St. James School - Extracurriculars

St. James School has many extracurricular activities available to students.

Book Bee (Grades 4th - 8th)

Book Bee is a competition between schools which takes place in the Archdiocese of Louisville in the spring of each year.

Students in grades fourth through eighth read books on the Book Bee list. Questions from these books are developed and used for the year-end competition. Students practice with their respective teams throughout the year in preparation for the tournament. A group of students choose a book and attempt to become proficient in the knowledge of all aspects of the story.

Following are the Book Bee books for the 2010 - 2011 school year:

GRADE FOUR

The Anybodies by N.E. Bode
The Frindle by Andrew Clements
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate di Camilo
The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very
Interesting Boy by Jeanne Birdsall
Phineas L. MacGuire . . . Erupts by Frances O'Roark Dowell
Poppy by Avi
The Power of Un by Nancy Etchemendy
Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio by Peg Kehret
The Beloved Dearly by Doug Cooney
The Willoughbys by Lois Lowry
World According to Humphrey by Betty G. Birney

GRADE FIVE

All the Lovely Bad Ones by Mary Downing Hahn
Blood on the River: James Town 1607 by Elisa Lynn Carbone
Chasing Vermeer by Blue Balliett
Dial-A-Ghost by Eva Ibbotsen
Esperanza Rising by Pat Munro Ryan
Ghost of Fossil Glen by Cynthia DeFelice
Kensuke's Kingdom by Michael Morpurgo
Leon and the Spitting Image by Allen Kurzwell
Miss Spitfire: Reaching Helen Keller by Sarah Miller
The Mysterious Benedict Society#1 by Trenton Lee Stewart
Rules by Cynthia Lord
Septimus Heap, Book 1: Magyk by Angie Sage

GRADE SIX

Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Chodenko
City of Ember by Jeanne Duprau
Elijah by Christopher DPaul Curtis
Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy by Gary D. Schmidt
A Long Way From Chicago by Richard Peck
Princess Adacdemy by Shannon Hale
Red Kayak by Priscilla Cummings
So B. It by Sarah Weeks
Travel Team by Mile Lupica
Two Hot Dogs With Everything by Paul Haven
Wednesday Wars by Gary Schmidt

GRADES SEVEN AND EIGHT

An Acquaintance with Darkness by Ann Rinaldi
Far North by Will Hobbs
Letters from Wolfie by Patti Sherlock
Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer
Nation by Terry Pratchett
Nothing But the Truth by Avi
Peter and Starcatchers by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson
Priates by Celia Rees
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred Taylor
The Schwa Was Here by Neal Shusterman
Tangerine by Edward Bloor
Things Not Seen by Andrew Clements

GRADES SEVEN AND EIGHT -- 2011 - 2012 SCHOOL YEAR

Alchemyst: The Secrets of the Immortal Flamel by Michael D. Scott
Code Orange by Caroline Cooney
Hero by S.L. Rottman
H.I.V.E. by Mark Walton
Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment by James Patterson
Petey by Ben Mikaelsen
Premonitions by Jude Watson
Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech
The Watsons Go To Birmingham - 1963 by Christopher Curtis
Zach's Lie by Roland Smith

Student Government (all levels)

All students, K - 8, can be involved with student government. Students sign up to be representatives from their classes. Meetings are scheduled periodically throughout the year with students deciding which projects they wish to take on for the year. This school year, 2010 - 2011, Mrs. Snapp and Mrs. Kelly Durrett are sponsoring the student government. In November, student government sponsored a donation drive for Hand in Hand Ministries. After student government collected over 200 hundred items, Mrs. Snapp drove to Appalachia and presented them to the Hand in Hand Ministries.

An ongoing project for the student government over the past few years has been the purchase and placement of a flag pole.

The student government also sponsors the Santa Brunch which takes place in early December.

Quick Recall (Grades 5th - 8th)

Chess Club (2nd - 8th)