Cub Chronicles, December, 2010

Volume I Issue 2 2010-11 Lower School

Building Community

Newspaper Staff

Cub Chronicles

Mikhaila Archer Adriana Arias Emma Butler Emma Cooney Caroline Featherston Patricia Gerli Maggie Hall Catherine Hamilton Isabella Hamilton Riley Hicks Camila Hirani Brooke Lange Clare Maleeny Sara Micciulli Margo Muccia Grace Mullen Emma O’Connor Anna O’Malley Lorraine Rinaldi Georgia Ryan Natalie Sanchez Katherine Santoro Isabella Santucci

Grandparents’ and Special Visitors’ Day

By Mikhaila Archer

Dr. Ann Marr

Inside this issue: Grandparents’ & Special Visitors’ Day

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Conge 2010

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Sacred Heart in Uganda

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CSH is “Green”

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Christian Action Awards

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Interview with Sister Conroy

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Fan Mail

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Grandparents‟ and Special Visitors‟ Day is a day when all the children in the Lower School can have fun, explore the school and their classrooms with their visitors. This year this event was held on Tuesday, November, 23rd from 8:30 am to 11:00 am. First, our special visitors went into the theater to hear speeches from Dr. Marr and Mrs. Hayes. After the speeches, the 4th grade sang a song about pumpkin pie and played “Jolly Old Saint Nicholas” on the recorder to give a warm welcome to all of our visitors. The visitors then went to the classrooms of the students who invited them. In their classrooms, our lower school students showed their visitors some of the things they have been learning since the first day of school. They showed them things they do in the classroom and shared what they have been doing in specials like computer, art, music, and religion.

We hope all our special visitors enjoyed this lovely event we are so fortunate to host in the Lower School. Thank you!

Conge 2010

By Camila Hirani, Grace Mullen, & Emma O’Connor About a month ago, we were supposed to have a SHCOG meeting. We had bowed our heads when the side doors of the gym burst open with Middle School girls screaming while holding a banner that read: CONGE 2010! Everyone immediately jumped up and screamed wildly. Upper School girls played hide and seek and the Middle School girls got to have a TLC competition (which means Cake Boss).

Then finally Mrs. Dunn announced the induction of students to Green and White teams, and to get our shirts we had to run down a matted aisle. We played a fun game in the gym called “pass the chicken. “ After the game, everyone darted to the lunchroom for fabulous, sizzling pizza. We went back to our classrooms to change into our P.E. clothes so we could play even more fun games like ghost pin ball, parachute, dress up the scarecrow, marble eye, and nail boutique/pictures. Later, we went inside for a special treat, which was popsicles. Then we watched a great, but scary, movie called Halloweeen Town.

We hope you enjoyed CSH’s Conge 2010. We know we did!

Our Sacred Heart school in Uganda

By Grace T. Sanko While you may know that Sacred Heart in Uganda is our sister school, on the other side of the world, in Africa, you may not know much else about it. Like the fact that the school is in the Masaka area of Uganda, in the country, about twenty minutes from town and that there are over 400 students who go there. The school’s motto is: “Open to learn, to love, to serve.”

Like us, the students in Uganda wear uniforms and love to sing and dance. They also have great teachers and enjoy going to school. But, it is a boarding school, which means that all the students live there. They get two to three breaks a year to go home, if they have a home—some of the girls are orphans. Like us, the girls have many different personalities. Some are nice and quiet, while other can be loud and wild! But the one thing they have in common is that they love their school super duper much!

The school relies on donations and really needs money to build new buildings and for supplies. Can you guess where they got a lot of their donations from? Us! From all of that jumping rope and other activities we did to raise a lot of money for them. What else do YOU know about Sacred Heart in Uganda?

Christian Action Awards

By Issy Wise

CSH is “Green”

By Natalie Sanchez and Patricia Gerli

At the end of each month in Chapel, Christian Action How are some of the ways you and the people in your community are helping the environment? We awards are given out to students in each lower school are going to tell you a couple of different ways our grade who have shown that they are living Sacred school has „gone green‟.

Heart’s five Goals and Criteria. The goals are the fol-

To begin, we interviewed Mr. Bendik to ask him about some of the ways CSH community is improving our environment. He answered, “CSH has made many changes to protect the environment including improvements to our electrical system and new boiler which reduce our use of oil.”

Our second question was “What is the biggest environmental improvement our school as accomplished?” His reply was “The changes to our use of energy (electricity and oil) have been the biggest improvement.”

Then we asked, “Do you think CSH does a good job of protecting the environment?” He answered, “Yes, I do”.

Our next question was “What does CSH use to feed the grass and plants?” He answered, “Fertilizers and other materials which would be harmful to the soil and water are not used at CSH. Instead, we use pellets that are natural and other organic materials form nurseries that are not harmful. We use the pellets because there are animals that try to dig up grubs from the fields and we do not want to hurt those animals.”

Our last question was “Does our new motion sensor lighting help the environment?” He replied, “The new lighting system will definitely help the environment as it reduces our use of electricity.”

These are some of the ways we at CSH have helped our environment, but there are so many more.

lowing: 1.

A personal and active faith in God

2. A deep respect for intellectual values 3. A social awareness which impels to action 4. The building of community as a Christian value 5. Personal growth in an atmosphere of wise freedom All of us in Lower School should always try to meet these five goals, and hopefully we all will receive at least one Christian Action Award by the end of the year!

Interview with Sister Conroy

By Caroline Featherston & Clare Maleeny We interviewed Sister Ann Conroy, rscj, in Dr. Marr’s office.

We prepared a list of questions for her. We learned that she has been working at Sacred Heart schools for 45 years!

She’s in charge of the First Friday Program and the mentor for new teachers and staff here at CSH. Sr. Conroy told us that the Greenwich school is very different from the West Coast. The California school is different because it is co-ed and it is in the city.

We asked her if she was friends with Sister Annet and Sister Lucy, who visited us last month. She told us, ”Yes, I have been friends with Sister Annet for five years.”

We enjoyed interviewing Sister Conroy!

Fan Mail Dear Cub Chronicles Staff, Congratulations on that fine first edition of Cub Chronicles. I was especially impressed by the scope of the stories you covered—from issues far away like the Chilean miners to things closer to home like the articles on the Mater Feast and Fifth graders. The editorial on bullying was very informative and helpful, I thought. The beginning (the lede) of each article really grabbed my attention and made me want to keep reading the rest of the story. Please keep up the hard work. I look forward to the next edition.

Ms. Schmidt P.S. I was very proud to read the interview about me. Thank you Clare and Lorraine for doing such a good job on it.

To All The Newspaper Staff of the Cub Chronicles: Thank you for producing a Lower School newspaper! My daughter, my husband and I thoroughly enjoyed all the articles; there was really something for everyone. Thanks again for your hard work and dedication! I am looking forward to reading Volume I, Issue 2 soon!!

Sincerely, Mrs. Diane Greco Dear Newspaper Staff, I am so impressed by the quality of the ideas and the expression of them in Cub Chronicles. The variety of topics is extraordinary for 4th graders. I love the bullying editorial by Margo Muccia.

Three cheers for all involved in Cub Chronicles.

Ann Conroy, RSCJ

Halloween Parade

By Katherine Santoro and Maggie Hall On October 29, 2010 the whole Lower School gathered in the theater; we filed in one by one in our brand new costumes. Grade by grade, we each went up on the stage, did a little spin, and exited to the right. It was so exciting to see everyone’s costumes. After the parade was over, we watched a movie filled with witches and warlocks. The movie was called Halloween Town. When the movie was over, we gathered in our classrooms and had fantastic Halloween parties.

Interview with Molly Trimble 12thgrade

By Isabelle Santucci, Riley Hicks, and Emma Cooney Q1) What is your favorite subject?

A1) History Q2) How long have you been at CSH? A2) 4 years Q3)Are you taking a year off before college?

A3) No Q4) What’s your favorite thing about CSH? A4) Sports Q5) What’s your fondest memory?

A5) Conge Q6) If you could relive one of your years at CSH which one would it be?

A6) Junior year

The Fall Festival 2010

By Emma O’Connor Everyone got so excited when they saw the sheets of paper in their mailboxes that said FALL FESTIVAL 2010 SATURDAY 1-4pm. Everyone started jumping up and down. The next day, we woke up to a beautiful autumn Saturday. Finally, it was time for the Fall Festival. Tons and tons of people came to have some fun. At the Fall Festival there were bouncy castles, which were the favorite of the younger kids, and the haunted house, which was made by the middle school girls. This year there was also a karaoke booth, which the younger students also liked, and the bake sale, which of course everyone loved. The 7-and 8-year- old girls loved the nail boutique. Last but not least, the fun games and cool prizes were a big hit.

Wow, that was a lot of fun stuff! I hope you had a roarin’ time and hope to see you all next year.