St. Laurence Eagle Eye News
Oct. 6, 2014
THIS WEEK
This will be the last week for wearing shorts at school.
Tuesday: Music Classes on Tuesday and Thursday with Mrs. Lyford
Wednesday: P.E. all grades and Art 2-6
Thursday: Mass at 8:30 /Adam’s Team 3:10
Friday : P.E. all grades. Music Lessons for grades 3-6 Bring your instruments and books. Art for K and PreK grades
ST. LAURENCE MAGAZINE SALE
Thanks to all who did your part in making the Fall Magazine/Gift Drive a success. We took in $5355.00 both online and in house. We are 50 orders short of our goal of 300 orders, but in terms of the amount we exceeded our goal of $5,000.00 in gross sales.
CHANGE IN PARENT TEACHER CONFERENCES
Since three of the teachers will be gone on October 16-17 at a conference in Denver, we have decided that it would be in everyone’s best interest to postpone parent teacher conferences by one week. Instead of meeting on the 16-17th, the conference will start on Thursday night October 23 from 6-8 in the evening and continue on Friday morning October 24 from 8-12. The sign up forms for conferences will go home next Monday. There will not be school on Friday October 24. We will still plan to have the Costume Party/Dance that night from 6-8 in the gym.
TETON SCIENCE SCHOOL
The 4-6 grades will be heading to Jackson Hole for the week starting on Monday January 12.
PRINCIPAL TALK
As October is the month of the Rosary, (last Tuesday, Our Lady of the Rosary), the students began praying a decade of the Rosary each morning. We continue to collect money for our adopted student, Tahiana, a five year old boy from Madagascar. There is a jar set out by the office for our monthly collection of $30.00 to help Tahiana attend school. Since the start of school we have collected $60! (The extra money will help pay for the summer months when school is not in session.)
Coming up later in October, the Home and School Association is sponsoring a Costume Dance on Friday October 24th from 6:00 to 8:00 in the gym. The cost is $1 per student. The students are inviting friends from other schools to attend. The next week, on the Eve of All Saints October 31st, there will be a carnival from 2:00 till 3:00 with a games and contests. The suggested donation is $3 per family for unlimited games and the proceeds will be split with half used to fund the older student’s trip to the Teton Science School and the other half given as a donation to the Laramie Soup Kitchen.
Lest you think that the only thing we do at this school is party, there are lots of great things happening academically in the classrooms. The teachers have all been implementing strategies they learned at the University of Wyoming Literacy Conference held in Laramie on September 26-27. As one teacher remarked, “It’s a great conference when you can use things you learned on Saturday the following Tuesday.” Ms. James used ideas she learned in a Vocabulary Workshop to foster some creative writing using the week’s spelling words.
HOME AND SCHOOL MEETING
The Home and School Commission met last Thursday. They are making plans for the Costume Dance happening on Friday October 24th. The officers will be contacting you regarding ways that you can help with making this event fun for the students.
SCHOOL COMMISSION OPENINGS
If you would be interested in serving on the St. Laurence School Commission, please contact me this week. The Commission serves as the school board for St. Laurence School and is made up of parents, parishioners, and alumni, and former parents of the school. The Commission meets at least once per month to discuss issues involving the school. To learn more about the School Commission, please call the school or stop by to talk to me about the role of commissioner.
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. The card will work at any Safeway throughout the West. Send one to Grandma and Grandpa who shop at Safeway in other towns and the school will still get the 5%.
MAGAZINE AND GIFTS CAN BE ORDERED ANYTIME
You can order online at any time between now and December using the St. Laurence School Code 3589454. So pass the word (and the number) so your friends and relatives who didn’t get a chance to order during the sale can still help the school.
CANS FOR THE CAUSE
Do you have aluminum cans at your house? Bring them to St. Laurence School where we turn cans into money. The money goes into a fund for a variety of worthy classroom projects from field trips to classroom rewards. Bring in your cans and place them in the barrels on the south side of the building by the art room. The more cans we collect, the more positive ways the teachers can support your kids.
CALENDAR OF EVENTS
Oct. 17
School as usual No Parent Teacher Conferences till next Friday
Oct. 23
Parent Teacher Conferences from 6-8 then on Friday morning from
8-12
Oct. 24
No School Parent Teacher Conferences
Costume Dance in the Gym 6-8 Invite your friends and their kids
Oct. 28
Picture Retakes
Oct. 31
Eve of All Saints Day Carnival 2:00 in the Gymnasium
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