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St. Henry
School Newsletter
“While
they were there, the time came for her to have her child,
and she gave birth to her
firstborn son.” Luke 2: 6
A
request. We need to inventory all
our parent education library materials which include the Love and Logic videos,
audiotapes, DVD’s, CD’s, and books.
Please, please check to see if you have any and return them please. You can check them out again in January.
Speaking of Love and Logic,
I put an all call out for possible resources for parents who would like advice
on how to help their children with the inevitable friendship problems that can
be a painful part of childhood. The new
assistant superintendent of schools, Mrs. Monica Bischoff, wrote to a special
friend of hers who is a public school counselor in Janesville with my request.
Mrs. Bischoff wrote back, “She recommends Discipline
with Love and Logic by Foster Cline and Jim Fay. (I personally used
this as a teacher and administrator and it is wonderful!) Santo (another
consultant) also mentioned this program during his presentation to us on
Friday (during an all principals meeting in Madison).” Those of you who have been around awhile know we have been
advocates of Love and Logic since the late 1980’s when it was first
becoming known. We have an extensive library of their materials and
periodically offer the course, “Becoming a Love and Logic Parent!” Later in her email Mrs. Bischoff writes about
the Committee for Children (committeeforchildren.com) which is a great
resource for child advocates. One of the programs they especially like is
“Steps to Respect” for counteracting bullying. That’s a program that has been a part of our
curriculum in grades 3, 4, and 5 for a number of years now! So we felt supported in our decisions to get
these top quality materials for our children, their parents, and their
teachers.
I realized that although this was published in the Watertown Daily Times a few weeks ago we had never shared the first quarter honor roll list in the newsletter itself. So, here it is and again, CONGRATULATIONS to these students. Well done!
The honor roll students with a
grade point average of 3.3 to just under 3.8
Grade
Four: Noah Cole, Janelle Hamilton, Brian Hogan,
and Leah Uecker.
Grade Five: Jessica Mallow.
Grade Six: Anthony Bacchi, Alexis Gaster, and Gerald
Tracy.
Grade
Seven: Kara Denault,
Kasey Garity, Francis Hertel, Jacob Jurgella, Jared Keller, Clint Rose, and Alicia Strupp. Grade Eight: Jarrett Beal, Alexander Beltz, David Olguin, and Natalie Sims.
The high honor roll students with a
grade point average of 3.8 to 4.0
Grade Six: Juliena Herritz, Isabel Kemp, Patricia Ready, Patrick Roche, and
J.T. Tesensky.
Grade Seven: Devin Herritz. Grade
Eight: Emily Ceithamer, Megan Feilbach,
Megan McPherson, Catherine O’Connor, Andrew Ready, and Taylor Wagner.
Good news indeed from Mrs. Lynn
Miller, the HASA
Kraemer Fundraiser Chair:
“Thank you to all who participated in our fundraiser. We raised $1, 224. Rich, Mike, and Dan from Kraemers also donated an additional $100 for a grand profit total of $1324! This money will be used for help in purchasing the drumming curriculum Mrs. Oestreicher is excited about. We also want to thank the moms who volunteered their time to help sort and hand out orders: Kathy Thomas, Kelly Beltz, Sue Mehltretter, Katie Schroeder, and Ann Jahnke.”
GINGERBREAD HOUSES GALORE
We have been focusing on the Advent season. The children know that this is a time of waiting. Each day we gather around our Advent wreath to pray. We are currently lighting two candles during our prayer because it is the second week of Advent. The children gaze into the burning candles as a reminder to them that “Jesus is the light of the World.” We have discussed the shape of the wreath and realized that it has no ending, just like God’s love for us will never end. The children made their own wreaths to take home. What a great job they did! They will be able to decorate them and add paper candles. Don’t forget to add another flame next week, parents.
A special thank you to our seventh grade study buddies for helping us make the gingerbread houses. We had so much fun, and they turned out adorable. Also, thank you to everyone who donated items for them.
What a great job all the children did at the Christmas program! They did work hard to sing their hearts out and make Christmas extra special for us.
Happy Advent.
Mrs. Lapp
SEVENTH GRADERS ARE ON THE
MOVE
“On the road again” seems to be the theme song of the seventh grade class.
Last Tuesday the group headed to the Overture Center in Madison to see the timeless classic A Christmas Carol performed. We are also reading this Charles Dickens’ classic and through it the seventh grade class has entered the world of Victorian England and is visiting the life of Ebenezer Scrooge. Students are traveling a journey circle to the past, back to the present, and then into the future to experience Scrooge’s life. Of course it happens all in one night for Scrooge, but our literary journey will take the class through Christmas. Good deed chains are being created in contrast to the one Marley wrought with how he spent his time on earth. Students will also share with me in writing if they want to experience the same opportunities offered to Scrooge and what they feel their future will be like.
The seventh grade also traveled to the Bethlehem Marketplace this week to experience something of what it was like there when Jesus was born. Next week we will walk down to the Towne Theater to view the new movie “The Nativity” as a class. A trip to church on Thursday morning (the 21st) will round out our traveling when we present a Jesse Tree program to the students of St. Henry. Have a wonderful Christmas.
Mrs. Smedema
Dates
to Put on Your Calendar
DECEMBER
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
Grade
8 fills liturgical roles at 8:15 am Mass
Play
group in PC,
Athletic
Assn. mtg., computer lab,
Friday 05 Geography Bee, grades 4-8 in PC,
Athletic Assn. Parents’ Night
Monday 08 Home and School Association mtg.,
Tuesday 09 No
basketball practices – Net Retreat late afternoon and evening for high
schoolers
(Education
Commission also rescheduled for next week.)
Friday 12 Student Council Crazy Day
No
basketball practices – Net Retreat for Grades 6-8,
Tuesday 16 Rescheduled
Education Commission mtg.,
Friday 19 Second set of Accelerated Reader points should be earned
by now (Grades 4-8)
Market
Day
Thursday 25 St. Henry/St. Bernard Winter Band Concert at St.
Bernard’s,
Friday 26 NO SCHOOL
Sunday 28 Catholic Schools Week officially begins!
Memory
verse for December 18-22 Luke 2:7 (from Midnight Mass Gospel)
“She wrapped him in swaddling clothes and
laid him in a manger because there was no room for them in the inn.”