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Benvenuti/Welcome to Ms Alhadef's Home Page for the 2026-2027 school year.

I'm so glad you stopped by to check out our wonderful school. We are celebrating our 129th year of Catholic education in Redlands. This year our school theme is Finding God in All Things: Leading with purpose, Serving with Heart. I am truly grateful to be here and am excited for all that we will do this year.

I graduated from California State University, San Bernardino in 1989 with a degree in Geography and minor in Anthropology. I also recevied my AA degree from Crafton HIlls College in 1984. I have been at Sacred Heart Academy since 2000 and over the years have been the aide in 1st, 3rd, 5th, and Jr. High. I also was the Extended Care Director during my first 10 years, in addition to being an Aide.

Currently I'm the 4th Grade Aide, do art/religion with 7th grade on Thurssdays, and am Campus Minister. As Campus Minister I write a reflection for the weekly Parent Letter - this reflection is also posted under Keeping Up With Your Faith (see under Spiritual Life on the school webpage) and on the school's Facebook page. New articles for Five Minutes With Francis (see under Spiritual Life) are on hold at this time. The older articles are still available to read.

4th grade has adopted Saint Joseph as one of our class saints. We do a modified La Tavola di san Giuseppe (Saint Joseph's Table) where we use La Benedizione del Vescovo (the Bishop's Blessing) to bless the entire school on his feast day - the bread (more likely pretzels) we have at assembly is given to those in need in our local communities.

Lastly, I'm a little angel who is all about dark chocolate, squirrels! (sinjab! where?!), art, and the Los Angeles Dodgers - Go Dodgers! Now that Chris Taylor is retired (he would have retired eventually even if he had been able to remain with the Dodgers, so I'm back to hitting the like button when the Dodgers win - Chris Taylor was my mum's and I fave and I was much annoyed when they let him go). I also give walking tours of Redlands (no charge).

Buonagiornata, e che Dio te benedica con pace e gioia.

San Giuseppe, prega per noi! Santa Maria Maddalena, prega per noi!

p.s. Dinosaurs are cool! rawr!!

Posts

Playground Music with our Senior buddies, 27 apr 2026

Yesterday (27 apr 2026) the class of 2022 visited our school. This class was the 4th graders buddies when they were in kindergarten/8th grade. We wanted to do something with our buddies so we did Playground Music, something the seniors had done back in 4th grade. Playground music is our take on Tower Music by Joseph Bertolozzi. Normally when we do this we would wait until there were no other classes on the field but we didn't have that option yesterday so the video is a bit noiser than normal. We had a fun time with the seniors and are so glad they came to visit us.

Playgroundmusic4thgrade21May2025

4th grade doing a musical compostion inspired by Tower Music by Joseph Bertolozzi

Playground Music - 19March2021

4th grade making music using the playground equipment as their instrument. They were inspired by Tower Music and Bridge Music by Joseph Bertolozzi.

Books on Tape 2017 - Watch Me Throw the Ball

Watch Me Throw the Ball - throwing isn't easy as Gerald tells us, but Piggie has fun trying - as told by Milena, Sarah, Sophia P., Anthony B., Leslie, and Aidan.

Books on Tape 2017 - Larry Loves San Francisco

Larry and Peter go to their favorite places in San Francisco - as told by Cami, Joseph, Siobhan, Daniella, and Sophia R.

Books on tape 2017 - Cowy Cow

Cowy Cow has lots of great ideas - as told by Catherine, Lyla, Kassandra, Dariel, and Liam B.

Books on Tape 2017 - Doggy Dog

Doggy Dog - written and performed by Liam K., Angelina, Avery, Emma, Miguel.

Book on Tape 2017 - Lamby Lamb

Lamby Lamb goes shopping - an original script based on by the book Lamby Lamb: Brooke, McKenzie, Cooper, Richard, Anthony F.

Playground Music

4th grade's musical composition using various equipment on the field as their instruments. Morgan, Lila and Giovanna came up to me on Monday and presented their idea of doing something similar to Tower Music where Bertolozzi did this using the Eiffel Tower as his instrument. The girls did some test runs and scoping out of sites at recess and we created a basic storyboard of what we wanted to do, but we had no rehearsal time. We split the class so there weren't too many students at any one time playing. The things we used are what you find in the classroom; pencils, rulers, scissors, etc. Additionally our first film crew fell through but they found us a replacement team 20 minutes before we began filming. We thank Mrs. Misenheimer for jumping in last minute and having great intuition for what we were doing. She did a great job filming. Enjoy our video and hear our playground in a whole new way.