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St. Henry School Newsletter
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“Take this, all of
you, and drink from it.
This is
the cup of my blood, the blood of the new and everlasting covenant.”
A happy St. Patrick’s Day to you all! We were awash in green today, treated to two very talented youngsters (Juliena Herritz in grade six and Kristin Miller in grade five) who shared a wonderful Celtic dance with us, and enjoyed supporting St. Bernard’s school children by viewing their parade this morning. A prayer ascribed to St. Patrick was prayed by many classes, and everyone learned a bit about this man who had been captured from Britain as a sixteen-year-old by Irish pirates. He worked as a slave for six years there and finally escaped. Yet, instead of being embittered by the experience, he begged to be sent there as a missionary. Finally, in his early forties he was ordained a bishop and sent to the people of northern and western Ireland. This all happened in the first half of the 400’s – and the world hasn’t been the same since!
SOME important reminders. They won’t affect everyone, but I’ll feel better if I bring them to everyone’s attention here.
If you had planned on purchasing a St. Henry School Yearbook (or two), Mrs. Smedema has to have all the orders in on Monday. So if you haven’t already, you really do need to send your check in this coming Monday. It should be made out to St. Henry School. The books are $10.50 a piece. The Yearbook Committee of a couple of teachers and some older students have been working very hard to make it special again. (THANKS for all your work, Committee!)
SERVICE HOURS (or money in lieu of) are due exactly a month from today. As your contract spells out, if you have been unable to give these hours to the parish and/or school, then you owe $10 per unserved hour – a total of $150 if none were able to be accomplished. Either the slip or the money or a combination thereof is due into school on or before Monday, April 16th. On the plus side, you can begin earning service hours for the school year 2007-2008 on that same day.
If there is anyone with an athletic uniform (or a part of one) still out there, PLEASE, it really needs to come back to school on Monday, clean as a whistle with identification. Today, the registration materials for NEXT year’s sports season are coming home in the third through seventh grade packets. It would be so helpful if you could get at them in the next week or so. You probably recall in last week’s packet that it was mentioned that the Board is in need of some new members. Our program is completely dependent on volunteers. Need I say more? Also, those of you who ordered team pictures, you will find them in today’s envelopes. Many, many thanks to the board members who have been working so hard on the registration and pictures projects.
Teachers have asked me to mention that a number of children have been consistently tardy. Not a good thing. Please, parents, is there a way to adjust schedules slightly so that the “consistently” word becomes a thing of the past? Obviously, it is not good for a child to get into that habit, and it is truly disconcerting for teachers to have to repeat and repeat those important early morning instructions and procedures. Actually, it is a little unfair for the whole class to get interrupted by latecomers and have unnecessary valuable academic time lost day after day because of them. Three to five minutes in one day doesn’t seem like much but multiply that by 180 – now we’re talking about some serious loss!
“MUSIC IN OUR SCHOOLS MONTH” CONTINUES
Draw a treble clef sign.
How many lines are in a staff?
These are examples of our “Music in our Schools Month” trivia
questions. For all of March, students
have a chance to win prizes and celebrate music in school and life. Since the younger students in kindergarten
through second grade are working on reading music, they can answer most of
these challenging questions.
Recorder Karate allowed many students to be very successful with
the recorder in grades three through five.
Ask your child what color belts they have earned already!
Students in grades six through eight are excited to be
drumming! They are finishing up the
first unit by playing Ensemble One. We
have three drum parts plus a cowbell and a shekere
part all going at once! Fifth grade has
just started the first unit and is discussing the circle of respect and how to
play the instruments.
As April is “Jazz Appreciation Month,” all classes will be
changing gears soon to study this American music style. After that, we’ll be preparing American folk
music for our spring show!
Mrs. Oestreicher
THIRD GRADE NEWS
“Mountain Climbers, Downhill Daredevils, Lumpy Letters, Backward Balloons”-
just ask a third grader what cursive letters they have learned and practiced!
Congratulations to Megan Bacchi, Brett
Caine, John Hertel and Grace O’Connor. These four students have completed the
key boarding program at St. Henry’s. Who
will be next?
The third graders are learning how important memorization of their
math facts is. Knowing their addition
and subtraction facts will make multiplication a lot easier.
In Spanish we are labeling maps using Spanish vocabulary. Some Spanish words are spelled like our
English words. Some are very
different. It is a challenge!
We all had a wonderful experience at the Maranatha Youth Concert
at Calvary Baptist Church Thursday. We
are looking forward to the Wisconsin Chamber Youth Concert in Madison coming up
in May.
Our penny war is in full swing every day. The children certainly look forward to this
fun time each morning. The purpose –
giving to others who have much less than we have -- is, nonetheless, always
evident.
Mrs. Zache
Dates to Put on Your Calendar
MARCH
Sunday 18 First
Communion Parents mtg. in cafeteria at
Tuesday 20 Special
presentation by musicians from Wisconsin
Chamber Orchestra at
Wednesday 21 Children
from grade four fill liturgical roles during
8:15 am Mass; older choir members assist
as cantor leaders
School spelling bee assembly, PC, approx.
visitors welcome!
Friday 23 Penny
War ends.
Second set of AR points for
the third quarter due.
Saturday 24 Dr.
Paul Gasser “Love and Logic” presentation at
WTTN High school,
School Children’s Cantor Choir sings at
Sunday 25 After
the
Wednesday 28 Children
from grade two fill liturgical roles during 8:15 am Mass
Field trip day for BAND
students
Friday 30 Assistant
Superintendent of Diocesan Schools,
Mrs. Monica Bischoff, visiting St. Henry
Some members of parish youth
visiting St. Benedict the
Moor Center in Milwaukee (Apostolate to
the Homeless)
APRIL
Monday 02 Spring
Break begins. Students return to school
on Tuesday, April 10th.
Last day to make reservation for St. Henry
School Families
Fun Weekend in the Dells at Treasure
Island Waterpark and
Resort for May 18 and 19th. Call 1-800-800-4997.
Pick “Reservations.” Share “lead off number” 468507.
Tuesday 10 Education
Commission mtg., rectory hall,
Wednesday 11 Play
Group meets, PC,
Athletic Assn. mtg., computer
lab,
Monday 16 SERVICE
HOURS slips for 2006-07 due in office
and/or money owed for unserved hours. (See school contracts.)
Home and School Association mtg., rectory
hall,
Wednesday 18 NO
SCHOOL! Only St. Henry off so faculty
can attend
a seminar on 6-Trait Writing.
Memory
verse for March 19-March 23 from Eucharistic Prayer II
“It (Jesus’ blood) will be shed for you and for all
so that sins may be forgiven.
Do this in memory of me.”