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414-249-5048
elmbrook@goriteway.com
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State Representative Mr. Wichgers, father of Grace, came to talk to the 4th graders following our visit to the State Capitol last month!
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Save the Date
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May 24
K4 Superhero Day
May 27
NO SCHOOL MEMORIAL DAY
May 28
K5 and 5th grade Zoo Trip
Track Party
DARE Graduation
8th grade Retreat
May 30
K3 Last Day of School
K4 Fly Up
8th grade Dance
8th grade Parent Social
May 31
K3 Last Day
8th grade Breakfast
Mass
Honors program
Graduation
June 3
Field Day
June 4
Last Day of School
School Dismissed at 10
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| K4 students checking out our beautiful flowers |
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| 6th graders measuring slopes |
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Mission and Catholic Identity 2016-2021
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8th grade Spanish Field Trip
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| First graders in the Makerspace |
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K5 students donating food for the Congregation of the Great Spirit
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| 8th graders outside doing their rocket lab with Mr. Biernat |
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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 May 23, 2019
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Dear Families,
Summer is almost upon us. We can finally feel the warm breezes calling us to fun activities and hopefully a slower pace of life. With the end of the school year comes graduation. Next week, we are saying goodbye to our 8
th
graders. The graduates have worked hard for the past ten years. They have been striving to "Encourage One Another and Build Each Other Up". They have grown spiritually, morally, intellectually, emotionally, personally and socially within the community of St. Mary's Parish and School. We send them forth into a larger community with the hope and prayer that they will continue to develop to their full potential as Catholic leaders.
We would like to recognize the families that have their last or only child graduating from St. Mary's. Thank you for all you have done for us these many years.
The RobFuller Family
The Ragonese Family
The Goldammer Family
The Schmainda Family
The Kalmer Family
The Schneider Family
The Kroog Family
The Seitz Family
The Mihm Family
The Stewart Family
The Mueller Family
Just a reminder, please make sure after school care and hot lunch balances are paid. We would like to close our books at the end of the school year.
SAVE THE DATE- Saturday October 19, is the date for the Catholic Schools Walk. Money raised this year will go to the Outdoor Classroom Fund.
Have a wonderful and safe holiday weekend.
Faithfully,
Mrs. Mary Tretow
Principal
K3 enjoying a special treat
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Time to return all library books! Please search your house and return all library books by Friday, May 24.
If your child participated in the Read to Succeed program, the ticket to Six Flags will be sent home on Friday, May 24. Please ask your child and contact Miss Benson if you do not receive your ticket.
Several parents have asked about recommended summer reading lists for their children. There are many such lists on the Internet. My personal favorite is the HAISLN Recommended Reading List. This list is updated every year with new books, while including some tried and true classics. Here is the link:
Please also see a fine list of recommendations at your public library.
All children in grades 3-8 practice keyboarding regularly at school. Jr. High students can become members of our Typing Hall of Fame by exceeding 50 words per minute. Click here for our current list of names.
Hot Lunch News
The end of the year is fast approaching! Now is the time to make sure your hot lunch balance is positive and ready to finish out the year. There are 16 lunch days left, which amounts to $56 (plus Field Day) if your child takes lunch every day. Balances will be sent out this weekend, so you will know where you stand, or you can log in to your online account at any time. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
School Supplies for Next Year
Summer Tutoring
Are you interested in continuing your child(ren)'s exemplary education throughout the summer? There are several SMV teachers who would love to work with children over the summer to help them continue their academic growth. Please contact the following teachers for more information. Thank you!
Mrs. Klein nklein@stmaryeg.org
Mr. Falk mfalk@stmaryeg.org
Miss Gleason kgleason@stmaryeg.org
Medication
If your child has any medication that is kept in the school office, please remember to pick it up on or before the last day of school, June 4, 2019.
All medications left will be properly disposed of.
Makerspace Items Needed
Please send in duct tape, Clorox wipes, jars and containers, feathers, craft sticks, Bendaroos, pipe cleaners, sequins, q-tips, egg cartons, and any other craft supplies. Thank you!!
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Home & School Volunteers
Calling all parents! I'd love to help you find a way to give of your time and talent at St. Marys! Take a moment and fill out this google doc! Many hands make light work! Let's make 2019/2020 EPIC!
SMV Dine Out Day at Culver's
Thank you to the Braatz family and to everyone who joined us and helped out at Culver's on Tuesday! We appreciate your help and hope you enjoyed an excuse to Dine Out!
Memorial Day Parade
Are you planning to walk with SMV in the Elm Grove Memorial Day Parade? For planning purposes, we would like to have an idea of the number of walkers. Please let us know by responding here. Thank you!!!
Field Day
Field Day is Monday June 3rd. Please come help make it a blast for the kids. Thank you to all who have signed up and will donate supplies. We are in need of more on hand
volunteers.
We can not run the bounce houses without enough parental supervision. Any amount of time you have to spare is much appreciated. Come for an early or late lunch hour.... or stay after drop off for a half hour to help set up. Younger siblings welcome too and we'll have lots of entertainment for them. Share with high school alum and their friends. Lunch provided for volunteers.
We are also looking to borrow carnival or lawn type games. Donated and borrowed supplies and games may be dropped off in the atrium next week. Please label.
Field Day Lunch: $5/lunch with sub, chips, cookie and drink. Form will close 8am Friday May 24. Form needs to be completed to order a Subway lunch or a cold lunch from SMV. Do not complete if you bring a cold lunch from home. Send cash or check into office.
SCRIP
Please help us buy down our SCRIP inventory of physical gift cards in the office, available through the end of the year. Lots of great retailers available. Cash or checks made to SMV Home and School.
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Recently SMV welcomed our newest students at the K3/K4 Preview Night. For this event, the K3/K4 teachers organized a fun evening in their classrooms. Students and their parents were able to check out the classrooms, meet other families, and participate in songs and activities. The teachers even had the kids planting flowers in SMV flowerpots! It was a wonderful evening of fellowship. We look forward to seeing all these smiles in our classrooms next year!
And with that you will find a few things that are Positively SMV!
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Want to be the Concession King or Queen?
The Concessions Open/Close team is looking for 2 volunteers for the 2019/2020 School year. Responsibilities are to open/set up the concessions area before Volleyball and Basketball games and to close/count cash afterwards. This is a 1 time per month commitment. This is great for any parent with multiple school athletes as it reduces the amount of time required in the concessions booth. Please consider sharing your time and talent in support of our Athletics department. Contact Belinda Russell 404-433-5165 for more information.
SMV T-Ball
T-ball at SMV is right around the corner! Students entering K3-2nd grade in fall of 2019 are eligible to participate. As in the years past, t-ball will be on Wednesday nights from 6-7pm at the fields north of the church parking lot. The season begins Wednesday, June 12th and goes through Wednesday, July 24th with no practice/game on July 3rd. Please watch for the sign up sheet next week! You will need to fill out
two forms. The first one is the sign-up form and the second one is the waiver. A big THANK YOU to all of the parents/grandparents who are considering volunteering their time as coaches! This program would not be successful or possible without all of you so when filling out the form, please consider helping out!! If you have any questions, please contact Anne Mueller at 414-322-9060 or amdalecky@gmail.com. Thanks again!
Parent Meeting and Sign Up for Volleyball - Fall 2019
Tuesday, May 28th, 2019
Time: 6:00 pm in the school gym
We encourage all parents to attend this informational meeting.
Parents of any child going into 5th grade, this is a mandatory meeting.
Track
Four things....
1. Thank you...
-To the Lord for allowing us to compete through the challenging weather, keeping the athletes safe and injury free, and allowing us coach the team!!
-To the coaches (Brad Conners, Patrick Costigan, Sharon Haas, Matt Hynek, Amy Henry, Natalie Mussatto, and Mike Schmainda) thank you for your continued support of the team!
-To the volunteers (Harmeyer, Steigerwald, Haas, and Raster families) for working the long jump event.
-To Mark Olbrantz for organizing and taking pictures over the last weekends. We'll be shuffling these at the track party and are working on a way to distribute these to the team.
-To the parents, for coming out to watch your kids compete!
2. 5/25 meet sign up! Last meet! Don't fill it out more than once...If you haven't already please get this in by 5pm today!
You'll note the medley relays in this meet. Here is the format...
1 boy team and 1 girl team each run
5th Grade, 200M
6th Grade, 200M
7th Grade, 400M
8th Grade, 800M
3. Meet Results...
Coaches' moments...
- Raster breaking the 5th grade long jump record and getting close to 6th!!
- Raster and L. Swietlik racing in the same heat...so much fun to watch these two ladies battle it out!!!
- 4x400Ms
- a. Lowden stepping in to handle a leg in the 6th grade boys
- b. The Sayas boys and Mitchell Henry for organizing the teams and chasing down the meet director to get them in!
- c. Mitchell Henry and Daniel Sayas running in both the 6th and 8th grade 4x400, within minutes of each other, and placing in both!
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