Usually at least 3-30 requirements in science, health, safety, language arts, environmental education, social studies, etc etc are covered. This is a special day for the students with many parental volunteers, peer teachers, and agency volunteers. The ocassion calls for planned activities that have moved forward from year to year but also augment the classroom studies on a yearly basis. The fifth grade classes visit the Mennonite Community very near Camp Monterey. There they see and talk to people with a very different life style than tradition dictates for this area of the country.
Students also study insects, animals, water, trees, flowering plants and so forth.