December 13, 2016
by People of God
Our Service Learning program supports one of the four goals of Catholic education: "to teach students to serve others as Jesus did." (To Teach As Jesus Did, USCCB, 1972)
. Every year our classes participate in a service project that involves the entire class.
This year, our second-grade class has chosen to give back to the men and women overseas by putting together Christmas care packages. our second grade along with our kindergarten and fourth grade classes put together the care packages to be sent to a platoon of service men and women deployed overseas.
Our sixth grade class got to experience what
rocketry and team work is all about. The class participated in the Air Force ResearchLaboratory (AFRL) rocket launch out on the mesa where they launched rockets that the class built at the laboratory after learning about building, programming, and rocket trajectory. Each student was assigned a task at the launch where teamwork was essential to the successful launch of both rockets. The rockets were successfully launched and recovered. The students all agreed that they learned much and had a lot of fun.
