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Telling stories is hard enough, try telling stories without using sentences, paragraphs, or punctuation! The Terrific Third is doing just that – retelling a story using maps! Where the River Begins by Thomas Locker is the subject of our map-telling creations. After reading the story together, students created map interpretations. Next, students partnered and shared their maps with one another, collaborated and merged the two drawings into one final product. Lastly, students presented their maps to their classmates.

Please join us as we celebrate Sr. Yosaphata’s 50th Anniversary of Religious Life as a Missionary Sister of the Mother of God at the 10:00 a.m. Divine Liturgy on Sunday, December 2, 2012 followed by a luncheon in the school hall. Sr. Yosaphata will renew her vows of poverty, chastity and obedience at the Liturgy celebrated by Metropolitan- Archbishop Stefan Soroka.

Sister Yosaphata has been working with students at Assumption Catholic School for 50 years as an educator and administrator. Our school community is looking forward to recognizing and celebrating this milestone with Sr. Yosaphata and invites you to take part in the Liturgy and the luncheon.

Tickets for the luncheon will be $10 per person. The buffet luncheon includes chicken, pork loin, potatoes, stuffed cabbage, pyrohy, salad and dessert.

For Tickets Click Here (PDF)

Students of the Fourth Grade have been hard at work honing their writing skills.  After completing the directions on how to make an ice cream sundae they actually followed each other’s directions and did just that.  Once made, there was nothing else to do but enjoy the fruits of their labors.  Writing can be delicious!

Pancake Breakfast held at Assumption School on Wednesday 3rd, 2012 was a huge success! Thanks to all the parents and staff who volunteered their time and donated materials. A special thank you goes to FSA President Thomas Zambrowski, and students parents  Peter Baralecki and Sean Daly for their hard work at the event.

The Garden Club was able to pick pumpkins from the garden on the upper bank.  This was a sure sign that summer was coming to an end.  The pumpkins will be painted then raffled off for the students on Halloween.  Check back to see the pictures of the painted pumpkins and the students that won them.

On Saturday, September 22, 2012 the smell of barbecue permeated the ACS neighborhood.  Beginning at 4 p.m. ACS families and friends came to the school auditorium for a chance to have some good food, catch up with old friends, and make new friends with some of our many new families. This barbecue marked the beginning of a very special year for ACS. We are beginning our countdown to mark the 50th anniversary of bringing Catholic education to the community of Perth Amboy and the surrounding area. On October 12, 2013 a very special celebration will take place to mark this occasion. Mark your calendar so you may join in this day.

ACS faculty and administration members worked all day to make sure that everyone would have a good time. Guests were treated to choices of hot dogs, hamburgers, chicken, and barbecued pork. Along with these choices they also had choices of homemade salads like potato salad, pasta salad, corn salad, and some other tasty items. After finishing their meal, and if there was still enough room, the guests moved on to the dessert table where they found many selections from homemade pumpkin cake to the forever favorite Jello with whipped cream.

The faculty and administration would like to thank all of the Assumption Catholic parish families as well as the ACS families for your support. We would also like to thank those that came out to help the teachers prepare for the barbecue: Mrs. Androshchuk, mom to Andrew and Tanya, and Mrs. Machette, mom to Jack in Pre K, and Mrs. Carol Fiore, mom to Miss Fiore, were there all day to cook, set up, and serve; and Mr. Pete Baralecki, dad to Andrew and Mr. Marty Pickering for their grill master skills. Thank you also to Ms. Anna Lawrence for supplying us with a great selection of music.  The proceeds from this event will go to bring educational programs to our children or to offset the cost of student field trips.

ACS participated  in the Jam World Record.  Schools all over the country were dancing  to dance to the Cotton Eye Joe on September 27, to break the world’s record .  The Jam world record was begun to have schools focus on physical fitness.  Michele Obama began Jam School as an incentive to get kids moving while in school.  Schools took one minute out of their day to move an a healthy manner to promote fitness.

The Terrific Third started backed to school with an art project that was anything but ordinary! A glyph is defined as a symbolic figure or picture. Students were tasked to create individual glyphs using symbols that represented answers to a set of questions. The questions included: How many children are in your family? What is your favorite subject? What is your favorite free time activity? How many pets do you have? Once the glyphs were completed each one was framed. Next the students will use the data on the glyphs to create tally and bar charts. Finally, the students will become detectives as they try to discover the glyph’s true identity! The glyphs are on display in the third grade classroom!

If you were standing anywhere near Assumption Catholic School on the morning of Wednesday, September 05, 2012 you would have felt the excitement in the air. The question is, was it the excitement of the students or the parents? Most likely it was a combination of both, students and parents! There’s nothing like the first day of school.

Students used the time on the playground to catch up with old friends after a long summer of relaxation. New students were welcomed by their new classmates, becoming a part of the ACS family. Teachers were just as excited as the students and welcomed their new class with enthusiasm.

With the sounding of the first bell students entered the building led by their teachers. The playground quickly emptied of students and before you knew it, parents were left standing with a list of different emotions. Some were sending their first off to school, others were sending their youngest, evoking a feeling of either happiness or just a little sadness. Some parents might have shed tears. Were they tears of sadness or tears of joy? Many parents were probably left wondering what they were going to do with their child/children in school all day.

A new year has started!