STUDENT LIFE
St. Augustine School provides an environment with many different teaching and learning styles. For each child, the experience of being a student at our school is unique.
We asked students from each grade to tell us what student life is like for them. The responses we received were so insightful, so joyful – we simply had
to share them!
Grade 1: “A first grader learns and writes and does subtraction and
works hard to get to second grade…We learn about the world in Social Studies…We
pray every day and learn about God things…We get to write in books. I love that…When
it’s raining outside, we have indoor recess....We have lots of fun with our teachers…I
met new friends.”
Grade 2: “In second grade we receive First Communion…We do dictation
and math…We learned all about fiction and nonfiction…Every Friday we get a book
report…In second grade your imagination gets very big…I’ve been getting a lot of
friends in second grade…My teacher is awesome…All I can say is that second grade
is all just fun!”
Grade 3: “It’s awesome to be a third grader…You learn multiplication,
division, cursive and recorder…You get a first grade reading buddy too…My favorite
thing was biographies because when we presented them, we dressed up as them…In Science
you learn about things that dissolve, water pressure, weather, plants, and animals…Sometimes
homework is fun and other times it’s not…If you liked second grade you will LOVE
third.”
Grade 4: “Fourth
grade is so fun. I wish every grade was fourth grade!...We have lots of field trips
and fun projects…Sometimes you have to bring a lot of books home and you have tough
quizzes/tests…I thought it would be really hard but it ended up being really fun!
We do lots of fun projects in Science and Social Studies. You also meet new friends
and make closer friends.”
Grade 5: “I
like all the privileges we get to have. Like being on the Leadership Team, Exploratory,
and having one recess…Exploratory is a fun period in school when we do and learn
special things. I took How Computers Really Work and Wood Carving.
Fifth grade is hard, but if you work hard at it you will do great...Advice I would
give to fourth graders coming into fifth is be ready to study hard, do your homework,
and have really nice teachers…Being a fifth grader is a special person to be.”
Grade 6: “The sixth grade is great!!!!!! My math teacher made algebra and functions easy for me
(was it even possible?)…Our first field trip was to The Peabody Essex Museum. We
saw an ancient Chinese house called the Yin Yu Tang house. It was transported from
China to the United States! The inside was beautiful and had many old artifacts…Trust me, if you want the
best school year in the world, it will have to be St. Augustine’s sixth grade.”
Grade 7: “Coming
to Saint A’s this year was a very good experience. I did not have any trouble making
friends. Everyone here is really, really nice!...One thing I noticed is that they
treat us like we’re much older than they did in the sixth grade. In Literature,
we read stuff by Edgar Allen Poe. In Science, we got to use hydrochloric acid. But
there is a lot of work to do!...You may be wondering about the dances. They can
either be really fun or really lame. It all depends on the music and what mood we’re
all in.”
Grade 8: “Being
an eighth grader was one of the most scary, fun, interesting times of my life, and
I wouldn’t have changed it for the world. As an eighth grader you have many responsibilities.
You are the head of the school, so you have to set a good example…Having Kindergarten
Buddies is the best. We do activities with them like puzzles and reading books and
we get to walk them down to Mass every month...Although there are some nights you
get piled up with homework, and you think that you can’t ever finish, you’ll get through
it….I’m going to miss this school and all the unique and special students that have
graced my school years with their, to put it bluntly, insanity! Yes, it’s definitely
going to be four quiet years without them.”
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