As a fun, end-of-year project for their Spanish class, Saint James School 7th graders made Pinatas – an item traditionally associated with celebrations in Spanish-speaking countries.  Below are pictures of some of the students with their projects (click images to enlarge).  The Pinatas will be broken by the Kindergarten through 6th grade students during their field days this week.

There will be a school-wide dress down day this coming Tuesday, May 31st.  Please remember standard dress down day rules apply (no “short” shorts, no tank tops/sleeveless tops, if wearing tight yoga-type pants t-shirts must come down to mid-thigh, etc).

Recently, the Saint James School Advanced Band took a bus trip to The Arbors retirement community in Manchester to play for the residents.  Students also mingled with the attendees and took turns introducing themselves, the grade they are in, and how long they have been playing for.  Unbeknownst to us, until the students began talking to the attendees, one of the residents was a former employee of Saint James School many years ago!  Many thanks to Mr. Corcoran and the Arbors for giving our students this great opportunity to give back to the community (click pictures to enlarge). 

Select members of SJS band also played in New York City earlier this week and played at the Old Statehouse in Hartford today.

After saying a prayer for safe travels, SJS 1st graders (along with the Pre-Kindergarten students) released their butterflies into the wild yesterday afternoon. The 1st grade students have watched these classroom pets go from caterpillars to chrysalises to butterflies as part of their science studies. The 1st grade students later wrote stories about where the butterflies would travel to and what they would do while there. The stories were put into a cute butterfly folder they made in class. (click pictures to enlarge).  Thank you to Mrs. Belsito and Mrs. Cunningham for the pictures!