe Days” and make tortillas, cornhusk dolls, adobe bricks and much more
- Catholic School Week

FEBRUARY
- Catholic Schools Week
- Bring Science Fair Results into School
- Valentine’s Day Party
- Visit the Elephant Seals and Their Pups at Ano Nuevo

MARCH
- Put Science Display Board Together
- Science Fair in Parish Hall
- Visit Our State Capitol Building and the Railroad Museum in Sacramento

APRIL
- Cupertino Historical Traveling Trunk Comes to Our Class
- Be a Miner and Stake a Claim
- “It’s Electrifying,” a 4th Grade Musical about electricity

MAY
- May Crowning
- Build Circuits at Intel Museum

JUNE
- Classroom Year-End Picnic