Announcements

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Confirmation Service Opportunity: Cookie Baking

Last year, the St. Giles Family Mass Confirmation group made cookies for the Kairos Retreat in Joliet. The Kairos Prison Ministry of Illinois is an ecumenical Christian program designed to build faith communities inside the Stateville Correctional Center. As an integral part of this process, they hold 3 1/2 day on-site retreats with many adult volunteers and inmates. One of the trademarks of this experience is an abundance of Chocolate Chip Cookies. They generally travel to the weekend with as many as 2000 dozen cookies. Last year we made 20 dozen. We are hoping that a larger group, consisting of the Chaos youth group and volunteers from the 2020 Confirmation class can make more!

We would like to invite each of the Confirmation candidates to join us in McDonough Hall at 5:30pm (until 8pm or later) on Sunday, February 23rd to make cookies for the cause! To get the ingredients correct, we need to know how many teens to expect, so please RSVP to “jboyle@ftek.com” or to Emily Davis so we can get an accurate head count. We will likely need a few adults as well. This is a wonderful and “sweet” way to help the most isolated individuals in our society, and to help others help them!

History Fair 2020 Medalists & Regional Qualifiers

On Thursday, January 23, 8th grade students showcased their History Fair Projects at St. Giles’ annual Curriculum Night in McDonough Hall. Among the incredible projects that 8th graders produced this year, the following students earned medals:

We are so incredibly proud of all of our 8th grade students’ tremendous work!

National Geographic Geography Bee 2020

National Geographic Geography Bee 2020

The social studies department is excited that St. Giles’ participation in National  Geographic‘s Geography Bee. This competition is open to 4th-8th graders across the country. This competition includes three levels: school, state, & national. Our school competition will take place in social studies classes during Catholic Schools Week from Monday, January 27th through Friday, January 31st! For more information about the National Geographic Geography Bee click here.

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Congratulations to our grade level winners who will move onto the school bee:

4th Grade: Peter & Derek

5th Grade: Richard & Lana

6th Grade: Ellie & Ben

7th Grade: Sarah & Gabe

8th Grade: Cam & Easton

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Links & Resources

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Links & Resources

360 Cities This website allows students to search nearly any location on Earth and interactively explore it through the use of high-quality panoramic photographs. Through these, students may explore the geography, architecture, and beauty of foreign places. This is best used on the iPad.

FreeRiceThis website quizzes users in a variety of subject areas and adapts questions to ability. For each correct answer, 10 grains of rice are donated through World Food Programme to help end hunger.

50 States Interactive Map This interactive map games allows students to study the geography of the United States my dragging the shape of the state to its correct location.

NewsELA This website is a database of current events that has been adapted for students. Students may narrow their article search based on the following categories: war & peace, arts, health, science, law, finance, history, etc.).

Bernie’s Book Bank 2 out of 3 children from low income families have no books of their own. Bernie’s Book Bank, Chicago’s largest provider of quality children’s books is changing that with 12 books a year for 12 years!