A few pictures of the kids from recent days leading up to Halloween.

Fall Festival

St. Mary's Chinese Day School will be holding its Annual Fall Festival and Haunted House

Saturday October 30, 2010
Old St. Mary's Church
California Street
10am-5pm


Games, Food, Bingo, and Mr. B's Crypt of Chaos Haunted House. Hope to see you there!
Happy Halloween to all.

A few pictures from Mr. B's Trip to Hawaii

Over the summer Mr. B traveled to his homeland of Hawaii. During his time there he spend time with family and friends, went deep sea fishing, watched beautiful sunsets, swam with turtles, and ate lots of good Hawaiian Food. He also got a chance to learn how to cook a pig underground in an "imu."

Aloha and Welcome 2010-2011 Kindergartners

Welcome to Mr. Ballesteros' magical kindergarten adventure!!! It is here that we will embark on our educational adventure, thus setting the tone for a successful educational future. Step by step our class will venture into in depth studies of math, language arts, science, social studies, art, physical education, and catholicism. At the same time we will develop our socialization skills, cultivate our manners, and grow to love and serve the lord while forming a close knit school famliy. I look forward to meeting each and every one of you on our first half day of school, which is Friday, August 27h. See you soon and get ready to have a lot of fun!! It is with great excitement that I await your arrival.

Some of our cooking projects this year will include: Rainbow Salad, Pumpkin Seed Baking, Pretzel Making, Turkey Baking, Christmas cookies, ginger bread houses, and Ants on a Log.


Field Trips may include: Fairy Land, Picnics in the Park, Fire Station, Police Station, Fortune Cookie Factory, and the Sf Zoo.


Art Projects may include: Jackson Pollock Spatter Paintings, Georgia O'Keefe Flower Drawings, Picasso's Blue Period Look Alikes, Dega's Ballerina Paintings, Still life Drawings, Mosaics, Finger Paintings, Bead Necklaces, pottery decorating, etc.

Christmas in Chinatown

How many X-mas Rings long are you? A measuring activity. We also performed a song called, "Christmas Under the Sea" for the School Christmas Program.

Mr B's Thanksgiving and Christmas Fun

Time to Stuff our Class Turkey and have our annual Thanksgiving Multicultural Potluck. We enjoyed treats from Chinatown and traditional food. We also learned about the history of Thanksgiving and how the Pilgrims and Indians put together their first feast. Our costumes were fun to wear as we ate until our hearts content. Happy Thanksgiving!!