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Have you filled someone's bucket today?
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Our K3 students would like to remind everyone to dress for the weather and to make sure to have your name on your jacket, hat, mittens, boots, and shoes!
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First Student
262-797-7680
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Save the Date
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November 4
3rd Graders visit the St. Mary's Cemetery for an All Soul's Day Prayer Service
November 6
Living Saints Museum in the Church Atrium
10:00 am
November 8
Election day at SMV
November 9
Spirit Wear Day
Jr. High Art Day
K3 Doughnuts with Dads
November 10
K3 Doughnuts with Dads
Jr. High Art Day
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3rd graders enjoying Art Class.
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| K4 Buddy Time. |
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| St. Damien at the Living Saints Museum. |
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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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2nd graders enjoying buddy reading time.
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Principal Notes November 3, 2016
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Dear Families,
Our first quarter of the school year ends tomorrow. A Sign-up Genius will be out next week for you to sign up for conferences. Conferences are Monday, November 21st from 4:00-8:00pm and Tuesday, November 22nd from 7:30-11:30am. Monday is the only day we have school that week. Tuesday is a conference day and we are off Wednesday, Thursday and Friday for the Thanksgiving break.
Congratulations to our 8th grade volleyball players on being invited to the Seton Tournament. The 8th grade boys A team is going on in tournament play. Join us on Friday at 7:30pm at Center Court to watch them play. Check out the Seton websites for more details,
www.theseton.net.
Thank you to Mr. Newman and the 7th and 8th graders for another wonderful Saint Museum in honor of All Saint's Day. Stop by after the 9:00 Mass on Sunday. The St. Museum will be in the church atrium from 10:00-11:00am.
In this season of giving and gratitude we will be teaching our students about the virtue of compassion. Compassion is one of the single most important qualities and virtues of Jesus. What does it mean? It means to feel with others, to enter into their circumstances, to be one with them in their feelings, their pain, their hurt or joy and their excitement.
Please take a tag from the Angel Tree in the school atrium. This is a parish-wide outreach ministry which provides clothing, toys, games and personal items to children, adults and organizations in need during this Christmas season. Each tag on the Angel Tree can range in value anywhere from $20.00-$75.00.
Just a reminder that we are having our "Thanks for Giving " Annual Food Collection now thru Tuesday, November 15th. Each grade has a specific item to bring in to complete an entire Thanksgiving meal. Please see the link for what your students should bring:
"Thanks for Giving"
Next Wednesday will be a Spirit Wear Day. This year we are asking students to bring in one (or more) cans of food for each Spirit Wear Day to benefit the Hunger Task Force. You are welcome to also drop off food anytime. The boxes will be up all year round.
Please click
here
for Archbishop Listecki's weekly "Love One Another" message.
Yours in Christ,
Mary Tretow
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Office Notes
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SMV's Lost and Found
The lost and found is growing. If your child or children are missing any jackets, hats, mittens, shoes, boots, socks, toys, books, or water bottles please check our lost and found. It is located in the school atrium near the office.
Picture Re-take Day
If you are not happy with the photo of your child/children, there will be a picture re-take day on Thursday, November 17. Please hold on to your pictures and on that day bring them in for a re-take. If you were absent that day please bring your order form. Students who are having their photo re-taken or taken for the first time may dress up for that day.
Britannica Image Quest
Our school subscribes to a database called Britannica Image Quest, so that our students have access to pictures on the Internet that are free of copyright restrictions in the school setting. There is rarely a topic that cannot be found in Britannica Image Quest. Every time you use a Google image you risk using property without permission, or running into inappropriate content.
The web address for Image Quest is:
www.quest.com.
The user name and password are both
smveg.
A Christmas Carol
Spotlight Youth Theater is putting on the play A Christmas Carol. One of our students will be performing in the play December 1-4 please go to
www.spotlight.org for more information.
Future Saints
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Home and School News
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2017 SMV Auction
Plans are underway for the SMV Auction for Education on
March 25, 2017
. Right now we are looking for volunteers to join our Solicitations committee, chaired by Beth Parey, and our Decorations committee, chaired by Mr. Gary Newman. Please click on the link below to sign up for these positions, or check out the other ways you can help! www.SignUpGenius.com/go/10C044BAEA92FA7FF2-anight
The Solicitations Committee secures donations primarily for the silent auction. There are no "cold calls"; a letter will be sent to area businesses in early January and you will be making follow up phone calls to these businesses. The bulk of these phone calls will be made in February and early March. Ideally each volunteer will be responsible for 10-15 businesses. Our first meeting will be
Monday, Nov. 7 at 7 pm in the K3 room. Please contact Beth at
bparey@electricalsubstations.com with questions.
Have some ideas on how to re-create your high school prom in the SMV gym? Consider joining Mr. Newman on the Decorations committee. Click on the link above, or contact Mr. Newman at
gnewman@stmaryeg.org
for more information.
Not terribly creative? You can still help the committee by sendin
g in your high school dance photos! Hard copies can be sent to Mr. Newman's attention or electronic copies emailed to him. Please, no computer printouts.
Finally, we have some fantastic auction packages in the works, but we need your airline miles and hotel points to complete them! Please consider donating in support of our auction by contacting Beth
at
bparey@electricalsubstations.com
or
smvauction2017@gmail.com
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Magazine Drive Update
Hi everyone! Thank you again for all your support of the magazine drive over the past few weeks! We really appreciate the hard work. We are hoping to announce the final fundraising numbers in the next few weeks.
We have some exciting news -- top sellers and class winners will be announced in next week's virtual backpack! We are excited to share the results with you!
In addition, all paper order items will be going home with the students next
Friday, November 11th
. If orders are larger, we will email parents for pick up, as early as
Friday
afternoon. Prizes awarded for selling levels will also be going home
on Friday
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Please contact Katy Cornell, katy.e.cornell@gmail.com or Lisa Volm with any questions! Thank you.
Save the Date
Please save the date for our annual Barnes & Noble Bookfair on December 1st from 5:30 - 8:30pm. Proceeds from this festive event go directly to our school library.
2016-17 Volunteer Opportunities
W
e
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!
Barnes & Noble Night - Thursday, December 1st
WANTED: Co-Chair with Rebecca Mindy. Help is needed to organize Christmas carols, crafts, and festive treats at the Brookfield Square location.
Chess Club - Jan, Feb, Mar
WANTED: Co-Chair with Brigid Harmeyer. Help is needed to organize signup, provide instruction, and coordinate tournament competition.
Memorial Day Parade - Monday, May 29th
WANTED: Chair/Co-Chair. Help is needed to secure a volunteer to wear the Gladiator costume, purchase candy for distribution during the parade, and solicit students to walk in the parade.
SMV Camp Day - Monday, June 5th
WANTED: Chair/Co-Chair. Help is needed to organize day of sporting events and fun activities.
WANTED: Art Projects Chair. Help is needed to coordinate art projects for all grades with varying levels of difficulty.
Open Door Elm Grove - Saturday, May 20th
WANTED: Publicity Chair. Help is needed to market the event through media articles, signs, and posters.
To signup to volunteer for the above openings, please click here:
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Athletic News
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Congratulations to our 8th grade girls and the 8th grade boys A and B teams. They have been invited to the Seton Volleyball Tournament. Here is the link to find out more information. www.theseton.net
The boys B team has been eliminated from the Seton. The boys A team plays
on Friday
at
7:30pm
at Center Court on court 5.
If they win
on Friday
- will play
on Saturday
and
Sunday
at
2:00pm
at Catholic Memorial High School.
SMV's 8th Grade Volleyball Players.
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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!
Parent Enrichment series
Grace Urbanski is hosting "Praying with the Family" on November 9th. Please sign up if you are interested in attending. This will help us gauge how many handouts to have ready.
Women of Christ Conference
The Women of Christ Conference is November 5th. Please click here for more information.
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Catholic Memorial 8th Grade Placement Testing
November 4th or 12th, 2016
8:00am-11:30am
- Testing dates are reserved by choosing your preferred date on the application.
- Students need an application on file and fee submitted to take the placement test.
- An optional information session will be held for parents during testing and parents may also take a tour of the school.
- Students arrive to CMH at the InPro Gym (at approximately 7:45am for check-in).
- Students do not need to bring a calculator to the test. Only #2 pencils are needed for testing.
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Mission & Catholic Identity
Effective 2016-2021
Information and Technology and Media Skills
Effective 2012-2017
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