Week at a Glance 3/11 - 3/15

Students in Greek writing endings and making illustrations for the thrilling tale of how Frog's friend Dog died.

Hello and welcome to the new week!

As a Classical School, we take the task of educating students seriously.  Through the use of enduring texts, subjects, and techniques afforded to us from the classical past, our students have the opportunity to mature under the influence of the greatest things humanity has produced.  We build the minds of our young people according to the best that can be had.  But we do more than this.

SJA is an Orthodox Christian school.  We are compelled also to shape the hearts and spirits of our students according to our great Tradition.  There is perhaps no time in the year that hearts and spirits are touched more than in the season that draws near to us now, Great Lent, which starts on March 18th.  

Soon we will be fasting as a campus, attending more services, reflecting on the ministry and life of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and doing more service projects for our surrounding community.  The goal of observing the Lenten season as a campus is to produce good things within us:  compassion, mercy, love, a disdain for evil things, a delight in beautiful things, empathy, resilience, and maturity.  

What a great gift we have in the teachings of our Church, that we can trust what has been handed down to us to produce beautiful qualities!

To Hearts and Spirits,

Nima Duncan

Now let's look at what the week ahead will bring:

MONDAY:

  4-5th Art will begin making sculptures from recycled materials

10-11th Grade Algebra are finishing studying Rational Functions and moving to explore exponential and logarithmic Functions

TUESDAY:

6-8th Art will begin silkscreening assignment

10-12th Art History will begin Art Nouveau and Art Deco Projects

12th Grade Stats are actively working on their Statistic project exploring their music preferences and time spent listening to music.

WEDNESDAY:

4th and 5th Grade Science Field Trip

7th Grade Algebra will be connecting Algebra, Geometry, and arithmetics in their study of Math

THURSDAY: 

6th Grade Math is going to study coordinate plane and positioning subjects on it

Adv. Photo/ Media will finish up their advertisement page assignment

Friday: 

Math Club (4-5th graders) will meet to solve more problems to get prepared for the Kangaroo competition

8th Grade Photo will be working in the Darkroom on enlarging photos

Have a great week!

St. John’s Academy