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SAINTS’ Scoop Newsletter May 27, 2020

Dear Queen of All Saints Families, We are making final plans for organized drop off of Chromebooks/devices and textbooks, and pick-up of Report Cards, Summer Packets, and a surprise item. The drop off/pick up will take place on June 10th and June 11th, with the final plans for times and instruction published in next week’s Scoop. We want to ensure that proper procedures for social distancing and safety are in place. Thank you for your patience. We are getting excited as our 8th Grade students head into their last week of school at Queen of All Saints. The classes have special virtual surprises planned for the 8th graders. The students will finish up next week with a retreat, 8th Grade Appreciation Day, and a Graduation/Diploma ceremony on June 6th. The teachers and I are looking forward to honoring the students for all they have accomplished and celebrating with them as they move forward on their journey into high school. Don’t forget to record and send your Family Talent Show video to Mrs. French ([email protected]); we are enjoying watching our talented students and families, dance, sing, and play musical instruments. Keep those videos coming! Also, make sure to write down recipes and take pictures of your family-favorite dishes for our QAS cookbook. On Sunday the church will celebrate the Feast of Pentecost, the birthday of the Church and the gift of the Holy Spirit. Having been with his disciples for forty days after the resurrection, the Lord Jesus Christ ascended into heaven and now sits at the right hand of God the Father. Pentecost celebrates the overwhelming experience of God giving the Holy Spirit to the first community of believers in the church. The color of the vestments and decorations for Pentecost is red, which symbolizes the intense love and fire of the Holy Spirit. Come, Holy Spirit! I wish you all a wonderful week - stay cool and hydrated in this mini heatwave! Christ's peace and joy surround you, Mrs. Lucia Prince

Year End Dates to Remember ● Friday, May 29- Multicultural Family Cookbook recipes due to classroom teachers (sample on

PAGE 10 of Scoop)

● Friday, June 5- Talent Show videos & family sidewalk art submissions due to Mrs. French

● Wednesday, June 10 & Thursday, June 11- ‘End of Year Pick Up/Drop Off’ where students will return all Chromebooks and chargers (including student-owned devices), any borrowed devices, and textbooks. Families will pick up student report cards and family summer packets, and a special surprise!

Welcome our newest SAINT The Desuyo family and big sister, Maven welcomed their new baby boy last week. We are thrilled for our community’s newest member!

Merrick Laine Desuyo May 19, 2020 @ 5:20pm

7lbs 1.9oz, 20in long

From the Desk of Janet O’Connor Thank you to all the families who have registered for 2020-2021 school year- over 200 students have enrolled. It is very important that you complete your students’ registration for the upcoming year. An email has been sent from PowerSchool Enrollment with a link for each student. Please complete registration as soon as possible, to assist us in our planning for the next school year.

I am available to assist you remotely if you need my help. Please contact me with any questions or if you are in need of assistance at [email protected].

Queen of All Saints Cares Our school’s Mission Statement says that we “actively serve the community”, so what a better way to serve our community than to provide community outreach to our own families in need. PACE and the Advisory School Board collaborated on a way for you to provide “Outreach to our frontline, essential workers, or overstretched community members who could use a welcomed dinner break!” Click on this QAS Community Outreach Opportunity link if you would like to provide a meal or gift card to a family or if you are a family that would benefit from a dinner break.

Calling All Sidewalk Chalk Artists Want to participate in the upcoming family talent show or do you have some awesome sidewalk art ideas? You can submit your family’s photos to [email protected] and please use “(Your Surname) Family Chalk Art” in the subject line. We cannot wait to see all the original ideas you come up with!

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Preschool Our Preschool students had an exciting week. One activity that all the students really got on board with, was the animals race to the ark! Students created dice of animals who would have been found on Noah’s Ark, then they rolled the dice. As they kept track of the animals movements, one stood out from the rest and won the race. Check out Elyse DeSmet’s tracking sheet to the right. She even had a little help finding the winner of the race. Another fun animal-related activity was a social emotional

learning assignment about turtles. Andrew Perez made his own turtle shell and transformed into a tortoise. Slow and steady wins the race. Transitional Kindergarten

TK students have been learning a bit about ladybugs and their life cycle and comparing them with butterflies. Philip Chau drew his four person family as a ladybug family! Students used watercolor paint to celebrate The Ascension of Jesus to Heaven Their art helps remind us that no matter where Jesus' body is- in heaven or on Earth- his Spirit and love are always in our hearts. Please take a moment to see Madison Berg-LeDoux’s creation (below center). Students also celebrated Mrs.

Blumling, as her Birthday was Wednesday. Ean Avelar shared a special Birthday card & video with his TK teacher. Mrs. Blumling shared one of her favorite birthday stories with the children in honor of her special day, too. Way to finish the year strong, TK students!

Kindergarten Kindergarten has been making word family flip books. Alejandro Zamores and Jaden Gepila made flip

books for -at, -ap, -un, -up, and -oy. Victoria Gonzalez and Camila Yopihua are showing us the paper chain they made for their Science activity.

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2nd Grade The 2nd grade students have been working on dramatic readings. All the students sent Ms. Gillman videos of themselves reading ‘Stone Soup’. Their efforts to show voice expression and fluency while reading really brought the story to life. Well done, Angelo Rubio and Zoei Torres! Our students in second grade also celebrated the ascension of our Lord with creating art pieces. They created three dimensional representations

of Jesus’ entrance into heaven. 3rd Grade Last week in Religion, Third Grade celebrated the feast of the Ascension by completing a craft from Catholic Teacher Resources, watching an informational video, and writing facts about what they knew and learned about Jesus. This week, they are preparing their hearts for Pentecost Sunday (May 31st) by reading about, watching videos, discussing, and completing daily activities, prayers, and reflections. Leah Vega Mikaela Herrara Raya Salazar

4th Grade Last week, 4th Grade wrote their own Newspaper articles on our work from the past week. They had to summarize what they learned from different subjects and explain how it related back to their own lives.

Here are some student examples!

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7th Grade 7th Grade is continuing to learn about how the Renaissance began. Students described how this illustration shows how changes in European life at the end of the Middle Ages led to the flowering of arts and learning called the Renaissance. Keep up the good work, Jr High!

8th Grade In case you haven’t viewed our Facebook page lately, we encourage you to head over and check it out. Here is a glimpse into the awesome, 8th grade spotlight photos that have been posted. Enjoy Zyani and Fabian’s photos below. We are excited to see what the future holds for our SAINTS. We love you and you will be missed!

Enrichment Classes Spanish- Each week, Senora Egan works with our students on different units. Kindergarten and 1st grade students have been learning about giving weather reports. You can see some of our 1st grade students to the right on their zoom call. They will learn the spanish verbs, nouns and conjugation to give an accurate daily report of the weather. QAS 2nd and 3rd grade students are learning to express how they feel and the verb estoy, “I am”. As an example: Estoy feliz, or I am happy. 4th graders are reviewing how to write paragraphs. They will be selecting a subject of their choice, then write a grammatically correct paragraph about that topic. Our 5th, 6th, 7th , and 8th graders are learning about occupations. They are sharing what occupation they would like to be as well as why they would like to be that occupation. The assignment coordinating with their lesson is making a list of 6-8 things about the occupation they chose.  

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Physical Education- Coach Schonder is encouraging students to look into the sports of the Summer Olympics. As your family continues to stay physically active during this time, Coach encourages you to discuss, and even give a try, to the many sports that are highlighted in the Summer. Here, you can see Enzo Francisco teaching us about the basics of fencing, Meilani Quesada is showing us how to lift weights, and Mayah Pisciotto teaches us about soccer. Continue to send in your photos and videos so we can share them here.

Art- Enjoy these very creative self portraits from our Jr High artists. They were instructed to make their portrait by using cut out magazine pictures. The art is based on the work of an Italian artist, Acrimboldo. I can see the resemblance, can you?

Isaiah Fung Paloma Rios Jordan Castillo

   Music- Mrs. Davis sends videos to teach Kindergarteners about Music Rhythms. The students learned how to clap to a quarter note (slow clap) and an eighth note (quick clap) and read signs like : sign means repeat and x sign means stop. The photo to your right, shows big brother Enzo helps Matteo learn his rhythm.       

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PACE Run for Fun Update Thank you to all our students and family for making the QAS Virtual Run for Fun a success! We raised a total of $5,364.50!

CONGRATULATIONS to the following winners: Top Overall fundraiser: Logan Cayou in 4th grade Top Class: 4th Grade (Raising a total of $1,263.00) Top Student per class: Preschool - Aria Meza

Transitional Kindergarten - Xavier Leyva Kindergarten - Matteo Francisco 1st Grade - Camylle Denzon 2nd Grade - Declan Richards-Costello 3rd Grade - Kaleah Roca 4th Grade - Logan Cayou 5th Grade - Anthony Academia 6th Grade - Reagan Richards Costello 7th Grade - Darius Sanchez 8th Grade - Brielle Gonzalez

Multicultural Day **NEW** FAMILY COOKBOOK We are asking each family to submit a special family recipe with photos by this Friday, May 29th. This is our way of still celebrating Multicultural Day together during this time. Please take a look at the example on Page 10. We suggest the photo(s) be of your family making the dish. Please email the recipes and photos to your classroom teachers or post onto Google Classroom.

Talent Show Does your family have a special talent? We want to see it! Please submit a video clip of your family performing their special talent to [email protected] by Friday, June 5th. We will share them on social media from now until the last week of school! (Please no Tik-Tok dances) Advisory School Board (ASB)

Annual Auction 2020 All information about the auction will be provided in the Summer Packets that will be picked up by the end of the school year. It will also be available on our school's website. If you would like to help the Auction Committee and receive Summer service hours, please contact Erleen Richards - [email protected] Memorial Bricks Engraved bricks have been delivered and will be set in place at

the entryway to the office. Once they are placed, we will let you know so you can come and see your engraved brick!

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Spirit Store Our Saints Spirit Store is open! Show your Saints pride all year long with plenty of apparel and accessory options to choose from. Orders are shipped directly to you, and five percent of your purchase is donated back to our school. https://qasconcord.org/parents/spirit-store   Help us all stay connected through Queen of All Saints School’s Social Sharing. You can message all social media postings to Mrs. French at [email protected] .  

Follow, Like & Share us on social media!   

Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/QASConcord/  

Instagram : queenofallsaints_concord  

Twitter: @QASConcord   Lessons from the Gospels (Sermon 4 Kids)- Love in Any Language The third time he said to him, "Simon son of John, do you love me?" Peter was hurt because Jesus asked him the third time, "Do you love me?" He said, "Lord, you know all things; you know that I love you." Jesus said, "Feed my sheep. John 21:17 (NIV)

A few years ago, there was a song that became very popular. The name of the song was "Love in Any Language." Can you say, "I love you" in any different languages? This morning we can learn at least three different ways to say, "I love you."

In German, you would say, "Ich liebe dich!" Can you say that?

In Spanish, you would say, "¡Te amo!" That is pretty easy -- try it.

In sign language, you would say, "I love you" like this. Hold up the palm of your right hand facing out, then drop down your middle and ring fingers. I know that you can all say, "I love you!" in sign language!

You know, it is pretty easy to say, "I love you," but it is sometimes a lot harder to show it by our actions. That is what our Bible story is about today.

After Jesus was raised from the dead, he appeared to his disciples several times. On the third time that Jesus appeared to his disciples, he was with them on the shore by the Sea of Galilee. He turned to Peter and said, "Peter, do you love me?"

Peter answered, "Yes, Lord, you know that I love you."

Then, Jesus said to Peter, "Feed my lambs."

Jesus asked Peter again, "Do you love me?"

Again, Peter answered, "Yes Lord, I love you."

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Jesus said to him, "Take care of my sheep."

A third time Jesus asked Peter, "Do you love me?"

Now Peter was very sad that Jesus asked him this question again, but he answered Jesus again, "Lord, you know all things, you know that I love you."

Jesus said, "Feed my sheep."

Why did Jesus ask Peter the same question three times? I think he wanted Peter to understand -- and he wanted you and me to understand -- that it isn't enough just to say, "I love you." We must show our love for Jesus by showing our love for one another and caring for one another.

Do you love Jesus?

Then feed and take care of his sheep! Now, that is love that can be understood in any language.

Dear Jesus, help us to show our love for you by loving and caring for one another. Amen.

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