Collecting Gently Used Books

All the students, at Holy Cross Campus, during Lent take up a special collection each week. This week the students brought in gently used books that will be given to St. Vincent DePaul store here in Kaukauna. The students are making a real effort to be thinking of things that will help others. This is one way the students feel they can help others that don’t have as much as they do.

Fang's Reading Club

Fang from the Timber Rattlers visited with students during lunch time to promote “Fang’s Reading Club” with the Wisconsin Timber Rattlers. It is an incentive-based reading program. The students will have the opportunity to improve their reading skills while earning prizes from the Timber Rattlers! When they complete the program, and will hit a HOME RUN by reading, they will be rewarded with a complimentary ticket, hot dog and soda voucher to KCSS Family Night.

Jump Rope for Heart

During the week of February 16-19 students participated in “Jump Rope for Heart”. All forms of jump rope, for example double Dutch, were taught to the students by Miss Rosenbaum, their physical education teacher while having a lot of fun raising money for the American Heart Association. The students also kept people who have heart disease in their prayers.

Olympics!

The day the Olympics began in Vancouver, Canada (February 12th) the third grade classes had their own mini Olympic Quiz Day in the computer lab. They had all kinds of questions and activities to do on the computer to earn points. Then medal of Gold, Silver and Bronze were awarded to those that earned the highest point total. This was a really fun way for the students to learn about the Winter Olympic Games.

Our Neighbors are Special!

Here are four of the fourth graders from Holy Cross School in Kaukauna getting all bundled up to go on their way to deliver special Valentines to the school neighbors. The students will be surprising all the neighbors around the school with red paper heart which has a secret place for a note saying “Our neighbors are so very special to us” along with little chocolate heart. Just the students way of letting the neighbors know they are appreciated by the whole school. The fourth graders really had fun going around and delivering these Valentines.

Valentine Party at St. Aloysius

Children 3 years old through kindergarten and their families came together for an evening Valentine Party at St. Aloysius campus. They did crafts, decorated Valentine cookies and had lots of fun! On Friday students and staff dressed in red and white, and shared valentine cards with each other to celebrate Valentine’s Day.

Hooray for 100!

Hooray for 100! First grade students at St. Aloysius Campus of the Kaukauna Catholic School System celebrated 100th Day on Thursday, February 4, 2010. It is the 100th day of school. They collected 100 items to show the value of that number. Then, with the help of family members, those 100 items were arranged into a creative design. Some of the items were tootsie rolls in the shape of a heart, popcorn as snowflakes and a snowman, pennies spelling out their name, jewels creating a watch, cereal and candy creating the number one hundred. They wore special 100 day classes, strung 100 fruit loops, and enjoyed a book titled, One Hundred Hungry Ants, read to them by Miss Penny Johnson, the librarian. A few students show off their 100 glasses as they celebrate one hundred day!

St. John Baptist de La Salle Honoree

The Kaukauna Catholic School System announced the Honoree of the St. John Baptist de La Salle award on Thursday, February 4th all the all system liturgy. This saint was a French educator and priest whom was also the founder of the Christian Brothers. He spent most of this life teaching children of the very poor. Saint John Baptist de la Salle was born in 1651 and died in 1719. He is considered to be one of the most distinguished educators of modern times. So, it was only fitting that Mr. Ken Wydeven receive this first honor. Mr. Wydeven has given over 30 years of his life to the education of students and just like St. John Baptist de La Salle he is considered to be by all those students an excellent caring teacher.

Port Washington Light Station & Wisconsin Maritime Museum

Holy Cross 8th graders recently took a field trip to two of Wisconsin’s maritime treasures—the Port Washington Light Station and the Wisconsin Maritime Museum in Manitowoc. At the lighthouse the students learned about life as a lighthouse keeper and were able to climb the tower to view Lake Michigan as well as Milwaukee in the distance.

Each student is currently researching a Great Lakes Lighthouse and writing a paper on it. They are then writing a children’s story that takes place at their chosen lighthouse, using computer-edited photographs from the field trip as illustrations. The eighth graders will then have a chance to read their stories to the St. Al’s students during a future Buddy Time.

After spending time in Port Washington, the field trip continued up the Lake Michigan coast to Manitowoc where the students learned about Wisconsin’s contributions during WWII, particularly in building submarines. They had an opportunity to tour the U.S.S. Cobia and see what life was like on a sub!

To view an interactive, 3-D compilation of all the students’ pictures from the lighthouse, check out the student-created Photosynth at http://tinyurl.com/yagqbgy.