THIS WEEK
Wednesday: P.E. and Art begin today
Thursday: Mass at 8:30
Friday : Music Lessons for grades 3-6
Please return signed agreement at the end of handbook.
T-shirt orders due.
HOME AND SCHOOL MEETING
Home & School Meeting is our version of the Parent Teacher Association. We encourage and welcome all families to participate. Casino Night on September 13 is the main topic for our Home and School Meeting this week. We will meet this Thursday (September 4) in the Art Room at 3:10.
ADAM’S TEAM STARTS NEXT THURSDAY
Our school running club Adam’s Team will start next Thursday September 11. The club meets after school and runs at Undine Park from about 3:30 till 4:30. The club is open to students in K-6th. Pre-Kindergarten students can join if a parent/grandparent accompanies them.
SAFEWAY CARDS
We have for sale Reloadable Safeway Gift Cards. The cards come with $10 pre-loaded on them so we sell them for $10. Then you can reload them as many times as you wish at the checkout and use them to buy groceries, gas, or prescriptions. The great thing is that you are giving 5% to the school every time you reload. If you’re a Safeway shopper, stop by and purchase your reloadable card. It costs you nothing extra.
UPBOUND
I took a big leap of faith last month and decided that the school could sponsor a child from Madagascar. Tahiana is 5 years old and needs our financial help so he can go to school. The mother is sick and still needs medicine and so they cannot afford to send Tahiana to school. The cost is $30 per month. His picture and some more information is on the bulletin board near the front offices. I will be placing a 5 gallon water jug on the table with a reminder to give generously. With each family giving just a dollar a month we can provide for Tahiana to go to school. Any extra money will be put toward the summer months. Any money beyond that will go to Interfaith Good Samaritan and the Laramie Soup Kitchen.
DESSERT NIGHT AND OPEN HOUSE
Mark your calendar for Thursday September 11 for our Fall Open House and Dessert Social. Dessert starts at 7:00 and we’ll move to the classrooms around 7:30. There will be a Title I meeting before the event starting at 6:30 in Room 6. We hope to wrap the whole thing up by 8:00. There is school the next day after all.
NEW TEACHERS
Our new Pre-Kindergarten teacher is Ms. Bobbi Huston. She worked most recently this summer for the ACSD1 as the Step-up teacher for students stepping into kindergarten for the first time. Our new 3-4 teacher is Mrs. Janelle Still who has taught at Linford in first grade as a 1 year replacement and last year at the Lab School as a paraprofessional in the kindergarten. Our student teacher in the 1-2 room is Mrs. Tara Boyer who was just student teaching away from her degree when her children took priority. She will be working with Mrs. Van Heule till Christmas. Our new 5-6 teacher, Ms. James, has extensive teaching experience with grades 5-8 in Texas. She has most recently been working as a paraprofessional splitting her time between the Lab School and Spring Creek. We will be making available to you by Monday a list of families with phone numbers and email
ST. LAURENCE MAGAZINE SALE
It’s September and that means it’s nearly time for the St. Laurence School Fall Magazine Fundraiser. The sale kicks off on Monday September 15 so we do have some time. I will spell out the details in the coming weeks. We do have other products besides magazines for sale. For now don’t renew that subscription until you get the catalog in a couple of weeks.
ST. LAURENCE T-SHIRT ORDER
This week will be the last chance to order St. Laurence T-shirts for your children. The price is $10 pre-paid. Spirit Day is Tuesday at the school when we invite all the children to wear green or their St. Laurence T-Shirt.
CASINO NIGHT SEPTEMBER 13
The St. Laurence Home and School Association is sponsoring another Casino Night (the first was last January) on Saturday evening September 13 in the St. Laurence School Gym. All parents are asked to put up 10 flyers around town to advertise the event. You can ask to put them up at work in the break room, around campus, downtown, grocery stores, the Rec Center, and any place there is a community bulletin board. Perhaps the best way is to just carry them in your vehicle for the next week as you run errands around town.
We do have tickets if you would like to buy or sell some.
HANDBOOK
Parent-Student Handbook went home last week. Read through it and go over the relevant pages with your children such as playground rules, dress code, grading scale, etc. Please sign the agreement page at the end and return it to school by this Friday.
CALENDAR OF EVENTS
September 4
Home and School Meeting at 3:10 Art Room
September 5
Last day to return Agreement Page on back of Parent-Student Handbook and T-shirt order
September 8
Mass at 8:30 Mother Mary’s Birthdate
September 11
Adam’s Team 3:10 (details will go out next week)
Title 1 Parent Meeting 6:30
Back to School Dessert Social and Open House 7:00
September 13
Casino Night 6:00- 10:00 $40 per person
September 15
Magazine Kickoff 2:40 in Gym
September17
Individual School Pictures
September 18
Safe Environment Training for Parents at 7:00 (required if you would like to volunteer or chaperone at the school).
September 29
No School for students. In-service for Teachers
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