November 16, 2018
A MESSAGE FROM MRS. STALLMANN
Hello St. Alphonsus Families,

As we get close to our Thanksgiving break, I hope everyone has a wonderful time with family and friends. Now is the time to look back and give thanks for all that we have and find ways to help those less fortunate. We just finished our Thanksgiving Baskets that will be donated to House of Peace. Together with Christian Formation we filled approximately 100 boxes of food. We also raised over $900 to help purchase turkeys for the St. Alphonsus Food Pantry and we collected over $300 and made over 150 boxes of shower supplies to give to the St. Vincent De Paul Healing Waters program. So many ways we have given to others! Thank you to everyone for donating to these worthy causes. Please keep scrolling to see pictures of this week's happenings.

I spoke with Mrs. Radish and she has been receiving chemotherapy. She says she is tolerating it pretty well with some side effects. She did ask me to relay this message to all of you, in part saying “I was wondering if you would consider putting something in the newsletter on my behalf thanking parents and students for all their support, especially the perpetual rosary being said. I am grateful beyond words for your prayers and support.” We do have a few open spots left for the 2018 year for our Perpetual Rosary so if you have not signed up yet, please prayerfully consider. We will start a Perpetual Rosary for 2019 in a month or so and hope to have that filled for the remaining school year. We all know praying is powerful and especially children’s prayers.
I hope you have had an opportunity to view our new School Website. Below are the steps to access the Middle School Homework Site: 

  • Go to the St. Al's website
  • Click on Staff Directory
  • Search for Teacher's name
  • Click on link: Upper Grade Homework Site
  • Click on the Tab: Calendar/Homework
  • Scroll to Grade 5/6/7/8
  • Click on Grade Level Homework Link

Have a wonderful weekend and a Happy Thanksgiving.
 
Mary Stallmann
**WE WILL NOT HAVE A NEWSLETTER NEXT WEEK DUE
TO THE SHORT WEEK.**
SAFETY PATROL   

Cadets should report at 7:20 a.m. each scheduled day. Please come in through the Cougar Club entrance on Churchway. They will have the privileged responsibility of assisting our parents and students during morning drop off. They are supervised by a staff member.  


November 19-20
Mrs. Boyle, Room 412
Kyle A.
Tyler B.
Marshall B.
Clara F.
CALENDAR NOTES

11/20/18 Mass of Thanksgiving 8:00 AM 

11/21/18 No School

11/22/18 No School - Thanksgiving Day

11/23/18 No School

11/26/18 Dine Out Night - Toppers Pizza - 2842 W. Rawson Ave., Franklin 4 - 8PM

11/27/18 Dine Out Night -Toppers Pizza - 2842 W. Rawson Ave., Franklin 4 - 8PM

11/28/18 Unity T-shirt Day

11/28/18 Mass 8:00 AM 

11/28/18 Dine Out Night - Toppers Pizza - 2842 W. Rawson Ave., Franklin 4 - 8PM

11/29/18 Dine Out Non-Uniform Day
11/30/18 Non-Uniform Day


Dear St. Alphonsus School Community,

Thank you to all who have joined in on our Perpetual Rosary to lift up the needs of our teachers Mrs. Radish and Mrs. Sokup. We still have openings in December as well as January. Please consider signing up for a day (or more if you wish) to say the Rosary on their behalf, ideally with your family members. If you need guidance regarding how to say the Rosary, please click the link below. We can’t underestimate the power of prayer. Thank you for your kindness. If you would like to sign up, please click on SignUp Genius link to select a date.


THE SCHOLASTIC BOOK FAIR IS COMING!

Home and School is once again excited to offer the Scholastic Book Fair this coming Catholic Schools’ Week! The event will be held the week of January 21st-25th for the children during school hours, and then it will be open to the Parish community before and after masses on January 26th and 27th. Home and School is once again offering a pre-sale of $5 Gift Certificates that can be used during the Fair. These certificates make great stocking stuffers for Christmas for both kiddos AND teachers!

To keep the process simple this year, certificates can be ordered via email with payment due through backpack mail. Orders and payment will be due by December 12th, with certificates sent home with students the week of December 17th so that they will be able to be given for Christmas.

Please contact Jennifer Nencka at drjennypt@gmail.com with any questions. You can also use the same email for orders. Please indicate the number of $5 certificates that you would like to order, along with the NAME, ROOM NUMBER, and TEACHER of the child who will receive the certificates in backpack mail. Please designate one child per family to bring the certificates home. Payments can be made via cash or check (made out to St. Alphonsus Home and School) and should be sent to Jen Nencka, c/o Ella Nencka, Mrs. Ladenthin, Room 303.

Happy Reading!
JOIN HOME & SCHOOL FOR DINE OUT WITH
ST. AL'S AT TOPPERS PIZZA

The next Dine Out with St. Al’s night is scheduled for November 26-28, 2018 at Toppers Pizza (2842 W. Rawson, Franklin, WI) from 4-8pm each night. The attached flyer  must be presented. Toppers Pizza will donate 20% of proceeds to St. Al’s Home & School to support our school’s fundraising efforts. Students who bring in their Toppers Pizza receipt to school on Thursday, November 29, 2018 are eligible to be out of uniform that day . See you all there!

ST. NICK'S BREAKFAST

Our 22 nd  Annual Breakfast with St. Nicholas and his Friends will be Sunday, December 2, at 10:15 a.m. It is time to reserve your seats for this fun, family, Advent parish event. Our 8 th  grade school students all become saints and help St. Nicholas, both by sharing tidbits of information on the lives of our Catholic Saints and handing out trinkets for all the children as memories of this day.
 
All seats are reserved. A flyer was in the bulletin last weekend, and a reservation form is also on the parish website home page. Join us with your young children, family, relatives and senior friends.  It is fun for everyone. Seats go fast and are assigned as we receive them.


VOLUNTEERS NEEDED FOR BREAKFAST WITH ST. NICK'S AND HIS FRIENDS.
 
Volunteers are needed to help with this event. The 8 th  graders are the Saints so we look to the 6 th  and 7 th  graders to help us as servers. We also need adults to host at the tables, 9:30 – 11:30 am. We also need set-up help on Saturday evening, December 1, from 5:30 – 7:00 pm, and clean up help from 11:30 am – to 12:30 pm, on Sunday morning.
 
A link to the volunteer form is below. You can return it through school to Mrs. Monacelli or email  kathym@st-alphonsus.org  if you can help. We do feed all volunteers first at 9 am at the minimal cost of $4.00.
 
Finally, we always look for desserts to complete our meal. If you can bake some cookies, bars, etc., please let us know. You can bring them in Saturday evening or early Sunday morning. Thank you.

ST. AL'S ANNUAL COOKIE WALK

Cookie Walk is just three weeks away! To continue the success of St. Al's annual Christmas cookie sale, we hope each family can bake at least 4 dozen festive homemade holiday cookies to be sold after masses December 8th and 9th. Our parishioners really look forward to the wonderful treats made by our families each year!  If baking is not your thing, please sign up to help collect, arrange, or sell cookies during this holiday event. 

Complete and return the attached form before Thanksgiving and commit to bake at least 4 dozen cookies for a chance to win a Pick N Save gift card for baking supplies! We will be passing out cookie containers in the morning car line on Thursday, November 29. Just fill them up with your homemade treats and return them on Friday, December 7th. If you have questions please contact Amy Shambarger at law4amy@hotmail.com .

UPDATES FROM THE DESK OF MRS. THIELE

Our second set of STAR testing is underway. Teachers are looking over results to inform their teaching moving forward. These are so helpful as we are working to meet the individual needs of all of our students. Results will be coming home with students on November 30th in a sealed envelope addressed to parents. 

Our trimester will come to a close on November 28th. Teachers will then have an opportunity to finalize grades and report cards will be released on December 5th . With the trimester ending, the VBRD team is planning a Kindness Celebration on November 30th. Students will be sent on a scavenger hunt around the building with questions related to Advent and Christmas. They will end back in their homerooms for a festive treat.


Thank you to the class of 2018 Girl Scouts
As the new trimester begins, we are looking forward to some activities created by last year’s eighth grade Girl Scout Troop. They decided to give back to the St. Alphonsus community for their Silver Award . They created monthly activities for all grade levels along with some take home items. We were also given clings for walls and doors with inspirational sayings on kindness. All of this was presented to the teachers on Tuesday November 13th. This was an enormous amount of work to strengthen our community that will have lasting impact here at St. Al’s. We are so excited to roll this out in December. Thank you to Abby K., Julianna T., Maggie, Isabella, Julianna B., and Abby G.
CHESS SCHOLARS

It's time to sign up for for next session of Chess Scholars. Please see the attached flyer for more information.

8 th  GRADE OUT-OF-UNIFORM SALE****SALE EXTENDED
 
The sale of the 8 th  Grade Out-of-Uniform passes has been extended. If you have not yet purchased passes, simply complete the attached form and return it to school with payment at any time.

CONGRATULATIONS TO THE 5TH GRADE GIRLS VOLLEYBALL TEAMS!  
5th Grade Blue Team –
Took 1st Place
Team members include: Kelsey, Aubree, Emily, Hailey, Reese, Clara, Teagan, Julia, Aida, Kennedy, Hanna (Not Pictured: Izabella)
Coach Greenberg, Coach Killoran
5th Grade Gold Team –
Took 2nd Place
Team members include: Tabitha, Leksi, Madison, Luise, Kaitlyn, Isabella, Kyleigh, Katie, Grace, Lizzie ( Not Pictured: Giselle)
KINDNESS MATTERS
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IN THE COMMUNITY
SCRIP TIPS
Did you know that you can pay your Kohl’s charge bill with Scrip fundraising gift cards? This means that you can still get all of your charge account holder benefits, including discounts, while paying all or part of your bill with gift cards each month. Kohl’s cards are available in $10, $25, $50, and $100 denominations.
 
Starbucks gift cards are great to give as gifts or to keep in the car as a treat for yourself! They are available in $10 & $25 denominations and can easily be added to your Starbucks app, allowing you to earn/redeem free drinks from Starbucks while supporting St. Alphonsus at the same time.

When and where is Scrip available in coming weeks?
  • Sat. Nov. 17th 4:00 - 4:30pm in the Community Room
  • Sun. Nov. 18th 8:30 - 11:00am in the Community Room
  • Wed. Nov. 21st No School – No Scrip sales
  • Thurs. Nov. 22nd Happy Thanksgiving – No Scrip sales
  • Fri. Nov. 23rd Happy Thanksgiving – No Scrip sales
  • Sat. Nov. 24th 4:00 - 4:30pm in the Community Room
  • Sun. Nov. 25th 8:30 - 11:00am in the Community Room
  • Thurs. Nov. 29th Backpack mail sent home
  • Fri. Nov. 30th 7:30-8:30 am in the School Lobby
  • Sat. Dec. 1st 4:00 - 4:30pm in the Community Room
  • Sun. Dec. 2nd 8:30 - 11:00am in the Community Room
 
 
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