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St. Henry School Newsletter
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“We must obey God
rather than men.
The God of our ancestors raised
Jesus,
though you had him killed by
hanging him on a tree.”
Acts of the Apostles 5:29-30
Drum roll and trumpets, please.
The third quarter honor roll students with a grade point average of
3.2 to just under 3.8 are as follows:
Grade Four Noah Cole, Janelle
Hamilton, Brian Hogan, Emily Lemminger, and Jeffrey
Schultz
Grade Five Sara Hogan, Jessica
Mallow, and Kristin Miller
Grade Six Anthony Bacchi, John Brebeck, Alexis Gaster, Megan Heiden, and John
Wagner
Grade Seven Kara Denault, Francis Hertel, Jesse Hinchcliffe, Jared Keller,
Clint Rose, and Alicia
Strupp
Grade Eight Jarrett Beal,
Alexander Beltz, Emily Ceithamer,
Melanie Heese, Timothy Miller, David
Olguin, Nathan Opps, Natalie Sims, and Justin Zimmerman
The high honor roll students with a grade point average of 3.8 to
4.0 are as follows:
Grade Four Jacob Turner
Grade Six Juliena
Herritz, Isabel Kemp, Patricia Ready, Patrick Roche,
John Tesensky, and
Jerry Tracy
Grade Seven Kasey Garity, Devin Herritz, and Jacob Jurgella
Grade Eight Megan Feilbach,
Megan McPherson, Catherine O’Connor, Andrew Ready, and Taylor
Wagner
Congratulations, all. Such hard work went into your success. You must feel good about your efforts.
Lest I forget, if you
are a parent who has not had a St. Henry student involved in athletics before
and you do have one signed up for next year, do we have a (mandatory) meeting
for you! It will cover all sports: volleyball, basketball, and
cheerleading. It will be at
A word or two from the chairperson of the HASA Luau:
I just wanted to
say thank you to all who helped at the Sock Hop last Friday. (Over 90
children came accompanied by moms and dads.) Everyone was so helpful and
everything ran so smoothly, thanks to some wonderful people. The kids all seemed to have a great
time. Thank you also to the people who
helped set up and clean up. Also thank
you to Connie Weissenreider for getting all the door
prizes.
Sincerely,
Brenda Linskens
AND just as sincere a thank you to you, Brenda!
Our school
children’s cantor choir will be leading the congregation’s singing at
STUDENTS READ, TRAVEL AND STUDY
Sixth graders recently began reading a new trade book: Catherine, Called Birdy. It is the fictional journal of Catherine, a
young Englishwoman living in the year 1290.
The students are enjoying reading about Catherine’s adventures and
making comparisons between her life and theirs.
In many ways, she is much like many young people today. She has
arguments with family members and tries to get out of the chores she
hates. Of course, there are many
differences, as well. It’s unlikely that
many of our students would consider working as the “pig boy” or try to think of
ways to disguise themselves in order to work copying books in a monastery. Reading about the time period they’ve been
working on in social studies is helping the sixth graders to better understand
what some of our ancestors went through.
Today the sixth grade traveled to Cave of the Mounds to learn more
about the earth science they’ve studied.
Next Tuesday they will be spending time at the Milwaukee Public
Museum. They’ll also have the
opportunity to watch a movie in the Humphrey IMAX Theater about ancient Egypt,
another topic they’ve studied this year.
Next week they will have a visitor from MATC here in Watertown, as a
part of the Commerce & Education Partnership’s Adopt-a-Classroom program
that several area business participate in each year by partnering with sixth
grade classes around the city. Spring is
certainly busy!
Miss Boettcher
PRESCHOOLERS APPRECIATE SPRING
Happy spring! The
preschoolers are learning about seeds and planting, buds and blooms, and all
the basics of growing God’s beautiful flowers.
Be sure to ask them about the digging area in our classroom and watch
out for the dirt under their little fingernails!
Our class has been spending a portion of the morning up in the kindergarten
room for what we call “stations.”
Basically it is organized playtime.
Mrs. Lapp and I create five areas and five groups of kids. The groups are chosen with the intent of
encouraging the children to get better acquainted with others with whom they
may not regularly associate. They get to
spend about ten minutes in each area.
Most of the children are really enjoying the different activities and
unique groups.
The used book fair is coming up on Wednesday, April 25th in the
rectory basement. For every book that
your child donates they can choose a “new to them” book at the fair. If you do not bring in any books the price is
25 cents per book. What a deal!
Learning is to the soul what light is to the lens. Continue to have a wonderful, warm and
productive spring.
Mrs. Kemp
Dates to Put on Your Calendar
APRIL
Sunday 22 School
children’s cantor choir leading community
singing at 10:30 am Mass
Monday 23 Mandatory
Parent mtg. for parents of athletes who
are new to the program for 07-08,
PC,
Tuesday 24 Grades
6 & 8 share bus to field trips in Milwaukee.
Wednesday 25 Grade
five fills many liturgical roles for
USED BOOK FAIR
Visit to sixth grade class
from Business in Education
representative from MATC
Thursday 26 Fifth
and sixth grade parents’ turn to clean up
playground after school. (HASA activity)
Friday 27 Student
Council Stripes Day
a few members of Madison Chamber Orchestra
Sunday 29 Athletic
Association Banquet, PC,
MAY
Wednesday 02 Grade
three fills many liturgical roles for
Grades 1-8 to Madison for
Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra
Performance, approx.
Play Group meets
Friday 04 First
set of AR points due for the fourth quarter
First Communion Retreat
Sunday 06 First
Communion at the
Tuesday 08 Education
Commission mtg.
Wednesday 09 Athletic
Association mtg.,
Memory
verse for April 23 – April 27 John
10: 27-28
“My sheep hear my voice. I know them, and they follow
me.
I give them eternal life, and they shall never
perish.”