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Have you filled someone's bucket today?
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Our K3 students enjoyed Muffins with Moms.
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| October 6 K4 Doughnuts with Dads October 10 Last Day of the Magazine Drive Home & School/school Committee Metting October 11 Elm Grove Fire Department visiting SMV October 12 Spirit Wear Day K4 & K5 to the Pumpkin Farm 4th graders to Old World Wisconsin 6th graders going sailing on the Denis Sullivan October 13 & 14 No School October 15 Walk for Catholic Education at Mount Mary University October 17 No School |
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7th graders are hard at work in the science lab.
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Monday, Tuesday,
and Fridays
9:00am to 4:00pm
Thursdays
9:00am to 7:00pm
Saturdays
9:00am to 12:00pm
Wednesdays Closed
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Principal Notes October 6, 2016
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Dear Families,
Just a reminder, there will be no school next Thursday, Friday and the following Monday. The school office will be closed. The teachers have in-service. Thursday, October 13, we will be going to Cardinal Stritch for a workshop on Grading Smarter Not Harder. The day will focus on making students' grades accurately reflect the extent of their learning and discussing assessment and student motivation. On Friday, October 14, we are heading downtown to the Catholic Educator's Convention. We will be accepting our Exemplary award for Catholic Identity. On Monday, October 17, we will be joining the quad parishes at St. Dominic's. The Archdiocese requires all its teachers to have two days of faith formation per school year. This program is called Sustaining the Mission. Monday afternoon we will be going to Hunger Task Force to learn more about their organization and what we can do to stop hunger in our community. It is a busy couple of days for us.
Next Saturday, October 15 is the Souls for Catholic Education Walk at Mount Mary. It is not too late to join us. Please register at
www.catholicschoolswalk.org or you can register on site that day. If you can't make it and still would like to make a donation you can always send a donation to the school office. All the money collected will be going to buy new toys for the playroom and our Early Childhood classrooms.
Please join us for Mass on Tuesdays and Fridays at 8:00. This Friday Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament will take place immediately following Mass for First Friday Benediction.
Our virtue for the month of October is Courage. Courage is bravery in the face of fear. You do the right thing even when it is hard or scary. When you are courageous, you don't give up. You try new things. You admit mistakes. Courage is the strength in your heart. We are all working on being more courageous.
Please help out with our fall fundraiser by purchasing magazines. All the money raised helps support all the wonderful things here at St. Mary's.
A big thank you to Chris and Mary Kay Zukowski for a wonderful evening of Trivia. A good time was had by all!
I will be out of the building tomorrow. I will be at St. Alphonsus attending the Principal's Fall Conference.
Please click
here
for Archbishop Listecki's weekly "Love One Another" message.
Yours in Christ,
Mary Tretow
Murphy Berens was blessed by Deacon Piontek at Tuesday's Pet Blessing celebrating the Feast of St. Francis of Assisi.
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Office Notes
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SMV Office Information
It is that time of the year at SMV--cold and flu and other not so fun illnesses. According to the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma, and immunology, a child is the most contagious when they are feeling their worst, usually days three through five. All colds, vomiting, diarrhea, pinkeye, fifth disease, strep throat and many more illnesses are contagious. Please keep your child home if you suspect that they may be contagious (usually a fever). Too many students are coming to school and then have to be sent home.
It is crucial that every family fills out the SMV Forms located on the left under permanent links. Emergency contact information is part of the forms, and with students getting sick at school, we need to be able to call parents in the event of an emergency. If you have not already completed your forms, please do so today.
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Home and School News
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Magazine Drive
A huge thank you to everyone who has been working to make our magazine drive a success! We only have a few more days-
Monday, October 10th
, is the final day to submit orders! Our goal this year is $9,000 and we still have some work to do. Remember this is the 2nd largest fundraiser for Home and School so please keep selling everyone! The online website for orders is
gaschoolstore.com
and the SMV code is 2235992.
Keep in mind, there are class prizes (ice cream party, pizza party, limo lunch) based on dollars sold and individual prizes based on the number of items sold. Thank you to Mrs. Petroff for the additional emoji pillows and mugs that will be used as individual prizes!
Several people have asked if donations to the magazine drive are okay instead of actual purchases and the answer is YES! Please note "Magazine Drive Donation" in the memo line of the check.
Feel free to contact Katy Cornell or Lisa Volm if you have any questions.
The SCRIP year is off to a good start. Congratulations to Catherine Antczak for winning the Back to School SCRIP raffle $10 gift card.
There will be no SCRIP orders for physical gift cards the weeks of October 10th and 17th with the short school weeks. Please shop from our SCRIP inventory in the front office. Online orders to purchase SCRIP Now e-cards can be made anytime with Presto Pay (direct debit).
SCRIP families please submit your Profit Distribution and annual SCRIP waiver forms to the office. Questions:
marenkleinmann@gmail.com
Trivia Night Wrap-Up
Well, another Trivia Night has come and gone, and what an exciting one it was! At the end of the ten rounds we had a 4-way tie for 1st place. The Teacher Table pulled off the victory with the tie breaker question. Congratulations! Congratulations to all teams for great scores and creative table themes. We hope you all had a great time! Many thanks to Therese Pickart and David Winkler for helping us run the show. Thanks, also to Courtney Falk for scoring the answers. We all know this night could not happen without Mr. Falk. Thanks for all the time and enthusiasm you put into this event! Many hands do make light work, and we much appreciate all the people who stay to help clean-up. Record clean-up time this year. See you next year! -Chris and Mary Kay Zukowski
Spooks and Spoofs
The SignUp Genius for Spooks & Spoofs is now live! We have many opportunities for you to help ensure this event is a success - tend bar/concessions, decorate the gym, run carnival games, assist with a craft project, etc. This is also a great opportunity for middle school and high school students to earn credit hours. Please consider signing your whole family up for one (or many) time slots. To view the 2016 Spooks & Spoofs SignUp Genius, please click here:
http://www.signupgenius.com/go/10c044baea92fa7ff2-smvspooks
2016-17 Volunteer Opportunities
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STILL need your help filling a few key volunteer chair positions (please see below). If you don't want to be a lead by yourself, find a friend and split the role!
Junior High Forensics Chair-Grades 6-8
This program enables students to strengthen their public speaking skills. Help is needed once a week for after school practices Nov - Jan to listen to team member selections, offer critique and suggest improvement of delivery and content.
OPEN DOOR ELM GROVE - SATURDAY, MAY 20TH
- Sponsorship Chair (
help is needed to secure sponsors and advertisers, schedule representatives in homes the day of the tour, and solicit items for raffle baskets.)
- Logistics Chair (help is needed to obtain necessary permits, display yard signs and banners, ribbon off area in homes, and secure transportation.)
- Publicity Chair (help is needed to market the event through media articles, signs, and posters.)
To signup to volunteer for Jr. High Forensics or Open Door Elm Grove, please click here:
http://www.signupgenius.com/go/10c044baea92fa7ff2-201617
Save the date:
May 20, 2017 Open Door Elm Grove
Thank You!!!
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Parish News
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Join us each Wednesday at 1pm in church for the Patriotic Rosary. Our country needs our prayers, all are welcome to attend!
SWEET! Candy for a Cause! St. Mary's Youth Ministry will be hosting a candy bar sale after all Masses this weekend! Candy bars will be $2 each, with the profits funding the Thanksgiving Dance for cognitively and physically disabled guests. The dance will be held in the SMV Gym on November 12, 6:30-8:30pm. Guest and volunteer permission slips for the dance can be found at http://www.stmaryeg.org/for-teens.html under "9th-11th Grade Assignments." High School Volunteers are needed!!! To volunteer or ask questions, please contact Nora Berens at SMVThanksgivingDance@gmail.com, or call 262-853-6034. Hope to see you all there!
The Women of Christ Conference is November 5th. Please click here for more information.
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Mission & Catholic Identity
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