…but those who hope in the LORD will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles;

they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.

Isaiah 40:31

Nov 8 & 15

First Reconciliation Classes

Nov 12-15 Book Fair Week

Merry Christmas! December 2018

Secret Santa

Workshop

Tuesday,

Dec. 11th

to

Thursday,

Dec.13th

SAS Trojan Press

School Mass

Monday,

Dec. 17th

Last Day of

School for

Christmas

Break

Friday,

Dec. 21st

Dear Trojan Families and Friends, As the Advent Season begins, the Alliance for Catholic Education sent out its first

“Advent Reflections” series and focused on Hope. What a fitting theme for our school

considering our own ongoing theme of bravery in the face of change! Dr. Richard Boyatzis,

professor of Organizational Behavior at Case Western Reserve University, explains that hope is

the driver of change. When an individual, small group or organization has an ideal image

toward which they are working, three elements drive the realization of change: “ (1) an image of

a desired future; (2) hope that one can attain it; and (3) aspects of one’s core identity, which

includes enduring strengths” (Boyatzis, 2006, 613). My wish for us as a Catholic community is

that we may be a school of individuals with hope to bring during this Advent Season.

As the year progresses, I am especially hopeful because of my interactions with our

students and families. The school’s first “Pastries with the Principal,” held November 1, was a

success! Families joined together to share their homework woes and successes, and to encourage

each other regarding ways that families and the school could better work together to help our

students grow. We learned about resilience and grit, and even shared a few laughs! I think one

of the finest outcomes of the evening was learning that we are all not so different, even in terms

of homework. Thank you for attending and for being so open—what a great way to show the

union in our school!

I am hopeful, too, because of our parent volunteers. Thank you to Mrs. Cheryl Ross and

Mrs. Diane Clagg for helping to set-up and manage the Trojan Book Fair! With their help and

with an outstanding turnout, the school was just shy of the $3,000 goal! THANK YOU

PARENTS AND STUDENTS!

As we enter Advent, I look back on November with much thanks, as well. With the help

of our school’s parents, Mrs. Huss and our Pre-Schoolers prepared a feast for our youngest

learners! As an honored guest, I can attest to the delicious treats, copious amounts of turkey,

mashed potatoes, and mac and cheese. What a feast ! Thank you to Mrs. Huss and to all of our

parents for helping make this learning experience so special for our school.

A special thanks to Mrs. Pogorelc, for launching and managing the school’s

Thanksgiving food drive benefiting the needy right here in our community through the St.

Vincent de Paul Society. Thank you to all families and parents for their time and efforts in

making this year’s food drive a success!

This last month has also brought new faces to St. Anthony’s. Please help me in

welcoming Mrs. Barbara Hunt, the school’s afternoon activities manager, and Ms. Jenna Hall,

lunchroom and recess monitor. You’ll see that Mrs. Hunt has included some information

regarding lunchroom rules in this month’s newsletter.

I send you, the families, friends, and students of St. Anthony School many blessings for

the holiday season. I pray that we may all find hope in the chaos that is sometimes life, and

kindness and patience for one another, especially around the holidays.

https://case.edu/provost/ideal/doc/Boyatzis_2006_intentional_change.pdf

Buon Natale, Feliz Navidad, Joyeux Noël, Feliz Natal, Felicem Natalem Christi --Merry Christmas!

Mrs. Lucia Heddleson

The Pre-School class is celebrating

Thanksgiving and preparing for Christmas

with love in their hearts! The students wrote

journal pages about what they are thankful

for during this holiday season, including

Jesus, St. Anthony of Padua School, family,

pets, friends, good food and warm beds! In

the spirit of the First Thanksgiving, each

student brought something to share with

their friends to the Pre-School Thanksgiving

Feast! We said prayers of thanks for

everything good in our lives and shared a

delicious meal together!

Best of the Month in Pre-School & Kindergarten

Pre-School learns all about being Thankful & Giving!

Kindergarten gives back The Kindergarten children took on the task

of providing the homeless women and

children of Lorain with socks for the coming

cold, wet winter. We were inspired by a

video of a young man who calls himself

“Kid President”. He is funny yet very

serious and after watching him we decided

to participate in the socktober movement!

Our campaign was very successful as we

collected over 500 pairs of socks!!! We

donated them to the Haven Emergency

Homeless Center for women and children in

Lorain. The director was very appreciative

and we recently received a heartfelt thank

you from some of the residents. Good job,

Kinders!!

After learning about St. Nicholas, the Pre-School class

prepared the St. Anthony of Padua Parish Giving Trees as a

service project for our community. The students decorated

the Giving Trees with “angel ornaments” from Lorain

County Birthright that have gift requests for babies in need

this holiday season. Our class raised donations to purchase

some of these much needed gifts, wrapped them in class and

put them under the Giving Tree in the school vestibule! The

students are excited to live in the way of St. Nicholas and

help others prepare for Christmas! They have truly

embraced the joy of giving and sharing! We thank you for

your support and generosity! May God bless us all this

holiday season!

St. Anthony’s

Marco’s Pizza Night

Thursday, December 20th

440-288-3000

2311 Colorado Ave.

Or

online at www.marcos.com

Mention St. Anthony’s and

your child’s Teacher

when you order!

We have been learning about animal habitats. Habitats are homes for plants and animals where an animal

can find food, water, and shelter. We have also marveled at God’s amazing creation and how He created so

many animals that adapt to the many different environments.

2nd Grade has “Snow Much Fun” Second graders are busy making an acrostic poem with the word

SNOWMAN. We are thinking "cool" and coming up with

phrases that remind us of the snow and winter fun that is ahead

of us, especially with the snow that we saw this past week.

Next, we will be busy making a snowman drawing to go with

our poem.

Best of the Month in Primary – Grades 1 & 2

1st Graders learn all about Habitats!

3rd Grade becomes builders The 3rd grade worked on designing and then building the tallest freestanding towers they could. They were

only able to use spaghetti noodles and marshmallows. After, time was finished the structures were measured

and they discussed what helped the tallest structures stay standing. Students reflected on what went well and

what they would change to give their tower more stability.

Best of the Month in Middle School – Grades 3 & 4

4th Grade becomes Poets The 4th grade class studied poetry in Reading. Each student wrote a Haiku following the very specific

guidelines that are necessary to make their poem a Haiku. The assignment required them to write a 3 lined

poem where the first line had 5 syllables, the second line had 7 syllables, and the third line had 5 syllables.

Their Haiku also had to be about any aspect of nature and include a either a simile or a metaphor. Before

turning in their first draft, the Haiku had to be checked by a classmate, making sure all of the necessary

criteria were met. The final draft had to be glued onto a piece of construction paper with a picture

representing their topic.

5th Grade writes Bio Poems

For a book report during November, the fifth graders

read biographies and wrote a bio poem about what

they learned. They followed a format which allowed

them to express their ideas in a creative non-rhyming

poem.

Below are some examples of their hard work:

Best of the Month in Middle School – Grade 5

Wilbur and Orville

Curious, hard working, smart, famous. Fathers of the airplane.

Who loved their inventions, each other, and their father.

Who mourned their mother, loved to build, and loved their sister.

Who feared their plane would fail, feared they would hurt someone, feared they would hurt their family.

Who created airplanes. Who wanted to see airplanes in common use, and

wanted to see their mother again. Who lived in Dayton and flew in Kitty Hawk.

Wright

Maria

Strong, loving, confident, determined

Wife of George Balanchine mother of dance

Who loved to dance and spend time with family

Who hated when she was turned down for opportunity

Who was scared of not dancing ever, and not for fulfilling her dream

Who danced with heart and soul Who was the first prima ballerina in the

United States and wanted to see happiness

Born in Fair Fox, Oklahoma and lived in New York City Tallchief

King

Famous, rich, young

Husband of Ankhesenamun

Who loved Egypt and gold

Who was smart and probably confused

Who feared he would never become king, feared the responsibility, and

feared people would try to take his place. Who learned how to read and write

Who wanted to be in charge and wanted a respectful kingdom

Egypt Tut

Mother

Kind, Thoughtful, Stronghearted, Lovely

Lover of God and needy people

Who loved India, God, Missionaries of Charity

Who felt love for God, who hated seeing people dying of being sick,

who felt sorrow for the dying

Who feared losing her mother forever when she left home, feared the people

on the street will end up dying, when her mother was sick she will die

Who accomplished helping the needy people

Who wanted to see the people loved, and to see God

Born in Skopje living in Calcutta Teresa

Anne High-spirited, mischievous, and kind

Daughter of Otto Frank Who loved freedom and living equally

Who experienced happiness, friendship, and joyfulness

Who feared sadness, frightfulness, and anger Who went into hiding

Who wanted to see freedom and happiness Was born on July 12 in Frankfurt Main, Germany

Lived in the Netherlands

Frank

Best of the Month in Junior High – Grades 6-8

6th Grade continues

to travel the World! 6th Grade’s World Tour continues as we study

the countries of Western Europe. Each student

created a mobile that displayed the flag and fun

facts about a Western European country of

their choice. The students showed off their

artistic talent and knowledge of their country as

they shared their fascinating facts with the

class.

7th Grade learns about

God’s Spokeman The 7th grade has been working very hard in all of their

subjects. In Religion class, we have been learning about God’s

Spokesman, the Prophets and how they foretold the future.

8th Grade learns how to be

Good Researchers The 8th students have been working hard

researching all of the specific content from varied

reputable sources for science fair in Language Arts!

Prior to this, they studied plagiarism and the

importance of giving credit to sources as well as

learning and understanding from the content that

they research! This is a cross curricular assignment

as they get graded for both their Science Fair essay

in Language Arts as well as their content for the

project in Science. The students have really been

working hard and we cannot wait to see what they

come up with!

Saturday, December 22nd

, 2018

to

Sunday, January 6th

, 2019

First Day

Back to School

Monday,

January 7th

, 2019

Best of the Month in Spanish In Spanish, during November, the middle school children have begun to learn about verb conjugation and,

along with the intermediate grades, he subjective articles. The primary grades and pre-school children

continue to work on learning the Spanish alphabet and the sounds that each letter makes. All of the

children have been learning the Mexican folk song De Colores.

Mr. Shaffer’s Art Class makes Turkeys! My favorite project we worked on in November is definitely the Thanksgiving turkey project! I wanted

the students to do something cute and different, and not the traditional “trace your hand” turkey art. They

were urged to use basic shapes like circles, rectangles, and triangles to form the basic concept of their

turkey. We outlined them in black Sharpie markers, and then used watercolor paints to fill them in. Here

are some examples. I was very surprised by the uniqueness and quality of the turkeys everyone produced.

I’m looking forward to showing off our Christmas and winter projects! Hope everyone had a great month!

Here is a picture of Miss Guenther’s 3rd grade class learning about the articles

from a YouTube video featuring Señor Jordan and Lucas.

Contact Information

Address: 1339 E. Erie Ave. Lorain, OH 44052

Phone 440-288-2155

Website: www.stanthonylorain.org

Parent Advisory Committee (PAC)

The Parent Advisory Committee would like to thank all who participated in

the Mama Jo Pie Gift Card Fundraiser. We profited $407.50. A HUGE

THANK YOU to Nicholas Prosak & family for selling the most gift cards -

34! WOW! He received a Pumpkin Pie to enjoy during Thanksgiving.

The Chili Cook-off has been re-scheduled for Sunday, January 27th

, the

start of Catholic Schools Week. Watch your emails and newsletters for

more information.

Due to the success of the first PAC Open Gym, we made a slight change to

be able to accommodate more students. The Open Gym will run from

5:30-7:00 pm for grades Pre-School to 5th

and 7:00-8:30 pm for grades

6th

to 8th

. Our next Open Gym will be during Christmas break on

Saturday, December 29th

. See you there!

We will also host an all Family Skate Night at Lorain Skate World on

Thursday, January 3rd

from 6:30-8:30 pm. We hope you can all make it

out for our first event in 2019!

Upcoming events include: St. Anthony Student Open Gym (Sat., Dec. 29

th, 6:30-8:30 pm)

SAS Family Skate World Night (Thurs., Jan. 3rd

, 6:30-8:30 pm)

Stay tuned to your email for more events & details!

We hope to see you at these events!

Family Skate Night

St. Anthony PAC is sponsoring a

Family Skate Night

at Lorain Skate World.

All are welcome to join us on

Thursday, January 3rd

from 6:30-8:30 pm!

Admission is FREE!

Skate rental is $1.50 & roller

blades rental is $3.50 at the door.

Come join us for a FUN night!

PAC Open Gym

Saturday, December 29th

Pre-School to 5th Grades

from 5:30-7:00 pm

6th to 8th Grades

from 7:00-8:30 pm

Join us for a fun Open Gym Event for St. Anthony Students ONLY

sponsored by PAC!

PAC Meeting Nights 6:00 pm

St. Anthony School

March 6, 2019

May 1, 2019

Mark your calendar NOW & plan to attend!

Pierogi Sale

Friday, December 21st

10 am – 6 pm

Social Hall

More info to come!

Mark your Calendar!

“A Night in Paris”

School Endowment

Dinner & Fundraiser

February 23rd

, 2019

More info to come soon!