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Today in ACS preK Math class, the students used Geoboards for the first time. Geoboards are a math manipulative where the student stretches rubber bands around pegs to create the different shapes they have learned to recognize this year. Students began combining the shapes to make houses and other creative pictures. The Geoboards are also a great tool for working on fine motor skills. Geoboards can be used for all ages to understand concepts such as perimeter, area, and angles.

The month of May is dedicated to honoring Mary. To show their appreciation, the kindergarten class of ACS, created their own “special holy place” at the school to honor the Mother of God. In the corner of the first floor hallway, the students decorated the holy space with beautiful fresh flowers and pictures they drew. Each day the kindergarten class visits the special holy place and collectively prays the Hail Mary.

Learning Centers are a vital part of the curriculum for the kindergarten class at ACS. They are an outlet of relaxation as well as rigorous instruction for the students. This allows the children to reduce tension by playing, communicating and reinforcing the curriculum. Learning centers allow children to explore, investigate, and discover new concepts while continuing to make connections to what they have learned. By helping each other and broadening their imagination, they are learning and building relationships, social interactions are expanded, and the discovery of new things is amplified!

It is easy to see that the learning centers have become a favorite activity of the kindergarten class!

The fifth and sixth graders have traveled to many Latin countries this marking period! As part of their Spanish Travel Project, each team had to select, budget, and make travel arrangements to visit three historic places in their assigned country.  They had to describe their sightseeing excursions using their Spanish vocabulary in addition to developing their technical skills to create their google slide show.   Their favorite part was definitely selecting a restaurant to dine at, creating their pretend orders and then calculating the cost of their meal.  Some visited five star restaurants and others enjoyed  mom and pop cantinas. 

Mrs. Shumny did not give the teams a budget – so trips ranged from Ferrari rentals to backpacking trips! It was a chance for the fifth and sixth graders to use their imagination, history, math and of course Spanish skills! Can’t wait until we start our next chapter in Spanish – we have very creative and intelligent fifth and sixth graders! 

Sunday May 6th, was a very special and joyous day at the Assumption parish in Perth Amboy, NJ as we welcomed twelve of our little parishioners and students of ACS who received their First Solemn Confession and a Solemn Holy Communion. We congratulate them on this very important step in their religious lives. This is indeed a happy occasion for our parish, the school and for the children’s families. A sincere thank you to Sr. Yosaphata, and Mrs. Melanie Lawrence (2nd grade teacher) who have served as their catechists. Special thanks go to our school’s FSA for preparing a delicious breakfast for our children and their families. We ask all parishioners to continue praying for these children, that they remain faithful to God and grow up to be a good members of the community.

Cooking Club members outdid themselves at their most recent meeting. Under the direction of Mrs Dervenska, our kindergarten teacher, the group learned the art of making Ukrainian stuffed cabbage (holubtsi). From the prep work to the finished product Mrs D. with the assistance of Mrs Androshchuk, walked the members through the process of preparing the filling to rolling the cabbages. They then cooked the stuffed cabbages and tasted their results. All agreed that everything was delicious! One more meeting left for the club. I wonder what they will be making??

Mothers and sons spent some quality time together on Thursday evening at the first ACS’s Mother-Son Dinner Dance. It was well attended and a photo booth gave those in attendance the opportunity to create some memories of the evening.

Just a typical day in second grade is using math manipulatives to create patterns. The patterns involved different plane figures of different colors. Students also had to apply movements of slide, turn, and flip as well. Even at lunch recess, primary students used chalk to create patterns within a hula hoop. Most impressive on that nice spring day was the group who drew the continents within a hula hoop circle!