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There are many good reasons to attend FSA meetings at Assumption school. They are educational, informative, and even fun! Meetings present a great opportunity to talk to those in charge, to connect with other parents, with your child’s teacher or teachers you may not yet know. Attending meetings also shows you care  for what happens during your child’s school day.

At the recent meeting, the ACS Family School Association Board recognized and honored the following people for their contributions to Assumption School.

Milene Palhais – (got Investor’s Bank to sponsor the track team & donate hundreds of dollars worth of prizes for the Bazaar)
Marylou Villacis – (served as our Bazaar kitchen chair for several years)
Del Velazquez – (sold over $1300 worth of Getrude Hawk candy for the school)
Thank you ladies. We are so lucky to have a parent community that is so supportive.

On the 74th Anniversary of the Battleship New Jersey, the ACS fifth through eighth grade classes were able to spend the day aboard! They had private tour guides and learned of the ship’s illustrious history.  They climbed ladders, visited the captain’s quarters and even ate on the mess deck.  Students, chaperones and teachers had a great time.

The month of May is the month dedicated to the honor of the Mother of God.  Each year the students at Assumption Catholic School make special efforts to honor the Blessed Mother by learning and spreading the knowledge, love and devotion to the Virgin Mary. We pray to Mary each day, we sing special songs in her Honor, we pray the rosary and we sing a special prayer service, the Moleben.  The girls’ Sodality, a club especially devoted to foster devotion and love of our Heavenly Mother, venerates the Virgin Mary by bringing flowers and placing them at the feet of Our Heavenly Queen. On May 19, 2017, the student body and faculty gathered in our beautiful church for our annual Marian Veneration. At the beginning of the Moleben the Sodalists and representatives of each class brought flowers and placed them at the feet of Mary’s icon. Then the students, like angels, sang the Moleben.  At the end of the Moleben, the Pastor, Father Ivan, spoke to the students about Our Blessed Mother’s love and care for her children and how Mary always hears our prayer.  As we sing in one of our songs to Mary "It was never heart that she would not aid those who come to her with prayer,"  In conclusion, Father Ivan blessed special medals and distributed them to the Sodality members. A special thank you to Mrs. Cuff, Ms. Hucul, Mrs. Fedynyshyn and Mrs . Lawrence for all of their help and support.

Guess who is completing their first Google slides project? That’s right – ACS third and fourth graders!  The sixth graders assisted them in reading an assigned story, annotating the story and then using the VIP (Very Important Parts) to create a Google slide presentation.  We can’t wait until they are done and present their stories.

On Thursday May 11, 2017 the Senior Drama of ACS performed their children’s play “What Happened After Once Upon a Time.” The play was directed by Mrs. Pickering and the cast included students from 6,7,8th grades. This beautiful and a funny play revolved around the fairy tales that are very close to our hearts, but with a little bit of twist! Thanks to all students who participated in the show and especially thanks to our good storytellers who got the opportunity to tell the story and as well as participated in the story, interacting with the characters!

Today was a very special and joyous day at Assumption parish in Perth Amboy, NJ as we welcome fifteen of our little parishioners and students of ACS who received their First Solemn Confession, and their Solemn Holy Communion. We congratulate them on this very important step in their religious life where they received these two sacraments. This is indeed a happy occasion for our parish community, school and for the children’s families. A sincere thank you to Sr. Yosaphata, Sr. Thomas, and Ms. Hucul (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.

The pre-k class was excited to find out they were going to have a surprise guest teacher. A fellow ACS student from third grade came in to their classroom to teach a math lesson. She used snap cubes to help them practice counting and to teach addition.

On Tuesday, ACS 2nd, 3rd and 4th grade students went to Sandy Hook NJ Sea Grant Consortium, for our class trip. The students learned the history of the Lenape People. They went seining in the bay, learned how to make fire by friction, and practiced hunting techniques . They played a hoop and spear game and a fun firewood game that they can play at recess. Fun was had by all! Seventh grade, eighth grade, where art thy seventh and eighth grade?

On Wednesday, May 3, the third and fourth graders had a special visitor.  Mrs. Billy’s daughter, Abby, came to school.  The students were very excited to learn about Abby and her extra chromosome that causes her to be "unique and different" — the topic of study in the third grade Reading Street unit.  The students enjoyed holding, feeding, and learning all about her uniqueness.  To culminate the activity they are writing essays on how Abby is the same and how she is different than other babies.  One student even went home and did research on his own about Trisomy or Down Syndrome.  All of the students had a great time, and so did Abby!

You guessed it! They are reading Shakespeare’s "Romeo and Juliet". They have been analyzing the text and studying the era of Shakespeare and his impact on literature.  As an assignment this week, both classes where challenged to write as Shakespeare himself did.  The class was put into groups and assigned a modern teenage problem scenario.  They worked collaboratively in order to create a scene using Shakespearean phrases and write completely in Old English. The students stepped up to the challenge and even performed each scene for their classmates. At the end of class all agreed that, "Parting is such sweet sorrow".