Escuela Santa Ana

Estamos de regreso y listos para un buen año escolar 2023!! We are back and ready for a great 2023 school year!!

Upper El - Walden Pond Writing Activity…Thoreau used to go out, look at nature and then describe what he saw. It seemed as though the longer he looked at something simple, the more he was able to observe. The students were challenged to look in front of them and list all of the different things they saw. Observing closely and writing, two of our favorite things!

The multi-age classroom and mentoring opportunities between classrooms at ESA allow children to practice leadership, as well as learn from older peers. Children build friendships across grade levels and have a greater sense of community in doing so. What an amazing opportunity for everyone!

This week’s virtue was trust. Students work in a variety of ways with the virtue each week to gain deeper understanding of the meaning of each virtue.

We are very grateful for our ESA family! 🧡

Getting ready for tomorrow’s gratitude festivities!

What a great week of learning at ESA!

Today’s outing to the Escondida tide pools was a wonderful opportunity for our Elementary students to explore, ask questions, engage and move in nature. What an amazing place we live in!

Spanish lessons, both formal and informal, happen daily at ESA. Playing games, drawing vocabulary words, communicating with native speakers, allow children to develop language in age appropriate ways. Gracias a nuestra profesora de español por este ambiente de aprendizaje!

Asking questions and diving deep, moving our bodies, sharing healthy snacks (thank you healthy snack squad!), exploring, strengthening hands to learn to write, and making music, all in a good week’s work!

We have danced, problem solved, read, listened, made new friends, laughed, learned and worked hard these first few days at ESA!

First day of school 2022! New and returning students joined us in the classrooms today for an incredible first day of the school year. It’s going to be a great year!!

Our amazing staff is back in the classrooms and getting ready for a wonderful 2022-2023 school year! Ms. Samantha, Ms. Lily, Ms. Jennifer and Mr. Derek are looking forward to welcoming children on November 2.

Oh the places these children will go! 💛

Spirit week was a huge success!!! We celebrated reading, did STEM experiments, painted, ate green eggs and ham, played games, laughed and learned!

Our Gallery Art Sale was a huge success! Thank you to everyone who came out to support our young artists and the amazing CREA organization.

Our Upper School Curators are working hard to prepare for today’s art sale. All proceeds will be used to purchase supplies to donate to CREA. We look forward to seeing you there!

Gingerbread pirates, the 5 senses & a sensory walk, mental math, rain sticks, measuring mass, Spanish lessons, visits from the tooth fairy and so much more!

Shape work, gross motor skills practice, science experiments, math, reading with friends and SO much more! ⭐️

Happy Thanksgiving to our ESA families! We had a week filled with gratitude, community and creativity! There were a lot of turkeys too! 🧡🦃🧡

This week was a good week! We worked hard, asked questions, read to each other, connected with the helpers in our community and played hard!

The first week of school at ESA has been full of the most amazing things…compass work, building, math and maps, learning about names and shapes, running, jumping, painting and making friends! What an exciting start!

First Day of School 2021-2022…best day ever! We are so happy to see these smiling faces and kick off what is sure to be a wonderful year!

At ESA our preschoolers learn through experimentation👩🏽‍🔬🧑🏻‍🔬and hands on activities. What a better way to end our week than with some psazz ⚡️. We wish you all an ENERGETIC weekend!

Mother’s Day celebrations at ESA were a wonderful opportunity to show gratitude to all of the ESA moms! Thank you moms for all that you do! ❤️

While we celebrate our beautiful planet each day, Earth Day is always a special occasion at ESA! 🌎💚🌴🌺

Happy Earth Day from the ESA Family! 💚🌎🌊🐢

Moving with intention, learning how to play as a team and running SO hard! Thank you Mr. Brendan!!

Paint blowing googly-eyed monsters! Art, imagination, exploration and creative play all wrapped into something so fun!

We ❤️ learning!

Hunting, searching, crafting, coloring...we had a big day at ESA celebrating this Pascua season! 🐰🐣

Today’s beach cleanup was a huge success!! 🌊💙

Our Upper School got in on the St. Patty’s Day fun with their own scavenger hunt! 🍀💚

🍀 Happy St. Patrick’s Day!! 🍀 Tricky Mr. Leprechaun came, but we couldn’t catch him. We followed the clues, searching for the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow 🌈 and had a wonderfully green day anyway. 💚

From silly sock day, to wacky Wednesday, to eating our own green eggs and ham, we had the best Spirit Week yet!

It’s Spirit Week at ESA, celebrating Dr Seuss has never been so fun! 🎨✨📚