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.
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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??
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On a recent Friday afternoon ACS Classes of 2018, 2019, and 2020 had the opportunity to speak to Miss Stephanie De Los Santos, an ACS alumnus (2002). Miss De Los Santos, presently employed as a tax lawyer in Washington DC, first shared with the students about what she has been up to since graduating ACS. Then she shared her purpose in speaking to the students. She wanted to get the students excited about their future and to understand the importance of having a plan for the future today and not waiting for tomorrow.
Miss De Los Santos gave a power point presentation showing the needed steps for a successful future beginning with freshman year of high school. Upon finishing her presentation, she answered many student questions. Hopefully, many ACS students are now excited about making plans for the future.
Mother-Son Dance A Success!
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.
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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!
Happy National DNA Day!
Happy National DNA Day! April 25 commemorates the successful completion of the Human Genome Project in 2003 and the discovery of DNA’s double helix in 1953. These young scientists built their own edible model. Great work third and fourth grade!
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Earth Day
First grade has been learning about reduce, reuse, and recycle, and thinking of ways they can help our planet Earth. Today they made Earth people, and wrote sentences telling how they will help the Earth
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On Friday, Ms. K was provided the chance to help ACS’s middle school students understand the power of eating certain foods and how they can aid their rapidly growing bodies. She made sure they received knowledge about how various nutrients can help them reach their optimal potential. In order to make good choices, one must not only memorize good vs. bad choices, but understand why the good choices are good. Understanding the key nutrients in each food, how it reaches each part of the body from the brain to the muscles, is of highest priority as they transition from children to teenagers.
Many nutrition education programs give children and adults the same information about processed foods vs. whole, calories, and fat and how it relates to the obesity pandemic; including obesity related diseases associated with eating unhealthy. However, very few teach how to properly read the nutritional labels: from undertaking where the numbers come from, what they mean, how they relate to each age group, and how each macronutrient, micronutrients, vitamins, and mineral plays a vital role in health maintainers and disease prevention. By doing so, students not only were told why certain foods are better than others, they will also be more conscious about their food choices. They also understood the serious health effects that a lack of certain vital nutrients have on the human body.
Consequently, their mindful choices on future food selection is not only because they were told it’s healthy, but because now they understand how certain key nutrients can help them reach optimal strength, health, and brain potential. Lastly, the students were taught how to properly read the ingredients listed in products and why they are in the order they are. More specifically, they were exposed to which ingredients should be avoided and how certain choices are thought to be “healthy” but the ingredients prove otherwise.
Subsequently, the group looked at sample nutrition labels and Ms. K explained that over the course of the last ten years, people have become more experienced with comprehending them. However, Ms. K said, “that is not to say that we fully understand them.” There are still many hidden ingredients. By providing key information the children can now understand and decipher between nutrition labels and thus, between good foods and bad foods. They can also help their loved ones and friends with important information on eating healthy, and prevent over consumption of nutrient lacking foods. Choosing nutrient dense foods that are healthier was the goal of this presentation – IT WAS ACHIEVED!
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During Science class this week, the kindergarten students continued to explore the relationship of force and motion. They also learned about natural forces like gravity and magnets. During the experiment, the children compared an array of new information that they discovered. A few of the many fascinating questions the kindergartens discussed were:
-which objects were attracted to the magnet?
-which ones were not?
-where magnets repelled each other, using force to push against or away.
Consequently, this provides the groundwork for our little scientists to explore other topics in nature and appropriately ask questions.
Science is exploring. Science is asking questions. Science is exciting!
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