MARCH CALENDAR - Student Activities

by Wendy Szot, Saugus High School

Listed below are student activities for the month of March:

1. Find Your Lucky Charm- On St. Patrick’s Day, students look for a “Lucky Charm” with their name on it. These “Luck Charms” can be made out of 5 x 8 paper cut outs. ASB students randomly place these “Lucky Charms” on windows and bulletin boards across campus. Students find their “Lucky Charm” to see if they have won a prize, which is written on the back.

2. Clover-Fest- Students are given a four leaf clover paper cut-out. They are asked to write a note of good luck to a friend. Your ASB students can deliver these notes during the day.

3. California High School Exit Exam Activity- During the days prior to the CAHSEE, your ASB can have brunch activities getting students excited about the CAHSEE. For example, your ASB can bring a portable white board to your outdoor stage, and they can have CAHSEE type math problems competitions. Or you can do a CAHSEE countdown to start making the students think about preparing for the CAHSEE.

4. March is a great time to have an academic assembly. By now most schools have received their ten week report card. For students who received a 3.0 GPA or better, hold a special assembly or activity, like an ice cream social.

5. It’s March and your seniors are starting to get a bad case of Senior-it is. Don’t let them. Hold Senior night activities, like powder puff football or a senior 3 on 3 basketball tournament.

6. Most schools hold their Open House in March or early April. Turn your Open House into a carnival. Please see asbdirector.com’s Open House link in the menu bar.

7. In the month of March, have your ASB students conduct a line item audit of your budget. This is a great exercise for students to discern if they have met their expected revenue totals from earlier in the year.

8. Make sure your ASB has signed up for CADA / CASL’s  summer leadership camps.

9. Your Prom Committee  students should review our prom planning sections. We have a comprehensive review, from start to finish, of steps your Prom Committee should be taking.

10. After the CADA leadership conference in Reno, review with your students some of the great ideas you learned at the conference. It is important to share these ideas while they are fresh in your mind. Also, allow students to look at all the literature you received from CADA vendors you met at the conference. If you did not attend CADA’s activities director’s conference, you really need to next year.  You do not have to be from California to attend. The wealth of knowledge you receive from this conference is immeasurable.

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