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Fourth grade students from Rose Acres Elementary delivered thank you letters to health care workers at SSM Health DePaul Hospital - St. Louis on Monday, Jan. 25, after school. They chose to write letters of gratitude to health care workers for a class project as part of a month of kindness and practicing their letter writing skills. Their fourth grade teachers are Grace Burgos, Kirstie Hummert and Mary Spitzmiller.
 
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Fifth graders in Carrie Heine’s class at Rose Acres Elementary raised $400 during their Market Day event and donated all the proceeds to Loaves and Fishes, a local charitable organization.

Heine teaches the students using a project-based learning method and recently completed a unit about personal and business finance. Through their learning journey, they also learned about philanthropy. 

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Three third grade students enrolled in the Program for Exceptionally Gifted Students (PEGS) at Rose Acres Elementary were announced as winners of Scholastic’s Clifford’s Big Red Movie Poster Contest.
 
DJ Hopson was a grand prize winner and will receive a DVD and book in addition to a movie screening party for his whole class. Evie Yakel and Pearl Krieger were among the 15 runner-ups and won a DVD and graphic novel.
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Four students in PEGS - Program for Exceptionally Gifted Students and Rose Acres fifth grader Nafas Parsang held a book signing after they were named winners and finalists in the St. Louis Writers Guild Young Writers Contest and had their stories published in a collection.

Held from August to October, young writers are given a first line and then they provide the next 500 to 1,500 words. Out of the hundreds of entries received, fourth graders Donald McCullough, Jackson McCullough and Adelaide Pagel, and fifth graders Parsang and Eva Pulley had their stories selected.

At Friday’s event, all of the students received a certificate and a gift bag with their own book from the Writers Guild. The students signed each copy and read aloud their stories that began with the opening line of "When the door opened ..."

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