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St. Henry
School Newsletter
“Joseph too went up from Galilee from the
town of Nazareth
to Judea to the city of
David that is called Bethlehem . . .” Luke
2: 4
One is getting the definite impression that Christmas is coming. As I walk around classrooms and through the halls, I see and hear projects that are related to both Advent and Christmas. A big thank you to Mrs. Kemp, the art teacher, and to so many of the other teachers for sharing some of their projects – holiday and otherwise -- with the rest of us by displaying them in the cafeteria and the hallways. It’s a joy to see the results of the youngsters’ efforts in a wide variety of subjects.
The
music program is this coming Thursday evening, the 14th. All children are expected to attend, of
course, and participation by the children in K through grade 8 certainly
impacts their second quarter music grade.
More importantly, it helps all get into the spirit of Christmas, and
it’s a real gift to moms and dads and grandparents and siblings. And it’s a tradition! We ask that children come dressed nicely –
Christmas clothes and/or colors would be great but definitely no jeans
and tee shirts please. Parents,
if you would keep your children supervised until
There is a gathering after the program in the cafeteria for those who would like to stay. The Home and School Association decided that Christmas cookies and/or bars (finger food) should always be brought by the families with children in the odd grades: P, 1, 3, 5, and 7. (For the spring program, we’ll ask families with children in the even grades to share.) That way, the families get to take turns from year to year in bringing their homemade goodies. How much to bring? Why don’t you guesstimate how much the members of your family that will be there would eat and multiply that by two? That should get us pretty close. Please see that your cookies or bars are brought to the kindergarten room on Wednesday, the 13th. Thursday afternoon is the set up for the treats in the cafeteria so we really appreciate having them the day before. IF you are bringing them in a container that you would like back, please be sure to put your name somewhere. Masking tape with your name on the bottom works.
Thank you!
A big thank you to St. Nick,
his helpers and the generosity of the Home and School for his
visit and gifts on his feastday this past Wednesday,
the 6th. Speaking of HASA,
did you see the pictures on the website of their wonderful float in the
Watertown Christmas parade on November 25th? There were also a number of pictures of a
variety of Student Council activities added recently.
That site again is www.sainthenryparish.org . Enjoy!
GRADE EIGHT ENJOYS GUEST SPEAKER
The eighth grade class welcomed a
guest speaker, Andrew Russell, from the Diocese of Madison’s Catholic
Multicultural Center right before Thanksgiving break. He spoke to us about how the center works and
what it takes to operate it. Mr.
Russell’s presentation allowed us to find out more information about their food
pantry and the meals they serve to people in the area. We are going to visit and help serve the
people that come to this center sometime after Christmas. This opportunity goes well with our service-learning
projects this year.
The seventh and eighth grade
English classes have been learning the seven traits of writing and the
different writing aspects that go along with these traits. We are reading picture books to see examples
of how word choice and ideas are utilized.
Both classes will be putting together a portfolio that includes writing
samples that coincide with the traits.
The eighth grade reading class is
almost finished with The Giver. The book
provides many great discussion questions and how we can relate the community in
the book to the community of which we are a part. For example, no one in the community, except
for two people, can see in color. We discussed
and debated about how you describe colors to someone who has never seen them or
how you
teach the colors to young
children. I am very excited to see how
the students react to the ending of the book.
Have a happy and healthy Advent
season!
Mrs. Harms
STUDENTS HAVE A VISITOR IN GRADE ONE.
Were the Little Red Hen’s friends
lazy or were they trying to teach her to do things for herself? Recently we read different versions of The
Little Red Hen and found that most versions show the other animals as lazy. One fun version has the Little Red Hen as a
lazy hen, and her friends are sick of doing all her work. They won’t help her so she has to learn to do
things by herself. At the end of our
experience, we ate wheat bread just like the Little Red Hen!
In math we are beginning to work
with subtraction – always a challenge.
Knowing their math facts well will really help. Moms and Dads, please continue fun reviews
with the students every day, including over vacation.
The past week we also had a
surprise visit from St. Nicholas. He
brought us goody bags and told us about himself. The “original” St. Nicholas was a bishop who
lived in the 300’s in present day Turkey who was known for his legendary
generosity to the poor. He reminded us
to be kind and helpful too.
Mrs. Fortlage
Dates
to Put on Your Calendar
DECEMBER
Friday
Market Day
Saturday 09 Children’s
Cantor Choir sings at
Monday 11 NO HASA mtg. this month.
Tuesday! 12 Grade 5 fills liturgical roles at 8:15
am Mass – Our Lady of Guadalupe
Education
Commission mtg.,
Wednesday 13 Grades
1-8 leaving for Bethlehem Marketplace at
Thursday 14 School Christmas Program,
Friday 15 Home and School sponsored Christmas Store
First
set of Accelerated Reader points due for second quarter (grades 4-8)
Saturday 16 First
Reconciliation for Grade 2 at
Monday 18 Grades 1-4 to St. Bernard’s for their Christmas program
which starts at
Tuesday 19 Grades
5-8 to Nativity movie in the afternoon
Wednesday 20 Grade
3 fills liturgical roles at 8:15 am Mass
Thursday 21 Seventh grade presentation of Jesse Tree to grades 1-8 in
church at
Friday 22 Amazing Al (magician with a message) for Preschool – Grade
3 in PC at
Mid-quarter reports go home
Both parishes grades 6-12 youth go caroling
at Marquardt Manor,
JANUARY
Wednesday 03 School
resumes
Play
group in PC,
Friday 05 Geography Bee, grades 4-8 in PC,
Athletic Assn. Parents’ Night
Thursday 25 St. Henry/St. Bernard Winter Band Concert at St.
Bernard’s,
Friday 26 NO SCHOOL
Memory verse for December 11-15 Luke 2:6 (from
“While they were there, the time came for
her to have her child, and she gave birth to her firstborn son.”