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Holy Cross Early Education serves children that are 3 - 5 years.  We are blessed to have an excellent staff that loves our youngest hornets.  Holy Cross Early Education strives to build that love of learning from a young age.  Learning through hands-on, interactive play in the cl...

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preschool, Hornet Highlights, early education

In First Grade, we are doing our best to Be Holy Cross in all that we do. We are going on reading adventures, working on addition and subtraction within 20, exploring God's creation, learning about the saints, and discovering plants and animals that God created. We have been discussing God&rsquo...

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Hornet Highlights, 1st grade

  Middle school is off to a great start this school year. We first began with a team building activity for all students grades six through eight. The students participated in an escape room that was all about growth mindset skills. This activity was a great way for the students to all intera...

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Hornet Highlights, Jr High ELA

During the first full week of school, Mrs. Kerth (Holy Cross Math Coach) visited all classrooms with a fun math activity.  One of the activities she shared with our middle schoolers is a “Mock Mathletics”.  Students worked in teams to quickly problem solve a variety of math hig...

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Hornet Highlights, Hornet Highlight, math

WOW,  what an amazing year the preschoolers have had at Holy Cross Early Education!  We have loved every minute of being in the elementary school this past school year.  Our TK students made great friendships with their 8th-grade buddies and were sad when they did not see them walking...

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preschool, Hornet Highlights

Middle school students have been very busy in ELA. We finished our final unit of the year in our digital reading platform, Amplify. This program has been a great addition to our curriculum at Holy Cross. It really encourages students to use text evidence when answering questions over the stories. Th...

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newsletter, Hornet Highlights, Jr High ELA

Counselor's Lesson with Mrs. Petri "Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.”&n...

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Hornet Highlights, counselor

Our first grade class has been enjoying the sunshine and getting to enjoy going outside to experience God's beauty. We are very excited to be planning our first Mass with the Kindergarten class. We will be preparing for second grade and being able to participate in the Sacraments of Reconciliati...

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newsletter, Hornet Highlights, 1st grade

The fifth grade has been busy with all of their studies. We are currently studying the Constitution and the major historical figures of that time in social studies. At this time in science, we just finished learning about all the biomes of the world and will begin our study of outer space. In math, ...

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Hornet Highlights

Middle school math has been all about data the past few weeks! 8th graders were statisticians looking at the average number of 3-pointers scored in an NBA game per season and questioned why the data acted the way that it did. They found that over the years more and more 3-pointers have been sco...

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Hornet Highlights, middle school, math

The second graders at Holy Cross School just finished participating in their First Holy Communion retreat morning.  This time was spent praying, hearing from Father Oswaldo about the mass, gathering around the altar, decorating banners, and remembering our baptism by decorating candles that are...

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Hornet Highlights, 2nd grade

In third grade, we dived into the lives of the saints this week. We learned about different saints and their contributions to our Catholic community. Each student was able to share what they learned with their classmates through their writing as well as oral presentations. The students have also bee...

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Hornet Highlights, 3rd grade

8th grade hopes everyone enjoyed the spring-like weather we had over the weekend.  We are super excited to announce that the 8th graders will be receiving another very special Sacrament in a week.  Confirmation is in 7 days and we couldn’t be more proud of their journey to becoming t...

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Hornet Highlights, 8th grade

Fourth graders discovered that science is a key to understanding the gift of creation and the Divine revelations found therein. God’s first words in Genesis, “Let there be light,” led to the discovery that light is synonymous with life.  Light from the sun warmed the Earth, en...

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Hornet Highlights, 4th grade

I am Lori Berkelhamer or Mrs. B. as the kids all call me and this is my third year at Holy Cross. My role is as a Special Education teacher where I support students and am a member of the Student Support Team where we develop strategies for struggling students. I also work with neighboring districts...

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Hornet Highlights, special education, SPED

This month in Kindergarten, we celebrated our 100th day of school, we celebrated all the progress and success we have made thus far in the year.  The month of February is all about being kind and showing love and respect towards others. The kindergarteners have been learning how to show th...

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Hornet Highlights, Kindergarten

This week in middle school's art class, students are finishing up their embroidery projects! 6th,7th, and 8th graders have been working hard for several weeks embroidering a cloth with the image of an animal that they feel best represents their family and themselves. Once they are finished, they...

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Hornet Highlights, Art

In Third Grade, we are finding God in everything we do. From reading about the human body to classifying animals we are looking for God’s presence in the world. In Math, we are working hard with multiplication and division. We are able to find God’s presence in the patterns that are crea...

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Hornet Highlights, 3rd grade

My name is Tracy Kerth, and I am the HC Math Specialist/Data Coordinator. I am excited to be celebrating my second year at this amazing school. I want to share 2 new exciting things we are implementing this year- Guided Math Differentiated Groups and Reflex Math.   Guided Math is a stru...

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Hornet Highlights, math

Our middle schoolers have been busy bees in math class lately! 6th grade has been learning all about ratios the past few weeks. 7th grade is just about to start learning about how positive and negative numbers interact when we add, subtract, multiply, or divide them. And our 8th graders have be...

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Hornet Highlights, junior high, middle school

Our theme for October has been learning all about pumpkins in Kindergarten! We even had the opportunity to visit the pumpkin patch, where each student got to pick out their very own pumpkin to bring back to class and investigate. We have been learning how to measure with our pumpkins and the life cy...

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Hornet Highlights, Kindergarten

Second Grade Holy Cross Hornets are hard at work already this year! During our STREAM (Science, Technology, Religion, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics) time our focus in September was Johnny Appleseed, different apples, bio-selection of apples, constructing apple catchers, and tasting diff...

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Hornet Highlights, 2nd grade

Herbie the Hornet has a new store! As part of our Virtuous Behavior Formation, students earn stars or tickets. Students can save their earnings and use them to purchase rewards from Herbie's Store. Thank you so much to Mrs. Susan Smith and Mrs. Marian Petri for getting Herbie's Store up and ...

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Hornet Highlights, Herbie Store