From the Holy Family Parish Bulletin - Our Advent Project benefiting Cross Catholic Outreach's program to build homes for families in Haiti has been very successful. As of the last week of December, we have collected $5,188 toward a goal of $6,981 which will provide a new home for a family. We thank the young people of our school, religious education and youth ministry who created and sold the ornaments that raised these funds. Also a special thank you to Sheila Ferreri and Cathy Weiss for their leadership and creativity. If you wish to contribute to our goal, please submit a check to Nancy Brown in the parish office by Friday, January 3, 2020.

Ms. Hutter became the Principal of the Day today! Ms. Hutter visited all the classrooms, oversaw morning announcements, and conducted the daily duties of the Principal. We caught this photo of Ms. Hutter discussing the daily news with Mrs. Calabro.

Please come join us at 10:30 AM Mass on Sunday, 1/26/2020. Following Mass, from 11:30 AM - 2:30 PM, we will have an open house for all our current and interested students. We offer full day Nursery ( 3 year old program), and full day Pre-K ( 4 year old program), and also Kindergarten through 8th grade. Come meet our teachers and see all that Holy Family has to offer! We welcome all of you! Please call 516-938-3846 ext. 329 if you'd like any further information.

Our annual Pancake Breakfast with Santa took place on Sunday. Our school was transformed into a Winter Wonderland thanks to the parent volunteers! Our 6th, 7th & 8th grade students volunteered on the day of the breakfast serving, selling raffles & ornaments, photos with Santa and more! We give a special shout out to our head Elf, Mrs. Ezelius and Raffle Elf, Mrs. Fagan for all the coordinating for this wonderful community event! Thank you also to Santa who took time to come all the way from the North Pole during this busy time to deliver stuffed animals and take pictures at Holy Family School!

What a special day that we all gather together and share a meal as a school/parish family. The entire school had a Thanksgiving lunch together in the gym. Each student decorated a feather during their art classes and all the feathers made our Holy Family Turkey. Fr. Gerard began the meal with the "Superman" prayer. The Rachel's Challenge student leaders along with Mrs. Calle, Ms. Ulrich and Mr. Gilbert set up the entire gym and served all the students, teachers and guests. We'd also like to thank Mrs. Messina, Mrs. Boyle and Mr. Lafalce for a delicious meal topped off with apple pie and ice cream! We are truly blessed! Click here to view some photos of the day!

Sharing God's love, that's what we do at Holy Family School! The fourth grade students happily shared some of their Halloween candy and created beautiful, candy filled Turkey Cups. The love kept flowing as the children visited St Joseph's Hospital. The children personally delivered their gifts to the nurses and staff who will work on Thanksgiving taking care of others instead of being home with their own family. God Bless those who choose a profession dedicated to helping those in need.

From Kindergarten through 8th grade, the children decorated gratitude feathers during their art classes. They thought about the many blessings they have and wrote down something they are thankful for! The nursery and pre-k classes also decorated their feathers during Social, Emotional learning classes. The feathers are beautiful! Wait until Tuesday to see how they were all put together!

Holy Family School fourth graders took a trip back in time to Colonial Long Island! Much was learned about our past while touring Old Bethpage Village Restoration, a living museum.

Holy Family School fourth graders took a trip back in time to Colonial Long Island! Much was learned about our past while touring Old Bethpage Village Restoration, a living museum. Click here for more photos.

The entire school from Nursery to 8th Grade made Nativity ornaments to raise money to build a house in Haiti. Holy Family School is working on a service project with Holy Family Religious Ed and the parish to make ornaments to raise money to build a home in Haiti for a family in need. We need to raise almost $7,000 for this endeavor. What a gift it will be for a family. We are so blessed here that we would like to share our blessings. It was beautiful to see the older students working with the younger children making these ornaments. We would also like to thank all of our "Cricuteers", "Silhouetters" and their helpers who cut the Nativity scenes. We'd also like to thank Mrs. Weiss and Mrs. Puzo's 4th grade that helped in sorting, cutting and counting to prepare for this day.

Teachers & children all dressed up for Halloween! Check out our Facebook and Instagram pages for some fun photos!

Our Kindergarten, First and 2nd grades visited Schmitt's Farm today! They learned all about plants and vegetables at the farm. They learned which plants grow under the ground and which ones grow above the ground and all about corn, tassels and the silk! Ask your child about how many kernels are on one ear of corn? It was a beautiful day to appreciate nature and all our blessings!

Mrs. Messina, Mrs. Boyle & Mr. LaFalce "cooked" up some Halloween snacks for your children! Fun and delicious!

This afternoon, our entire school gathered on the lawn by Newbridge Road for the Living Rosary. Fr. Gerard prayed the rosary with all the students, faculty and staff. We'd like to thank Mrs. Eckhoff and Mrs. Torres for making the beautiful oversized rosary for our school. We are very blessed.

Our Nursery & Pre-K Classes visited the Holy Family Chapel for a blessing of their stuffed animals by Fr. Gerard! After school, you could bring your real pet to the church for a blessing!

Our Nursery and Pre-K Students visited the chapel to have their stuffed animals blessed by Fr. Gerard! After school, you could bring your real pet to the church for a blessing!

Again this past Friday, all grades participated in STREAM! The children look forward to this activity all week. They work on the 4 C's of STREAM : Collaboration, Communication, Critical Thinking & Creativity, The 7th & 8th graders used playing cards to create their tallest tower. 6th graders worked in groups to create the best designed water tower. 5th graders built football fields and goal posts, along with paper footballs to try and score the most field goals. They learned about fractions, percentages and much more, all while having a lot of fun! The 4th graders compared how different substances react in plain water versus water with corn syrup. They added glitter, magnetic & non-magnetic bingo chips, and other items to their bottles and watched for reactions. They shook and used magnetic wands to show different reactions. 2nd graders used index cards and dot stickers along with scissors to attempt to create the highest, stable tower. They each worked in groups of 2 to plan and execute. The highest tower was 1 foot high! Way to go! Check out the STREAM tab on home page to see a few photos!

Our Holy Family School Brownie Troop coordinated with the Art Room and repurposed their cookie boxes to collect markers. They decorated and then distributed to all the classrooms at Holy Family School. All dried out markers were placed in the boxes and the girls collected them at the end of the year from the Art room and all the teachers' classrooms. Mrs. Ferreri shipped almost 1,000 markers back to Crayola to be recycled! Way to go girls! Cleaning up our earth, one marker at a time!

Mrs. Buckley's Pre-K children made lion hats on the letter "L" day. During their first STREAM Friday, they listened to the book, The Dot, and made fruit loop necklaces to wear!