Pinewood Derby enjoys night of racing and pandemonium

By Jim Kalin

Local Cub Scout Pack 16 held their annual Pinewood Derby race March 10 at St. Brendan’s School gymnasium. The racing was divided by dens, so there were five divisions. A specialty contest was also held. Below are the results of the racing and specialty judging. It was a nice night of

The Oaks

By Amelia Goldberg

6th Grade

The Oaks is busy right now with science projects being done in all grades.

Kindergarten is learning about solids, liquids and gasses and making ice cream as a liquid to solid example. First grade just finished their project on the human body, and is now starting to learn about the life cycle. Second grade is building volcanoes with the 6th graders and learning about types of rocks. They’re making paper mache volcanoes with bottles for magma chambers. Ecosystems are the focus of the 3rd graders, as they make dioramas of biomes and habitats. Fourth grade is looking at each of the planets in our solar system in depth, and is making a slideshow report. Fifth grade is also learning about space, making their own constellations and writing stories about them. The 6th grade is studying specific volcanoes and also learning about plate tectonics.

The whole school is always working on hands-on science projects and creatively finding ways to learn.

Pilgrim School

By Allison Pak

9th Grade March is

Women’s History Month!

We celebrated all the women at Pilgrim and Judy Vaughn from Alexandria House came to talk to students about the housing need and crisis. A former Alexandria House

Third Street

By

Nikka Gueler

5th Grade

This past month we had Chana Stiefel, an award-winning children’s author, speak with students about her new book, “The Tower of Life.” The novel is a true story about the holocaust survivor and historian, Yaffa Eliach, who created the Tower of Faces display at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Yaffa and her family were the racing and pandemonium.

Tigers

Winner: Liam Salviejo

Runner-up: Charlie Gibson

Best Design: Francesca Sy Wolves

Winner: Jeraldine Miron

Runner-up: Jordan De Rosas

Best Design: Mason Im

Bears

Winner: Hailey Kang resident also came and shared her experiences as a homeless woman with three young children and how the Alexandria House changed their lives.

All 4th through 12th grade students went on trips the week of March 20. The 4th graders camped at El Capitan; 5th graders went to Astrocamp for Math and Science; 6th and 7th graders camped at Pinnacles; 8th and 9th graders went to Sacramento; 10th and 11th graders traveled to the east coast for college tours and our seniors went to Hawaii for community service and class time.

Notification letters were sent to all the students who applied for admission to our school and we will be welcoming them at the New Family Reception when we get back from Spring Break.

ST. JAMES’ EPISCOPAL

Evan Listi

6th Grade

Here at St. James’ we’ve had an eventful couple of weeks, and there is much to look forward to, as well.

Throughout March we celebrated Women’s History Month. One highlight was a speech by Ms. Reynoso, one of our amazing teachers, who talked about her experiences as a competitive runner. Another was our school-wide project dedicated to the achievements of influential women in every aspect of life. It was a great project to work on, and I hope that tradition continues.

In April, three days after we return from spring break, we’ll have our 4th through 6th grade Spring Dance! On April 18, we’ll have Inand-Out day, which is always so much fun. Last, but certainly not only Jews from their village in Poland to escape the Nazis. Once they immigrated, President Jimmy Carter reached out to her, requesting that she create an exhibit about the people in the Holocaust. She decided to make the exhibit using photos saved of Jews who perished during the Holocaust.

We will begin our annual walkathon fundraiser in mid-April. It will be full of fun and festivities.

On Thur., April 27, Third Street is having our Korean Dual Language Program showcase, which showcases traditional Korean dance in music performances. Third Street’s open house was March 29.

Runner-up: Aiden Park

Best Design: Zachary Bitzelberger Webelos 1

Winner: Mason Ji

Runner-up: Henry Fiedler

Best Design: Che Nafa Webelos 2

Winner: Van Liston

Runner-up: Lucas Huybrechs

Best Design: Phoenix Lay least, the 4th grade classes will be going to Sacramento on a threeday field trip. They will get to visit landmarks like Sutter’s Fort and the capitol building. The 4th graders will also have the opportunity to pan for gold in the American River and to participate in an interactive Gold Rush performance!

I know April is going to be a super-fun month at St. James’.

PAGE ACADEMY

Isabella Argiropoulos

7th Grade

Hello! March was such an eventful month. We started off with some very interesting pajama outfits during our reading and story times on Read Across America Day. Our campus was awash in shamrocks and green for St. Patrick’s Day while our students enjoyed the fun events planned by our Student Council. Report cards went home that day to mark the end of our 3rd quarter.

Our students completed their science fair experiments and inventions, which are on display at the school. The highly creative Art to Remember projects can still be ordered until Sun., April 2.

On Fri., March 31, we will have spring class parties and the annual egg hunt, with a special guest! Page will be closed for spring break from Mon. April 3 through Fri., April 7 with everyone returning on Mon., April 10.

When we return to campus, the Scholastic Book Fair will be in full swing, and our students will work on their Earth Day projects in support of environmental protection. Happy Spring!

CHRIST THE KING

Joshua Lo

8th Grade

Our junior high academic decathlon team placed second in the Super Quiz and third overall in the Academic De- cathlon early in March.

Each week of Lent, our 8th grade students lead the Stations of the Cross for the student body

We celebrated Dr. Seuss Day and students also participated in the annual Spell-A-Thon in March. The Junior High students memorized one hundred words and did their best to ingrain the spelling words in their minds.

On St. Patrick’s Day, students wore green to display their school spirit, and to recognize Saint Patrick for his delivery of Christianity to Ireland. That day, CTK held a St. Patrick’s dinner dance. There was Irish food and music and traditional Irish dancers performed at the event. After all the activities, students had a day to recuperate while the faculty went on a retreat to connect with God.

On March 22, we had our awards ceremony to recognize students who were successful academically in the second trimester.