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Principal Notes February 2, 2017
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Dear Families,
What a wonderful Open House we had on Sunday! Thank you to everyone on our Advancement Committee, especially Carrie Lennon and Nora Mihm. Many behind the scene hours of work go into making this day successful. It is because of you, our parents, that we are such a success. A special thank you to the Boy Scouts for all the pancakes they made to feed our prospective families. We heard many positive comments from parishioners and new families.
Principals for a day auction winners: Mark and Ellie Lemberger enjoyed a day with Mrs. Tretow.
Report cards will be going home with your student today. MAP testing results will be sent electronically today also. Conferences will be on Thursday, February 9th from 2:00-7:00. Dismissal is at 11:00. Conferences are not mandatory. If you would like to see your child's teacher, please click on the appropriate link to reserve your spot.
Our bucket is running over this month in academic excellence.
Science Fair winners:
8th grade-1st place William Schumacher, 2nd place Sarah Eberle, 3rd place (tie) Sonali Muthupandiayan, Max Merrick and John Schlifske, 4th place Maggie Wichgers and Hannah Fuller
7th grade-1st place(tie) Kate Swietlik, Lucy Eberle and Ellie Berens, Gabe Wollersheim, Joe Walters, Sebastian Kasun, and Andrew Hodermann, 2nd place (tie) Michalene McQuide, Jack Scott and Jake Merrick, 3rd place(tie) Bella Kim and Ali Larsen, Sofia Spano and Sarah Winkler, 4th place Savanna Kaczynski, Maggie Zierer, Jeslyn Singson and Abby Laughlin
6th grade-1st place Nina Anglim and Felicity Giampietro, 2nd place (tie) Grace Walters, Ben Schneider, 3rd place Mikey Schlifske, Matthew Schmainda and Tommy Wichgers, 4th place Christian Sinense and Joe Stewart
Engineering Design-1st place Timothy Swietlik, Nick Hansen, William Hansen, 2nd place Grace Seitz, 3rd place Grant Grunau and Jacob Griffin, 4th place Matthew Stiegerwald
Geography Bee-1st place Timothy Swietlik, 2nd place Andrew Hodermann.
The Schools Office for the Archdiocese of Milwaukee has published their first, comprehensive Catholic Schools' Annual Report. Please click
here to read it.
Please click
here
for Archbishop Listecki's weekly "Love One Another" message.
Faithfully,
Mary Tretow
Some of the retired SMV teachers and School Sisters of Notre Dame who taught school joined us at Mass to celebrate National Catholic Schools week.
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Office Notes
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Hot Lunch
Can you believe it's February already? Time to add more funds into your child's hot lunch account. There are 17 school days this month, so if they take lunch every day, that's approximately $56 per child. Don't forget a little extra for milk or supers! Please remember that lunch is a
pre-pay
system. Do not wait for an overdrawn notice before you take action. You can send a check to school (please put your children's names and amounts in the memo) or pay online for a small fee. If you haven't set up an account to monitor your balance yet, now is a great time to get started. Email
cfalk@stmaryeg.org
to ask for your children's ID numbers (or find them on a recent MAP Results email), and then visit
schoolpaymentportal.com
to get going. Thanks for your cooperation!
Help SMV Collect items
We are still collecting peanut butter for the Hunger Task Force. We are collecting new socks for Milwaukee area agencies servicing those in need. Pop tops, ink cartridges and Box tops are also collected at SMV.
Six Flags Read to Succeed
Students in K5 through grade 6 are invited to participate in the Six Flags Read to Succeed program. After completing a reading log verifying six hours of reading, students earn a free ticket to Six Flags Great America. Please see the links to print the reading log and parent letter. All reading logs must be returned no later than February 27. Please contact Miss Benson in the library if you have any questions.
Elementary Forensics
Registration forms are due on Monday, February 6th! We really want as many 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders to participate as possible. Friday, March 10th will be our in-house Forensics Fest starting at 9:00am. Coaching sessions will be offered after school on these Mondays: February 6, Feb. 13th, and Feb. 27th. All coaching sessions will be held in the library from 2:45-3:30pm. We are looking for parent volunteers to help out on these Mondays. Please sign up to help at one of these coaching sessions on the orange registration form that was sent home to you! The orange registration forms are due by Monday, February 6th. Any questions, email Ann Scott asartini@yahoo.com or Julie Perez jperez@stmaryeg.org
Chess
Chess will be offered at SMV through Chess Scholars this year. It will be on Fridays after school for seven weeks beginning January 13th. Please see the
flyer located on the left under Home & School/Athletic/Community links for more information. I will continue to work with DJ Richlen to have a competitive team as well. We will meet on Sunday afternoons to have practice for the competitive players, and we will attend the All-Catholic Meet at MU on Saturday, March 11th and the Grade Level Meet at UWM on Saturday, April 4th. Please sign up here
https://goo.gl/forms/VErpQM4lhevbx7iu1
if you are interested in the SMV Chess Team. Questions? Email me at
brigidharmeyer@me.com
Thank you, Brigid Harmeyer
8th graders did a buddy project with the K3 students.
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Auction News
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The upcoming long weekend is the perfect time to dig out your high school dance photos. Enjoy some quality family time sharing stories about your high school days -- the big hair, the acid washed jeans, when phones had cords, when you had to get up to change the TV channel, and why you were crying Christmas night when you heard that George Michael passed away! Please send electronic or hard copies of your photos to Jr. High Theology teacher Mr. Gary Newman, gnewman@stmaryeg.org.
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The B
oy Scouts were hard at work flipping pancakes at the SMV Open House.
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Basketball Concession Stand Update
In December and January, there were several occasions when there were 2, and even 3, high school subs working the same shift. This is unacceptable. We are entering the final month of the concessions season. Please follow the 1 high school student per shift policy. If the abuse of this policy continues, SMV Athletics will be forced to re-evaluate the hiring of subs for the 2017-18 seasons. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Volleyball Camp
Coach Casey will be returning to SMV the week of July 24-27 to run volleyball camp for boys and girls currently in grades 3 through 7. It is a FUN and instructional camp for players at all levels. It is a great way to learn the skills needed to play for your school teams, or fine tune the skills of a club level player. Kids will learn passing, setting, spiking and serving fundamentals while participating in fun games and drills.
Students enjoyed a relay race during Catholic Schools week.
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Parish News
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Good Grief -- A 12 Week Bereavement Support Group
Losing a loved one can be one of the most difficult, painful things we experience in our lives.
To help people through their grief journey, St. Mary's offers a 12 week "Good Grief" Support Group led by Certified Grief Counselor, Deacon Tom Binder. Previous participants have experienced significant healing and have rediscovered peace, joy and love in their lives.
If you're ready to move forward in your grief journey and smile again, why not join our Good Grief Support Group? Perhaps you could suggest Good Grief to a relative or friend.
Sessions will be held on
Wednesday mornings, March 8 through May 24, in the Atrium Library, from 10-11:30 am.
Class size is limited. Registration is required. Contact Mary Sue at the Parish Office, 262-782-4575
or
msprotz@stmaryeg.org.
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