The School Year 2009 - 2010
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The most recent news will be at the TOP of the page. |
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Farewell and Thank You, Mrs. Murphy!
Mrs. Murphy's class decorated a jacket for Mrs. Murphy. The Class of 2014 will never forget their 4th grade year! |
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Student Council Officers 2010 - 2011 Congratulations to James, Emma, Jack, Maggie and John. |
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Just Desserts In appreciation of our amazing, outstanding volunteers! Thank you for everything you have done for us! |
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Recital Days
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8th Grade Dinner The theme was Italian on this festive night. The 8th graders never look as grown up as tonight! |
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Many thanks to the 7th grade parents. . . |
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for the wonderful celebration dinner! |
Graduation Congratulations to Ascension's Irreplaceable Class of 2010! Click the picture for a slideshow. |
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Graduation, too! Kindergartners presented a year-end program before their graduation this morning. More pictures! |
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Run-a-Thon Wrap Up Students gathered in the gym for prizes on May 21, 2010. |
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Final Recital Day
Jake plays the clarinet for the final |
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Summer Service Mrs. Vainisi and some of her students wear the colors of the Rwandan Flag. This fundraiser that took place on May 21, 2010 benefits Mrs. Vainisi's trip to Kigali, Rwanda to teach July 2010. This fundraiser also benefits children in Kigali who attend a Catholic school, to pay for tuition, books, clothing, hygiene products, and other school materials. Thank you, Ascension School for all of your generous support and your prayers! |
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8th Grade Ribbon Ceremony Our last liturgy of the year was very special for the 8th graders! After Fr. McNally blessed the ribbons, each student was called forward and the ribbons was pinned on. Click the picture to see more pictures of the presentation of ribbons and the blessing of 8th graders by the student body.
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Academic and Sports Dinner Ascension celebrated Academic and Athletic successes over the past school year on May 17. Congratulations to Casey and Tom, our Class of 2010 Valedictorian and Salutatorian! |
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The Carpenter family's Tim Carpenter Award is always a highlight of the evening. Many thanks to the Dosey family, who presented this year's awards to Michaela and Tom. Congratulations! |
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Congratulations to Anna Joubert, the recipient of the Kathy Adams Masterpiece Award. Her work was judged to best capture the spirit and technique of the artist, Wayne Thibaud. |
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School Picnic Ascension students had a glorious time at the School Picnic on May 14! Click the photo to see a scrapbook of all the fun! Thanks, Home and School! |
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We Come to the Table One hundred and one children of Ascension parish received their First Communion in lovely liturgies over the last two weekends. Visit the parish web site to view pictures of First Eucharist |
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Grandparents' Day
Ascension welcomed very special guests for Grandparents' Day on April 30, 2010! See an on-line scrapbook of some of our favorite moments. |
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Run-A-Thon 2010 The annual Kathy Adams Run-a-thon was April 23! Students were "Charged Up" all day! Take a look! |
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Billy Elliot 8th graders enjoyed their final music field trip of the year, to Billy Elliot! Their fundraising provided a wonderful lunch at the Park Grill downtown. Click the picture to see a slide show of lunch and their visit to Millennium Park. |
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Springfield, 2010
8th graders enjoyed their Social Studies field trip to Springfield in April. |
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The Rope Warrior!
Home and School sponsored a fun and entertaining presentation in April. The Rope Warrior was very skillful and students were anxious to participate! |
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A very appreciative crowd! |
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Triduum Class of 2010 Holy Thursday, April 1, 2010 |
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Many thanks to Mrs Agnew and Mrs. Pesce for coordinating the Triduum Presentation. |
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Recital Day
The 3rd quarter came to a close in Music class with Recital Day. Bravo! |
On Passover, March 30th, 6th graders shared the foods traditionall eaten at Passover. |
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5th graders attended Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater on March 26 in Chicago's fabulous Auditorium Theater.
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Pack the Place #1 The place was packed with Charger fans and the Chargers prevailed against the St. Luke Bearcats in all four games! Braids, bandannas and basketball – lots of great action from fifth through eighth grade teams. Ascension basketball traditions include the presentation of roses to the 8th grade girls from the 8th grade boys team, making a grand entrance through the gauntlet of fans, and decorating the gym. |
See more pictures on the Girls Basketball Page. |
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Recital Day in January at the end of the 2nd quarter brought our instrumentalists and lot of singers. |
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The Knights of Columbus Geography Bee started on January 12 with a vast field of contestants. The field was narrowed to 10, and the finals held on January 13. |
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Kindergarten Christmas |
Mrs. Ondrla told the story of the first Christmas to all the Preschool classes. In Kindergarten, the children sang for their parents in their own classroom. Great job! |
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Preschool Christmas Program Bravo! Encore! Mrs. Cantafio's morning class entered with the sound of jingling bells, and performed several Christmas numbers! |
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Our Wonderful Christmas Concert was December 9, 2009 Click the picture to see a slide show of the Concert. |
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Christmas Boutique
One of Ascension’s favorite days: the Children’s Christmas Boutique. Children help children shop for affordable gifts for family and friends. Thanks to Mrs. Dossey and Mrs. Loftus for their great energy for this event. It would not happen without their generous Christmas spirit!
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Buddies 7th graders in Room 205 visited their buddies in Room104. Second graders are working on an animal project, and their buddies were happy to help. See more pictures on the Grade 2 page. |
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Cookie Bake Day!
Everyone’s favorite math lesson! Ascension fourth and fifth graders spent their math class baking cookies on December 3, 2009. |
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Fancy Nancy Ascension’s first grade had a very special visitor this fall. Jane O’Connor, author of the popular Fancy Nancy series of early readers, came to read her new Christmas book and sign copies for Ascension students. The first graders came to school looking pretty fancy themselves! |
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Thanksgiving Prayer
The 6th graders presented the gospel story of the poor widow during the Thanksgiving Prayer Service. The school also collected food for the St. Martin de Porres food pantry. Above are the rich people, who made sure people .noticed what they gave. |
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Above we see the lector and the poor widow, who gave all she had. At left are some of Jesus' disciples. Well done! |
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Buddy Bingo November 6, 2009 |
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October Recital Days
Drummers, guitarists, pianists, violin, cello and viola players as well as singers of all ages showed their talents! |
Students enjoyed performing for their classmates in Music class at the end of the quarter.
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Halloween! It's Halloween at Ascension! Our youngest students dress up and trick or treat at the Parish Center. Older students love to watch as children parade through the hallways. Parents capture the memories! |
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Ms. McGinnis has the scariest costume of all- Swine Flu! |
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Thoroughly Modern Millie 6th graders thoroughly enjoyed the musical at Drury Lane! Vo-vo-do-de-oh!
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Teachers and chaperones got all the old jokes! |
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6th Grade Soccer Ascension 6th graders posted a winning season. 10 wins, 3 losses, 2 ties during regular season play. 23 players of the 41 rostered contributed, goals, assists or both during the 15 regular season games. They finished 4th in the playoffs. Max Klevgard scored a goal during the All Star Match. Their team won 3-2. Coaches were Mary Beth Blatner, Mark Gartland, and Rich Klevgard |
Ascension 6th grade has three All Stars: pictured above. |
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Grade 8 Iron Oaks The class of 2010 enjoyed perfect weather for the outdoor Iron Oaks course, taken over two days in October. |
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Click here to see a slide show of the activities. Thanks to Mr. Sengstock and Ms. McGinnis for the photos! |
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Fire Prevention Contest winner Congratulations to our poster contest winner, who received her award at a special Fire Department dinner that also recognized her teachers, Mrs. White and Mrs. Bracco. |
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Students Council Officers
Students Council Officers were installed at the opening of school liturgy on September 10, 2009. President Mary addressed the school at her inauguration. Congratulations to all! |
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The New Instrumentarium Mrs. Creed and her students are delighted with the new "Instrumentarium"-- a collection of musical Instruments! We are particularly grateful to Bill Komala, head of the parish Maintenance Committee, who is always in the mix, Pete Marotta who constructed a wonderful storage space in the music room, Rick Sandoval who installed shelving. |
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The room is almost finished! The new storage needs just a few finishing touches. |
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Our New Playground The wet pavement is great for showing the brilliant colors of our newly painted playground. Unfortunately, the rain has kept us inside at lunch recess. The children are anxious to play on the circles, the map, new hopscotch and four-squares! |
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Back to School
Tuesday was filled with sunshine and smiles as the 2009 - 2010 school year began at Ascension. |
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Happy teachers great their news students: left, grades 3 and 4; right, grade 5. |
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Happy parents watch students enter the building: summer is over! |
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Our wonderful Office staff (Mrs. Atkins, Mrs. Morawski and Mrs. Fitch) wait to greet the children-- it's not the same around here without them! |
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It's great to be the Class of 2010! |
Parent capture the moment. |
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Volunteers spent two industrious Saturday mornings all over our campus this July. Click the picture at left to see some of our fabulous workers! |
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Check out this partial list of the work we’ve done: we painted about a dozen bookcases, the long west wall in the EDP room, the kindergarten bathroom, the kindergarten storeroom, and the exterior doors on Clarence Avenue. We took the lockers out of Mrs. Creed’s classroom and are building shelves into the new storage space. We cleaned stairwells all over the school. We emptied the storeroom in the Pine Room, moved what needed to be moved, and put it back together. We built new carts for storage under the Pine Room stage. We power washed and painted the parsonage! We’re sorry that you weren’t able to help – but we’ve saved the convent projects for a nice winter morning. See you then! |
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Thanks to everyone who came to paint! When complete, we will have: |
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