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On Saturday, March 12th, 2016 at their Annual Shield Awards ceremony the Knights of Columbus, San Salvador Council No. 299 in Perth Amboy, NJ have honored ACS teacher Mrs. Mariya Derevenska with the Teacher of the Year Award. Mrs. Derevenska has been teaching at Assumption Catholic School for for almost ten years and in these years she developed an exciting, yet, rigorous reading and writing curriculum that has the majo…rity of her Kindergarten class reading and writing by the end of January. She also created a contagious passion for learning math and counting everything – even the ceiling tiles. If you thought she was Super Woman in the classroom she proved to Wonder Woman in the kitchen! She started the Annual ACS Thanksgiving Feast where she cooked and prepared over 12 turkeys and all the fixings with the help of parents. It gave our entire school a time to be thankful for their second family at Assumption Catholic. Mrs. D, as her students lovingly call her, is truly loved by our administrators, our parents and the entire student body for her energy, dedication, passion for Catholic Education and love that she has for our school and for all of our students. Congratulations and thank you Mrs. D for a job well done!

Congratulations to Reverend Monsignor James Checchio, the new bishop of the Diocese of Metuchen. It is immense joy and a privilege for all of us at ACS to celebrate with you this special event of in your life. We implore our Blessed Mother  to always accompany you with her powerful intercession and protection.

The pre-k class celebrated Dr. Seuss’ birthday on Wednesday. They enjoyed listening to Dr. Seuss stories and making a Cat in the Hat craft.

The ACS Yearbook Committee is working hard to meet their quickly approaching deadline! Our yearbook staff is made up of twelve eighth graders who are eager to complete the 2015-2016 ACS yearbook. We are also very apprentice of our alumni (Class 2015) who volunteered their Saturday morning to offer their expertise on this project. Stay tuned for yearbook sale dates!

The sixth and fourth graders had a fantastic geography afternoon! The activities included map study and research skills. The sixth graders enjoyed being peer mentors and the fourth graders were excited about the challenge.

One of our ACS eighth grade students received a personal invitation from Mike Rubell from the Morris Rubell Memorial Journey to spend the day at the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C.  Every year Mr. Rubell, the son of a holocaust survivor, invites several students to all expense paid visit to the museum and gives them the opportunity to tour the museum, meet historians, and meet Holocaust survivors.

The student gave a stellar presentation to his peers about all the information he learned and created a PowerPoint with pictures and facts about World War II and the Jewish Holocaust.

Just as Pope Francis opened the Holy Door at St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican and at St. John Lateran, Rome, so too His Grace Metropolitan Archbishop Stefan Soroka of the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy (Archdiocese) chose certain church doors in His Archeparchy as Holy Doors to mark the Holy Year. The faithful can receive special graces by walking through the Holy Door, receiving Communion, going to confession and praying for the intentions of the Holy Father.
The Assumption of Blessed Virgin Mary Ukrainian Catholic Church in Perth Amboy, NJ was designated as a special pilgrimage site for the Extraordinary Jubilee Year of Mercy declared by Pope Francis. This honor and blessing for our parish will take place on Sunday, February 28th, 2016 at 5:00 pm with celebration of “Akathist to The Divine Passion of Christ”. The main celebrant and homilist will be Rev. Taras Lonchyna, Dean for the New Jersey parishes and pastor of St. Josaphat Ukrainian Catholic Church, Trenton, NJ.  The Sacrament of confession will be available before and during the service. All faithful are welcome to come to pray with us and to seek special blessings during the Jubilee Year of Mercy by walking through the main door of Assumption Church – our Door of Mercy.

The St. Ann’s Society sponsored Gift Auction will be held on Sunday, March 6, 2014 at Assumption Catholic School Auditorium, 380 Meredith St., Perth Amboy, NJ. Doors open at 12:00 p.m. and auction starts at 2:00 p.m. Admission is $8. Cake and coffee are included.  Several large prizes including a 40" Smart TV, Theme baskets, raffles, 50-50 money raffle  and more. The kitchen will be open for lunch. No outside food please. Tickets are available in advance by calling the church’s rectory (732) 826-0767 or at the door.

Each year Catholic schools set aside a week to celebrate just how great it is to be a member of a Catholic school community. Assumption Catholic School celebrated recently with many different activities all week. Students participated in contests, fun activities, and ended the week with a pep rally.
The week kicked off with a no uniform Mismatched Monday. The outfits were very funny, including those worn by a few teachers. Tuesday included a visit from children’s author, Ms. Chrysa Smithin.  Ms Smith spoke to the children in grades PK – 6. On Wednesday the wholes school was treated to a pancake breakfast, compliments of the FSA. Father Ivan treated the administration and faculty to lunch at Longhorn’s. In addition each class chose their own day for relaxing with their favorite board games.
The Class of 2016 continued with what has become a CSW tradition by teaching a class to each grade. They made snowmen with the little ones, origami with second and third graders, and even a carp fish on a string with the fourth graders. Mrs. Lawrence’s fifth grader made special bracelets with. The eighth grade teachers made sure to include one for Mrs. Lawrence. Finally, the sixth graders learned a little about faux stained glass art. Seventh grader will be treated to their own art class when they learn how to make dream catchers. (There is never enough time in the busy week!)
Friday was a super fun day with the middle school being served breakfast by their teachers followed by morning of games. Due to a delayed start of the day, their annual Jeopardy game will take place on Monday. After lunch the crazy hat contest was held along with a pep rally that had the student body rocking the whole block! By end of day, the students were happy, tired, and ready for a nap!
Catholic Schools Week is good way to take time to celebrate our ACS community in a big way. The rest of the year we celebrate every day in small ways what makes ACS the very special community that it is- one of faith, knowledge, and service.