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Campbell’s soup cans, icon images, dollar symbols – well-known work by pop artist Andy Warhol – will be replicated on concrete by the student artists of Sacramento Country Day High School. Students will spend five hours on Friday on their hands and knees creating a work of art out of 40 feet of concrete. The long sidewalk, normally an unpretentious path to the college counseling office, becomes, for one day only, a chalk mural commemorating the paintings of Andy Warhol.

Sponsored by the school’s chapter of the National Art Honor Society, this cooperative creation is an annual event, first started by students in 1992 to honor the birthday of Pablo Picasso. Subsequent years have seen impressive recreations of other famous artists including Matisse, Georgia O’Keeffe, Edward Hopper, Van Gogh, and Wayne Thiebaud. The year Mr. Thiebaud’s work was celebrated, the artist himself came by to see the mural.

The chalk images are planned, designed, and rendered entirely by students and the finished mural is a spectacular visual display of talent at Sacramento Country Day School. An ephemeral event, the mural is on display only until the rain washes it away!

High School students and teachers at Sacramento Country Day School are paying tribute to the birthday of Dr. Seuss on March 3 with a multi-language reading of “The Cat in the Hat.”  Stanzas will be read in Vietnamese, Tamil, Hindi, Korean, Mandarin, Ukrainian, Greek, Latin, Hebrew, Arabic, Flemish, and Indonesian as well as French, Spanish, German, Italian, and English.  Language students are working on their translations now, while some students will read in their native language.  Faculty will also play a part, reading segments in ancient Greek, Japanese, Spanish, French, and Arabic.   The event is part of the “Read Across America” promotion of reading awareness sponsored by the National Education Association.

Sacramento Country Day School celebrated world cultures with a parade, songs in Spanish and French, food from different countries, and a performance from alumnus Gustavo Galindo singing songs from his upcoming album Entre la Ciudad y el Mar.  Pre-kindergartners in their Pitchy Patchy vests danced their way through campus to the gym, followed by the rest of the SCDS community, drummers, and giant puppets.  Many students dressed in costumes from different countries.  At the morning assembly, 2nd and 4th graders sang French and Spanish songs, and class of 2000 graduate Gustavo Galindo entertained with guitar and songs.   Middle School students created flags from different countries and decorated the quad, where an international lunch filled four 8-foot tables.  The High School held its annual Passport Lunch fundraiser, where students prepare foods from different countries and diners purchase a “passport” to travel from classroom to classroom for lunch. Over $800 was raised for Country Day’s sister school, The Rulindo School, in Rwanda.

How to Avoid the Freshman Fifteen, Fighting Fatigue in College, Smart Snack Choices in the Dorm.   These are just a few of the topics in Sacramento Country Day School’s “College Health and Nutrition” class, taught by High School science teacher Kellie Whited.  “The class focuses on non-academic pressures students may face in college, for example, cooking and shopping for themselves, staying fit, dealing with roommates, budgeting, sex, drugs, and stress,” says Dr. Whited.  Whited is the Middle and High School Science Department chair at Country Day and teaches biology in the High School.  She has a BS in Animal Science and a PhD in Nutritional Biology, both from UC Davis.