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First Ecology Club Meeting of the Year!

Lower School students had their first Ecology Club meeting during lunch today. Students were eager to learn and share ideas on how they could help the environment. We are excited to see the impact our students can make for our local community!

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Fall Sports Banquet

On Thursday, November 19, the participating student athletes of Country Day and their families were invited to the Fall Sports Banquet.  Members of the Co-ed Water Polo, Boys Soccer, and Girls Volleyball teams shared great food, memories, and were honored by their...

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Tanaka Farms Field Trip

Last month, 1st Grade had an amazing field trip to Tanaka Farms. We enjoyed a tractor ride around the farm, had the chance to pet the cutest goats, got lost in a corn maze (don't worry - everyone made it out), picked fresh vegetables and took home a pumpkin picked...

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Visiting Author Chris Helene Bridge

There is nothing quite like a school author visit to get kids excited about reading and writing. Our kindergarteners were no exception! Last month, author Chris Helene Bridge shared her book Read to Me! with our students. The students enjoyed listening to her story...

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Halloween Memories in Kindergarten

The Kindergarteners loved celebrating Halloween last month! We made a KWL chart and a spider book filled with facts we have learned about spiders.  We constructed and then ate our spiders for ABC Cooking. They wiggled and jiggled and tickled--it's true!  We have read...

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Kindergarten Apple Unit

Kindergarten has been celebrating Fall with our apple unit.  Each student brought their favorite kind of apple from home.  We have examined our apples, weighed our apples, measured the circumference and painted with our apples.  We have made applesauce for ABC...

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Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival

Mid-Autumn Festival is a widely celebrated folk festival in China, which is is an inherited custom to celebrate the harvest and express thankfulness. The students watched the cartoon of the romantic legend story of Chang E (the moon lady) flying to the moon. They also...

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Hispanic Heritage Month

Hispanic Heritage Month is celebrated from September 15 through October 15.  To become more familiar with Mexico's struggle for independence, fifth graders created keynote presentations outlining the important events and people involved with el Día de Independencia de...

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Walk Through California

Earlier this month, the 4th graders participated in the Walk Through California program. This program incorporates different aspects of early California history in an engaging way, utilizing the students' prior knowledge and building on that to introduce important...

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