Saint Michael's Minutes 1.30.18

Catholic Schools Week, Yearbook, 2 Hour Delay Monday

Saint Michael's Minutes

Teaching Children their value as Children of God

Principal's Notes

Dear parents and families,

Tomorrow is an 11:30 AM Dismissal. After Care is open.

Catholic Schools Week has started off the right foot, with all of us coming together to be thankful and celebrate our privilege to attend a Catholic school! More information about this week is in my write-up below, please be sure to read it and have your child(ren) dress out for our days the rest of the week to maximize our fun!

Monday, February 5 will be a 2 hour delayed opening. This was a goal reached for the Turkey Trot.

Some quick updates:

Wednesday, January 31: 11:30 Dismissal (After Care open)
Monday, February 5: 2 Hour Delay, Dropoff Begins at 9:15 AM.
Wednesday, February 14: Ash Wednesday, 11:30 Dismissal
Monday, February 19: No School, President's Day

There will be an Altar Boy meeting for all current altar boys and any interested in joining on February 11 and February 18, both at 2:00 PM, in the church. Pizza will be provided.

Report Cards will come home this Thursday. Please review and sign the report card and send it back in to the office.

Congratulations to the new cast and crew of Mary Poppins Jr.! This musical will be performed this Spring under the direction of Mrs. Burke. Please click here for a full list of all students involved in the production.

God bless,

Daniel Cinalli

Principal

St. Michael CYO Spotlight

CYO Basketball Spotlight – 6 ^th Grade Boys

St Michael CYO Basketball teams are in the heart of their seasons. This week’s spotlight is on the 6 ^th Grade Boys team. After dominating the early season in Division 5 the team was moved up to Division 3 and currently sits in 2 ^nd place its Division 3 with a 6-1 record. Last week the team rallied for an exciting win over a tough St Ann team, 32-28. The team trailed much of the game but thanks to a team high in blocks from John Paparo and steals by Aiden Hines, along with lockdown defense by Arnav Subedi, the boys stifled St Ann’s potent offense in the second half. Peter Phan controlled the paint with six points and Brendan Stroh capped the victory with a rare four-point play. Leading scorer Andy Fronczek once again anchored the offense with 14 points to pace the Celtics.

This week the team is back in action on the road against St Luke’s this Sunday at 6:15 PM.

Go St. Michael Celtics!

Yearbook Pictures Needed

Do you have photographs of your child from school events? If so, you can have them included in this year’s yearbook by simply uploading them to our yearbook website: community.lifetouch.com . Our school code id DJAEVZ. If you have any problems, please send them to Luke Stroh ( ekulhorts@gmail.com ).

Catholic Schools Week

The theme for Catholic Schools week this year is Learn. Serve. Lead. Succeed. We pray with the activities we have planned for this week all our students will come one step closer to accomplishing these goals of Catholic education.

We've had a blast thus far through Catholic Schools Week! Thank you to everyone who attended Mass and our reception on Sunday, especially those students wearing their St. Michaels Uniforms!

Monday Fr Bryan and Sr. Karl Ann the Assistant Superintendent, were amazed by our students knowledge of the Faith during the Religion Bee.

Today all our students got some energy out while dancing with ChakaBoom! As great as the students were at dancing, however, they were shown up by the skill of our teachers and principal!

This afternoon our students put their academic knowledge on full display during the annual Spelling Bee! The winning word was pistachios! P.I.S.T.A.C.H.I.O.S!

Our Religion Bee Winners for Middle School were our 7th grade team!

Lilani Horcharoen

Matthew Stakem

Isabella Vejcik

Out Religion Bee Winners for 4th and 5th were the 4th grade team!

Wesley Beaulieu

Joseph Paparo

Owen Stroh

Our Spelling Bee Winner was Kayla Bernescut!

First Runner Up was Tatiana Saliba!

Congratulations to all our competitors and our winners!

Wednesday, January 31

11:30 Dismissal and Teacher Appreciation Day. Students are invited to dress up for the career they hope to have one day. I hope to see many priests and nuns walking our halls!

Thursday, February 1

Pep Rally for 4th-8th grade students at 2:00, and Bingo for K-3 at 1:45. Students will dress down in a color with their grade team.

Friday, February 2

School Mass at 8:15. Following Mass, students are invited to don their craziest hats for the day. We will have a special dessert and movie for our students to view during lunch!

The 4th grade winning team poses with Mr. Cinalli proudly holding their certificates.

Our PreK - 2nd grade students workout while dancing with ChakaBoom! Also photographed are the teachers and instructional aides who were moving more than some of the students!

The Final Two of our Spelling Bee! All our contestants did an amazing job, and a huge thank you to Mrs. Harmon, Ms. Cortright, and Ms. Bastidas for running the bee this year! Great job everyone!

Our 7th graders use the iPads to research education apps and uses to implement for our school. They casted their iPads to the Activpanel and presented their app to the class.

"I am so grateful to @arlingtonOCS parents, teachers, staff, clergy and volunteers whose hard work and faithful service educate and form more than 17,500 children connected to our Diocese."

- Bishop Burbidge

Saint Michael School | Phone 703-256-1222 | Fax 703-256-3490 | daniel.cinalli@stmikes22003.org