“If you wanted to see a beautiful day with cherry pie hearts and heart cookies made by one of our parents, have a professional photographer take our family’s portrait - if you wanted to see the most precious Kindergarten children perform and have a preview of the Fifth Grade Play, then you should have been [...]

Last week our Second Graders had a fabulous overnight experience at Long Beach’s Aquarium of the Pacific. Our Second Grade teacher, Mrs. Bakkila, shares with us the details of this outing: “Every February the Second Grade participates in the Aquarium’s overnight program. This marks the culmination of our month-long science unit on marine life. It is [...]

Last week’s “Dads and Granddads Day” included a special experience for our guests – a class in dissection led by our outstanding science lab teacher, Mrs. Kathy Mallon: “In the Fifth Grade science program, we have already dissected clams, mussels, oysters, fish, and squid. Recently we have been studying the systems of the body, concluding with [...]

Although last Friday was called “Doughnuts for Dads and Granddads Day,” it was more like “Tamales for Dads and Granddads.” We realized that although the doughnuts were abundant, our guests seemed to enjoy the tamales just as much. Every year we add to the number of tamales that we order, as they have become such [...]