Holy Rosary Review 2019 · 2019. 9. 19. · Page 3 From the Principal’s Desk... Dear Parents and Guardians, As the month of April begins, we continue to prepare ourselves for Easter

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April 2019

Holy Rosar y Review Important

Dates:

April 1st—

HASA Dress Down for Triv-

ia Night $2.00

April 2nd —

MCIU Kinex Stem

Competition

April 3rd —

National Theatre Assembly

(K-6 )

AM Lent Prayer Service

April 4th —

Genuardi Essays Deadline

April 5th —

First Friday Mass 10:30

April 8th —

Reconciliation 1:30

April 10th —

Grand Friends Day 10:00

AM Lent Prayer Service

April 11th —

Earth Day Contest Winners-

Prophecy Creek Park 9 AM

April 12th —

Stations Grades K-4 1:30

HASA Trivia Night ( 6:30)

April 14th —

Palm Sunday

April 15th —

Pick up Gertrude Hawk

orders

April 16th —

Living Stations- St. Titus 7PM

April 17th —

AM Lent Prayer Service

April 18th —

Holy Thursday (FULL DAY

OF SCHOOL)

April 19th —

Good Friday (NO SCHOOL)

April 21st —

Easter

April 22nd —

No School — Earth Day

April 26th —

Progress Reports

ONE FAITH,

ONE FAMILY,

ONE SCHOOL!

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From the Principal’s Desk...

Dear Parents and Guardians,

As the month of April begins, we continue to prepare ourselves for Easter at Holy

Rosary. During these 40 days of Lenten preparation, in addition to our daily pray-

ers, we have prayed weekly at the Stations of the Cross and our Wednesday AM

Prayer Services.

The teachers and I hear stories of what your children are giving up for Lent and

what they are doing for others this Lent. Our Crown of Thorns that is displayed in

the office area is losing its thorns more and more each day. No doubt the crown

will be thorn free by Easter!

Your donations of clothes to the community and your generous contributions to

the Leukemia Pennies for Patients initiative is teaching your children that we are all

responsible for helping those in need. We reverently look forward to the Living Sta-

tions that will be presented by the 8th Grade at St. Titus this year as the finale of our

Holy Rosary Lenten journey.

Please continue what we have taught your children about preparing for Easter by

participating in the Holy Thursday, Good Friday, and Easter services at your parish-

es. We all look forward to rising with Jesus in new life on Easter Sunday. Thank you.

God’s graces to all of you!

Mary Ann

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Honors Math

6th Grade Honors Math students are working on a data collection project. They collected data from various class-

rooms and then, will organize and analyze it using different types of graphs and charts.

The entire 8th grade has started designing boats for their cardboard boat project. We hope to start construction

during Terra Nova week!

—Mrs. Higgins

1st Grade

First Grade has been very busy during the month of March. They have been learning their related facts for addition

and subtraction. They have been talking about the season of Lent and learning about and coloring the Stations of the

Cross. They have also learned about St. Patrick and St. Joseph. On St. Joseph's Day they went to visit the sisters that

live in the convent. They, along with the kindergarten, made St. Joseph's Day cards for them. The sisters invited them

into their chapel and they all talked about Lent and asked questions about the chapel. The sisters were thrilled with

their visit and the children loved it too. They also had a visit from Miss Linda from the William Jeanes Library. She

read them some very funny stories and brought her puppet Miss Lucy with her. The children loved her and hopefully

will have another visit from her in May. They will continue coloring their Easter Egg at night when they do a kind act

during the season of Lent. They are looking forward to being outside now that Spring has arrived

—Mrs. Koneski

2nd Grade

We are happy to announce that all the Second Graders have received their sacrament of Reconciliation! We are so

proud of all of the students and how well prepared they were! We are now beginning to prepare for First Holy

Communion. We are wrapping up our chapter on money in math class. We may have a lot of future bankers and

mathematicians! We will soon begin learning how to tell time!

—Christina Reale and Renee Prieto

Pre-K

March has been a busy and fun month for the Pre-K class! We have been diligently working on ways they can

"follow in Jesus foot steps" during this Lenten season. We had a "Munchkin Meeting" where we got to share our

ideas with Kindergarten and made a craft that is hanging in the hall way across from Mrs. Gilman's office. We have

also been busy learning about various literary elements of a story such as setting, character, character traits, author,

illustrator, and rhyming words. Just to name a few! We really enjoyed wrapping up the month with a STEM-based

activity where we got to make "imaginary animals" out of various recyclable materials. Moreover, we have been

practicing hard on our presentations for our Grand-Friend Day that is taking place in April!

—Mrs. Gill

3rd Grade

Third grade has been working hard! We wrapped up our unit on Area and Perimeter with a Dream House Pro-

ject. Mrs. Gilman featured us in the parish bulletins for the students' hard work in designing their dream homes and

calculating the area and perimeter of each room! In math, we also began working on fractions this month. We had

two more students reach 100% fluency of their 0-10 multiplication and division facts this month, too. Congratula-

tions to Kevin Mansfield and Kate Woods! Great job, you two! For third grade, much of March has been spent dis-

cussing Lent and the events leading up to Easter. The students have created a mini book dedicated to learning the

Stations of the Cross. As we move closer to Easter, we will take time to reflect further on each station and will say

special prayers relative to each one.

— Mrs. Fitzpatrick

Did You Know...

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Kindergarten

Kindergarten has been busy learning all about the season of Lent. They received Ashes on Ash Wednesday and met

with their Pre-K buddies for a special Munchkin Meeting! We love getting together with our Pre-K friends! We

made stained glass crosses and wrote on a footprint how we can be more like Jesus during this season of Lent. Our

beautiful art work is hanging outside Mrs. Gilman's office for all to see and read! We have been trying very hard to

be more like Jesus every day! We are trying to be kind to our friends and helpful to others :) The kindergarten

students also learned about St. Patrick this month and how he taught the people of Ireland about the Trinity using a

Shamrock! To celebrate St. Patrick's Day the children wrote about what makes them feel lucky. We even worked

on our math skills of addition by making our own pot of gold! Lastly, made Leprechauns to decorate our class-

rooms! They look great hanging up in our classroom!

—Mrs. Pickering

5th Grade Science

Fifth grade STEM is going to a K'Nex competition at the Montgomery County Intermediate Unit on Tuesday, April 2,

2019. They designed and built a device using K'Nex that can pick up three objects off the table and move them at

least six inches. They have two hours to rebuild the device at the competition. They also had to draw a blueprint

and complete a cost analysis worksheet about the device. There are two teams from Holy Rosary attending. The

students are Emily Feldman, Emma Hunter, Hannah Lambert, Vickie Lehatto, Ella Peticca, Ava Valleau, and Madison

Whitehead.

—Ms. Morrow

Mrs. Luthy’s Classes

As Lent continues, 8th grade begins their practices for the traditional Living Stations. Be sure to come out and sup-

port them as you are taken back to Jesus' final days. Living Stations will take place on Tuesday, April 16 at St. Titus

Church.

7th grade are in the process of creating their own versions of Jesus' Parables. Each will create his/her own modern

parable and present it to the class.

6th grade continues their studies of important people in Salvation History.

5th grade will delve heavily into writing this trimester, and will continue identifying and analyzing story elements by

completing Plot Diagrams to organize their findings. In religion classes, the students have studied many details about

of the parts of the Mass. The students were fascinated about the history behind Father Quindlen's personal vessels,

during a recent lesson with Father, when he explained about vessels, vestments and other lessons learned from the

stained glass in the church.

—Mrs. Luthy

Art Class

Did You Know (continued)...

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Hello there faithful Holy Rosary CYO Families!

• Congratulations to the JV Girls Basketball team

(5th and 6th Grade Girls) on winning the IHM

Tournament for a 2nd year in a row! What a

fantastic way to finish up another very, very

successful year! Great job Girls! And Great

Job Coaches!!!

• Holy Rosary CYO has recently renovated the

softball fields! Check it out, and please come

out and support the JV Girls softball team in

their quest for world domination!!

• Varsity Track has its first official track meet this

Sunday at 1 o’clock over at Pope John Paul II.

Please come out an support our young athletes!

• IBL wraps up this weekend, come out and see how well the 1st and 2nd grades are doing,

as well as the 3rd and 4th graders!

Did You Know (continued)...

Social Studies

5th Grade Western Geography- Currently we are learning about Mexico! We are talking about the histo-

ry of this country and the culture of the people of Mexico. We plan to have a Mexican Fiesta at the end

of this unit!

6th Grade Eastern Geography - Currently we are studying the continent of Asia. Not only do we discuss

the government, economy, and people of various countries in Asia, we learn about various aspects of

their culture throughout history. For instance, we have watched videos on Mongolian throat singing and

Bollywood dancing in India!

7th Grade US History - Our next topic in 7th grade history is Manifest Destiny. We will explore how

our country has expanded west and the journey it took to get there. We will soon be playing an interac-

tive game where our students journey on the Oregon Trail!

8th Grade US History - We are currently in the middle of our World War 2 Unit. The students have just

completed watching the movie Dunkirk as we discuss the early battles of the allied powers.

— Ms. Boris

Computers

We have students in grades 2 through 8 working on coding at various levels to develop skills in STEM

fields.

—Mr. Graham

CYO Sports News...

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HASA Happenings…

Hey there Holy Rosary!

Holy Rosary’s 1st Annual Trivia Night is Friday, April 12th. Whose ready to show us how smart you are?

Let’s all put on our thinking caps and get together on Friday, April 12th for a fun filled night of TRIVIA!

Our emcee for the evening will be MCM Entertainment and will host 10 rounds of Trivia! Amazing Raffle Basket

Chance and 50/50!

Tables seat 10 people but you DO NOT need a team of 10 to attend! We will pair smaller groups together! BYO

Snacks and Spirits!

YOU DO NOT WANT TO MISS THIS EVENT! PLEASE JOIN US! Doors open at 630pm, Trivia starts at 730pm.

This is an adult only event.

Sign up via the link below,

http://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/event?oeidk=a07eg2ly4xj10b632d9&llr=nxgquweab

Amazon

This is a gentle reminder, for all of those returning, and for all of our new families— please remem-

ber to help support Holy Rosary Regional School while shopping at Amazon! Please use the below

link and register:

https://smile.amazon.com/

You can sign in with your existing Amazon log in. Once signed in be sure to select the drop down

arrow on the left side of the tool bar to find our school. Once selected you will see on your Ama-

zon homepage, Supporting: Holy Rosary Regional Catholic School.

Through the Amazon process, all families will be eligible for your Prime benefits and the school does

not receive any personal information on any purchases—the school only receives a percentage of

the sales.

Remember to share the smile link with all of your family and friends too!!

Box Tops for Education

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FINANCIAL AID

All families may now apply for financial aid for the 2019-2020 school year. The website is

factsmgt.com/aid.

Families can work directly with the FACTS Company in order to verify all information.

Questions on completing the application may be answered by calling the FACTS helpline

directly at 1-866-441-4637. They are available Mon-Thurs: 7:30 AM—7:00 PM. You can also

email them at [email protected] with questions.

As always, I am available for any assistance you may need in applying. You can email me at

[email protected] with any questions and/or concerns or in needing assis-

tance uploading documents. I am in the office every Monday.

Attention all Box Top clippers!

Hello and welcome to Box Tops! For those of you that aren’t familiar with the process:

The student with the most Box Tops submitted will receive a $5 Menchie’s gift card and the

classroom with the most Box Tops submitted will receive a tray of treats to enjoy!!

Remember to keep clipping! The next contest will be in the Fall.

Any questions, contact Sherri Muldoon at [email protected].

Thank you Happy Clipping!!

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April Lunch Menu

2018/2019 Home & School Association Board Members

Executive Board

President—Beth Fish

Vice President—Amy Porter

Treasurer—Athena Lehatto

Recording Secretary—Alicia Rhoads

Corresponding Secretary—Jessica

Cocco

Committees

Fundraising—Sharon Rupprecht

Beautification—Maria Credle

Hospitality—Amy Porter

Lead Homeroom Parent—Sherri Muldoon

Marketing—Anthony Garcia

Grant Writing—Heather Haley

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