"The land has produced its harvest;
God, our God, has blessed us.."
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Psalms 67:6
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From Mrs. Rowley 
What a great turn-out we had for our Trunk of Treat! Cars were creatively decorated, and the costumes were outstanding! Congratulations to all of our winners, and thanks to all who participated. A special thanks to Mrs. Lopez for organizing the event.
Yesterday, the Feast of All Saints, our 2
nd
graders really showed us their saintly side by dressing as their favorite saint and attending Mass as their saint. After Mass, they each student gave a presentation in their classroom about their saint. Because we went to Mass on Tuesday we will have a Living Rosary on Thursday, led by the middle school students.
Friday is our annual Pumpkin Fun Run. Please join us and cheer our students as they by run (or walk) laps in the field.
We are launching "Discover Catholic Schools Week" with an open house on Sunday, November 13 from 11:00am-1:00pm. Please spread the word to friends and family and invite them to stop in and visit our school.
The Fall Scholastic Book Fair is coming to the St. Ambrose School library, November 10 - November 15. It will be open to everyone Sunday, November 13, from 9:00 am to 1:30 pm. Be sure to come by before or after Mass. It's never too early to start your holiday shopping
We are currently collecting items for our Three Kings Store. This is a great tradition at St. Ambrose School and a Christmas shopping opportunity for our students. We stock the store with re-gifted items donated by the community and the students go shopping for items that are sold for $1 or $2. All proceeds go directly to the school. If you have items to donate you can drop them off at the school office.
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Check past issues of the Buzz for that week's Wednesday folder fliers.
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The Pumpkin Run - November 4, 2016 * It is not too late for pledge forms! *
Thank you to all the families who turned in their Pumpkin Run pledge forms! We are still accepting pledge forms this week! If you simply forgot to send your form in, or if last week got a little crazy with a half day and a day off, you are not too late! See below for the fabulous rewards your kids could earn!
*Forms for the Pumpkin Run are on the school website.
Key Dates:
Nov 4 - Pumpkin Run
Nov 16 - Return "pledge per lap" donations
Rewards:
Students who raise:
- $100 or more: $10 Amazon Gift Card
- $200 or more: $10 Amazon gift Card & $10 AMC Gift Card
Students who raise money will also be entered into a drawing for an iPad Mini!
- Students who raise $75 or more: 1 entry into drawing
- $150 or more: 3 entries
- $300 or more: 5 entries
Please Note: The Pumpkin Run is held during school hour son the field behind the school
. All students participate in the Pumpkin Run whether or not they have any pledges. Parents are welcome to join us as volunteers or spectators. A SignUpGenius will go out soon requesting volunteers. The Pumpkin Run aka The Fun Run is NOT the 1k Fun Run associated with the 5k Peace Run. The 5k Peace Run / 1k Fun Run is a separate St. Ambrose School event that does not involve pledges.
If you have any questions about The Pumpkin Run, please email Maryellen DeWolfe at [email protected].
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Parent-Teacher Conferences
Parent-Teacher conferences will be held Thurs
day, Nov. 10 and Friday, Nov. 11. The 10th is an early dismissal day and conferences will begin at 1pm. Friday there is no school for students
and conferences will be held from 8am-3:30pm. Click here to sign up.
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A huge THANK YOU to everyone who participated in our 2nd St. Ambrose Trunk or Treat event. It was a wonderful evening full of fun and community.
We saw some amazing costumes and had over 24 trunks in attendance - we have so much creativity and imagination at St. Ambrose!
With so many choices, judging 'Best Trunk' and 'Best Costumes' wasn't easy. Our judges, Mrs. Rowley (dressed as the Queen Bee), Mrs. Fernandez and Father Stefan Starzynski did a wonderful job, though!
Our winners were:
We were also able to collect some canned goods for Food for Others. If you'd still like to donate, there will be a box in the school lobby until Friday, 11/4/16.
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The Fall Scholastic Book Fair
November 10-15th
The Fall Scholastic Book Fair is coming to the St. Amb
rose Library! It will be open this year during the
parent conferences as we
ll as on Sunday for Family Day.
The students will make their wish lists Thursday morning, Nov. 10, before the 11:30 dismissal. The fair will be open that afternoon until 4:00 for students to come in with their parents. It will also be open the following day, Friday, Nov. 11, from 8:00-4:00
. Students must be accompanied by parents when coming into the
fair
. Sunday the fair is open from 9:00-1:30 for families to come in before or after mass.
Students may come to the fair during school hours on Monday and Tuesday. It will close at 2:00 on Tuesday to be packed up.
This is a perfect opportunity to get some good books for independent reading and holiday gifts.Contact Mrs. Healy at [email protected] with any questions or if you'd like to help out. I hope to see you there!
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Thanks to all who submitted recipies for the school cookbook. We have completed this phase of the project. So get your
pre-orders
in soon!
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Does my child have the flu?
Cold or Flu? How do you tell the difference?
The Common Cold - How is it different from the flu?
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Symptoms come on slowly
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Low-grade fever if it occurs
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Body aches, fatigue, cough, sore throat are mild
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Runs its course in about a week
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Can lead to mild inner ear infections
The Flu - How is it different from a cold?
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Symptoms come on suddenly
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Higher and sustained fever
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Body aches, fatigue, cough, sore throat are more severe
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Symptoms persist for 2 weeks or more
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Can lead to pneumonia, bronchitis, and other colds or infections
What they share in common:
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Fever
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Congestion
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Sneezing
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Cough
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Body aches
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Fatigue
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Sore Throat
Continue reading here.
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Third Annual Coat Drive!
The winter weather wear collection will begin THIS Tuesday, November 1st (All Saints Day) and end Wednesday, November 30th during Catholic Charities Week. We accept coats, gloves, hats, scarves, and snowsuits and winter wear for all age groups. We ask you to please donate only clean and in good condition items. We want to donate what we ourselves would be happy to receive. We have had such wonderful donations in the past, but we want to emphasize the items need to be washed or dry cleaned (Zips is cheap!) before giving to our less fortunate neighbors. Our new Bishop Designate, Bishop Burbidge, in his press conference stressed the importance of charity, and that is what the community of St. Ambrose does so well. There will be boxes in the school, and some of our students will be helping collect the items from each classroom. Thank you so much.
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Three Kings Gift Shop Donations
Please consider
 r helping us continue a great St. Ambrose School tradition-The Three Kings Gift Shop! The Three Kings Shop tradition is a Christmas shopping opportunity for our students. We stock the store with re-gifted items donated by our community that we sell for $1 or $2. All proceeds go directly to the school. The kids love it because they get to do their own shopping for their families with the help of our volunteer elves.
We are gladly accepting donations to stock our store! Please take a look through your closets, drawers, attics, and garages and see if you have items in VERY GOOD condition to donate to our shop. We could use gifts for moms, dads, children, teenagers, and grandparents. Things like jewelry, toys, games, stuffed animals, ties, gadgets, mugs, books, religious items, knick-knacks, and any item you might want to receive or give as a gift. No large gifts as the children must be able to carry the items home. We also need gift wrapping supplies, gift boxes, jewelry boxes, tape, and sturdy shopping bags. All donated items can be dropped off at the school office before December 13th. We appreciate your support! For questions please contact Maryellen DeWolfe at [email protected].
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Our K-2 club kids took advantage of the beautiful fall day and had some outside STEM time learning about Newton's first law of motion. What is Newton's first law? It states that when the sum of the forces acting on an object is zero, its velocity is constant. In other words, if an object is at rest, it will stay at rest.
How does our STEM club make this relevant to K-2? Well, we make jumping bugs of course! First, we had a sampling of cartoon bugs to cut out and color. We then taped them to our film canisters to make "bugs". Now we pulled in the science of Newton's first law and discussed how yes, our bug canisters were at rest and would remain at rest unless we found an external force to make them move.
We decided on a fun chemical reaction using water and alka-seltzer tablets to act as our force. We filled our canisters with a little bit of water, and used syringes to do this, just to throw in some extra fine motor skill practice. Then we went outside, and with the help of our volunteers, placed a piece of alka-seltzer in the container, shut the lid and backed away. Boom!! Some had bugs had little jumps, others went higher than the basketball hoops! STEM is fun!!
3-8th members had a quieter afternoon in the library working on TinkerCad, which is a fun and easy 3D modeler. I saw a lot of cool things on their screens: names, a robot, a hamburger, a zombie apocalypse Army base, to name a few. This is all prep for trying our hand at a 3D solid modeler next time and 3D printing!
What is
3D
parametric solid
modeling
? In the design and build world, it's where we start. It's a
3D
representation of what you are going to build, that will then be the basis for all analytical (such as finite element modeling) work, 2D drawing extraction, manufacturing and construction. It's the method used in the automotive, aerospace and shipbuilding industries, to name a few! Here are a few pictures. Click on the photos to enlarge.
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From the Editor
Please feel free to send in your submissions! I accept submissions from teachers, staff, and parents. If you know of something interesting going on in our community, or want to give a shout out to someone at the school, please send it in to me. I especially love pictures. Please contact Mrs. Rowley to make sure that we have permission to publish pictures of every student in the picture and make sure the pictures are less than 5MB. Submissions are due by Mondays at 5pm. Thank you!
Rosie
McGuire
[email protected]
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Next Meeting:
November 9th 7pm
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Important Dates
(All events and important dates can be found on our website's Google Calendar!)
Thurs 11/3:
- Confirmation Interviews 3pm
- Advanced Band Practice 3:15pm
Fri 11/4:
- Track/Cross Country 3:30pm
Sat 11/5:
- Scouting for Food Drop Off
Mon 11/7:
- String Program 3:15pm
- Kolbe Kids 3:30pm
Tues 11/8:
- Leo Club 3:15pm
- Choir 3:20pm
- Track/Cross Country 3:30pm
Wed 11/9:
- Chess Club 3:15pm
- Garden Club 3:15pm
- STEM Club 3:15pm
- PTO Meeting 7pm
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-Think of ways to volunteer at the school?
- Get pledges for the Fun Run?
- Sign up for Parent Teacher Conferences?
- Look for coats to donate?
- Look for things to donate to the Three Kings Gift Shop?
-Tell a friend about the Amazon Associates Program?
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