November 30, 2015

Newsletter

H O LY FA M I LY C AT H O L I C S C H O O L

“Holy Family Catholic School

is an educational ministry of

Holy Family Catholic Church

serving students in early

education through eighth

grade.

Our mission is to inspire our

students, through word and

example, the beautiful Gospel

message of Jesus Christ; in a

supportive and caring learning

environment where each child

is encouraged to strive for

academic excellence and grow

in faith, knowledge, and love.

"Go forth and teach all

nations . . . teaching them to

observe all that I

have commanded

you.”

Matthew 28:

19,20

December 1st: 7B visits Morning Star School

December 2nd & 3rd: Science Fair– Lunch in classroom

Parents in Prayer @ 7:50am followed by coffee in Rm 3 of PLC

December 3rd: Advent Penance Service grades 2-8 @ 9:15am

7A visits Morning Star School

Prize day for Magazine Drive orders turned in by 11/20

Friday, December 4th: First Friday Mass lead by Grade 5 @8:30am

COMING UP:

December 8th: Mass Day of Obligation

December 11th: Our Lady of Guadalupe Mass– Main Church 8:30am

December 14th: PK Christmas Program– Cafeteria @ 8:30am

Kindergarten Christmas Program– Cafeteria @ 9am

December 15th: Grade 1-Christmas Program– Cafeteria @ 1:30pm

December 16th: Grade 2 & 3 Christmas Program– Daily Chapel @ 1:30pm

December 18th: Grade 8 Christmas Tableau Main Church @ 12:30pm

CHRISTMAS BREAK - December 21st -January 3rd

Dear Parents. Welcome back after our Thanksgiving break, which I hope fortified you for the next three weeks. The next 15-days will be filled with wonderful activities and Christmas excitement. As you may know, yesterday was the 1st Sunday of Advent, which begins the Church's liturgical year. The Advent season is a time of preparation that directs our hearts and minds to Christ’s second coming at the end of time and also to the anniversary of the Lord’s birth on Christmas. The final days of Advent, from De-cember 17-24,we focus particularly on our preparation for the celebrations of the Nativity of our Lord (Christmas). The Advent Wreath reminds us of the meaning of the season. The purple candles in particular symbolize the prayer, penance, and preparatory sacrifices and good works undertaken at this time. The rose candle is lit on the 3rd Sunday, Gaudete Sunday, a time of joy as the faithful celebrate the fact their preparation is now half over and Christmas is close at hand. Let us all rejoice. God Bless, Sister Dorothy Sayers, M.P.F.

Calendar of Events ~ Week of November 30th

HOLY FAMILY CATHOLIC PRESCHOOL

The preschool Thanksgiving feast

Thank you to all of our awesome families, students

and staff members for making our Thanksgiving feast

such a huge success!

We celebrated:

Carolina

Lopez’s

Birthday

Lucas

DeFalco’s

Birthday

Bennett

Bertone’s

Birthday

Stella

Belmore’s

Birthday

UPCOMING EVENTS

*Wednesday, December 16

Christmas Program

* December 21-January1

Christmas Vacation (NO SCHOOL)

Holy Family’s Dynamic Catholic Ministry wants you to have

“THE BEST ADVENT EVER! “

Follow this link: http://dynamiccatholic.com/year-of-mercy/best-advent-ever/

PKB Thanksgiving Fun

Kindergarten Thanksgiving Fun

Thanksgiving Basket Brigade

Time to share our

blessings!

Keely & Aidan Fallon,

7B & 3A, donated &

delivered gift baskets

of Thanksgiving

goodies to local needy

families

CHRISTMAS SCHOOL PROJECTS

Stop by our front desk and sign up for the Saint

Peter Claver Prison Ministry Angel Tree Project

Buy a gift for a child who’s parent is incarcer-

ated & in need of some kindness & our prayers

CHRISTMAS IS COMING…

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The following families are hosting the Pilgrim Virgin

Mary Statues this week:

Joey Tomasone- 3A Kate Whitley- 3B

Teresa Tomasone— 5A Annaliese Kilmer—5B

MORE LITTLE ONES TO

WELCOME! Big brother,

Walker Mott-

ley, PKB

holds new

sister, Blake

Elizabeth,

born Nov.

18th @ 8lbs

Big sister, Gia

Boseo, PKB

holds new

brother Miles

Louis, born

Nov 16th, 7lbs

12 oz & 21.5”

long CONGRATULATIONS!

Prayer Intentions

May God’s hands bring continued healing to…

May they rest in peace & may divine consolation be with the fami-

lies of…

Marion Garwatoski, great grandmother of Wiel & Ella Vaughn, 2A

& KB, who passed away just short of her 101st

birthday

HF Crossing Guard Jack O’Connor

Stop by and welcome our new

crossing guard Ruth Maldonado

FAL

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Thank you so much for visiting our Scholastic Book Fair. Your gen-erous purchases are greatly appreciated. A special thank you to all

of the volunteers who signed up to help run the fair. The set up crew and pack up crew were angels. Mrs. Bahamonde, as usual, went

above and beyond. Another special thank you to Grace & Emma Neary’s dad for his generous donation of his book, on baseball great

Hank Aaron. Author Kevin Neary donated all of the profits from all of his books that were sold, back to the school. Now that’s a

home run! Thank you again & God bless, Gina Gibbs-Media Center BO

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Great American Magazine Drive Update

So far we have received over $9000 in orders – we’re more than halfway to our goal of $15,000!!! If we reach our goal, then we will be treated to an Extreme Games Inflatable Party.$6000 more;

Our final turn in date is next Friday, December 11th. Any student who turns in 5 orders for this turn-in date will receive a Minecraft Gamer 4-pack of ducks in addition to picking ducks for each order. These Minecraft packs are in high demand, so get your orders turned in today!

Remember, all orders count –we HIGHLY ENCOURAGE YOU TO ORDER ONLINE!! Orders place online are processed much faster than paper orders.

If you do not want or need any magazines, but would like to make a donation to the sale, you can submit donations to the magazine drive. Just fill out a form for your child, and write DONATION on it. Your child will receive one ‘duck’ credit for each $5 donation.

This Thursday at recess we will distribute prizes for orders placed by our last deadline (11/20). Each student who turned in 5 or more orders by that date will also get to spin the money wheel and win from $1 to $50! It will be an exciting day!

KA – Jaydon Schiffer

KB – Darren Flechtner

1A – Riley Fernandez

1A – Johanna Tucker

2A – Michael McCahill

3B – Ivan Taylor

4B – Ian Cooper

5A – Bryce Durham

5A – Eduardo Placer

6B – Tatiana Molina

7A – Isabella Fogarty

CONGRATULATIONS! The following students have reached VIP status and will receive extra time in our Ex-treme Inflatables Party:

6A: Kendall Taylor

6B: Alexandra Moncada

7A: Ana Duenas

7B: George Perez

8A: Maxium Pencak

8B: Natalie Chater

3A: Gracie Mitchell

3B: Lanie Nowak

4A: Rylee Goodyear

4B: Mateo Lopez

5A: Ewan Muir

5B: Brooke Allen

PKA: Ethan Fitzgibbons

PKB: Diego

KA:Elena Cantero

KB: Giulia Deem

KC: Gryphon Perez

1A: Maria Alejandra Selpulveda

1B: Jaxson Parker

2A: Riley de Zavala

2B: Sofia Seijas

RAFFLE WINNERS

Once again, Holy Family will participate in the National History

Bee. This competition consists of several rounds, beginning with

the Intramural test taken at Holy Family and ending with the

National Championship on June 9-12 in Chicago, IL.

Our Intermural test is open to students in 5th—8th grades and will be administered on Wednesday, De-

cember 9, 2015. The top ten students will move on to the Online Regional Qualifying Exam (taken here

at school) in January. The top scorers from each region will advance to the Regional exam held from Feb-

ruary to April. Each regional champion will advance to the National Championship held on June 9th—

12th 2016, in Chicago.

Although the Intramural test is not being held until January, there are some

things you can do to prepare:

* Read about history. Whether it's books, magazines or newspapers, the

more history you read, the more you'll learn.

* Peruse the Internet Resources section of historybee.com. While the ques-

tions asked in the National History Bee don't necessarily come from these

websites, they are representative of the type of information that is covered.

* Take the sample Intramural Test or the practice Online Regional Qualifying Exams. Not only will you

learn a lot of cool facts about history, but you will also get great practice with the type of questions you'll

see in Stage 1 of the National History Bee.

*Read the official National History Bee Study Guide. This is intended as an outline of subjects that are

common in National History Bee questions. Use this as a starting point in your quest to expand your

knowledge of history.

* Follow the Bee on Twitter (@NatlHistoryBee) and Like them on Facebook. Periodically they’ll be post-

ing links to cool articles and websites with interesting history information.

If you are interested in participating in the National History Bee, please complete the bottom portion of

this page and return it to Dr. Ma no later than Friday, December 4th.

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Student Name ______________________________________ Homeroom ____________

Parent Signature ______________________________________________________________

By signing and returning this form, I agree that my child has permission to compete in the History Bee

Please detach and return to Dr. Ma in Enrichment, no later than Friday, December 4th.

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Trimester Awards

Principal’s List

7A James Bautista 7A Charles Campbell 7A Ignacio Estrada 7A Isabella Fogarty 7A Benjamin Irmscher 7B Steve Jacob 7A Jack Lovely 7B Amanda Marzouk 8A Lindsay Merrill

6B Sophie Crant 6B Mateo Lozano 6B Francesca Medaglia 6B Meredith O’Malley 6B Andrea Sia 7A Kieran Patel 7A Eileen Sweeney 7A Matthew Vo 7A Zachary Zweifel 7B Andres Chacon 7B Elliott DAmato 7B Joseph Guettler 7B Emily Mezydlo 7B Tien Truong

8A Anna Baumann 8A Lauren Goulet 8A Zachary Hancock 8A Erin McCormack 8A Nolan McNealy 8A Sofia Obrador 8A Aidan Sakata 8A Jillian Sendin 8A Jack Sonderman 8A Luke Timmel

8B Carlos Aceituno 8B Regan Alexander 8B Maria Alvaro 8B Justin Kelleher 8B Miguel Molina 8B Alejandro Ramirez 8B Cecilia Santiago 8B Kiran Singh

Thank you to Sister Dorothy who gave each stu-

dent who earned a place on the Honor Roll, a new t-shirt in

honor of their achievement!

High Honors

Honor Roll

6A Kathryn Dzambo 6A Bryce Gluckman 6A Camden Riddle 6B Michelle Cottle 6B Michael Haas 6B Russell MacGregor 6B Alexander Onyiuke 6B Luca Pazos 6B Fabian Saba 6B Payton Wapole 7A Marian Durohom

7A Sebastian Gonzalez0-Portillo

7A Hayleigh Jusas 7A Madelyn King 7A Stephanie Mitchell 7A Madison Muchnok

7A Emma Murr

7A Arthur Ordona

7A Dia Sorrentino

7A Sydney Weiss

7A Cabot Zarn

7B Trent Allen

7B Keely Fallon

7B Daniel Hernandez

7B Sean Loy

7B Sebastian Medaglia

7B Talia Siefker

8A Anna Davis 8A Isabel Davis 8A Kaitlyn Foran 8A Maryelis Garcia 8A Madison Harbilas 8A Julianne Lozano 8A Sarah Martins 8A Maxim Pencak 8A Michael Rachdan 8A Carter Riddle 8B Bradley Hull 8B Katarina Kilmer 8B Logan McGraw 8B Andrea Moncada 8B Peter Newsome 8B Mackenzie O’Neill 8B Sophia Reinoso

The Lions Den

HFCS LIONS VOLLEYBALL TOURNAMENT

SCHEDULE

Play-in round - 12/7/15 Quarter finals - 12/8, 12/9, 12/10 Semi-finals - 12/10, 12/11 or 12/12 Consolation game – Monday, 12/14/15 at Bishop Moore for boys and girls. Side by side courts will be used. Game times 5:30 pm, 6:30 pm, 7:30 pm Boys Championship – Tuesday, 12/15/15 at Bishop Moore. Single court. Game times 5:30 pm, 6:30 pm, 7:30 pm Girls Championship – Wednesday, 12/16/15 at Bishop Moore. Single Court. Game times 5:30 pm, 6:30 pm, 7:30 pm All-star games – Friday, 12/18/15, Boys at one venue, girls at another venue. Game times 5:30 pm, 6:30 pm, 7:30 pm. Venues TBD. All-star selection – 2 players from each team for divisions with 9 or more teams. 3 players from each team for divisions with 8 or less teams.