School News 3-9-15

THIS WEEK

Tuesday: Basketball After School

Wednesday: Grade Reports go home.

Thursday: MASS 8:30/ Basketball / Mr. Jim’s Pizza Night

Friday: Stations of the Cross 8:30 /Library/ Basketball Game at Harmony 1:30 / Bring Instruments upper grades

ENCHILADA SALE

Thanks to all who worked to make the 2015 Enchilada Sale a success! We have cleared about $19,300 so far. I say so far because we still have some extras that we would like to sell. If you would like some more, please contact the school this week. They are selling for $20 to parents and $25 to the general public. Get them while they last. Thanks also to the folks from Wyotech for their volunteer hours. They all were awesome workers. Thanks to ALSCO and Pepsi for donating for the fundraiser. Thanks for the Fraustos who made the green and red chili that we sold out of at about 10:30.

LENTEN JOURNEYS

We have a few Lenten projects for the students and families for the 40 days of Lent. This is the season for alms giving, prayer, and fasting. As always we sent home the Rice Bowls for Catholic Relief Services in support of poor nations across the world. Some families combine fasting and almsgiving by not going out to eat one day a week or having a simple meal and putting the savings in the Rice Bowl.

The school is also teaming up with the Knights of Columbus on the project of 40 cans for 40 days for Interfaith Good Samaritan. You will see a shopping cart in the entry to the school where you can drop off canned goods, other non-perishable items and personal care products. A complete list of items will be attached to the shopping cart and will be sent home to put on your refrigerator as a reminder to give. Thanks to everyone who has given so far. Let’s fill the cart!

We are encouraging more reading and family time during Lent. As an incentive for more reading, we will be sending home Reading Logs during Lent. We will attempt to “travel” to Australia via the other 4 continents during Lent. Details will be going home from your teacher about the contest to read your way from Laramie to Sydney. We will move our airplanes down the hall a meter (1 meter = 1000 miles) towards Australia for every 20 minutes we read.

Finally, there will be Stations of the Cross for grades 3-6 on Fridays at 8:30 during Lent. They continue this commemoration this Friday at the church.

SURVEY OPPORTUNITY

Chris Grissom, Faith and Olivia’s dad, has asked our help with a project he needs to complete for his college class. His project is a survey that he is asking every family, both mom & dad to complete about parenting styles. It would really help him out, and it may give you some insight to explore your own parenting style. The survey is completely confidential. We ask that you detach the consent page with your signature before turning the survey in to the office. Chris needs the surveys back no later than March 24^th. Thanks for your help.

CLASSROOM NEWS

We are grateful to our terrific volunteers who are helping Mrs. Van Heule with her class. Annie Nelson has been coming in for an hour every morning to work with the reading groups and Mary O’Flannigan comes in to help by teaching a math group. They are a real blessing to the school and to Mrs. Van Heule’s Ones and Twos. The upper grades will begin the PAWS testing this week. Parents, please see that the children get plenty of rest and a good breakfast. (That time change is throwing everyone off.)

BASKETBALL GAME

The Basketball team will be playing a game at the Harmony Gym this Friday afternoon with the game starting at 1:30. All the students in grades 3-6 will be going. Permission slips are going home today. Go Eagles!

FIESTA DATE

There is a last minute change to the date of our Spring Fiesta. Our Auctioneer Zane Burns was unable to make it on May 2^nd. Since he is a big part of the success of previous Fiestas, we are changing the date by one week to Saturday May 9^th.

MR. JIMS PIZZA NIGHT

Mr. Jims has set Wednesday March 11^th as St. Laurence night. A flyer is going home tonight.

CALENDAR OF EVENTS

March 11

2^nd Trimester grade reports will be sent home / Mr. Jims Pizza Night

March 16-20

Spring/Winter Break No School

March 26

Class Pictures

March 10-April 1

PAWS Testing grades 3-6

April 3

No School Good Friday

April 5

EASTER

April 6

No School Easter Break

May 9^th Fiesta! (Please note the change in the date.)