PRINCIPAL'S BULLETIN for MARCH 4, 2005
RIGHT TO READ WEEK
March 7-11
Friday, March 4 4:30
p.m.-7 p.m.--Fish Fry in Activity Center
Sunday, March 6 THIRD
SUNDAY OF LENT
Monday, March 7 Out-of-Uniform
Day
Tuesday, March 8 7
p.m.--Talent Show in Activity Center
Wednesday, March 9 Third Lenten Raffle
NO
DRAMA CLUB
2:40
p.m.-3:40 p.m.--Young Rembrandts Art Program
7
p.m.--PTA meeting
Thursday, March 10 Beginning Band during Music Class
Advanced
Band during lunch
2:30
p.m.-3:30 p.m.--Drama Club for select actors
6:30
p.m.-8:30 p.m.--Skating Party
Friday, March 11 8:15
a.m.--All-School Mass
1
p.m.--Medicine Show for grades 6 through 8
4:30
p.m.-7 p.m.--Fish Fry in Activity Center
6
p.m.-7:30 p.m.--Science Fair on display in cafeteria
RIGHT TO READ WEEK: Find your
pot of gold--READ! OLSH will celebrate
Right to Read Week beginning Monday, March 7.
Each homeroom will observe Right to Read Week with its own
activities. If your child needs to bring
something special to school, he will be advised by his homeroom teacher. Encourage a lifelong love of reading in
your children through your own family activities next week (i.e., turn off the
TV and play a board game together).
REGISTRATION: If you haven't already done
so, please turn in your registration for next year. These forms went home in last week's packets and are due in to
the school office by this Monday, March 7.
(Our apologies to the youngest in Grade 8 who received re-registration forms!)
JUMP ROPE FOR HEART: All
donations to The American Heart Association Jump Rope for Heart fundraiser must
be in no later than Monday, March 7
in order for students to be eligible for prizes. We will let you know the grand total as soon as we have tallied
everything up. As a "thank
you" for your generosity and participation, all students may be out of
uniform on Monday, March 7. Please
dress appropriately (with regard to both style and weather).
FISH FRY: If you'd still like to volunteer to help out
at the Fish Fry Fridays during Lent, contact Melissa Fahr (761-7332), Marc
Zeuch (769-4735), or Mary Beth Armstrong (793-4574). If you can't help out, plan to eat out with friends and family
tonight (March 4) and on Friday, March 11 and 18.
TALENT SHOW: Please join friends and
family for our first OLSH School Talent Show to be held in the Activity Center
on Tuesday, March 8 beginning promptly at 7 p.m. Join us for hors d'oeuvres in the Tiger Room beginning at 6:30
p.m. We have quite a few talented
students who are excited to show us what they enjoy doing in their free
time. Admission is $3 per adult. Children and students are free. It should be a great show!
SCIENCE FAIR: Parents and friends are
invited to view the seventh grade's Science Fair projects, which will be on
display next Friday evening from 6 p.m. 'til 7:30 p.m. in the cafeteria. Have dinner with your family at the Fish Fry
in the Activity Center, then wander over to the cafeteria to see some
outstanding work done by our seventh graders under the direction of junior-high
Science teacher Mrs. Patty High. They
have worked very hard and would love to show their projects to you.
LENTEN RAFFLE: The winners of the second
teacher raffle for this Lenten season were:
Grant Garbacik (4-D)--$5 Graeter's gift certificate; Grace Kallenberg
(4-T)--$5 Blockbuster gift certificate; Sami Mehbod (3-B)--a container of
Smartees; and Caleb VonLehmden (3-B)--ten free 30-minute guitar lessons from
Mrs. Rieman.
Items in this coming
week's raffle (to be awarded on Wednesday, March 9) are: a surprise basket; a mystery raffle;
"Baker's" dozen homemade cookies (from Mrs. Baker, of
course--remember the Fat Cat cookies?); and out-of-uniform passes for eight
students plus 2 friends each. Purchase
raffle tickets from Ms. Schafer before school (25 cents each or five for
$1). Remember--all proceeds benefit our
Nicaragua collection and will be added to our all-school jar at song practice
each Wednesday during Lent. You may
make a donation at any time during Lent.
Checks may be made out to "Friends of Batahola". Thank you.
SKATING PARTY: The second PTA Skating Party
will be held next Thursday evening from 6:30 p.m. 'til 8:30 p.m. at Skatetown
USA in West Chester. See the flyer
coming home today with your youngest for details and directions.
MEDICINE SHOW: Mt. Notre Dame and Moeller
High School students who are involved in a program called "Medicine
Show" will come to OLSH on Friday, March 11 to present their program
(skits/question-and-answer session) on drugs and alcohol to our sixth, seventh,
and eighth graders.
BOX TOPS: Please send in all of your General Mills box
tops that you have around your house.
We need to submit as many box tops as possible before March 31 to
qualify for a bonus. OLSH has done an
amazing job collecting these. In
2002-03, we made $1120; and in 2003-04, we made $1092. Let's try to get over $1300 this year! Every ten-cent box top counts. This is such an easy way for us to earn
money for our school. It takes only a
few seconds to rip off those box tops and drop them in the Campbell's Soup
bin. (No need to write your names on
the box tops, as the candy drawing is for Campbell's Soup labels only.) Ask your friends, neighbors, grandparents,
etc. to clip for us, too. High schools
are not eligible for this program, so ask those families to collect for
OLSH. Don't let one ten-cent box top go
to waste! Compared to the amount of
work, time, and energy involved in other fundraisers, this really pays
off. Thanks for all your effort!
PTA: The PTA fundraiser information that was
mentioned in last week's Principal's Bulletin did not go home last week. It will be sent home this week instead. Please take a look at it. PTA will vote on the fundraiser issue at
their meeting this coming Wednesday, March 9.
Thank you.
EASTER CORSAGES: Don't forget to order your
Easter corsages through Reading Girl Scouts Junior Troop 390. The cost is $5 each. If you don't have the order form that went
home last week, call Lisa Waitkus at 733-3658.
Orders must be received no later than next Friday, March 11 and will be
ready for pick-up at OLSH on Holy Saturday (March 26) from 4 p.m. 'til 5 p.m.
ST. PATRICK'S DAY DANCE: YAC's St.
Patrick's Day Dance will be held on Saturday, March 12 with music by The
Remains. Please contact Teri or Tom
Grau at 733-4129 with questions or for tickets.
NURSE'S OFFICE: Volunteers for the Nurse's
Office for next Friday, March 11, are Samantha Blum (8 a.m.-11 a.m.) and Kathy
Mahoney (11 a.m.-2 p.m.). Thanks, moms!
MENU for the WEEK of MARCH 7
Monday……….chili mac, green beans, cinnamon
apples, oyster crackers, milk
Tuesday……….hot dog, baked beans,
applesauce, cookie, milk
Wednesday……chicken nuggets, vegetable
medley, fruit cocktail, soft pretzel, milk
Thursday……...ravioli with meat sauce,
tossed salad, mandarin oranges, breadstick, milk
Friday…………cheese quesadilla with salsa,
corn, peaches, milk
IMPORTANT NOTES FROM MRS. ADELMANN
DRESS POLICY: Please check your child for the
following--non-uniform sweatshirts that they want to wear during school time
because they are cold; skirts TOO short (should be no shorter than three
inches above the knee when standing
straight); sweatshirts, polos, or pants that are TOO big or TOO small; and hair
that has been artificially colored (if done without your permission, shame on
your child). These things are becoming
a problem and will be addressed with uniform detentions. If you as parents take care of these
problems, you won't be picking up your child from detention. Please see pages 23 and 24 of the OLSH
Parent-Student Handbook--you and your child read and signed the Handbook
Agreement at the beginning of this school year. Thank you for your cooperation in taking care of these problems
at home.
RUBBER/JELLY
BRACELET BAN: No student will be allowed to wear either
the rubber colored bracelets or the
jelly-type bracelets to school from now on. This also means that these bracelets may not be in students'
bookbags, pockets, lockers, or lunch bags.
Students who bring them to school will be punished. What started innocently enough with Lance
Armstrong's "Live Strong" bracelets has, unfortunately, degenerated
into a game with sexual connotations which will not be permitted at OLSH. If you are unaware of the game, I have a
copy of the information from the Internet and will be glad to share it with you
if you need to see it. I was only
recently made aware of this twisted use, and I am addressing the situation
immediately. I expect all parents to
cooperate with the school on this issue.