OUR LADY of the SACRED
Saturday, December
Sunday, December 3 FIRST
SUNDAY of ADVENT
Monday, December 4 Advanced
Band during lunch
Tuesday, December
Wednesday, December 6 FEAST
of ST. NICHOLAS
Thursday, December 7 PEARL
HARBOR DAY
Christmas
Shop
Beginning
Band during Music Class
Friday, December 8 FEAST
of the IMMACULATE CONCEPTION
Visit to
the Nativity Scene after Mass
Christmas
Shop
INTERIMS
COMING HOME TODAY
PAUSE (PAWS) FOR PRAISE: Mrs. Schworer would like to thank eighth
grader Michael Gallo for faithfully helping a fellow classmate with his
bookbag, lunch, etc. Mrs. Thamann would
like to thank third grader Amy Blum for watching out for both her fellow third
graders and younger students when they get hurt on the playground during
recess. She is very mothering and
attentive, and we and the students appreciate her caring attitude. Mrs. Raine thanks fifth graders Colleen
Armstrong and Madison Todd for helping to decorate the Music Room for Christmas
during the Open House. Thanks girls—it
looks great!
OPEN HOUSE:
Thank you to Tamara Anderson and the PTO officers who prepared a
warm and welcoming reception for our visitors on the 28th. Thank you to Sheila Sieder, who
coordinated the 28 plus host parents who took our visiting families and
children on a tour of our school. Thank
you to those 28 plus parents who were able to give the interesting details
to these prospective parents. Thank
you to the students who were in the classrooms to explain activities not
only to the parents but also to the students.
Thank you to the teachers for explaining the activities and the
daily workings of their classes.
Finally, thank you to Deacon Glassmeyer for coming to help
welcome our guests from Ss. Peter and Paul and other prospective families. –Mrs. Adelmann
Thank you, thank you, thank you!!! Thanks to all who helped make our Open House
a success. We were expecting 42 families
and were happily overwhelmed by 78 families!
Our tour guides did a fantastic job of making everyone feel welcome, and
the students were excellent ambassadors of OLSH pride. Thanks also to the entire faculty and staff
for doing what they do best. We are
truly blessed to have a community of caring families. Together we can continue to make Our Lady of
the Sacred Heart a wonderful school for our children and our community. –Sheila Sieder
ProKids DONATIONS: We thank everyone who participated in this
school-wide service project. You have
certainly guaranteed that the teens served by ProKids will have an
extra-special Christmas. We have packed
up all donations and have them ready for pickup on Monday, December 4.
THANKSGIVING BASKETS UPDATE: We were asked to assemble 20 baskets but were
able to fill 30 for local needy families so that they could enjoy a wonderful
Thanksgiving dinner. We were able to
supply several boxes of staple food items for distribution as well. We appreciate the generosity that our school
community has shown and thank you for your support of this historical food
collection drive. Many thanks to Ms.
Leslie Willet for starting this program shortly after she started her teaching
career here at OLSH more than 40 years ago!
We also thank Mrs. Patty High and Mrs. Lisa Maciulewicz who stepped in
to oversee this project in Ms. Willet’s absence this year. We should mention that, even though Ms.
Willet is still recovering from back surgery, she and Terri DeAngelis pitched
in by doing paperwork and some last-minute shopping with Lisa Schoenberger on
the Monday before Thanksgiving.
PENNIES FOR PIES: The original intention was to use money
collected in this drive to purchase pies from Market Day; however, we had
families donate 40 pies from our pie-selling contest (which was more than we
needed). We were able to purchase other
needed items for our Student Government Thanksgiving food baskets with the $42
donated in our Pennies for Pies collection.
We truly appreciate your generosity and hope your family had a peaceful
Thanksgiving.
MARKET DAY:
It’s not too late to place an order for our December sale and have a
chance to win a $25 Market Day gift certificate. All you need to do is place an order of at
least $25 by
AUTHOR VISIT:
Don’t miss the opportunity to have a book signed by Debbie Dadey and
Marcia Thornton Jones. You can still
send in your order for a book that will be autographed by these two authors
when they visit OLSH on February 1. (The
deadline has been extended to next Friday, December 8.) Extra order forms are available in the school
office.
CARDS FOR OUR SOLDIERS: OLSH students made more than 275 Christmas
cards for our soldiers overseas. Mrs.
Gorsuch took these cards to St. Joseph Home, where volunteers will include them
in Christmas boxes to be mailed.
MAGAZINE SUBSCRIPTIONS: Please allow up to 12 weeks to start
receiving your magazines ordered through the PTO Fall Major Fundraiser. If your subscription has not started by the
end of December, you may call American Publishers at (800) 284-9711 to check on
your order. (This number is also listed
on the back of your pink order form.)
Thanks for your support.
SCHOLASTIC BOOK FAIR UPDATE: Thanks to all the families who supported our
Fall Scholastic Book Fair. The totals
are in, and we earned $970 in cash profit and books for our classrooms!!! The cash will be used to purchase tests for
A.R. books we already have in our library.
We also received many donations of books to the classrooms and the
library. Thank you! A very special
thanks to all our librarians who helped make the Book Fair such a success. Special recognition and thanks go to Ann
Hartke, who has continued to provide a tremendous amount of time and energy to
our Book Fairs even though she no longer has a student at OLSH. Congratulations to our Grand Prize winners
Zach Janszen, William Eades, and Daniel Stroh, and to the 26 poster winners.
YAC: Here’s your
chance! Tips on operating the
scoreboard will be covered on Thursday, December 7, from
YAC JR. HIGH DANCE: Don’t miss the YAC-sponsored dance for
seventh and eighth graders tonight, Friday, December 1, from
FROM THE NURSE’S DESK: A bacterial disease known as Shigellosis has
been increasing in
CHRISTMAS CONCERT: Join Mrs. Becky Jones and OLSH’s Beginning
and Advanced Band students at a Christmas Concert on Monday, December 18, in
the Ursuline Academy Auditorium, beginning at
Monday…………….beef
and cheese burrito with salsa, corn, mandarin oranges, seasoned rice, milk
Tuesday……………hot
dog on bun, baked beans, cinnamon apples, sunflower seeds, milk
Wednesday………Salisbury steak, mashed potatoes with gravy, mixed fruit,
roll, milk
Thursday………….chili, chips, and cheese, green beans, peach crisp, animal
crackers, milk
Friday………………chicken
nuggets, broccoli with cheese, pineapple, breadstick, milk