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Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant
or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;
it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth.
It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things."
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From Mrs. Rowley
We had a wonderful celebration last Saturday with our "Wine and Chocolate" tasting. Thank you to our PTO for arranging the event, and to all those who attended. A special "thank you" to Mrs. Maria Lopez for all the work she put into organizing it. Please mark your calendars for our annual gala on Saturday, April 1. The theme of "Knight Around the World" celebrates our families and their origins. A delightful international evening is in store!
We have had a very successful infant collection, to support the Divine Mercy Center. In conjunction with youth ministry and Religious Education, we are helping to support those in our community who are in need. Thank you to all who contributed. We have more service opportunities coming up:
Sandwiches for Martha's Table
Saturday Feb. 11th 9am -12 noon
Come join us for Mass & to feed the hungry
The St. Ambrose Community in supporting the importance of "Respect Life" month will be collecting bread to make sandwiches for the homeless and hungry served by MARTHA'S TABLE in Washington, D.C.
MARTHA'S TABLE serves over 500 sandwiches each day!
We have had a ton of donations of peanut butter and jelly and now what we really need is bread for the sandwiches. Below is a link to the Sign Up genius to donate a loaf or two of bread, and bring your bread on Saturday, February 11th! We plan to make over 600 sandwiches so we will need lots of bread and lots of helping hands.
Please join us on Fridays during the month of March for Stations of the Cross. This will be weekly at 2:30pm. Registration for the 2017-2018 school year is under way (see information in the Wednesday folder)!
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I'm In. Are You?
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Team/Club/Group Picture Day 2017
We will need 3 volunteers for the following photo day:
Monday, February 13, 2017 at 8:30 am
(There was an incorrect date put in the BUZZ newsletter last week).
Photographers will be here taking pictures of clubs, groups, and teams. Here is the schedule for those pictures. Candid photos of the students will also be taken that morning.
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Wednesday Folder
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Community Corner
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Faithbooking Retreat March 17-19, 2017
Faithbooking Retreat
March 17-19, 2017
Theme: Stones of Remembrance
Come and refresh your soul by gifting yourself this time of solitude.
Perhaps consider leaving a legacy by creating a Faithbook- which is a tangible, written expression of God's presence in your life. Choose the format that is right for you- a journal, digital story, or scrapbook.
Location San Damiano Spiritual Life Center, White Post, VA
Cost $280 through February 28, 2017; $300 after that date
2 nights in a private room, 3 meals on Saturday and 2 meals Sunday
3pm Friday through 3pm Sunday
Holy Mass will be celebrated Saturday evening.
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Last week in STEM Club we began a multi week project involving spaghetti and the design and build of spaghetti bridges. Why spaghetti you may wonder? Spaghetti is inexpensive and comes in a great long shape, but it is a truly a terrible building material so it will make STEM club members think! To start the project we broke into teams and brainstormed about how our bridges would be designed. We then took advantage of the beautiful weather, went outside and began material testing of the spaghetti to get a sense of its strength. We looked at tensile strength (pull it apart), compressive strength and buckling (pushing together/crushing) and the most fun to experiment with, bending loads. We emulated our 3-point buckling test apparatus we made when we looked at chocolate bars, and this time looked at the flexural strength of the spaghetti, using popcorn kernels as our load.
We discovered very quickly that spaghetti has horrible bending strength! The kids had fun and looked at increasing the number of pieces of spaghetti to investigate improving the strength and thinking ahead to how the results of our testing would play in the design of their bridges.
Spaghetti bridges covers beam bending theories and statics, which are college level topics, but we will use our math and science and see what we can build in the coming weeks!
In our Kindergarten and 1
st
grade STEM Club on Thursday, we continued our exploration of sink and float. First we read "Who Sank the Boat?" by Pamela Allen. We then became marine architects and engineers and designed our own boats out of sponges, aluminum foil and various recycled plastic containers. The kids also had craft sticks, toilet paper and paper towel rolls, as well as lots and lots of tape at their disposal.
Once everyone was finished with their boat, they had the opportunity to test their design! The students then had the opportunity if they wished to improve their design and test again. It was a very successful boat building day!
Click on the images to enlarge.
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From the Editor
Please 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, I'd love to add it to the Buzz. I especially enjoy 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!
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Next Meeting:
February 8th 7pm
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Important Dates
(All events and important dates can be found on our website's Google Calendar!)
Thurs 2/9:
- Advanced Band Rehearsal 3:15p;15pm
- STEM for K-1st grade 3:15pm
Fri 2/10:
- Chess Club
3:10pm
Mon 2/13:
- Team/Club/Group Pictures
- Strings Program 3:15pm
- Kolbe Kids 3:30pm
Tues 2/14:
- Leo Club 3:15pm
- Choir 3:20pm
Wed 2/15:
- STEM Club for 2nd-8th grade 3:15pm
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-Think of ways to volunteer at the school?
- Get tickets for this year's Gala?
-Tell a friend about the Amazon Associates Program?
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