St. Joan of Arc Catholic School

Your local (and global!) Catholic Church needs to hear from YOU! Come join our Synod Meeting downstairs in the Parish Hall at St. Joan of Arc Parish in Aberdeen MD and make your voice heard. ALL welcome!

For more resources, and to sign up for our Synod meeting, visit: https://stjoanarc.org/news/synod

Miss B’s religion classes created cards filled with love, kindness, and encouragement For the children and soldiers of Ukraine. Her students used goggle translate to write out words of encouragement, and love and prayer in Ukrainian. Her classes gathered in a prayer circle and lift it up each innocent soul to God. We know He hears all prayers and He is with them. #wearesjastrong

Ms. Kestler came to read The Lorax by Dr. Seuss to 1st Grade this morning. It is Dr. Seuss’ birthday and Read Across America today! Later today they will do a STEM project and make Truffula Trees!

1st grade made Thank You notes for Chick-fil-A’s donation.

While students in grades 1st-8th attended mass and received ashes, Deacon Ray came over to PreK and kindergarten to explain Ash Wednesday and give them ashes.

A huge thanks to our local Chick-fil-A in Aberdeen for making our Shrove Tuesday Breakfast Fundraiser a success!

Happy Sunday from SJA’s family mass! #wearesjastrong

What are Eddy Currents? 8th grade knows. APG scientists
showed students how a magnet moving through a conductive tube caused a magnetic current to form around the magnet which slowed it down when traveling through the tube.

Mr. B and Ms. B’s 8th graders had their first pizza party of the year! Great job 8th graders and parents with the high school application process! Mr. B and Ms. B know each of you will be great in your next chapter! #WeareSJAStrong

We are celebrating Shrove Tuesday with a breakfast fundraiser!

Due to inclement weather SJA will have a 2 hour delay.

Indoor Recess STEM fun in 2nd grade. What fun!

3rd Grade was busy today. 1. Coding STEM activity based on the book Hidden Figures, 2. Learning about Katherine Johnson who helped save Apollo 13 by building our own space capsule and seeing how slow it could fall to earth, 3. Creating circuits on Nearpod

Welcome to SJA’s 2022 Camp - St. Joan of Arc Makes Summer Better! We look forward to providing your child with the best summer ever! SJA is offering 10 weeks of camp, making it easy to fit one or more weeks into your schedule. To register school.stjoanarc.org/summer-camp. Excluding Camp Invention, all other camps are from 8am-5pm.

Another Alumnus Honor Roll...This time it goes out to David Eluchie who graduated from SJA in 2021. Congratulations David! We are so proud of you.

Happy Twos Day! 2-22-22

FAMILY MASS is back at 11:15 AM this Sunday, February 27th! Come hear our great SJA Voices school choir sing again!

Come early at 9:30 AM and meet downstairs for a light breakfast and to learn all about the upcoming Lenten Season! All families and parishioners welcome

Learn more at: https://fb.me/e/2PJ80V2o2
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#stjoanwelcomes #wearesjastrong

Ms. Bs 3rd, 6th, 7th and 8th grade religion classes; all participated in black history month; through current events. Each student shared slides with their classmates on a special African American Man, Woman or child; who has made a positive impact with their actions and faith on our society. #SJAStrong.

SJA Alumni we want to hear from you! Tell us your accomplishments. What college/university to you get into or graduate from? Have you taken an amazing adventure? Have you gotten married or had a baby? Where has life taken you?

We would love to hear from you. Please email Elisa Maid at [email protected]

Congratulations to all our current SJA students! 100% of classes contributed to the Annual Fund. Together as a community the students donated $376!

Parents, parishioners, friends and local businesses it's not too late to donate. The Annual Fund is our most important fundraiser. This helps us bridge the $5,576 gap between the cost of educating each student and the expenses not covered by tuition. No matter the amount, your response is powerful.

Hall men you are doing amazing! We have more SJA Alumni who made the Honor Roll at Calvert Hall.
Congratulations to Seniors Alexander Beck
Owen Cornett. Keep up the good work. We are proud of you!

Congratulations to Alumni Thomas Elser, Daniel Mwaura, Nicholas Paolucci, Owen Stapleton and Sean Whitehead on receiving Honor Roll at Calvert Hall. You all are working so hard and we are proud of you!

Happy Valentine's Day from 3rd Grade!

4th & 5th Grade classes completed a Toad-ally Awesome STEM Challenge using the Engineering Design Process in Mrs. Lane’s Class. Students had to collaboratively work together to design and build a device to successfully have their frog friend deliver a valentine to their friend across the icky, sticky, stinky swamp.

Mrs. Kestler received a special Valentine’s Day treat from her faculty today.

We have the best MedTechs! Thank you to Ms. Ficca and Mrs. Franke for taking care of everyone. #archbaltschools

Ms B made a deal with her middle school classes this weekend; If you get outside on Saturday before the snow hit; and you moved your body and breathe in that fresh air and sunshine you could send her a picture and description of what physical activity you chose! Than each student will receive a credit for their grade! Here is Ms. B and her sister waking/running 6 miles at HCC on the trails; both sisters graduated there!
#getoutside
#screentimebreakforteens

1st Grade’s 100th day celebration. Students were challenged to use 100 items in each station in a modified version of Minute to Win It. The students invited Ms Kestler and she accepted their challenge!
Here are the activities we enjoyed:
Stacking 100 cups (4 different stations with 100 of the same size cups in each)
Blowing 100 cotton balls off the desk into a container on the floor
Transferring 100 cotton balls to another container by using chopsticks
Use a spoon to toss 100 ping pong balls into a bucket
Use a spoon to toss 100 balls into a large container
Create something using 100 marshmallows and toothpicks

All St. Joan of Arc students showed gratitude for the service and sacrifice of our local heroes by making VALENTINES FOR VETERANS. Congressman Ruppersberger will deliver the cards to a local VA facility on Valentine’s Day.

Alumni Cam, Coop, Krizzia, and Kristina Blackburn all received honor roll for 1st and 2nd quarters in the magnet bio-med program at Perryville high school! Go Blackburn’s! We are so proud of you all!

Kindergarten- What can you build with 100 popsicle sticks?