San Francisco Pacific Academy

Our dearest 8th graders! Warmest congratulations on your graduation! We are so happy to share in the excitement of your graduation day, and so very proud of your achievements! Good luck and best wishes for your next adventure! #SFPA #SFPAgraduation #sfpaclassof2021 #SFPA8Grade https://youtu.be/STZjUBm2Bjw

Congratulations to all SFPA elementary school graduates! Major milestone! Good luck and have a great summer! Looking forward to seeing everyone in the middle school next school year 100% in-person! #SFPA #SFPA5Grade #SFPAgraduation #SFPAclassof2021 https://youtu.be/XwO9hLrpA2w

SFPA Students competed yesterday in SFPA's 7th Annual Battle of the Books! After reading books from the list and presenting reports all year, students had a group Zoom competition with three grades competing in mixed-grade groups. After a tie, there was one extra question given to the remaining teams. One group quickly gave the right answer: Surviving the Applewhites! Congratulations to the winning team! Great job, everyone! #SFPA #SFPAELA #SFPAreading #sfpacontest #readingisfundamental #readingisfun

Congratulations to the Spelling Bee winners! It's great seeing the students gain competency over vocabulary which allows them to excel at reading and writing! #SFPA #SFPAspellingbee #SpellingBee #Spellingbee2021

Students competed today in SFPA's first annual Asian American Pacific Islander Trivia competition. Students learned about the lives of many notable AAPIs during the month of May - from Ruth Asawa to Jason Momoa. Congratulations to the winning team (below)! Congratulations to all the students who took part! #SFPA #SFPAELA #SFPAcontest

Meet our Art Teacher, Tatyana Yurkhova! She teaches Art in the elementary school and a unique History of Arts course in the middle school. I am Tatyana Yurkhova, and I teach Art and History of Art. I have been teaching at Pacific Academy for 12 years, and have seen a few generations of students graduate. I got my education in Moldova (formerly part of the Soviet Republic). My art training started at the local Junior Art Academy when I was 10 years old. I was very lucky to ha...ve a great art teacher myself: she influenced my professional life starting at that early age. I went on to get a Master’s Degree in Fine Art and Architecture. My work experience is very diverse: I have illustrated books and worked with children's magazines; created set and costume designs for theaters; and I was the Kishinev Circus’ Art Department Head for more than 8 years, doing everything from performer makeup and costume design to marketing. Before coming to the United States, I also worked as a teacher at the Junior Art Academy I graduated from. I try to bring all the riches of the art world to my students, because I am really passionate about it myself. I strongly believe that every person should be open to art and creativity. My art classes are focused on bringing out the best from my students, to develop their creative potential and to give them the right tools to express themselves. Even the Art History course I developed is focused on hands-on experience: what is a better way to understand art than to try to be an artist yourself? I love my job and feel privileged to work at such a great school. I hope you have seen my students' artwork around our school building, and that you’ll see more of it in the future! See more

Craft project in the 4th grade today! #SFPA #SFPAArtandCraft #SFPA4Grade

7th Graders were diagraming sentences today! Can you differentiate between subjects and predicates, adverbs and adjectives? #SFPA #SFPAELA #SFPA7Grade

Enjoy middle school students' sketchnotes! For their latest book reports, middle school students learned how to sketchnote. They conveyed all the requirements of their rubrics with a combination of pictures, symbols, and words. Then they presented this information to the class in an oral report. #SFPA #SFPAELA #SFPAsketchnotes

SFPA Second graders are taking a Russian writing test today! #SFPA #SFPARussianlanguage #яучурусский #sfapaendofyeartests

Shh! 7th graders are taking end-of-year tests! Math today! Good luck! #SFPA #sfpamath #sfpatests

Meet Irina Ivanova, our Math teacher, who teaches Math, Algebra and Geometry in Grades 5 through 8! Irina Ivanova graduated from Moscow Pedagogical State University, Mathematics department, in 1986 and has been teaching various aspects of math for over 20 years. Hello! I have been working at SFPA for 3 years. I have always been fascinated by mathematics. Unlike any other discipline, math is always logical. There is no ambiguity. Math is always correct. Mathematics is also th...e language of all sciences. It seems that without mathematics none of the discoveries made over the past centuries would have been possible. So, studying and teaching mathematics seemed a logical choice and satisfied my own pursuit of the truths behind everything that we observe. As a mathematics teacher, I facilitate the same discovery of logic among my students. Each year I get great satisfaction watching my students build their own understanding of mathematical logic that allows them to pursue a wide variety of science based careers. It has been been my greatest pleasure to see my students grow. I was thrilled when our 7th graders became champions at Californian Perennial Math competition. I marvel at the SSAT results my 8th graders received this year - one student scoring 800 points out of 800, another - 781 out of 800! I admire my students who are taking Algebra II and Geometry classes right in the 9th grader. It gives me a warm feeling to think that I helped them achieve these outstanding results. Math rules! See more

SFPA 2nd graders are competing in math! Who can solve multiplication problems faster? Who is not afraid of tackling more complicated problems? #SFPA #SFPAmath #itisgoodtobegoodatmath

#PoeticCafe at SFPA! Enjoy 7th Graders reciting their favorite poems! #SFPA #SFPAELA #SFPA7Grade #SFPApoeticcafe #poeticcafe

SFPA Seventh and Eighth Graders at the Halloween Celebration #SFPA #sfpahalloweenspirit #sfpahalloween

Halloween celebrations for elementary students! #SFPA #sfpahalloweenspirit #sfpahalloween

SFPA Fifth graders are reading Paul Revere's Ride by H.W. Longfellow, a poem written in 1860, when America was on the verge of Civil War. The poem commemorates the actions of American patriot Paul Revere on April 18, 1775. #SFPA #SFPA5Grade #sfpaela

During our Halloween celebration, our 7th and 8th Graders were performing the Thriller dance! #SFPA #SFPAELA #sfpahalloweenspirit #sfpahalloween

4th and 5th Graders at Halloween Celebration today! #SFPA #sfpahalloweenspirit #sfpa5grade #sfpa4grade #sfpahalloween

Pirates, knights and Hogwarts students are attending our Grade 1 Russian math class today! #SFPA #SFPAMath #SFPAGrade1 #sfpahalloween #sfpahalloweenspirit

Absolutely amazing Virtual Sundae School for our students and families presented by #Museumoficecream yesterday! Our students learnt about the history of ice cream, the science behind making it, and the art of creating their very own flavor from scratch. Yes! we made our very own ice-cream! This day is the one to remember! Thanks so much, wonderful #Museumoficecream Professors!... #SFPA #SPFAFun #Museumoficecream #californianvirtualsundaeschool See more

Over the past few days, the fourth and fifth graders used the scientific method to plan a special Halloween investigation all about dissolving pumpkins! The students developed their hypotheses and planned each step of the experiment. Then, they took turns telling the teacher how to conduct each step of experiment. Last, the students wrote their conclusions. Which liquid do you think dissolved our candy pumpkins the most? #SFPA #SFPAScience #SFPA4Grade #SFPA5Grade #SFPAExperiments #SFPAhandson #sfpahalloween #sfpahalloweenspirit

Masterpieces from our young artists! With SFPA Arts Enrichment Program our students learn how to use different media to express themselves through art. Enjoy! #SFPA #SFPAARts

SFPA 2nd Graders are getting ready for Halloween! #SFPA #SFPAArts #SFPA2Grade #SFPAHalloween #SFPAHalloweenspirit

The SFPA Seventh Graders have finished their unit on The Odyssey by Homer. Their final project was to write a character analysis and draw a portrait of a character of their choice. #SFPA #SFPA6Grade #SFPAELA #SFPAdistantlearning

We have received Perennial Math Banner from #perennialmath! We proudly put it on the wall and can't wait to see all our talented students back at school! Last spring, our 7th Grade Math team won the 1st place in the California Perennial Online Math Competition - the victory which is an additional evidence of the strength and rigor of our school's math program! Also, yesterday our students from 4 through 8 Grades took part in the Caribou contest and we congratulate our 4th Gr...ader who ranks #1 in the USA! Here is the flashback from the award ceremony last spring: https://www.facebook.com/perennialmath/videos/643302419570737/ #SFPA #SPFAMath #SFPACariboumath #cariboumath #perennialmath See more

Today, to get into the spirit of the holiday, the Fifth Grade class presented masks of characters from the books and articles that they read. Can you guess the characters? #SFPA #SFPAELA #SFPAdistantlearning #sfpa5grade

SFPA second graders finished their first social studies unit by presenting meaningful family artifacts. Each wrote a paragraph about the importance of the item, and shared it with the class. We learned so much about each other's families! #SFPA #SFPAdistantlearning #SFPASocialArts #sfpa2grade