Continent Day
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2025
Who hasn't wanted to circumnavigate the globe? Year by year at Farallone View, our students take another step towards completing that very journey. By the time they graduate, they will have explored almost every continent on Earth!
How does it work? Each classroom chooses a country, custom, or unique quality related to the year’s selected continent and sets to work creating a hands-on learning experience to share with the entire school. “Passports” are handed out to students to record their “travels”, and they are given the entire morning to visit countries in the selected continent. Parent volunteers are a key part of this experience and have been known to learn a thing or three themselves!
This year, for the first time ever in Continent Day history, we're exploring Antarctica!
Reach out to your student's teacher or your class parent/guardian to learn how you can help support this decades-long Farallone View tradition!
Antarctica - 2025
Asia - 2026
Europe - 2027
Continent Day Planning
Continent Day is made possible by parents and guardians who volunteer their time to bring this incredible day of hands-on learning to Farallone View Students.
Reach out to your student's teacher to learn how you can help and to be connected with other volunteers.
Continent Day is completely planned and presented by FV parents and guardians.
Each class needs volunteers to plan the classroom’s decorations, food and activities. Then each classroom needs volunteers to bring the plan to life, which may include creating backdrops or other props, preparing food (enough for all students to have a taste!), and preparing for the hands on activities (with enough supplies for the entire student body).
On Continent Day itself, volunteers are needed in each classroom to help students with the activities. Volunteers are also needed to help younger students rotate through all of the classrooms.
Important: To volunteer on campus on Continent Day you must complete Cabrillo Unified’s volunteer requirements, including fingerprinting. Learn more about volunteer requirements.
Continent Day Tips
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Connect with your teacher & fellow volunteers
Partner with your student’s teacher and other parents/guardians to plan an immersive experience in your student’s classroom aligned with the classroom’s theme (and that is approved by your student’s teacher).
Create a classroom experience that includes:
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Decorations (backdrops and other props)
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2 hands on activities like an art project, craft, experiment or game
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A food tasting
Plan for enough supplies to provide activities and food tastings for the entire student body.
Also bring a stamp and ink pad to stamp the passports of traveling students.
Use eco-friendly materials and be careful not to damage facilities when decorating - use painter tape or other fixtures that do not leave lasting marks, stickiness, etc.
On Continent Day itself, plan to hold some supplies in reserve as you go through the day. Students are excited about the activities and may wish to do them multiple times - but you want to have enough materials and food for everyone!
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Enlist volunteers for setup, Continent Day and cleanup
Enlist volunteers to setup the classroom the day before Continent Day. Setup typically begins after dismissal and ends by early evening.
Find volunteers to staff the classroom and activities on Continent Day itself, ensuring volunteers meet CUSD's volunteer requirements.
Plan to have volunteers ready to manage the food station, including watching for students with allergies. Ask the volunteers preparing food to share ingredient lists in advance.
Plan to cleanup and return the classroom to its regular setup at the end of the day.
Take time to tour the other classrooms too! Continent Day really is spectacular, and volunteers should take at least a few moments to step away from their student's classroom to see the other classrooms in action.
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Find a mentor
Planning for Continent Day gets easier once you've done it! Parents and guardians of upper grades students are happy to help with suggestions or best practices.
Email fofpto@gmail.com if you need help finding a mentor.
You can also browse the gallery here on our website to be inspired by images of past Continent Days.
