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Father Ryan Mann
"My
only wisdom is
that deep within your
heart is the desire to
do something great
with your life, to
become excellent; that
desire is from Christ; He
alone can show you the
way to achieving this
goal. Trust Him, He is
REAL!" These are the
words of wisdom given
by one of St. Charles'
newest priests, Fr. Ryan
Mann.
Why did Father Ryan
decide to
become a priest?
"Well, I did not grow up
in a very Catholic or
religious home.
However, my
grandparents were very
inspiring people and
loved Jesus and the
Church. But it wasn't
until I was 19 that I first
considered
priesthood and it
was due to Father
Damian Ference
asking me if I
wanted to be a priest. I
show. Also, I like
had NEVER thought about reading and playing
it until then."
basketball, although I
haven't had much
How does Father Ryan time lately to watch
like Saint Charles?
the Cavs!
"I really enjoy it here. My
favorite part is living with
By Katie Sutton
these priests. They are
funny and very good for
my soul. I also really enjoy
Parma people-all of you
are honest and good
people."
What are some of
Father Ryan’s hobbies?
"I really enjoy movies and
comedians and jazz.
Usually once a month I
see a movie, or go to a jazz
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Young Rembrandts
Young Rembrandts
is a company that brings
the art of drawing to Saint
Charles. Around twenty
kindergarten through
eighth grade students learn
about art and how to
draw. The presenter and
teacher was once a graphic
artist for American
Greetings.
“Reading is to the
mind what
exercise is to the
body.”
Joseph Addison
(17th century
English writer)
Rembrandt was a
great painter from the
Netherlands who lived in
the seventeen century.
You can see one of his
self-portraits on the left.
During the kids' time
with Young Rembrandts,
they use many different
materials, such as
colored pencils,
crayons and markers as
they learn to draw.
The class is a lot of fun,
and you get to learn
about art!
By Brayden Humbel
Accelerated Reader Update
As we are beginning our
fourth quarter, students
have been reaching their
Accelerated Reader goals
and beyond. As of
April 1, the top 5
readers are: Kiara Milko
with 428.9 points, Amelia
Greiner with 414.9,
Khanh Pham with 407.4,
Ashley Motley with
370.0, and Christina Ibos
with 350.7 points.
Congrats to the top
readers, and good job to
everyone that reached
their goal. Keep reading
and getting those points!
By Alana Gassman
Friends of El Salvador
Many people in
El Salvador are very poor.
It is exceptionally difficult
for people/parents to earn
enough money to support
their families. The people
in El Salvador need clothing and food. For the kids
in El Salvador, their gym
uniform is their protection.
If they do not wear their
gym uniform while outside,
gangs will try to get them
to join their gang. Many
kids only have one school
uniform to last the whole
year. They have to wash
their clothes in a river,
which isn't very sanitary.
They also only have one
pair of shoes to last the
whole year. Students at
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Saint Charles received a
bag to put any loose change
to donate to El Salvador.
Please help raise money for
the children in El Salvador.
Every penny counts!
By: Annaleise Lozada
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St. Baldrick’s Head Shaving Event
“We make a
living by
what we get.
We make a
life by what
On Friday, March 13,
Saint Charles
participated in the
St.Baldrick's head
shaving event. We
raised almost
$25,000 for the fight
against cancer. There
were many
important people
participating this
year, including Father
Terry, Father Ed,
Parma councilman
Mark Casselberry,
and Anthony's
brother, Nick Kashi.
Also, girls, this
wasn’t just for the
guys! There were
several brave females
who shaved off their
locks: Amelia
Greiner, Emily Jung,
Meghan Gaughan,
Mrs. Updegrove, and
this reporter. Mrs.
Kwiatkowski wasn’t
planning on it, but in
the heat of the moment she challenged
the crowd to raise
$500 and she, too,
would shave her
head. Well, the
audience responded,
raising almost $1,500
in fifteen minutes!
Tears of joy ran
down her face as
her head was
shaved. You can be a
part of this great
cause, too. You can
be brave and shave
or just donate at
www.saintbaldricks.
org/events/
saintcharles. Everyone participating in
this event did a great
thing for kids with
cancer-from shaving,
to donating, to being
a barber. See you
again next year?
Colleen Doucette
we give.”
― Winston S.
Churchill
Robotics Club
The Robotics Club is a club
for interested 7th and 8th
graders who want to learn all
about programming and robotic design. They meet every
other Wednesday for one
hour. Right now, they are
learning about how to program a robot to follow lines
on paper, how to stop at
obstacles and how to respond
to sound. They are also learning how to fix a
problem if one ever happens.
Learning how to program and
fix problems in the robot will
be an important skill as you
enter into high school, because
it teaches you how to think
logically and how to break
problems into steps. Any interested 6th and 7th graders
are able to join next year, and
can talk to Mr. McKay about
any questions they may have.
By: Maddie Myers
Classroom of Champions
The Classroom of Champions competition was held on Wednesday, March 25, at Saint Edward
High School. The Saint Charles team of Ali Stenger, Katie Sutton, Zachary Milko, and alternates
Ethan Kinley, Kelly Boddy and Michael Dontenville, played against St. Francis of Assisi and St.
Raphael. We came in second place, with 220 points. Thanks to all of the team’s hard work and
dedication-good luck next year! -Ali Stenger
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Student Council News
The Student Council
has something very big
planned for April: a
paper drive! All during
the week of April 20,
bring in your paper to
be measured and
recorded for your
grade. It’s a
competition, so try to
help your grade win,
and the winner will get
a prize! We also
sponsored our last
dress down day on
February 22, and all of
the donations were
split between our two
fundraisers,
St. Baldrick’s and
Friends of El Salvador.
By Delaney Bentley
(Student Council President)
Movie Reviews-By Olivia Wulff
“I think
cinema, movies,
and magic have
always been
closely
associated. The
very earliest
people who
made film were
magicians.”
Francis Ford
Coppola
(movie
director)
Here are two fun movies that you will be sure
to love!
Despicable Me
(2010)
Rating: PG
Gru, a villain, wants to earn
the title “World’s Best
Villain.” In the process he finds
some competition. He decides
to adopt three girls to help his
plan come into action. When
he first has the girls, he is not
interested in them; he has his
yellow minions take care of
them. But soon, he finds
himself spending a day at an
amusement park with the
girls, having a fun time. He is
starting to get too attached to
the girls, and he is not
other
birds that try to help him
get Jewel to fall in love
with him. Will Linda find
Blu and Jewel, or will they
be sold to the man who
wants these rare birds?
Will Jewel fall in love with
Blu?
My Opinion: *****
(five stars)
This is a great movie. It is
a very adventurous and
thrilling. This movie is very
Rio (2011)
suspenseful, so it makes
Rating: G
you keep wanting to
When Linda takes Blu, a rare
know what’s going to
blue macaw, to Rio so Blu
happen next. It’s a great
could meet the only other
movie to watch with your
bird of his kind, Jewel, they
family. Everyone will enjoy
both get captured. Jewel soon it!
finds out that Blu is not able
to fly, making it harder to
escape - not to mention they
are chained together. They
have to figure out how to
work together so they are not (Photos courtesy
sold to a man. Along the way Twentieth Century
Fox and Universal)
to escaping, Blu meets some
focusing on his dream.
What will Gru choose-the
girls or his dream?
My Opinion: ***** (five
stars)
I loved this movie. It was very
entertaining with Gru’s sense
of humor and the little yellow
minions. The movie was full of
adventures and cool things
Gru made. It is definitely a
movie to watch with your
family.
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Pre-School is Cool
Preschool has been
doing a lot lately! They
are doing science
experiments with
magnets,
ba la nc e
scales, color mixing,
freezing, and melting.
How fun does that
sound? Preschool is
also practicing phone
numbers and how to
walk forward,
backward and sideways
on a balance beam.
The kids are continuing
to
practice
numbers and letters,
and will soon start to
paint with marbles.
Lastly, they just
learned about Saint
Patrick and Saint
Joseph. Keep up the
hard work, preschool!
By Jessica Galla
The First Grade Story
“When you
learn, teach
-when you
get, give.”
- Maya
Angelou
In
reading , the first graders
are about to read a story
on animals in the forest.
They are also practicing
the long U sound. In
spelling, they are also
practicing long U and
short U words. Did you
know that the first graders
are in love with reading?
More than half of the
students in the class have
reached their AR goals!
They are always down at
the library getting new
books. In math, they are
adding and subtracting
with bigger numbers! In
science class, they are
now learning about
different animals and
how they relate to one
other, and how to group
them. In social studies,
they are learning about
the United States
presidents and are
comparing them to each
other. The first grade class
is planning a field trip to the
Natural History Museum.
When they go, they will
learn about living animals
and more. The first grade
also raised $50 with the
Valentine's delivery! They
are using the money in a
very thoughtful and
generous way: they donated
all the proceeds to the Saint
Baldrick's Foundation.
-By Anna Doucette
Hello, Second Grade!
The second graders have been
having a blast lately learning how
to write in cursive. They are also
having fun in religion, studying the
parts of the Mass, and preparing
themselves for First Holy
Communion. The second graders
are learning a lot in English, such
as possessive nouns, verbs, verb tenses,
proofreading and rough drafting. In
math, they are learning how to subtract
when regrouping. They are talking
about land forms in social studies. They
are also learning about a plant’s life
cycle in science class. For reading class,
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they are working to get
their AR goal. In phonics, they are learning
about suffixes and base
words. The second
graders have been working hard lately!
By Ondrea Oriti
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THIRD GRADE IS EXCITING!
finished learning about parables
and miracles Jesus performed.
They also just recently went to
emerges
the butter- the Stations of the Cross. The
fly
third graders are working on
multiplication and division in
math. They will be working on
The third graders are working
an electricity skit kit in science.
hard in school. In reading, they just
finished their dioramas on stories that Also in science, they just called
they read in class. In English, the third for their caterpillars, which they
will watch grow over the comgraders just took the Writing
Proficiency Tests. In religion, they just ing weeks. They’ve just started
From the
chrysalis
health this quarter. In social
studies, the third graders are
going to start learning about
the constitution and the three
branches of
government. Looks like the
third graders have a busy
schedule coming up!
By Kayla Ignacio
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FOURTH GRADE UPDATE
In just a few weeks, the
fourth grade will be
visiting our state capital in
Columbus. Mrs. White and
Mrs. Sisson have been busily
planning the trip, and the
kids have been learning
about government. They just
finished a unit on the Civil
War which they really enjoyed. In the beginning of
March they celebrated Ohio
Day-did you hear them sing
the “Ohio Song “ on the
announcements? They also
wished us a Happy Saint
Patrick’s Day on the
announcements a few weeks
one is
useless in
this world
ago. In math, the fourth
graders are learning fractions
and decimals, and in art they
are making wild animal
masks to go with haiku they
are writing in English. Have a
safe trip to Columbus!
-By Delaney Bentley
who
lightens the
burdens of
another.”
― Charles
Dickens
FIFTH GRADE INTELLIGENCE REPORT:
Fifth grade has been very
busy during the third
quarter! In science, they
are currently learning
about environmental
changes, about ecological
succession, and how
humans affect the Earth. In
religion, the kids are learning about the Liturgy of
the Eucharist. In social
studies, fifth grade is
learning about Canada and
French Canadians. In English, they are learning
about figurative language,
and in math, fifth grade is
learning how to subtract
fractions with unlike
denominators. Keep
working hard, fifth grade!
By Jessica Galla
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Canada has the longest coastline in
the world!
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SIXTH GRADE IS BUSY BUSY BUSY!
In the 6th grade, they are doing
quite well in AR. The top three
readers with the highest amount of
AR points are: Allie Pierce, Kate
Tenerowicz, and Kiara Milko. The
6th graders also just finished
learning about text structure in
ELA and are now moving on to
figurative language. They are using a
new application on the iPads called “Write 2
Learn,” which is an application used to improve writing skills and get feedback on
your work. In reading, they are about to
start the book Number The Stars by Louis
Lowry. They are now learning about the
Ten Commandments in religion and in social
studies. In math, the 6th grade is about to
start a chapter on ratios and proportions.
They are studying DNA, atoms, molecules, and particles in science. In addition, in health, they are learning about
nutrition, and they are also
having fun playing basketball in gym.
The 6th graders are planning to attend
the play Mary Poppins at Padua soon.
By Hannah Pelesky
Mongols, China, The Silk Roads, and other
Chinese Dynasties. They learned what they
By Dylan Palechka
invented and how their inventions affected
the world. In science, Mr. Malec is teaching
the seventh grade about electrical circuits.
In math, the seventh grade just
book called “A
Great Wall of China
They are seeing how wires and batteries
took a test. Next, they are
Long Way from
affect the brightness of bulbs. They took a
going to be learning about
Chicago.” This novel was written by Richard
short
geometry. Mrs. Bentley always
Peck. During class, Mrs. Seguin has little
assessment on voltage, current and
has a saying, “Math is the best
book reviews. Sometimes the kids request
resistance. These three factors affect the
subject, it is so fun to learn.”
to read these books so they can reach their
amount of energy and brightness of the
Mrs. Bentley offers Monday
AR goal. They are also learning about
circuit and bulb brightness. If you are having
tutoring for the seventh and
simple, compound, complex and compoundtrouble in science, Mr. Malec is free after
eighth graders.
complex sentences. And every night they are
school for tutoring.
In ELA (English class), the
doing English Simple Solutions. In social
seventh grade is just finishing a
studies, Mr. Ungvarsky taught about the
Seventh Grade !
KINDERGARTEN:
The kindergarteners
have been working hard
in school. In math class,
they have been learning
addition, subtraction and
counting. They have
been journal-writing
which helps them with
spelling and writing letters. Through reading
simple books, they have
traveled the world and
become fluent in reading.
Science class has been
full of learning about
insects and spiders. In
social studies, they are
learning aboutt land, water,
and the continents; they
even learned a song to
remember the continents.
For Lent, they had a prayer
service, and in class, they are
learning about miracles, and
now they are talking about
Holy Thursday and Good
Friday. Although they have
been doing lots of work,
they always have time for
fun, especially with their 8th
grade buddies. They made
Valentine’s animals and leprechauns with them!
By Alana Gassman
EIGHTH GRADE WORKING HARD
Things are going well in 8th grade! The 8th graders are
preparing for their Confirmation in April, and have just
begun drawing their Confirmation Saints in art class. In
English, they are doing a project in preparation for
reading The Giver by Lois Lowry in which they create
their own Utopia. In science, they are learning all
about volcanos and how they form and work. In social
studies, they are studying the three branches of government and how their roles fit in with the constitution. Finally, in math, 8th graders have just started
geometry; they are learning about how the sides and
angles of shapes all correspond to each other. All in all,
the 8th grade is doing well!
By Jessica Gaughan
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SAINT PATRICK
SHAMROCK
Created by
Matt Zassick
Do you want to win a dress down
pass? Of course you do! Write
your first and last name and
homeroom on a three by five
card and return it to Mr. McKay
by April 17. There will be a
drawing for the winners on April
20 during announcements. One
lucky winner from each grade 1
through 8 will be chosen. (Sorry,
only one entry per student. )
P.S. You might want to keep this
a secret. The fewer entries there
are, the more likely you are to
win!
Saint Patrick’s Day Riddle Time!
Q: What do you call a fake stone
in Ireland?
A: A sham-rock.
Compiled by Patrick Boddy
Q: Where would you find a
leprechaun baseball team?
A: In the Little League.
Q: Do leprechauns get angry
when you make fun of their
height?
A: Only a little.
Q: What do you call an Irishman
who keeps bouncing off walls?
A: Rick O’Shea
Q: Why do so many people live
in Ireland?
A: Because the capital is always
Dublin.
Q: What do you call a
leprechaun’s vacation home?
A: Lepre-condo
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