What's Happening at HFSM
Congratulations to our 2021 Fifth Grade Graduates!
Fifth graders celebrated their upcoming graduation with the annual tradition of "Running of the Halls".
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Fifth graders were given various academic and humorous awards during the annual Fifth Grade Awards Ceremony.
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Dylan was our Principal for the Day winner from our Winter Gala.
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Students enjoyed time at HSA's Carnival during the last days of school.
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Father Jim and Father Petro made lunch at a picnic on the rectory lawn for our students to celebrate the end of the school year.
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Congratulations to our third graders on their Confirmation and First Eucharist!
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Preschoolers were learning about nursery rhymes and made their names into stars for "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star".
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First graders were learning about their special friendship with God!
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Second graders created Poetry Portfolios with different types of poetry they wrote themselves.
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Our Lent Retreat was full of prayer, almsgiving, and fasting.
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Band students played during lunch for Music Month
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Third graders completed their Confirmation Retreat.
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Piano students played during lunch for Music Month.
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Kindergarten students made leprechaun traps!
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Fourth graders read biographies and created Bottle Buddies and presentations about their person.
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The fifth graders did reports, slide shows, and presentations on topics of their choice that were during the Revolutionary War.
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During Lent we collected donations for the Women's Pregnancy Center, prayed using the "Let's Grow Into Lent" program, and fasted daily with Lenten calendars.
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Day 5 of Catholic Schools Week was Dress Your Best Day! We also had an All School Mass to end the week, a GCCS bingo game, and classroom bingo game!
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Day 4 of Catholic Schools Week was Storybook or Movie Character Day! Today we made goodie bags and cards for the residents at Valley Eldercare on Columbia!
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Day 3 of Catholic Schools week was Pajama Day! We also made rosaries and Father Gross blessed them!
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Day 2 of Catholic Schools Week had Sports Day with the Wacky Olympics in Gym class, and a door decorating contest.
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Day 1 of Catholic Schools Week had Twin Day with a scavenger hunt and Zoom call with LA Chargers quarterback, Easton Stick.
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Students love our school lunches with Mrs. Waldorf and Ms. Barb.
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Mrs. Fietzek teaching the fourth graders notes on the ukulele.
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Fifth graders did an author study in library class with Patricia Polacco.
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In gym class the preschoolers played "Clean the Room".
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Fifth graders performed the Nativity story at our school's Christmas Mass.
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Families donated "birthday bags" for foster families as their Advent service project.
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Preschoolers created Christmas presents for their loved ones.
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Our second graders and some of our third graders completed their First Reconciliation sacrament during the Advent season.
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HFSM families created Advent wreathes with their hands and family pictures that turned into a Christmas tree in our school hallway!
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Kindergarteners researched turkeys and using both math and kinesthetic skills to make turkeys!
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First graders working on adding and subtracting with fact families and word problems.
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HFSM went to distance learning for a week to clean and learn from home.
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Teachers, parents, and students Zoom together for goal setting conferences in October.
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The second graders led Mass even with Covid restrictions by staying 6 feet apart and wearing masks.
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The third graders are learning about mindfulness with our counselor, Mrs. Tanabe.
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The fourth grade class had Expert Sharing Week where they learned new things about each other.
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Students attended Adoration of the Eucharist on Friday to pray for special intentions.
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Fifth graders did an art project of what they look like behind their masks with adjectives to describe themselves.
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Morning prayer is held in our classrooms over Zoom so we can still hear the daily gospel together!
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Firefighters fixed our flag pole and hung our flag on September 11th.
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Beautiful first Mass of the school year!
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It was so good to have all the students in the school again for the first day of school!
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It was great to see everyone again at Open House!
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