A traditional feature of the Country Day
program is the overnight trips taken by students and faculty as extensions
of academic studies. Juniors and seniors head north to Ashland's
Shakespeare Festival and an in-touch experience with the English language
at its finest, with an optional raft trip for variety. Ninth graders spend
four days on a San Francisco Bay Area excursion and tenth grade students head to the foothills and the American River for whitewater rafting and an outdoor educational experience.
Eighth grade students tour Washington, D.C. and the surrounding area for a week seeped in history, and seventh
graders are introduced to one of America's greatest treasures - Yosemite National Park - in a program led by the Yosemite Institute. Sixth-grade students spend five days in the curriculum-based education program at the Sequoia National Park
Ecology, tide pool life, marine mammals, daytime nature hikes, and evening
speakers comprise the fifth graders' trip to Marin Headlands. The
fourth graders travel back in history when they spend the night camping
at Sutter's Fort.
Younger students confine their traveling to day trips
to a variety of near-by sites including The Sacramento Bee, Old
Sacramento, the Capitol, museums, factories, local performances, and more.
For High School trip information and forms, go to the Back-to-School packet