4th & 5th Grade Fall Music Program in Parish Center
4th Grade 6:30pm
5th Grade 7:30pm
Oct 30 Halloween Parade/Parties - PreK–4th Grades
5th thru 8th Grades Orange & Black Dress Day
Nov 1 Daylight Savings - Fall Back 1 Hour
Nov 2 New St. Pat’s Apparel orders must be in to the office
Nov 6TASTE - St. Patrick’s Parish Evening of a Food and Wine Experience
Nov 122pm Dismissal – Teacher In-Service
Nov 20 3rd-8th Grade Progress Reports Go Home
Nov 24 SCRIP Dress Down Day if goal is met (Details below)
Nov 25No School – Teacher In-Service
Nov 26-27 No School – Thanksgiving Break
Dec 5 1st Reconciliation (2 sessions) 10:00am and 11:30am
CLASSROOM HALLOWEEN PARTIES & PARADE – On Friday, October 30th, Kindergarten – 4th grades will be allowed to dress in costume and celebrate Halloween with parties hosted by room parents. Halloween gatherings will run from 2:00- 2:35 pm. The kindergarten – 4th grade costume parade follows at 2:40pm. We pray for nice weather so they may go outside with the procession. The route will begin with the PreK – 4th Grade students and their staff exiting through the kindergarten doors, staying on the sidewalk, walking around the church and back into the front doors of the school. Please feel free to join us, standing on the outskirts of the campus sidewalk. It is a great time to snap your photos of all our children in costume. If you do choose to come for the parade, we ask that you please park in your assigned pick-up lot and we will still have a normal dismissal. All students in Pre K - 4th, may come to school in their costumes. No make-up, colored hairspray, guns, swords, knives or any type of weapon props are allowed. Grades 5th – 8th students and staff are allowed to come to school for “ORANGE & BLACK” Dress Down Day! NOTE: Pre S classes will celebrate Halloween on October 29th.
PARISHIONER TUITION RATE DEPENDS ON YOUR STEWARDSHIP - A quick reminder to all St. Patrick’s Parish families to complete your BLUE parish intention card for the “2009 STEWARDSHIP APPEAL”. You will receive them in the mail this weekend. It is important to take time to prayerfully consider how we will use the gifts God has entrusted us within the coming year. This is very important in maintaining your participation as a parishioner and maintaining your child’s “parishioner rate” for tuition in the school. If you did not receive a form, copies are available in the back of the church or on the webpage.
UNIFORM CLARIFICATION – There have been questions about the approved uniform policy. Other than acceptable tennis shoes, students may wear black or brown dress shoes. Many students are wearing moccasin-style shoes which fall under unapproved soft-sole slipper type shoes. These are particularly unsafe in PE class when the students should be in tennis shoes. Please review this policy with your child. Below is what is stated in the Family Handbook.
Shoes: Students must wear tennis shoes on days physical education is taught. All shoes must be neat, clean, and without holes. Shoes must be predominantly one color and may have a modest, conservative accent. No fringe, lights, wheels, polka dots, plaid, patterns or abstract designs on the shoes will be allowed. No neon colors are allowed. Students may wear black or brown dress shoes with rubber soles and low heeled (1 inch or less). Shoes with eyelets must have laces and be tied. All shoes must enclose the entire foot and have a closed-in heel. No clogs, sandals, crocs, mules, soft-soled (ballet-type) slippers, etc. Boots are NOT allowed to be worn during the school day. This includes snow or fashion boots of any type, such as, UGHs or high heeled leather.
ST. PATRICK’S WALKING CLUB - Starting Monday, November 9th , we are beginning a morning walking club at St. Patrick’s. This is open to anyone who would like to get out and walk to exercise in the morning before school. For those who participate in the afternoon walking club, the morning walking club is just an extension of that. The rules will be the same, along with the paths of walking. Here is some further information.
The students will need to arrive between 7:05 - 7:15am. At 7:15, we will begin walking. Anyone that arrives after 7:15, may not join the group. You must be here before we begin walking.
When the students arrive at school they need to enter thru the gym entrance doors where P.E. takes place. There, they will be able to drop their coats and backpacks off.
Our school goal is to walk the miles from Elkhorn St. Patrick’s to St. Mary’s in Uganda before the school year is over. The more students the better!
When the walking is over at 7:45 the students will pack up their belongings and head outside or to their classes for the morning line-up.
Many studies have proven that exercise before school helps a student stay more focused during the day and also lessens discipline issues. I think this is a great opportunity for our school and students. Not only is this good exercise in the morning but also a way to make new friends. Hope to see you November 9th .- Mr. McKenzie
BOOK FAIR NEWS - Our fall Book Fair, “Destination Book Fair, Read Around the World”, was a complete success! Our fair did $11,272.71 in sales! Scholastic generously gives us 30% in cash of this sales total. This cash will be used to purchase many new books and items for our library! THANK YOU for you support of our library and our school.
Did you know that our book fair had over 50 volunteers (plus our student helpers!!!) spending over 150 hours to make this fundraiser a success!!!?? It is because of each of you going above and beyond that book fair gets roughly $3300 in FREE MONEY just for selling Scholastic books! As always… this event was a “smash” because of YOU! THANK YOU! See you in the spring!!!
COLD WEATHER WEAR - Please remember with the falling temperatures, to send your children to school everyday with a coat, gloves/mittens and hats/scarves. They do go outside into the fresh air for P.E. class and/or recess.
RECYCLING PROGRAM - St. Patrick’s is excited to share with you our new way to recycle.
The 7th grade students are taking on the job of collecting the recyclables weekly as their stewardship project. On Wednesday afternoons, all classrooms and offices have their recycle boxes in the hallway by 2:30pm, and a student drops by to pick it up. The rest is done through the 7th Grade team and the recycling company! Thanks & GO GREEN!
USED UNIFORMS AVAILABLE - If you missed the Used Uniform Sale on October 25th, you still can inquire about used uniforms throughout the school year by contacting Suzanne Kahnk at kahnkas@cox.net or Nancy Meduna at meduna@cox.net. Donations can be made throughout the year by dropping off the items in the Used Uniform tub in the school front entrance. The next Used Uniform Sale will be in conjunction with the next Book Fair later in the school year.
EVERY SEARCH CAN COUNT FOR ST. PATRICK’S - What if St. Patrick’s School earned a donation every time you searched the Internet? Or how about if a percentage of every purchase you made online went to support our school? Well, now it can just as we approach the Christmas shopping season! GoodSearch.com is a new Yahoo-powered search engine that donates half its advertising revenue, about a penny per search, to the charities its users designate. Use it just as you would any search engine, get quality search results from Yahoo, and watch the donations add up! GoodShop.com is a new online shopping mall which donates up to 30 percent of each purchase to your favorite cause! Hundreds of great stores including Amazon, Target, Gap, Best Buy, ebay, Macy's and Barnes & Noble have teamed up with GoodShop and every time you place an order, you'll be supporting your favorite cause. And if you download the GoodSearch – St. Patrick’s School toolbar, our school will earn money every time you shop and search online - even if you forget to go to GoodShop or GoodSearch first! Add the St. Patrick’s School toolbar at http://www.goodsearch.com/toolbar.
SPOOKY SCRIP -promotion begins today and runs through November 9th. All orders placed by the 9th will be returned by November 13th. If we reach our sales goal of $20,000, the kids will earn a “Howling Treat” of a dress down day for November 24th – the day before Thanksgiving Vacation! All profits will help us buy new laptops for the portable computer lab. Questions – contact Deb Gustafson at 491-3820 or debragustafson@hotmail.com.ALSO - Thank you to everyone that came out for Arby’s Family Food Night last week. We earned $400! Thank you to Panda, Inc. for supporting St. Patrick’s!
PLEASE SAVE AND SEND IN YOUR HY VEE RECEIPTS – Please continue to save and turn in to the school office, ALL of your HyVee receipts.
MIDDLE SCHOOL MUSIC MINISTRY - We are beginning a music ministry for middle school students (grades 6-8). We will be singing at the 12:30pm Mass on the second Sunday of every month beginning November 8th. The only rehearsal requirement is to come to the Boland Hall family room by noon on the day we’re singing. If you forward an email address, we can give you the music in advance. The schedule of music can also be seen under the liturgy/music tab at www.stpatselkhorn.org. Those interested in the ministry of cantor (singing the responsorial psalm from the ambo) should contact Mr. Willis as soon as possible. His phone is 289-4289 ext. 1524 or you can email him at mwillis@stpatselkhorn.org. Let’s make this happen!
HOW YOU CAN HELP TO SEE THAT THE LUNCHROOM HAS A COLD SALAD BAR OFFERED DAILY? - For $5.00 you will receive a booklet with $10.00 coupon and several other valuable coupons! St. Pat’s gets to keep the entire $5.00! Proceeds from this sale will go towards the purchase of a COLD SALAD BAR for our students! Younkers Community Day is Saturday, November 14!
WINTER BASKETBALL - Registration is now open for the 2010 Winter Basketball Session for parish youth grades K-4. The grades will be separated as the following: Kindergarten, 1st/2nd grade boys, 1st/2nd grade girls, 3rd/4th grade boys, 3rd/4th grade girls. The season runs January 9th - February 27th.
REGISTER TODAY…..LIMITED SEATING St. Patrick’s Taste!
Join the Friday Night Variety Show!
Friday, November 6th at 7:30 at the Elkhorn Ridge.
There’s food and drink for everyone with 10 wonderful wine choices from E & J Gallo Winery paired with the perfect food. For example:
• Vibrant Don Miguel Gascon Malbec (Argentina) wine with pasta from Bella Vita
• Big and Bold Frei Brothers Zinfandel (Calif) with BBQ from Boyd & Charlie’s
If wine is not your thing, enjoy beer from Schilling Bridge Winery and Microbrew and Rustic Pizza.
Download the Registration Form and send it in to school. REGISTRATION ENDS OCTOBER 29TH – Log on to www.stpatselkhorn.org/development/ OR Call: 289-4289 (x1526) Cost: only $35/person.
PLEASE volunteer for the evening of TASTE. Servers are needed from 5:30-9:30. It is a lot of fun, a great way to socialize, and a way to help the church and school. Contact Debbie Otwell today at otwells@cox.net or 614-4032.
Principal's Notes Deadline:
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