Catholic Schools Week

The week was filled with special activities. Students wrote essays/letters on what Sacred Heart means to them. One of the second graders wrote, “Sacred Heart is what heaven would look like. Sacred Heart is my dream school. This school is magic. This school is better than any other school. I’m glad my parents sent me here. This school is God’s house. This school is the Catholic Church. I love this school.”

One of the special activities was the Academic Fair. Students’ work from Kindergarten through 8th grade lined the halls and graced the bulletins and desks. Some of the student artwork was auctioned at the end of the evening.

The 5th Grade Colonial Fair was a fair within a fair. There was a printer and shipbuilder, silversmith and schoolteacher, a washerwoman and weaver, a glass maker and wig maker, to name a few of the 5th graders displaying their wares at the Colonial Fair held in the gym during the Catholic Schools’ Week Open House.

Hyperstudio projects incorporating videos on specific planets also by the fifth graders could be viewed in the computer lab along with PowerPoint Projects on the Civil War completed by the 8th Grade and Power Point Water Cycle Presentations by the 7th Grade

Elimination rounds in the Who Knows the Most Students/Teachers Contests elimination rounds challenged students in grades three through eight to identify pictures in a slide show of random Sacred Heart students at school to determine who could identify the most Sacred Heart students. The challenge of students in grades K-2 was to identify and name the most staff and faculty members at the school. The top two from each grade went on to another challenge where a cheering audience witnessed a 4th grader and a 5th grader tie for first place in the student contest and a second grader win the final faculty/staff contest.

Third and fourth graders scientists invited the school to visit their science fair where one witnessed such inventions as a bed-maker, a plant watering machine, an automatic arm to raise when wanting to answer a question in class, an animal feeder,

Catholic Schools Week also saw the Academic Bowl. It all began with Grades K through 8 being divided into 14 mixed grade teams. In an elimination round, they answered seventy age-appropriate academic questions. The playoff consisted of 5 teams who were cheered on by the rest of school in a general assembly. The winners of this event won a non-uniform day.

The 6th Grade Social Studies class bartered for food in order to understand better the practice of the open market system found in ancient Egypt, and, of course, to enjoy fruit, sandwiches, beverages, and sweets that they brought in to trade.