CATALINA was a blast!
On February 5th at midnight the 70 - 6th graders and 9 chaperones pulled out of the Desert Trail's parking lot on our way to beautiful Catalina Island. CIMI or otherwise known as Catalina Island Marine Institute is a place where our students participated in activities in the various settings such as: inside well equipped labs, outside labs on the beach, in the ocean, the canyon around the bay, and the dormatories. The weekend learning experience included dissecting squid, touching and feeding several baby sharks, studying about algae, snorkeling, and we even learned about night creatures.
Our Chaperones did an outstanding job supervising and participating in the activities! A huge THANK YOU to each of them!

Our trip concluded Sunday night around 10:30 p.m. We all returned safe and sound with many wonderful memories and with more knowledge and insight to our environment and sea life.