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Sts. Joseph and Dominic Catholic Academy of Williamsburg

  
 

Ss. Joseph and Dominic Catholic Academy, 140 Montrose Ave, BKLYN 11206 # 718-384-1101 (fax) 718-384-6567 – www.ssjda.org

September 2009

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

 

 

1  

2nd Tuition

Payment Due

Welcome Back to School

 

Reflection: Mary always points us to God, reminding us of God’s infinite goodness.

Most Holy Name of the Blessed Virgin Mary

6

7

8th Grade Class  Fundraising

 Month

8

Teacher

Professional

Development

9

1st day of school

 

11:30am Dismissal

10

Book Report Due

 

11:30am Dismissal

11

School/Family Mass

8th & 1st Grades

11:30am Dismissal

No Lunch

No After School

12

13

 

14

1st day of

After School

Full Days

of School Begin

8am – 2:30pm

15

Reading Theater

2nd & 3rd Grades

1:45 Auditorium

Coordinator:

Ms. Torres

16

Reading  Theater

4th & 5th Grades

1:45 Auditorium

Coordinator:

Mrs. Aguilar

17

Reading  Theater

6th & 7th Grades

1:45 Auditorium

Coordinator:

Mr. D

18

Reading  Theater

8Th Grade

1:45 Auditorium

Coordinator:

Ms. Williams

19

20

21

DEAR

Drop Everything  And  Read

1:45 – 2:30

22        Pizza Sale

1Slice - $2.00

2Slices-$3.00

 

8th Grade Retreat

Our Lady of Pompeii

23

Meet the Teacher Night

6:00 pm to 7:30 pm

24   Chocolate Sale

School Fundraiser

 

Sony Wonderland Technology Lab Trip

Wining Classes 

 

 

25

Sony Wonderland Technology Lab Trip

Winning Classes

 

Dress Down $1.00

Club Time 1:45

26

27

 

 

28

 

Diocesan Testing

3rd – 8th Grades

29

Diocesan Testing

Sequences, Analogies,

Quantitative Reasoning

Verbal Reasoning (words & content)

30

Diocesan Testing

Reading

and

Language Arts

Part I & Part II

 

 

 

Diocesan Testing

Mathematics

Part I & Part II

 

Diocesan Testing

Word Analysis

Vocabulary, Spelling

Language Mechanics

Math Computation

 

 

LUNCH FEE

“B” -$4.25

“C”- $25.50


Ss. Joseph and Dominic Catholic Academy, 140 Montrose Ave, BKLYN 11206 # 718-384-1101 (fax) 718-384-6567 – www.ssjda.org

October 2009

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

St. Francis of Assisi

 

Reflection: “We adore you and we bless you, Lord Jesus Christ, here and in all the churches which are in the whole world, because by your cross you have redeemed the world”

1

3RD Tuition

Payment Due

 

Diocesan Testing

2

School/Family  Mass

5th &  4th Grades

11:30am Dismissal

No Lunch

No After School

3

4

 

5

8th Grade Registration

TACHS Exam $49

www.tachsinfo.com

1-866-61TACHS

(1-866-618-2247)

 

 

6

First Grade

Class

Fundraiser

7

DEAR

Drop Everything And Read

1:45 to 2:30

8

 

Club/Sports Time

Afternoon

1:45 – 2:30

9

8th Grade Visits

Bishop Loughlin

High School

10

11

12

 

 

Columbus Day

School Closed

13

 

Religion and

Social Studies

Mid Term Exam

14     Pizza Sale

1Slice - $2.00

2Slices-$3.00

 

English Language Arts

Mid Term Exam

15

 

Science

Mid Term Exam

 

16

Dress Down

$1.00

 

Math

Mid Term Exam

17

18

19

 

DEAR

Drop Everything
And Read

1:45 to 2:30

20

 

3rd Grade Retreat

Our Lady of Pompeii

21

Rosary Rally

St. James Cathedral

Bishop DiMarzio,

Presiding

5th to 8th Grade

22

8th Grade  Deadline

For Internet and

Telephone Registration for TACHS Exam

23

8th Grade Visits

Bishop Ford HS

 

Progress Reports

Distribution

 

24

 

25

26

 

DEAR

Drop Everything
And Read

1:45 to 2:30

27

 

6 & 7th Grade Retreat

Ss. Peter and Paul

28

 

Writing Workshop

1:45 to 2:30

29

 

Club Afternoon

Afternoon

1:45 – 2:30

30

1PM Awards Assembly

All Saints/

Halloween  Show

$1.00 per student

Ms. Aguilar  &  Mr. D

31


Ss. Joseph and Dominic Catholic Academy, 140 Montrose Ave, BKLYN 11206 # 718-384-1101 (fax) 718-384-6567 – www.ssjda.org

November 2009

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

1

 

All Saints Day

2

4th Tuition

Payment Due

Life Touch

Class Pictures

3

7th Grade Class  Fundraising

Month

4

Life Touch

Individual

Pictures

5

Pizza Day

1Slice - $2.00

2Slices-$3.00

 

 

6

Curriculum
Teachers Profressonal Development
School Closed

7

Specialized High School Examination

Good Luck

8th Graders

8

9

DEAR
Drop Everything And Read

1:45 -2:30

10

 

Writing Across the Curriculum

1:45 -2:30

11

 

Veteran’s Day

School Closed

12

 

Reading Across the Curriculum

1:45 – 2:30

13

 

Club Time Afternoon

1:45 – 2:30

14

TACHS Examination

Good Luck

8th Graders

15

 

 

16

 

Writing Across the Curriculum

1:45 -2:30

17

 

Reading Theater/Poetry Afternoon 1:45

18

 

Science Brain Quest

1:45 to 2:30

19

 

Social Studies Brain Quest

1:45 to 2:30

20  Dress Down $1.00

International Food

Sale Day

Club/Sports Afternoon

Afternoon

1:45 – 2:30

21

22

 

Christ the King

Solemnity

23

 

Club Time  Afternoon

1:45 – 2:30

24

 

Awards Assembly

 

 

25 

Family/School

Thanksgiving Mass

10:30AM

11:30 Early Dismissal

 

26

Thanksgiving

 

School Closed

27

 

School Closed

28

29

 

Advent Sunday

Start of Advent

30

Reading Theater/Poetry Afternoon 1:45

 

 

 

 

 

Feast of All Saints

These are the ones who have survived the time of  great distress; they have washed their robes and made them whit in the blood of the Lamb”

Revelation 7:9:14


Ss. Joseph and Dominic Catholic Academy, 140 Montrose Ave, BKLYN 11206 # 718-384-1101 (fax) 718-384-6567 – www.ssjda.org

December 2009

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

 

3rd Grade Class  Fundraising

Month

1   

5th Tuition

 Payment Due

 

Second Trimester

Begins

 

2

 

Club Time/Sports Afternoon

1:45-2:30

3

Pizza Sale

1Slice - $2.00

2Slices-$3.00

 

4

School/Family Mass

Our Lady of Pompeii

9:00 am

No Lunch

11:30 Dismissal

 

5

6

7

 

Professional

Development

School Closed

8

Immaculate Conception

Holy Day of Obligation School Closed

9       Report Cards

Distribution

12:00 noon – 3:00 pm

6:00 – 8:00pm

11:30am dismissal

No After School

 

10     Fundraising

2nd Grade

Ms. Torres

Last day to complete TACHS Records

No After school

11

Breakfast with Santa

8:30am-12pm

$5.00 per ticket

Free Dress Down

12

 

13

14

DEAR

Drop Everything
And Read

1:45 to 2:30

15

 

Confirmation& Communion Prep

16

 

Reading Theater

1:45 – 2:30

17

Christmas Show

6:30PM

$5.00 per ticket

No AFTERSCHOOL

18

Early Dismissal

11:30am

Start of Christmas Vacation

19

20

21

 

NO SCHOOL

22

 

NO SCHOOL

23

 

NO SCHOOL

24

 

CHRISTMAS EVE

 

25

 

CHRISTMAS DAY

 

26

27

 

The Holy Family Fest

28

 

NO SCHOOL

29

 

NO SCHOOL

Immaculate Conception

Reflection [Mary] gave to the world the life that renews all things, and she was enriched by God with gifts appropriate to such a role.

 

 

 

Ss. Joseph and Dominic Catholic Academy, 140 Montrose Ave, BKLYN 11206 # 718-384-1101 (fax) 718-384-6567 – www.ssjda.org

January 2010

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

Most Holy Name of Jesus –Mary, Mother of God

 

Everything that exists was created in and through the Son of God

Colossians 1: 15-20

6th Grade Class  Fundraising

Month

1

Feast of Mary

Mother of Jesus

 

New Year’s Day

School Closed

2

3

 

 

4

5th Tuition

 Payment Due

 

Class Resume

 

 

5 

 

Mid  Semester  Exam

 

6

Epiphany of the Lord

Solemnity

10:00 Mass

Epiphany Church

Mid  Semester  Exam

 

7

 

Mid  Semester  Exam

 

8

School/Family  Mass

11:30 Dismissal

No Lunch

     No After school

9

10

 

Baptism of the Lord

11

Pizza Sale

1Slice - $2.00

2Slices-$3.00

Religion & Science

Mid Term Exam

12

NYS Grade 4

English Language

Arts

 

Math Mid Term Exam

13

NYS Grade 4

English Language

Arts

Social Studies

Mid Term Exam

14

NYS  Grade 4

ELA Exam

High Schools Mail

Acceptance Notifications

15

Science

Brain Quest

 

Dress Down $1.00

ELA Mid Term Exam

16

17

 

18

 

Martin Luther

King Jr.

Observance

School Closed

19

 

NYS Grade 6 & 8

English Language Arts

 

20

 

NYS Grade 6&8

English Language Arts

21

 

NYS Grade 6 & 8 English Language Arts

 

 

22

School Trip

 

Progress Report

Distribution

23

24/31

 

Catholic

Schools  Week

Begins

25

 

Open House

8:30 – 11:45

Reading Awareness

Open Mic afternoon

Poetry

26

 

Open House

8:30 – 11:45

International Day

Travel Around the World

27

 

Open House

8:30 – 11:45

 

Teachers Appreciation Day

 

28

 

Students Appreciation

Day

Free Dress Down

Breakfast/Talent Show

29

 

8th Grade

Ring Ceremony  10:00

Transfiguration Church

 

Formal School Uniform

30

 

 

Ss. Joseph and Dominic Catholic Academy, 140 Montrose Ave, BKLYN 11206 # 718-384-1101 (fax) 718-384-6567 – www.ssjda.org


February 2010

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

 

5th Grade Class  Fundraising

Month

1

 

7th Tuition

Payment Due

2

Presentation of the Lord- Feast

School Mass

1:45

3

DEAR

(Drop Everything and Read)

PK-8th Grade

4

Social Studies

Brain Quest

1st – 8th Grades 1:45pm

5

School/Family Mass

Early Dismissal

11:30am

No Lunch/ No After school

6

7

8

 

DEAR

(Drop Everything and Read)

PK-8th Grade

9

 

Writing Across the Curriculum Workshop

1:45 – 2:30

 

10

Pizza Sale

1Slice - $2.00

2Slices-$3.00

 

11

 

Science Brain Quest

1st-8th Grades

1:45pm

12

Dress Down

$1.00

Club

Time/Activities

Pk-8th Grades

 

13

14

 

15

Mid-Winter

Recess

 

School Closed

 

16

Mid-Winter

Recess

 

School Closed

 

17

Mid-Winter

Recess

Ash Wednesday

School Closed

 

18

Mid-Winter

Recess

 

School Closed

 

19

Mid-Winter

Recess

 

School Closed

 

20

21

 

First

Sunday of  Lent

22    Classes Resume

Lent  School Mass

10:00

Ss. Peter & Paul  Church

St. Peter , Apostle Feast

23

DEAR

(Drop Everything and Read)

PK-8th Grade

24

 

Club/Sports Afternoon

1:45 – 2:30

25

 

Awards Assembly

1:45 – 2:30

26

 

Stations of the Cross 1:45

2nd Grade to 8th Grade

27

28

 

Second

Sunday of  Lent

Presentation of the Lord

Reflection:  I am the light of the world.” And we are the light, we ourselves, if we receive it from Him. 

 

Lent is a time of preparation for the death of Christ on Good Friday and His Resurrection on Easter Sunday.

It is a period of 40 days of repentance, with prayer, fasting, abstinence and confession.

Lent begins on Ash Wednesday, 46 days before Easter Sunday.

 

 

Ss. Joseph and Dominic Catholic Academy, 140 Montrose Ave, BKLYN 11206 # 718-384-1101 (fax) 718-384-6567 – www.ssjda.org


March 2010

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

 

Lunch

“B” : $4.75

“C”: $28.50

1

 

End of Semester  Review

 

2 

NYS Math Exam

Grade 4

 

End of Semester  Review

 

3

NYS Math Exam

Grade 4

 

Catholic High School

Registration

4

NYS Math Exam

Grade 4

 

End of Semester  Review

 

5

School/Family Mass

Early dismissal

11:30am

No Lunch/after school

6   

4th Grade Class  Fundraising

Month

 

7

Third  

Sunday of  Lent

8     

End of Semester

Religion Exam

 

DEAR

(Drop Everything and Read)   PK-8th Grade

 

9    

End of Semester

Social Studies Exam

 

NYS Math Exam

Grades 6&8

10

End of Semester  Exam

  English Language Arts

 

NYS Grade 6& 8

Math Exam

 

11

 

End of Semester 

Science Exam

 

12        Pizza Day

 

 

End of Semester 

Math Exam

Stations of the Cross 1:45 (2nd to 8th) Grade)

13

14

 

Fourth   

Sunday of  Lent

15

DEAR

(Drop Everything and Read)   PK-8th Grade

 

16

 

Reading Theater

1:45 to 2:30

17

St. Patrick’s Day

Dress Down $1.00

Wear Green

Third Trimester Begins

 

18

Pizza Sale

1Slice - $2.00

2Slices-$3.00

Club/Sports Afternoon

 

19

School Mass

1:45

St. Joseph, Husband of Mary - Solemnity

 

20

21

Fifth    

Sunday of  Lent

(Passion Sunday)

22

 

Writing Across the Curriculum

1:45 – 2:30

23

 

School Assembly

1:45am

 

24

Report Card Distribution

12:00-3:00pm

6:00-8:00pm

25

 

Annunciation of the Lord- Solemnity

School Mass 1:45

26 

Teachers

Professional Development

School Closed

27

28

 

Palm Sunday

29

 

Reading Theater

Poetry Afternoon

1:45 to 2:30

30

Writing Across the Curriculum

1:05 – 1:45

Stations of the Cross

1:45 – 2:30

31

 

Easter Mass 10:30

11:30 Dismissal

St  Joseph

 

Reflection: He was chosen by the eternal Father as the trust worthy guardian and protector of his greatest treasures, namely, his divine Son and Mary, Joseph’s wife.

 

 

Ss. Joseph and Dominic Catholic Academy, 140 Montrose Ave, BKLYN 11206 # 718-384-1101 (fax) 718-384-6567 – www.ssjda.org


April 2010

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

St. Benedict in the Franciscan Order

 

‘I did not come to be served, but to serve,” says the Lord

Matthew 20: 28

 

 

 

1  

 

No School

Holy Thursday

2

 

No school

Good Friday

3

 

Holy  Saturday

4

 

Easter Sunday

5

 

No School

6

 

No School

7

 

No School

8

 

No School

9

 

No School

10

 

2nd Grade Class  Fundraising

Month

11

 

12

9th Tuition

Payment due

 

Class Resumes

 

 

13

 

DEAR

Drop Everything and Read

 1:45- 2:30pm

14

 

Writing Across the Curriculum

1:45 – 2:30

15

 

Reading Theater

Poetry Afternoon

1:45 to 2:30

16

School/Family Mass

10:30

Early Dismissal

11:30am

No lunch/after school

17

18

 

19

 

DEAR

Drop Everything and Read

 1:45- 2:30pm

20

 

Writing Across the Curriculum

1:45 – 2:30

21

 

Pizza Day

1Slice - $2.00

2Slices-$3.00

 

22    

 

Reading Theater

Poetry Afternoon

1:45 to 2:30

23

 

Dress Down $1

Club/Sports Afternoon

24

25

26

 

Reading Theater

Poetry Afternoon

1:45 to 2:30

27

 

Spelling Bee

1:45 to 2:30

28

 

Science Brain Quest

1:45 to 2:30

29

 

Social Studies Brain Quest 1:45 to 2:30

30

 

Mental Math

Times Tables Competition

1:45 – 2:30

 

 

 

Ss. Joseph and Dominic Catholic Academy, 140 Montrose Ave, BKLYN 11206 # 718-384-1101 (fax) 718-384-6567 – www.ssjda.org


May 2010

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

St. Joseph the Worker

The church has from the beginning proudly emphasized that Jesus was a carpenter, obviously trained by Joseph in both  ….. functions and the drudgery of that vocation.  Humanity is like God not only in thinking and loving, but also in creating

 

1

Kindergarten Class  Fundraising

Month

2

 

3

NYS Grade 4

Science Performance Exam

4

NYS Grade 4 Science Written Exam

 

Mid  Semester  Exam

 

5

NYS Grade 8 Science Performance Exam

 

Mid  Semester  Exam

 

6

NYS Grade 4 Science Written Exam

 

Mid  Semester  Exam

 

7

School/Family Mass

Early Dismissal

11:30

No lunch/ No After school

8

 

9

 

10

 

Reading Theatre

1:45 Auditorium

8th grade & 3rd Grade

11  

 

Reading Theatre

1:45 Auditorium

7th & 2nd Grade

 

12

Spring Dinner Dance

Honoring our mothers and Fathers 6-8pm

11:30 Dismissal

No

 

 

13  

Ascension of the Lord

Solemnity 10:30 Mass

 

11:30 Dismissal

 

14  

 

School

Closed

15

 

 

16

 

17  

DEAR

(Drop Everything and Read)

18   

Story Time

Pre-k, K & 8th

Mid Term Report Distribution

19

Pizza Sale

1 Slice -$2.00

2 Slice $3.50

20

Writing Across the Curriculum

21  WALKATHON

Sports Afternoon

Basketball

7th & 8th Grades

Gym Uniform

 

22

23

 

24  

Social Studies

Brain Quest

1:30-2pm 1-4th

2-2:30pm 5-8th

 

25

Spelling Bee

Pizza Sale

1Slice - $2.00

2Slice -$ 3.50

26

Science Brain Quest

1:30-2pm 1-4th

2-230pm -5-8th

 

27

 

Dress Down $ 1

 

28

 

The Holy Trinity School/Family Mass 1:45-2:30

 

29

The Holy Trinity

Solemnity

30

 

31

 

Memorial Day

School Closed

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ss. Joseph and Dominic Catholic Academy, 140 Montrose Ave, BKLYN 11206 # 718-384-1101 (fax) 718-384-6567 – www.ssjda.org


June 2010

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

 

NO After School for the Month of June

 

Religion and ELA

Final Exams

1s -Grade to 7th

 

1

Social Studies Final Exams

1s -Grade to 7th

 

2

Science Final Exams

1s -Grade to 7th

 

3

Math Final Exams

1s -Grade to 7th

 

NYS Grade 8

Social Studies Exam

4

School Mass

11:30  Dismissal

 

NYS Grade 8

Social Studies Exam

5

Pre-Kindergarten  Class Fundraising

Month

6

The Body and Blood of Christ (Corus Christi)

Solemnity

7

 

Senior Trips

Dorney Park

8

   Uniform Measurement

Ideal Department

Store 10am

$25.00 Deposit Required

 

9

 

8th Grade Only

Early Dismissal

 

8th Grade Dinner

10

 

8th Grade only

Early Dismissal

 

11        8th Grade

Graduation Mass 10am

Most Holy Trinity St Mary’s

Most Sacred Heart of Jesus

Graduation Ceremony 7pm

Ss. Peter & Paul Church

12

13

14

 

Club Time

Sports Afternoon

15

 

Club Time

Sports Afternoon

16

 

Pizza Sale

1Slice - $2.00

2Slices-$3.00

 

17

 

 

Dress Down $1:00

 

18

 

School Trip

Pre Kindergarten to

7th Grades

19

20