Saint Michael's Minutes 11.7.17

New Counselor, Parent Teacher Conferences, Turkey Trot

Saint Michael's Minutes

Teaching Children their value as Children of God

Principal's Notes

Dear parents and families,

Thank you to everyone who joined us for All Saints Day Mass and our All Saints Day presentations by our 2nd graders. Mrs. Tette and Mrs. Howard, as well as our 8th grade students, worked with the 2nd graders to ensure they were experts in their saints biographies. Great job 2nd grade!

Some quick notes:

Thursday, Nov 9: 11:30 Dismissal for Parent Teacher Conferences
Friday, Nov 10: No School; Parent Teacher Conferences
Sunday, Nov 12: Red Cross Blood Drive, 9:00 AM - 2:30 PM in school gym
Tuesday, Nov 14: Health Screening for grades 1, 4, 7
Wednesday, Nov 22: Turkey Trot, 11:30 Dismissal
Thursday, Nov 23: No School, Thanksgiving
Friday, Nov 24: No School
Monday, Nov 27, No School

I am thrilled to welcome our new counselor, Ms. Lisa McAuliffe to Saint Michaels School! Ms. McAuliffe. has just joined us this week and will be introducing herself to your children early next week. She has a background as a counselor, as an assistant teacher, and a reading therapist. Ms. McAuliffe has a Bachelor's in Kinesiological Science, and her Masters of Education in School Counseling. A flyer with more information about our counseling program will be sent home tomorrow.

Poinsettia sales have begun! This is a very important school fundraiser and we need support from all our students. The top three students sellers will win a gift card!

TurkeyTrot sponsor forms will be coming home soon. We have some exciting and fun prizes if we hit our goals, so be on the look out and start warming up those legs! You'll have the chance to make a turkey out of your principal this year!

Parent and Teacher conference sign ups are being done using SignUpGenius.com. Please check on our school website, under Parent Resources and click "Conference Sign Up." Choose your child's teacher(s) and the time slot which works best for you. Our middle school parents will have three 10 minute session where they will meet with two teachers at a time.

We will be offering All Day AfterCare on Friday, November 10th for those families that need to work or do not have child care during their conference. The rate for the full-day or conference only childcare will be including in the Wednesday folder.

Lunch room duties are now being managed through SignUpGenius.com. An email went out with the link and it is also available on the school website. Please sign up for the shift which works best for you.

God bless,

Daniel Cinalli

Principal

St. Michael's Blood Drive - Call for Donors

St. Michael Parish will be hosting a Red Cross Blood Drive on Sunday, November 12, 2017 from 9:00 AM to 2:30 PM in the school gymnasium. If you are able to donate blood and are interested in donating, please contact the Blood Drive chairman, Joe Provenzano at jprov51@yahoo.com and he will help schedule an appointment.

If you prefer to sign up on your own, you can do so on the Red Cross website: redcrossblood.org and enter STMICHAELSANNANDALE in the "Find a Drive" window.

You can also call 1-800-733-2767 to schedule an appointment by phone.

According to the Red Cross, since 2003, St. Michael's blod donors have touches the lives of up to 2,124 people producing more than 709 units or almost 90 gallons of blood. A tremendous offer. We are about 20 donors away from our goal this year, so please consider making a donation.

Our 7th graders used Sour Patch Kids and toothpicks to create two chemical compounds we used in lab, specifically NH4OH and HCl.

The 6th graders used Starburst to simulate the "rock cycle," which we've been talking about in our Weathering and Erosion unit. We cut and mixed up the Starburst to parallel sediment deposition, smushed the Starburst together in our hands to create sedimentary rock, pressed the Starburst under books to create metamorphic rock, and then put the Starburst on a hot plate to mimic metamorphic rock melting into magma and then cooling into igneous rock.

Our Student Artists of the Month! Their amazing artwork will grace our halls for the next few weeks!

“In all created things discern the providence and wisdom of God, and in all things give Him thanks.”

- St. Teresa of Avila

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