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"Mary, give me your Heart: so beautiful, so pure, so immaculate; your Heart so full of love and humility that I may be able to receive Jesus in the Bread of Life and love Him as you love Him and serve Him in the distressing guise of the poor." - Mother Teresa
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From Mrs. Rowley 
What an honor it was yesterday to attend the installation of our new bishop, Bishop Michael Burbidge. I attended with two 8th grade students and represented St. Ambrose School at this momentous occasion. Let us keep Bishop Burbidge, and retiring Bishop Paul Loverde, in our prayers.
This week we are attending Mass twice - on Wednesday for the Memorial of St. Ambrose and on Thursday for the Feast of the Immaculate Conception. Please join us for 9:00 am Mass on those days.
The Knights of Columbus will be hosting their annual Breakfast with Santa on Sunday, December 11. Please stop by after the 8:00 am and 10:00 am Masses for a delicious breakfast and to see our special guest!
Don't forget our musical extravaganzas next week! On Tuesday our choral concert will be at 1:30 pm, and on Thursday we will have two band performances, at 2:00 pm and 7:00 pm. Please join us and support our talented students.
Our diocesan Office of Catholic Charities reaches out each year to our Catholic schools for charitable contributions. This week is "Catholic Schools Care About Catholic Charities." In order to raise money to help the needy in our own diocese, we will have a "spirit-wear" day on Wednesday, December 21. This is a half day. For a donation of $1 students may have a Christmas color dress-down day. For more information about Catholic Charities please check out the following link:
http://www.ccda.net/.
All-powerful God, increase our strength of will for doing good, that Christ may find an eager welcome at His coming, and call us to His side in the Kingdom of Heaven, where He lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, forever and ever. Amen.
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Wednesday Folder
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St. Ambrose Cookbook
Hot off the presses! Get your St. Ambrose family cookbook!
Pre orders were delivered last week but a few copies remain. We will be selling after masses this weekend but if you would like to ensure you get one, please email Eileen Bliss at
eipmcc@gmail.com and send a check for $25 to the office and we will be sure you get your copy before the weekend.
I have already made several recipes and everything has been delicious!
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The holiday season is a joyful time of year, but it is also a time of year when you need to be extra-cautious when out and about with your child. Between frenzied trips to the mall for holiday shopping, crowded airports, and holiday parties, it can be hard to keep track of your little one in the crowds. These holiday tips will help parents ensure that their children stay protected and have a healthy holiday season:
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Talk to your children before a family outing. Make a rule that you must always be able to see them and they must always be able to see you... It may sound simple, but keep reminding them periodically; especially if you think they are getting restless.
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Use the "two giant steps" rule - your children can never be more than two giant steps away from you. It is a fun and easy way for young children to remember not to wander away.
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Three Kings Gift Shop Donations
 Thank you for your generosity! We've had a lot of great items donated for the The Three Kings Gift Shop! We will continue to collect donations until December 13th. The students will shop on December 15th and 16th. THE THREE KINGS GIFT SHOP ORDER FORMS went home last week and are also available in the
Wednesday Folder section of The Buzz. Please check out the SignUpGenius to see if you can lend a hand in the shop for an hour or two!
http://www.signupgenius.com/go/20f0b44abac229-thethree/.
For questions please contact Maryellen DeWolfe at sdewolfe@earthlink.net.
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Christmas Service Projects
Babies in Bethlehem
This Advent, join us in delivering life, peace and hope to mothers and babies in the Holy Land. In last week's Wednesday folder you should have received a collection box with information regarding "Babies in Bethlehem." Boxes should be returned next week on
Thursday, December 15th. For family friendly Advent Activities visit
birthplaceofhope.org.
Santa's Ride
In conjunction with the neighboring police facility we are doing a toy drive, and these toys will be delivered to children at some local hospitals and other needy children in the community. Please consider having your child bring in a toy and place it in one of the boxes that will be in our school lobby. The toys will be delivered by the police.
Thank you in advance for your continuing generosity, and for showing your children the importance to helping others.
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We had a busy time in STEM Club last week. Our 3
rd
and 4
th
graders worked on Snap Circuits, which are electrical components, such as motors, resistors, switches, etc, that provide a safe and fun way for students to explore the basic principles of electronics and circuits. It also serves as an opportunity for them to learn how to follow an instruction manual!
Our 5
th
-8
th
grade explored a topic in materials engineering and materials testing, by examining the strength of chocolate bars! A materials microstructure will affect its mechanical properties. In chocolate bars, we looked at altered microstructures via the addition of crisped rice (Crackle bar) and oreo cookies (Cookies n' Crème bar) to the plain homogeneous Hershey's bar. Did it make the bars weaker? Stronger?
We set up a 3 point bending test and tested the flexural strength of the different bars. We placed the chocolate bars on 2 chairs as the supports (2 points) and the load was applied at the center of the bar (3
rd
point.) We used the Hershey's bar as our control and tested away. We could visually see the bars start to sag, or deflect, as the load increased. Cool!
What did we find? The Hershey's bar and the Crackle bar failed at similar loads. We can determine that the bond between the chocolate and the rice is good, as well as the fact that the rice is very uniformly distributed through the chocolate. This allowed for decent load transfer throughout the candy bar. Our outlier was the Cookies n' Crème bar; the white chocolate had a much higher load capacity than the milk chocolate. We can also conclude that the Oreo cookie crumbles acted similar to the rice; well dispersed, the white chocolate coats the cookie relatively uniformly and thus this chocolate bar has decent load transfer as well. Yum!
Finally, our K-2
nd
grade looked at improving the play dough process. We read the book "Somebody & the Three Blairs" by Marilyn Tolhurst. In this book, the "Somebody" is the bear, who tromps through the Blair's house while they are out. The shower is too hot, the toilet is a pond, which is too small.... you get the idea. What does this mean for STEM? Well, in Goldilocks and the version we read, the book is really about quality control: Too hot, too cold, just right. Neat!
We then looked at play dough and tried to improve the process. We had high quality play dough that we tested and examined. We could make all sorts of things (quality control tests) and it was fun to play with, although some 2
nd
graders thought it smelled bad. We then took a look at a low quality playdough. Our thoughts were "Gross, Disgusting, Slime!, Horrible." Finally, we tried some material processing of our own and tried to recreate the good playdough. Each group was given a dish of flour, salt, water and a ¼ cup measuring spoon. They were free to explore, adding amounts of each as they found appropriate. Our second grade team did it! Way to go! They were able to combine the materials into a ratio that gave them good play dough. Great work!
Click on the photos to enlarge.
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Look Who's In! (AKA Shout Outs)
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Shout out to Kathleen Coady our Hospitality Director, and the Second Grade Families for a lovely Confirmation Reception! The Confirmandi and their guests enjoyed great food and drinks in the beautifully decorated parish hall. We appreciate your support and hospitality!
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From the Editor
Keep sending in your submissions! I accept them 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. Also, please make sure the pictures are less than 5MB. Submissions are due by
Mondays at 5pm. Thank you!
Rosie
McGuire
buzzeditor@stambroseschool.org
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Next Meeting:
December 14th 7pm
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Important Dates
(All events and important dates can be found on our website's Google Calendar!)
Thurs 12/8:
- Advanced Band Rehearsal 3:15pm
Fri 12/9:
- Drama Club 3:10pm
Mon 12/12:
- String Program 3:15pm
- Kolbe Kids 3:30pm
Tues 12/13:
- Leo Club 3:15pm
- Choir 3:20pm
Wed 12/14:
- STEM Club 3:15pm
- Garden Club 3:15pm
- PTO Meeting 7pm
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-Think of ways to volunteer at the school?
- Buy a toy for Santa's Ride?
- Start adding change to the Babies in Bethlehem collection box?
- Look for things to donate to the Three Kings Gift Shop?
-Tell a friend about the Amazon Associates Program?
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