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http://holyrosaryregional.com School Closing # 1385

May/June 2019

Holy Rosar y Review May Important

Dates:

May 3rd —

First Friday Mass 10:30

May 4th —

Epiphany First Commun-

ion

May 5th —

St. Paul, St. Titus, Holy

Saviour First Commun-

ions

May 6th —

4th Grade Field Trip

May 8th —

Kdg. Field Trip; 2nd

Grade Field Trip

May 10th—

8th Grade Pictures

May 12th—

Mother's Day

May 15th—

May Procession at St.

Paul 7 PM

May 19th—

Parish Singers at Holy

Saviour 11:30 Mass

May 20th—

8th Grade Trip to NY

May 22nd—

Field Day; CYO Banquet

at St. Titus 6 PM

May 23rd-27th—

No School

May 29th—

"Oliver" Performance 7

PM

May 30th—

Ascension Thursday Mass

10 AM

May 31st—

Walkathon 1 PM; Reli-

gion Exams Grades 1-8

ONE FAITH,

ONE FAMILY,

ONE SCHOOL!

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June Important

Dates:

June 3rd—

ELA Exams (Grade ap-

propriate)

June 4th—

Math Exams (Grade ap-

propriate)

June 5th—

Science Exams (Grade

appropriate)

June 6th—

Social Studies Exams

(Grade appropriate)

Kdg. Closing Ceremonies

7 PM

June 7th—

Pre-K Closing Ceremo-

nies 9:30 AM; CYO Tail-

gate Party 6-8 PM

June 11th—

2nd Grade Field Trip;

First Grade Field Trip

June 12th—

No CARES; 8th Grade

Graduation at EOL at 4

PM

June 14th—

Closing Mass and Awards

10:30 AM; Noon Dismis-

sal

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From the Principal’s Desk...

Dear Holy Rosary Families,

As the busy days of spring lead into the anticipated fun and often lazy days of

summer, I want to look back with you at our school year. There were some

bumpy days, but your patience and God’s graces guided us through those times.

With dedicated teachers in place and a solid registration and re-registration, I

anticipate continued growth for Holy Rosary for our future.

I want to thank our parents and guardians for your support of our students

both at school and at home. You have prayed, loved, volunteered, chaperoned,

organized, generously donated, celebrated sacraments, studied, read with chil-

dren and supported sports events. The Holy Rosary Community and the com-

munity at large has been the beneficiary of your efforts.

We have a new website, Twitter and Instagram accounts, scoreboard, softball

field, eleven new laptops for the teachers, twenty four new iPads for the stu-

dents, four new air conditioners, four walkie talkies and additional security fea-

tures in the gym and music room. Much of this is a result of the forward think-

ing of HASA and CYO and generous benefactors. Our Board of Limited Juris-

diction is underway. The Board will help promote and advance the mission of

the school and extend the base of support which will ensure a long and pros-

perous future for Holy Rosary.

Thank you again for your faith and support. Have a safe summer. See you in

September!

God’s Graces to You!

Mary Ann

Letter from The Governing Board of Pastors

Monsignor Sangermano, Holy Saviour Church

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APRIL SHOWERS BRING MAY FLOWERS

In reading the title of this article, you may be thinking to yourself: “Monsignor Sangermano isn’t

being very original or very deep with the title!” I hope I can show you otherwise.

We have, hopefully, just come out of a period of great rain and unpleasant weather. Invari-

ably, our conversation during those times turns to the unpleasant atmosphere and generally

somewhat depressing feeling that goes along with this kind of weather. You may have commented

to someone on the miserable conditions and, from time to time, you may hear the response:

“Well, we need the rain,” or “That’s what makes the flowers grow.” As you are standing there

soaking wet or as you feel down from days on end without sunshine, you may want to swat that

person with your umbrella! Yes, we know the facts but we just don’t want to be reminded of

them.

As we enter the Easter Season, we do so in a part of the world where this season coin-

cides with spring. In our more reflective moments, as we look at the beauty of nature coming in-

to bloom and the bright colors of the flowers, we may force ourselves to admit that the rains had

their purpose and we are seeing that purpose before our eyes. So it is with the suffering and

death of Jesus, which we have recalled during Holy Week, and our own participation in that suf-

fering. The Old Testament Prophet wrote, referring to the coming Messiah: “There was no beau-

ty in him.” This referred to the appearance Jesus would have after His condemnation, unjust pun-

ishment and death. Most of those who had followed Him, and had even seen His miracles, ran

away from this sight. Only His Mother, His faithful Apostle John and Mary Magdalene remained

faithful at the foot of the Cross. Just three days after this event, the purpose of it all became

clear! The great Easter victory of Jesus would not have been the victory it was if He had not

overcome suffering and death in order to show forth His power and His glory. The greater the

suffering, the greater the victory.

So it is with you and I. Jesus pays us the compliment of allowing us to unite our own suf-

ferings, which, for us, are the results of our fallen nature, to His own. He allows us to sanctify our

own sufferings and disappointments by uniting them to His. He even tells us that this is indispen-

sable for His followers. “Unless you take up your cross and follow me, you cannot be my disci-

ple.” He also allows us to glimpse the victory that will be ours if we are faithful. The victory over

suffering and death that Jesus won was won for us. If we follow His teachings, if we tell Him that

we are sorry when we fail Him by sin, if we worship Him faithfully on His day and if we communi-

cate with Him through prayer, we are sharing His life here on earth. As a result, He will give us,

even now, a great share in His peace, which is His great Easter gift.

So let us take the “April showers” of suffering and pain and join them faithfully to those of

Jesus. If we do, we will also share the “May flowers” of His victory, in this life by the interior

peace He gives us and in the life to come by the eternal happiness He has prepared in Heaven for

those who are faithful.

With prayers always,

Monsignor Sangermano

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Did You Know...

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Mrs. Luthy’s Classes

Grade 5 continues their focus on writing, creating tall tales in the process. As the class learns about diffi-

culties faced by children their age in different countries, the class completed the reading of A Long Walk to

Water. The class realizes how lucky they are to have water come so easily to them, and understands the

importance of social justice and helping out those less fortunate.

Grade 6 completed the reading of The Staircase, and are comparing two types of media. The book and

movie are completely different, though both focus on the miracle staircase of the Loretto Chapel in Santa

Fe, New Mexico. A compelling story, it was entertaining to see the students wish for more class time so

they could advance in the book.

Grade 7 has been taken back to the time of Jesus’ death, in the book Awakening. This time travel book

brings new and relevant meaning to Jesus’ Passion and Death. Though our Pre-Easter schedule did not

permit us all the time we needed to complete the book, we are finishing up the book, in conjunction with

our studies.

Grade 8 presented a beautiful depiction of the Last Supper and Living Stations of the Cross. We are

grateful to our daily Mass friends who attended our presentation. Their reverence put us in the mindset

to experience Jesus’ last days just prior to Easter.

—Mrs. Luthy

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Honors Math

7th and 8th Grade Honors Math classes completed a 3D creation project using cylinders, cones, and

spheres. They built a structure and then had to find the volume of every shape that they used. Pictures

are attached!

—Mrs. Higgins

1st Grade

The first grade has been busy talking and writing about spring and the signs of new life. They have learned a

poem called "Little Bees" and everyone presented it to their classmates. They have also chosen an insect

that they wanted to learn about and researched it and wrote their own report and drew a picture of their

insect. It was so much fun sharing our information with each other. Thanks to Mya and her family we now

have caterpillars in our classroom and we can' wait to watch them turn into butterflies right before our

eyes. We have also met a new friend named Flat Stanley. Each first grader sent him to a family member or

friend and asked them to take him on an adventure. At the end of May, all the Flat Stanleys will be return-

ing to Holy Rosary and we will be so excited to read about and share all the adventures that Flat Stanley

went on and how many different places he visited. We will end our year with an awesome class trip to the

DaVinci Science Center in Allentown. What a great year we had!

—Mrs. Koneski

2nd Grade

The 2nd graders have been flexing their creative minds this past month as they have been working on cre-

ating their own Poetry Portfolios. The students are studying and writing a variety of different types of po-

ems: couplets, cinquains, diamantes, and bio-poems. Our little poets should be so proud of the creative lan-

guage they are learning to express!

—Christina Reale and Renee Prieto

Pre-K

Along with all of their busy learning, Pre-K had their first annual Grand-Friend Day this past month. The

class was allowed to invite a grandparent or special friend to attend a presentation about Grand-

Friends. They opened their presentation with a special prayer just for Grand-Friends. The class recited

two songs to go along with their lines: sharing why they love their Grand-Friend. For weeks, the class

worked hard as they anxiously anticipated their performance of the songs and recital of their lines. To

conclude their presentation the class joyfully presented their Grand-Friends with a hand-print flower spe-

cially made for them. The center of the flower contained a picture of them with their Grand-Friend. The

Grand-Friends were then asked to stay and enjoy a snack with the class. Pre-K was very excited to put on

a presentation for their Grand-Friends and have them partake in a special snack time with them. It was a

great experience for the Pre-K class and their Grand-Friends!

—Mrs. Gill

Did You Know (continued)...

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Kindergarten

Kindergarten has been busy learning all about the season of Lent and the Easter season. We learned about the

Stations of the Cross and made our own little booklets so we could remember everything Jesus did for us. We

enjoyed watching the 8th Grade perform the Living Stations! We enjoyed listening to the Bible and were happy

to learn that Jesus rose again to New Life on Easter Sunday! In ELA, we have been working hard to learn more

and more sight words. We love listening to stories and recalling story details! One of our favorite stories we

listened to was The Good Egg by Jory John. We discussed ways we could all be "good eggs." We drew our an-

swers and shared our work with our classmates. We decided to hang up our egg decorations and writing out-

side our classroom for the whole school to see and read. Kindergarten is really FILLED with a bunch of "good

eggs!" We can't believe how fast our kindergarten year has flown by! We look forward to enjoying our last

few weeks of school and preparing for our special Kindergarten Closing Ceremony on Thursday, June 6!

—Mrs. Pickering

3rd Grade

Third grade has been working hard as usual. In math, we have had some students reach their math fact fluency

in multiplication. Gemma Salamone, Tara Monahan, and Angelina Szostek have reached 100% fluency for facts 0

-10 and Kevin Mansfield, Molly Rupprecht, Michael Vernacchio, and Keely Wink have reached 100% fluency in 0-

12 facts! So many other students are also very close to reaching their goals! A big project that third grade

worked on this past month was the Women Heroes Project. Each student researched a women who has made

a big impact. Some of these women included Elenore Roosevelt, Ellen Ochoa, Florence Nightengale, and Clara

Barton. The students learned a lot and really got into the project! In Religion, we have been working on re-

searching St. Philip Neri. 3rd grade is in charge of the bulletin board for "Saint of the Month" for May, so we

are learning all we can about St. Philip Neri so that we can share with the whole school.

— Mrs. Fitzpatrick

Computers While grades 2 through 7 have been coding in various block programming languages. Our 8th grade is coding in

JavaScript, a programming language used often on the internet. The students are leaning the syntax, logic, and

data flow of the language. When finished the students will be able to draw, color, and animate coding in JavaS-

cript.

—Mr. Graham

Science

The sixth and seventh grade STEM students are participating in the PECO Innovative Challenge. The PECO

Innovative Challenge is a collaborative educational initiative designed to empower students to explore opportu-

nities in STEM. The students engage in science, engineering, technology, and mathematics activities while learn-

ing about the fundamental principles of energy use and conservation. It was held on March 28, 2019 at the

Franklin Institute. The students had to create and present a project, in which they explore energy. The sev-

enth grade students are learning about microgrids and have to build a model of one.

The seventh grade STEM students include: Zaara Abraham, Sarah Barrera-Cruz, Annalise Bilardo, Matthew

Christopher, Elijah Colson, Andrew Doorly, Amy Garcia, Brianna Petruccelli, and Aidan Tomeo. The sixth

grade have designed a house out of Legos that runs on solar energy. The sixth grade STEM students include:

Bridget Archbold, Azariah Barracks, Emmett Baxter, Jillian Couchara, Sommer Davis, Kenneth Denzler, Keara

Fish, Lauren Lamina and Marina Muldoon. All the students will also participate in the STEM Career Symposium,

in which the students will meet people currently working in a variety of STEM careers. They will listen to them

talk about their jobs and be able to ask questions.

—Ms. Morrow

Did You Know (continued)...

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Hello there faithful Holy Rosary CYO Families!

Please come join us for the end of year CYO Banquet on St. Titus 6 PM,

We will have announcements soon for Summer BB workouts and also Fall registration.

1st Annual Holy Rosary JV Softball tournament will be held the week of May 13th. 6 teams will be in the tourna-

ment. Games will be played all week.

Did You Know (continued)...

Spanish

The week before Easter, we talked about religious words in Spanish and discussed how Latin America cel-

ebrates Semana Santa (Holy Week) with a focus on the country of the Dominican Republic. The students

learned that although in Latin America people speak another language, Semana Santa is also focused on

celebrating the life and teachings of our Lord Jesus (Nuestro Señor Jesús) while spending time together

with our family and close friends. The students made jigsaw puzzles using religious Spanish words. Each

piece of the puzzle signified different languages, races and countries. We discussed how putting the pieces

together makes a whole. It leads to a unified world bonded by paz y amor (peace and love) like our Lord

Jesus Christ has taught us.

— Mrs. Febrillet

BOX TOPS

HASA Happenings…

From all of us at HASA, we just wanted to send a big THANK YOU for all of your help and support

throughout the school year! It is much appreciated. We will be sending out periodic updates through the

end of school year, as well as when we get closer to the end of summer. Enjoy the remainder of the

school year, and have a beautiful summer!

Attention all Box Top clippers!

Thanks to all who have submitted Box Tops in the 2018/2019 school year. With your help, we have

earned $738.60 for our school this year!

Please keep clipping over the summer so we will be off to a good start when the new school year be-

gins in September. The next contest will be in October 2019!

Any questions, contact Sherri Muldoon at smuldoon315@gmail.com.

Thank you Happy Clipping!!

CYO Sports News...

FINANCIAL AID Page 10

Amazon

This is a gentle reminder, for all of those returning, and for all of our new families— please remem-

ber to help support Holy Rosary Regional School while shopping at Amazon! Please use the below

link and register:

https://smile.amazon.com/

You can sign in with your existing Amazon log in. Once signed in be sure to select the drop down

arrow on the left side of the tool bar to find our school. Once selected you will see on your Ama-

zon homepage, Supporting: Holy Rosary Regional Catholic School.

Through the Amazon process, all families will be eligible for your Prime benefits and the school does

not receive any personal information on any purchases—the school only receives a percentage of

the sales.

Remember to share the smile link with all of your family and friends too!!

All families may now apply for financial aid for the 2019-2020 school year. The website is

factsmgt.com/aid. Families can work directly with the FACTS Company in order to verify

all information.

Questions on completing the application may be answered by calling the FACTS helpline

directly at 1-866-441-4637. They are available Mon-Thurs: 7:30 AM—7:00 PM. You can al-

so email them at info@factstuitionaid.com with questions.

The Kremer Foundation applications are now available. Families must not have an income

greater than $46,435 per year for a family of four or less (as increased by $7,992 for

each additional family member. This application is hard copy only. Please contact me if you

would like one. Applications are due to me attention no later than May 13, 2019.

To be awarded any and all financial aid, families must be registered for the

2019/2020 school year and all tuition for this school year must be paid in full.

As always, I am available for any assistance you may need in applying. You can email me at

bhallinan@holyrosaryregional.com with any questions and/or concerns or in needing as-

sistance uploading documents. I am in the office every Monday.

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◄ Apr 2019 May 2019 Jun 2019 ►

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

1 Rosary 8 AM

2

3 First Friday Mass 10:30 Drama Club Last day for AOH Can Collection

4 EOL First Communion

5 Cinco De Mayo St. Paul, Holy Saviour and St. Titus First Com-munion

6 4th Grade Field Trip to Barn Nature Center

Dress Down $2

7 Faculty Retreat 3-6 PM

8 Rosary 8 AM

Kindergarten Field Trip to Please Touch Muse-um

2nd Grade Field Trip to Schuylkill Center

9

10 Grade 8 Pictures Drama Club

11

12 Mother's Day

13

14

15 May Procession St. Paul 7 PM

16

17 Drama Club

18 Armed Forces

Day

19 Parish Singers at Holy Saviour 11:30 Mass

20 8th Grade Class Trip to NY

21

22 Rosary 8 AM Field Day

CYO Banquet at St. Titus 6 PM Doors Open at 5:30

23 No School

24 No School

25

26

27 Memorial Day

No School

28

29 Rosary 8 AM “Oliver” Performance 7 PM

30 Ascension Thursday Mass 10 AM

31 Religion Exams Grs. 1-8 Walk-a-thon 1 PM

May Calendar

◄ May 2019 June 2019 Jul 2019 ►

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

1

2

3 End of Year Assess-ments ELA

4 End of Year Assess-ments Math

5 End of Year Assess-ments Science

6 End of Year Assess-ments Social Studies Kindergarten Closing Ceremony 7 PM

7 Last Pretzel Day

8th Grade Boat Day Pre-K Closing Ceremony 9:30 AM CYO Tailgate Party 6-8 PM

8

9

10

11 Second Grade Field Trip to Crayola Factory

First Grade Field Trip to DaVinci Science Center

12 No CARES Eighth Grade Graduation at EOL 4 PM

13

14 Flag Day Closing Mass & Awards 10:30 Noon Dismissal Last Day of School

15

16 Father's Day

17

18

19

20

21 Summer Solstice

22

23

24

25

26

27

28

29

30

June Calendar Page 12

Happy Summer!

May Lunch Menu

2018/2019 Home & School Association Board Members

Executive Board

President—Beth Fish

Vice President—Amy Porter

Treasurer—Athena Lehatto

Recording Secretary—Alicia Rhoads

Corresponding Secretary—Jessica

Cocco

Committees

Fundraising—Sharon Rupprecht

Beautification—Maria Credle

Hospitality—Amy Porter

Lead Homeroom Parent—Sherri Muldoon

Marketing—Anthony Garcia

Grant Writing—Heather Haley

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