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St. Henry School Newsletter
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“The Lord is faithful; he will strengthen you and guard
you from the evil one.”
2 Thessalonians 3: 3
The Visiting Team experience went very well
last Thursday and Friday. They LOVED your
kids --thought they were warm, funny, friendly, and very open. (We like them too!) Many thanks to the Home and School
Association – you parents – for providing them with lodging and supper, and to
the Education Commission for providing some tasty departure meeting
snacks. The Team also expressed how much
they enjoyed all the interviews with many of you parents who met with them as
part of school and/or parish committees and also in the casual conversations
they had with many of you throughout the day.
Their final report will be mailed to Fr. Brian, myself, the diocese, and
accrediting agency in a matter of weeks.
I will certainly be sharing it with the entire faculty and the Education
Commission, but it will be available in the office for anyone to look over as
well. It will be at least part of the basis for our ongoing improvement plans
over the next five or so years. (It
never stops!)
The Student Council St. Vincent DePaul Drive
will end next Friday, the 16th. Could we
encourage you to share with your children how important it is that we follow
the Lord’s command “To Feed the Hungry?”
Perhaps they could do an extra chore around the house to earn some money
to buy a nonperishable food or useful paper item or items this weekend. Good
for their souls!
Your assigned Parent-Teacher conference days
and times should be coming home in today’s envelope. Please check that we
didn’t “goof up” or something has changed since you sent back the slip giving
us your preferences. If all is well,
please keep the sheet as a reminder but send home the very bottom of the slip
so we know you have the information. We
will see you THIS coming Thursday or a week from this coming Monday, the week
of Thanksgiving!
Looking for Service Hours? Do we have a deal for you! One of our volunteers who has helped us
faithfully for more years than most of us can remember, Mrs. Gloria Higgins, is
looking for helpers for the annual parish Holly Berry Fair. You probably read about it in the
bulletin. She could use help in two-hour
shifts from Saturday, November 17 from
Good news.
The Hot Lunch manager, Mrs. Mary Jo Olejniczak,
reports that, “One of the two yearly inspections of the hot lunch program was
just completed. We are happy to report
we received an A+ rating.” Seeing how
sparkling clean they keep the kitchen and cafeteria, I, for one, am not
surprised at all. But “CONGRATULATIONS,”
nonetheless!
A special treat for you adults who would like
to enjoy some of the origami experiences your children are having. Mrs. Nimiya –
Misako Sensei –is offering two Tuesday night classes here at school from
HOLA! COMO ESTAS?
Would you know
how to respond to this greeting in Spanish?
Most students at St. Henry do, and the sixth graders are putting this
knowledge to use. In addition to using
the DVD program in Spanish, sixth graders are writing and performing dialogues
using the vocabulary they’ve learned. In
some cases, they take their performances to a level that I wouldn’t have
expected: they have background stories
to go along with their dialogues! How
wonderful to have such creative students.
In reading. The
class has finished Summer of the Swans and has moved on to Where
the Red Fern Grows, a classic that is still a favorite of many of
the adults who read it long ago. They
are exploring the themes of working hard for something that is meaningful to
you, taking care of people and pets who depend on you, and will cover several
other thought provoking topics before they’ve finished with the book…but I
don’t want to give any surprises away, so I won’t be sharing the topics of
those future discussions with the sixth graders just yet.
God bless!
Miss Boettcher
The preschoolers
have been concentrating on our new letters of the month which are Bb, Hh, and Mm. With
our new letters also come the little worksheets, letter books and cutout
letters. Sometimes as an adult (well
most of the time) I feel that I am repeating myself with these activities. We also have been working on social and
listening skills with the help of our kindergarten friends and the “Center
System”. We start by joining the
kindergarteners and splitting up into small groups. Mrs. Lapp and I choose six or seven different
activities that concentrate on different skills (ie.
Number order, art blocks, sand, little people, letter page). By using the Center System children have been
learning the fine art of following directions as well as interacting with other
youngsters. Both of us feel the use of
the Center System has been very successful.
I look forward to seeing you at conferences.
Mrs. Kemp
This year’s
Christmas store will be held on Friday. Dec. 7th for St. Henry
school children only and on the 8th and 9th after all
Masses for any parishioners who wish to shop.
There is still time for kids to earn extra money to shop for family and
friends. The store is run as a “non-profit”enterprise,
which means the things we get from the KidSmart
company are sold to the children at our cost for them. We are always looking
for donated items – handmade or otherwise, to sell at the store as well. If you have something to donate to the store
please get it to school no later than Friday, Nov. 30th.
Thank you, Mrs. VanDuser
Dates to
Mark on Your Calendar
NOVEMBER
Sunday 11 Second
grade parents’ First Reconciliation meeting, 9:30 am, cafeteria
Monday 12 Home
and School Association meeting,
Tuesday 13 St.
HENRY Clothes Day in honor of St. Henry whose
feast day is July 13!
Education Commission meeting,
Origami Class for adults with
Mrs. Misako Nimiya,
Wednesday 14 Fifth
grade fills liturgical roles at
Thursday 15 Grade
3, 4, and 5 to Jefferson for play
Protecting God’s Children Virtus training,
Parent-Teacher Conferences –late afternoon
and early evening
Friday 16 Student
Council “Wear Blaze Orange/Camouflage Day”
Last day of food drive for St.
Vincent dePaul
Sat-Sun 17-18 Parish
Holly Berry Fair after the weekend Masses
Sunday 18 School
Children’s Cantor Choir leads singing at 8:30 am Mass
Monday 19 Parent-Teacher
Conferences – late afternoon and early evening
Tuesday 20
until Monday, the 26th.
Tuesday 27 Origami
Class for adults with Mrs. Misako Nimiya,
DECEMBER
Friday 07 Home
and School Christmas Store for Students’
Shopping (optional, of course)
Thursday 13 MUSIC
program,
Friday 21
JANUARY
Thursday 03 School
resumes.
Memory verse for week of November 12-16
“Let the sea and what fills it resound, the
world and those who dwell in it.
Let the rivers clap
their hands; the mountains shout with them for joy!”
Psalm 98: 7-8