OUR LADY of the SACRED HEART SCHOOL
Enriching Souls and Enlightening Minds
Friday, April 18 INTERIMS COMING HOME TODAY
Monday, April 21 Advanced Band during lunch
9:30 a.m.-1:45 p.m.—Gr. K and Gr. 1 to Krohn Conservatory
Tuesday, April 22 EARTH DAY
Enrichment students to Math Competition
9:30 a.m.—PTO Brainstorming Session
1:30 p.m.—PTO Brainstorming Session
2:30 p.m.-3:30 p.m.—Green Team
7:30 p.m.—PTO Brainstorming Session
Wednesday, April 23 4:30 p.m.-5:30 p.m.—Market Day pickup
Thursday, April 24 Beginning Band during Music class
Friday, April 25 8:15 a.m.—All-School Mass
1 p.m.—Friends Friday for Gr. 2 OLSH and CCD students
LOOKING AHEAD…
Sunday, April 27 FIRST COMMUNION
Monday, April 28 NO SCHOOL FOR GRADE 2
SNOW DAY MAKE UP: As you can tell from the calendar above, we do have school this coming Monday, April 21, to make up for one of the three snow days we had to take this winter.
DISMISSAL PICKUPS: Parents, we’ve noticed that more and more students are being picked up late after school. One day last week there were 32 children who returned to the school entrance because no one was here to pick them up at dismissal. Car riders are dismissed at 2:25 p.m. We ask that you be prompt in picking up your children.
PROGRESSIVE DINNER: On behalf of the Progressive Dinner Committee, we would like to send a huge “thank you” to everyone who supported this wonderful event. The evening was a huge success, raising a little over $1600 for our school’s library program. We are already looking forward to next year’s dinner!
CAROL SCHWARTZ: Many thanks to PTO for sponsoring the recent visit from illustrator Carol Schwartz. Carol has illustrated numerous award-winning children’s science books. Her work is included in the Society of Illustrators Permanent Collection of Outstanding Female Illustrators of the Past One Hundred Years. OLSH students and teachers enjoyed listening to Carol describe and demonstrate the tools she uses in her work and the process she uses in illustrating a book. Carol shared many pieces of her original artwork. Students were able to see a pre-published book and observe how it is made into a publishable work. Carol emphasized the importance of planning and research in her work and answered many students’ questions. Students observed and interacted with her as she made three original drawings for OLSH. Look for these to be displayed in the near future. Thanks to all the students who participated in the drawing contest. It was very hard to choose winners! Congratulations to our contest winners Jessica Mitsch, Jack Thornton, Sydney Burwinkel, Mia Lynd, Sarah Wessinger, Kaitlyn Fryman, Kirsten Lucas, Jenna Kalthoff, and Theresa Guye. Thanks, PTO, for an interesting and enriching experience!
BATTERY COLLECTION: In honor of Earth Day being celebrated this coming Tuesday, April 22, we’d like to remind you that you can drop off your used household batteries in the marked boxes in the church lobby or at the main entrance to school from this Saturday, April 19, through next Saturday, April 26 ONLY. The Green Team will take care of their proper disposal.
MAY CROWNING: We are asking students to bring in flowers the morning of May Crowning (Friday, May 2). We will need a mom from each homeroom to come in that morning and arrange her homeroom’s bouquet to be put on the altar during the ceremony. If you’d like to do that arranging, please contact your homeroom mom; we ask each homeroom mom to then call the school office to let us know who their homeroom “floral arranger” will be. This is a beautiful ceremony, and you can be a part of it.
VARIETY SHOW DVD: We have a high-quality DVD of the OLSH Variety Show that was professionally recorded and edited by one of our dads. If you would like a copy, please contact Tamara Anderson at tanderson1@cinci.rr.com. There may be a small charge involved (to be determined).
PTO FUNDRAISER: We’ve collected about 60 dingy white towels for our PTO fundraiser with J&R Research. Our goal is to collect 100 towels. Please check around your kitchen for dingy all-white or white-with-a-design towels to help us meet our goal and earn a $100 bonus. Send them to school and have your child drop them off in the office.
PTO BRAINSTORMING SESSIONS: Plan to come up to OLSH next Tuesday for one of three brainstorming sessions we will hold. If you are unable to attend, please forward suggestions and ideas to one of the PTO Board members. Please see the last page of the PTO Newsletter coming home today for more information.
SPIRIT DAY T-SHIRTS: Spirit Day 2008 is May 23. Our theme this year is “OLSH Olympics.” We are asking all students to wear a t-shirt in their homeroom color; eighth graders are asked to wear a t-shirt from the high school they plan to attend or in that school’s color. Teachers may wear their royal blue shirts that they wore last year. Order forms for new t-shirts are coming home today. If you do not want to order a shirt for your child, please see the homeroom colors listed on that order form and send your child to school on May 23 dressed in a shirt of that color or in a Spiritwear t-shirt that he may already have. Orders for new t-shirts are due back no later than next Friday, April 25. Call Mary Beth Armstrong at 793-4574 if you have questions.
DINNERS: Please contact Theresa Wessinger at 793-4766 or email her at theresawess@fuse.net if you’d like to cook a meal for the Fahr family.
COSI ON WHEELS: COSI will visit OLSH on Wednesday, April 30. We still need parent volunteers to work on that day. Contact Alison O’Neill at alisononeill@fuse.net to sign up to work all day (7:30 a.m. ‘til 2:30 p.m.), in the morning (7:30 a.m. ‘til 11:30 a.m.), or in the afternoon (noon ‘til 2:30 p.m.).
INSTRUMENT DONATED: We have recently had a saxophone donated to OLSH. Please call the school office (733-5225) if your child would be interested in learning to play. We will forward his/her name on to Mrs. Becky Jones, our Band instructor. This is a wonderful gift for our school!
A TISKET, A TASKET…Help fill your homeroom basket. Thanks to all who have already donated to their homeroom basket for the OLSH Festival. Please send in all donations (items or cash) as soon as possible. Many homerooms are still in need of money or items. Feel free to contact your homeroom mom with any questions.
FESTIVAL BOOTHS: This year, the OLSH Festival Committee is asking each class to host a booth at the Festival. Look for a volunteer schedule from your homeroom parent to come home with your child in May. This is an easy way to volunteer and help our parish and our school. Remember: “Many hands make light work.”
LITTER CLEANUP DAY: The City of Reading is holding its annual “Litter Cleanup Day” on Saturday, April 26, from 10 a.m. ‘til noon. Participants will meet at Koenig Park for assigned cleanup locations. Following the cleanup, everyone will return to Koenig Park for lunch. Call 842-1677 for additional information.
BABYSITTERS CAMP: A “Kidz Home Alone and Better Babysitters Camp” for students ages 9 and older will be held at the City of Montgomery Annex Building, 10115 Montgomery Road, from Monday, June 16 through Friday, June 21, 2008 from 1 p.m. ‘til 4 p.m. The cost of the class is $125. To register, please contact the City of Montgomery at 891-2424 or register online (by June 13) at www.montgomeryohio.org and click on Class/Event Registration. For additional dates and locations, please call 336-9993 or visit www.betterbabysitters.com.
Monday………..mini corn dogs, corn, cinnamon apples, soft pretzel, milk
Tuesday……….French toast sticks with syrup, sausage patty, hash brown potato, orange juice, milk
Wednesday…..cheese coneys, pineapple, juice bar, oyster crackers, milk
Thursday………mozzarella breadsticks with pizaa sauce, tossed salad, Jell-O with fruit, grahams, milk
Friday…………..turkey club bagel, celery sticks with dip, peaches, cookie, milk