OUR LADY of the SACRED HEART SCHOOL
PRINCIPAL'S BULLETIN for NOVEMBER 19 and NOVEMBER 26, 2004
Saturday,
November 20 9 a.m.-12 noon--Ursuline Academy
Entrance Exam
9
a.m.-12:15 p.m.--Mt. Notre Dame Entrance Exam
Monday, November 22 Fall Picture retakes
Tuesday, November 23 8:15 a.m.-10:45
a.m.--Grandparents/Special Persons Day
2:30 p.m.-3:30 p.m.--Half Notes and Upper Notes choir practice
Wednesday, November 24 NO SCHOOL
Thursday, November 25 THANKSGIVING DAY--NO SCHOOL
Friday, November 26 NO
SCHOOL
Monday, November 29 School Resumes
Tuesday, November 30 2:30 p.m.-3:30 p.m.--Half Notes
choir practice
2:30 p.m.-4 p.m.--Drama Club for
grades 5-8
Thursday, December 2 Beginning Band during Music
Class
Advanced Band during lunch
2:30 p.m.-3:30 p.m.--Upper Notes choir practice
2:30 p.m.-4 p.m.--Drama Club for grades 1-4
Friday, December 3
8:15 a.m.--All-School Mass (Grade 2 Liturgy)
Crib Blessing following Mass
Interims
for Second Quarter
Saturday, December 4 8:15 a.m.-12:30 p.m.--St.
X Entrance Exam
8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.--St. Ursula
Academy Entrance Exam
PICTURE RETAKES: If your child was absent on
the original picture day (October 14), you should have received an order form
for retakes to be done on Monday, November 22.
If your child was here on October 14 and will have his picture retaken
on the 22nd, please be sure to return his original packet on that
day so that the photographer can retrieve information from the bar code on the
package. Lifetouch will reprint the
same package you ordered originally.
THANKSGIVING FOOD DRIVE: Don't
forget to send in items this coming Monday, November 22, for Student Government's Thanksgiving Food
Drive. Each year this food collection
benefits local needy families, and this year we have been asked to fill 35
baskets. In case you have misplaced
your copy of the food drive flyer, following are the items we are requesting
from each grade: Grade 1--16-oz. cans
of fruit; Grade 2--16-oz. cans of vegetables; Grade 3--6-oz. Jell-O's and
12-count packages of rolls; Grade 4--16-oz. cans of turkey gravy; Grade
5--13.75-oz. boxes of instant potatoes and 16-oz. cans of cranberry sauce;
Grade 6--12-oz. boxes of stuffing mix and 16-oz. cans of sweet potatoes; Grade 7--eggs
and bread; and Grade 8--milk and butter.
In addition, we will gratefully accept donations of 12-15-pound turkeys
and pumpkin pies. If you would like to
donate staples (sugar, salt, flour, coffee, tea, cereal, cake mixes, soups,
pasta) in addition to the items requested above, we would accept those
also. We appreciate the generosity our
school community has shown in the past and hope to continue this giving
tradition. Thank you!
GRANDPARENTS/SPECIAL PERSONS DAY: We hope
many of you are planning to participate in our Grandparents/Special Persons Day
to be held this Tuesday, November 23.
Our special day begins with a Mass at 8:15 a.m. in the Activity Center
followed by donuts and coffee for our guests and entertainment by the primary
grades. Your special persons can then
visit students in their classrooms until 10:45 a.m. Please be sure that your guest brings a self-addressed stamped
envelope to give to the room parent in the classroom. Reservations were due on Monday, November 15; but if you have a
last-minute invitee, please call Heather VonLehmden by Monday, November 22.
MARKET DAY: Thank you to all who sold
pies for our Pie Contest! We sold a
total of 268 pies--a record for us! Our
November profit was $1,257, with $737 of that amount being pie profit! A very big "thank you" to those
who donated pies. They will be donated
to our Student Government's Thanksgiving Food Drive.
OVER FOR MORE BULLETIN INFO…
CAMPBELL'S LABELS:
Congratulations to the following winners for October's drawing: 1-O--Henry Kuechly, Kirsten Lucas, and
Kelley Peter; 1-P--Sam Miller; 3-P--Christy Kennedy and Megan Mitsch; 4-D--Seth
Harris; 4-T--Paige Brown, Ashley Peter, and Jonathan Schworer; 5-S--Zach Frey;
6-R--Luke Shadley; 7-S--Katie Lucas and Joey O'Brien; and 8-W--Chris Frey. Save yourself from hand cramps--you do not
need to write names on Box Tops, as they are not included in the monthly
drawings.
SANTA'S SHOP: It's that time of year, and
we are once again preparing for OLSH's Santa Shop. Sale dates are Thursday, December 9 and Friday, December 10. The Santa Shop offers our children the
opportunity to purchase inexpensive holiday gifts for their family and
friends. Donations of holiday gift
items or handcrafted treasures will truly be appreciated! Individually wrapped Christmas candy is
always a big hit, too. If you can help,
please drop off items in the school office.
If necessary, call Julie Mehbod at 733-9636 for pickup.
SCRIP: Scrip gift certificates will be sold after
all Masses for the next several weekends.
Gift certificates make great gifts, and we can order them from nearly
500 stores. Sometimes they become
unavailable as we get closer to Christmas, so order early! If you have internet access, you can print a
copy of all available stores from this website: http://www.glscrip.com. Click on "retailers", and there is
an option for a printer-friendly version that you can print yourself. If you have any questions, please call Sandy
Champlin at 733-5235.
LIGHT UP READING: Please see
the flyer coming home today. If you
want to order a luminaria, please send your form with payment to the school
office by Monday, November 29. Any
questions can be directed to Lisa Schoenberger at 733-4707 or Mike Koewler at 821-4575.
DISTINGUISHED GRADUATE: During
Catholic Schools Week (January 31 through February 4, 2005), we honor a person
who graduated from OLSH at least ten years ago and who has made a significant
contribution to his/her community or church which reflects favorably on the
education received here at OLSH. A
nomination should include the nominee's name, address, year of graduation from
OLSH, additional education, and three achievements. Please send in your nominations no later than Tuesday, November
23 to the school office or the Parish Center.
NEW YAC POLICY: Effective immediately, coaches are responsible for the timely
return of uniforms to the sports coordinator with a complete list of the
players and uniforms returned. The
coordinator is responsible for providing a time and location in advance to
coaches, giving the coach ample time to collect uniforms. Any player not returning a uniform cannot
participate in the succeeding OLSH sport until the uniform is returned. That player will be registered with OLSH,
will be placed on the roster, and can participate in tryouts. However, once the YAC President is notified
that the player's uniform has not been returned, the player cannot participate
in any practice or game until the President is notified that the uniform has
been returned.
SWEET TREAT ALTERNATIVES: A mother
has suggested that organizations try to come up with some other form of treats
for the students besides candy, cookies, etc.
In just these first months of school, we have had: a candy reward for Magazine Drive,
five-pound Hershey bars, an ice cream social, Campbell labels candy reward, pie
and ice cream to the class selling the most Market Day pies, a cookie treat
from YAC, and possibly occasional rewards of candy from homeroom teachers. When I look at this list, it is an eye
opener. This mother also mentioned all
the recent press regarding childhood obesity, lack of fitness, and early health
problems related to these things.
Perhaps we could all think harder about alternative rewards and
treats. Thank you to this mom for such
a good suggestion.
MENU for the WEEK of NOVEMBER 22
Monday…………chicken nuggets, buttered
carrots, fruit cocktail, breadstick, milk
Tuesday…………cheese quesadilla with salsa,
corn, applesauce, milk
MENU for the WEEK of NOVEMBER 29
Monday…………cheeseburger, French fries,
peaches, milk
Tuesday………….beef and cheese burrito, corn,
juice bar, Goldfish crackers, milk
Wednesday………mozzarella breadsticks, green
beans, mixed fruit, chocolate grahams, milk
Thursday………...ravioli with meat sauce,
tossed salad, trail mix, breadstick, milk
Friday…………....grilled cheese, broccoli with
cheese, mandarin oranges, milk
OUR LADY of the SACRED HEART SCHOOL TEACHERS and STAFF
WISH YOU and YOUR FAMILIES
A HAPPY and TRULY THANKFUL THANKSGIVING