SOCIAL STUDIES
7th Grade is mapping out their very own Roman city, drawing inspiration from different emperors and aspects of Roman culture.
8th Graders are busy building a Colonial Village with paper models of homes, followed by a short write-up connecting their creations to early colonial America.
Officer Andy kicked off the Too Good for Drugs Program with our 7th Graders.
4th Grade Science
In a lesson on Kinetic Energy, 4th graders worked in groups, building their own track to see whose car would travel the farthest.
Parents: Homework Club will NOT meet today after school.
Surrounding Catholic High Schools came to speak to our 8th graders this morning. Thank you to the Admissions staff and student ambassadors of Providence, Joliet Catholic, and Benet Academy
who presented at our North Campus today.
8th Grade student gave Miss Ray the afternoon off and got up to teach their classmates how to solve for areas
using exponent rules. We may have some future teachers in this group!
7th Grade got to unwind and practice their integer operations with the game "Integer Operation War." Practice makes perfect!
Congratulations to our 2nd grade teacher, the beautiful bride...and the new Mr. & Mrs. Cervantes! Fr. Dan married the happy couple at St. Dennis this past weekend. 💒
🎃Trunk or Treat👻
ARMY CRAWL EXERCISE
ELC students enjoy their Physical Education time Mr. Hagan.
The 6th Graders used PlayDoh and a popsicle stick to write their names in cuneiform, the Ancient Mesopotamian writing system. This was the first writing system in the world, and they had a blast bringing history to life!
Kindergarten earned a stuffed animal day. They had a blast! Keep up the great work!
✝️6th Graders did a lovely job leading our Liturgy of the Word this morning and it was awesome to have our 2025-26 Choir sing for the first time this year!🎼
Join us for our first monthly SDJCA Family Mass
Today was the first official Honor Society meeting. They are actively discussing fund raising opportunities. Stay tuned for more info!
SDJCA 8th graders and parents volunteered on Saturday at the Greater Chicago Food Depository. They were part of a group that packed 2,430 lbs of food, that will be enough servings for 1,219 households!
Getting those service hours in and helping those in need. The kids worked so hard, and did this with smiles on their faces!! 💜
We are SDJCA.
This weekend, our Phoenix Volleyball teams went 5-0 at home on Saturday! Every team won their game. Our XC team had a fantastic meet on Saturday and our Flag Football team played St. Rays on Sunday. Our next home volleyball games are on Friday, September 26th.
6th & 7th grade boys volleyball take two Ws this weekend. They played hard against two competitive teams; St. Pius and St. Petronille.
1st grade earned their first squishmallow/ stuffy Friday. They had reading and cozy cuddling time in the library and stem building fun in the classroom. Students adopted their special reading buddy for the year. A contract was signed promising to read to the friend each night. It was an amazing week!
Our youngest SDJCA learners have begun the fun of learning rote counting and one to one correspondence from zero to ten. Through an activity of using ten frames and counting classmates, they were engaged and thrilled to tackle this task this week!
