www.holy-redeemer.org NEWSLETTER December 2019

Dear Parents and Guardians,

After a restful season of giving thanks, we turn our hearts in a new direction, one of waiting and anticipation. The Advent season is often mixed in with Christmas, however, it deserves its own recognition. Advent began on December 1 and I encourage you and your families to spend time preparing the way for the birth of Jesus. This could mean a time for prayer, an advent wreath, setting up your manger scene or acts of service and kindness.

Our students will be celebrating this beautiful season of waiting by studying and utilizing an advent wreath, weekly Mass, reconciliation services for 3rd- 8th grade, and preparing for the Christmas Pageant. On December 6, the students will receive a special visit from Saint Nicholas to celebrate his feast day. The students will place their shoes in the hallway and find a treat when they re-turn. We invite our families to join us for Mass on December 11. Our Sixth Grade Jesse Tree Presentation will follow immediately af-ter Mass. Our second graders will receive their first reconciliation on December 7.

My first Advent and Christmas with my daughter, while still so small, has me reflecting on what memories I want to help her create. I pray that this season is full of memories and traditions for your families. As Catholics, the true meaning of Christmas, the birthday of our Savior, is what we want to ring through our celebrations. The traditions, faith, and family life you are creating now will carry with your children into their adult lives.

Prayer through song is powerful. This special prayer will be shared at our Christmas Pageant and musical performances. Our Winter Band Performance will also feature festive music that we can all enjoy. We hope all of our families and friends can join us De-cember 16 at 7:00 PM for this Christmas tradition.

This time is also a time of giving. Last week, our students led by example and made 1,610 sandwiches for 3 Catholic Charities homeless shelters in Washington, D.C. and with the help of Prince George’s County Police Officers, members of our own local county as well. We are thankful to our parent volunteers, Mrs. Jenny Pacheco and Mrs. Elyse Rohrer Budiash, for delivering the meals to Catholic Charities, and to Mrs. Kelly Meyers for cultivating a relationship with the Prince George’s County Police Officers.

Every day, we all get to share in a gift of faith-filled education. We continue to share the word of this gift with new families and community members through our Open Houses. National Junior Honor Society and Student Council members led over two dozen families through our school during our first two open houses. We will host two more Open Houses next month. Please share this infor-mation and your stories with family, friends, and neighbors who may be interested in learning more about Holy Redeemer School.

Sunday, January 26: 9 AM- 12 PM

Tuesday, January 28: 8:30-11 AM

As we give of our time, gifts, prayers and thanks, I cannot go without giving thanks to each of you. Without our students, par-ents, parishioners, alumni, and community, we would not be the thriving school we are today. Thank you for your donations, your vol-unteering, and your expertise. The next time you come into our school, please check out our festive, Christmas Giving Tree, adorned with lights, ornaments, and teacher wishes!

May God bring you his many blessings during this season of waiting. It has been a true honor and joy to spend this time serv-ing you all as interim Principal. We look forward in anticipation to welcoming back our Principal, Mrs. Fernandez, in the New Year. Merry Christmas to you all and may your holidays be filled with love and laughter.

Merry Christmas,

Mrs. Brianna Alaimo Interim Principal

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Pre-Kindergarten: Roman Achi Rylan Bell Natalie Lopez Kaleb Moore

Kindergarten: Charlie Battaile Drew Gunzel Olivia Nurse Marigold O’Hanlon

Grade 1: Georel Franco Juliana Pacheco Norina Ponzio Peyton Sullivan

Grade 2: Tommy Daly Colette Green Maya Washington

Grade 3: Sophia Cortes Evelyn Czado Amihan Gage Ruby Nurse

Grade 4: Amy Blanco-Sabath Dawitt Gezea Khloe McDougal

November RSRs (Respect, Spirituality and Responsibility)

Registration for 2020-2021 Registration for Holy Redeemer School is OPEN! The registration application is available on our website under ‘Admissions.’ Please note that the deadline for return-ing families was DECEMBER 1, 2019. Students who did not register by the deadline are now in jeopardy of losing placement for the 2020-2021 school year.

Restaurant Nights 1/28/20 at Noodles & Co. from 4-8pm 7320 Baltimore Ave, College Park, MD Please present the flyer (to be provided) to your server. 2/25/20 at Habitat Burger from 4-9pm 4502 Van Buren Street, Riverdale, MD Please present the flyer (to be provided) to your server.

3/25/20 at Potomac Pizza from 4-9pm 7777 Baltimore Avenue, College Park, MD Mention Holy Redeemer School for carryout or din-ing room purchases.

Grade 5: Cara Krot Marcus Peñalosa Camryn Wrigley Grade 6: Sophia Kim Michael Popil Ava Stuart Luke Umstot Grade 7: Kendall Barnes-Loveday Keagan Cooper Tadd Michael Angelica Palacios Grade 8:

Sydelle Mutah

Solomon Oyebanjo

Raymond Wang

Winter Band Performance

Christmas Pageant

& Musical Performances

Monday, December 16 at 7:00 pm

Four Seasons Room

Please be advised that with the temperatures dropping, make sure your child wears a coat to school. If your child does not have a coat to wear, then they may not be able to go out to recess.

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BOOK FAIR

Location: HRS Library

DATES: December 5-11, 2019

The Book Fair is a great place to buy

Christmas Gifts while supporting Holy Re-

deemer School!

Math Students of the Quarter

Winners

Caleb Boursiqout PK

Chloe Wrigley K

Giuseppe Ponzio 1

Mikey McAndrew 2

Lawton Pennington 3

Harold Slaughter 4

Camryn Wrigley 5

Luke Umstot 6

Jenis Hudson 7

Maria Martinez 8

Each month students submit their an-

swers to the math problem of the month.

Those with correct answers are put into a

pool and three winners from each grade

are drawn. Each quarter one student’s

name is drawn to receive an award at the

Honor Roll Assembly. A grand prize will

be awarded at the end of the year to one

student per grade drawn from the year’s

pool of names.

Holy Redeemer School follows the

decision of the Prince George’s

County Public School System for

weather-related delays, early dis-

missals and closings. Please

check your news apps, local TV

stations and/or radio for inclem-

ent weather closure updates.

Congratulations

Mr. & Mrs. Fernandez!

We are excited to announce

that on November 13, Mrs.

Katrina Fernandez and her

husband, Alex, welcomed a

beautiful baby girl, Naomi,

into their growing family.

Big Sisters, Madison and Emmie, adore their baby sis-

ter. Everyone is happy and healthy!

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Holy Redeemer Parish’s

Harvest Bazaar

The Holy Redeemer Parish’s Har-vest Bazaar was a big success!

Thank you to all of the Holy Re-deemer Families that worked tire-

lessly to make it such a great weekend! The Students had a

great time! Huge thank you to Mrs. Lisa

Smith for all of her hard work in organizing the Bazaar and Mrs.

Melanie Cantwell for her dedica-tion to the Silent Auction! They did a fantastic job!

HRS Christmas Giving Tree

The Giving Tree is a chance to give the Holy Redeemer teachers specific items for their classroom that the teachers

have requested. We are so grateful to our community for providing donations

throughout the year.

Pizza (January & February), Chick-Fil-A

(January & February), and Hot Lunch (January

only) order forms are due NO LATER THAN

Wednesday, December 18.

PLEASE BE ADVISED THAT FORMS WILL NOT

BE ACCEPTED AFTER THIS DATE!

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First Quarter Awards

Second Honors:

8th Grade: Percy Brooks, Adrianna Burgos, Dania Calloway, Coyla Cantwell, Casey More- Hudson, Sydelle Mutah,

Abigail Smith 7th Grade: Zachary Gibbs, Katherine Jones, Angelica Palacios, Kashmere Zellner

6th Grade: Giuliana Baker, Tula Blanks, Jacob Burgos, Anthony Cerritos, Sarah Collins, Aidan Serrano

5th Grade: Christopher Brito, Elizabeth Jao- Dolan, Mabel Kaufman, Ludmilla Salomon, Alissa Umanzor

4th Grade: Amy Blanco-Sabath, Evelyn Cutler, Molly Daly, Dawit Gezae, Conor Hughes, Scott James, Julian Jean-

Francois, Josephina McAndrew, Nigel Ntsomi

First Honors:

8th Grade: Miri Alexanderwicz, Solomon Oyebanjo, Kidus Zeleke

7th Grade: Kendall Barnes-Loveday

6th Grade: Samuel Brewer

5th Grade: Sophia Hammer, Joshua Meyers, Molly Smith

4th Grade: Lana Jane Franco, Joell Kelley

Principal’s List:

8th Grade: Alexander Khalek, Anastacia Popil, Ealisayd Triplett 7th Grade: Audrey Badrak, Michael Bielec, Ella Buchanan, Keagan Cooper, Ciara Cullinane, Brendan Hille, Marco

Limarzi, Jebriel Muzakir

6th Grade: Samuel Badrak, Patrickjoseph Eguogwu, Malaya Gage, Fahey James, Kiera Parsons, Jocelyn Pazmino,

Jecintha Perianayagam, Michael Popil

5th Grade: Cara Krot

4th Grade: Alexander Soto

Most Improved:

8th Grade: Alexander Khalek, Sydelle Mutah, Solomon Oyebanjo

7th Grade: Kashmere Zellner

6th Grade: Sophia Kim, Fahey James

5th Grade: Janelisa Arias, Jonah Holland

4th Grade: Harold Slaughter

3rd Grade: Victoria Rodriguez, Lucas Brewer, Elijah Piedrahite, Sophia Cortes

2nd Grade: Braden Rahl, Kayla Resendiz, Maggie Taylor

1st Grade: Giuseppe Ponzio, Emma Wright, Myra Khaneja

Kindergarten: Jimena Gonzalez, Madison Vanegas

Extra Effort:

8th Grade: Dayna Calloway

7th Grade: Marco Limarzi, Beatrice Marcavitch

6th Grade: Giuliana Baker, Christopher Muckle

5th Grade: Yvanna D’shen, Marcus Penalosa

4th Grade: Leonardo Ventura

3rd Grade: Jackson Meyers, Delia Johnson, Emerson O’Hanlon,

Amihan Gage

2nd Grade: Kellen Cole, Juan Pacheco, Audrey Stuart

1st Grade: Brooke Cooper, TJ Every, Xavier Patzan

Kindergarten: Owen Tuttle, Kyle Schurer

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2019 Day of Giving November 25 was our annu-al Day of Giving. The stu-dents made over 1,600 sand-wiches! We are grateful to all of the generous families who donated food and sup-plies! A big thank you to Mrs. Elyse Rohrer Budiash and Mrs. Jenny Pacheco for vol-unteering to drive the sand-wiches to various shelters, including 801 East Men’s Shelter. We also want to thank Mrs. Kelly Meyers, who helped coordinate Prince George’s County Po-lice Officers to drop off to various homes and shelters in our local area that were in need! The police officers were wonderful to work with and we are very ap-preciative of their support!

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