December 18, 2019
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On behalf of your St. Francis Xavier Parish School Family, we wish you a Blessed and Joyful Christmas, and a Healthy, Happy New Year !

Thank You for your generosity and devoted stewardship in supporting
the mission of our school... We Pray, We Learn, We Serve
Representatives from Señora Gentile's Spanish class from grades 1, 3 and 4 led the school in praying the Hail Mary in Spanish in honor of the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe. Well done students!
SFX "elves" have been busy decorating classroom doors! How festive it all looks!
Last Call for Lost & Found!

Our Lost & Found "runneth over"! Items not claimed by noon on Friday will be donated. Please have your children look to see if anything is theirs. There are scarves, hats & clothing items of all types including a pair of boots!
Congratulations to the winners of the homeroom spelling bees!

The winners (listed first for each homeroom), will compete in the All-School Spelling Bee on Thursday, January 23 at 2:00 in the school gym. Runners up, (listed in parentheses), will compete in place of the winners if they are absent on the 23rd. 

The winner of our school bee will move on to the West 40 ISC Spelling Bee at McClure Junior High.

Room 203: Isla Riboul (Kevin Kanzer)
Room 206: Mick Mahoney (Claire Wheeler)
Room 11: Clare McCormick (Katie Quinlan)
Room 12: Owen Grech (RJ Pora)
Room 200: Michael Ramaglia (Mary Helen Trayser)
Room 301: Audrey Wheeler (Lily Martin)
Room 302: Joey Quinn (Drew Hyland)
Room 304: Maddie Stritch (Danny Janiszewski)
Room 306: Liam Smith (Brody Collins)
8th grade 1: Luke Martin (Frances Moroney)
8th grade 2: Eddie Casteneda (Annie Hejna)
8th grade 3: Neeve Olson (Alex Edwards)
IMPORTANT! School Messenger has a text messaging upgrade!

Next week the technology department from the Archdiocese of Chicago will send out a text message for parents and staff to opt in to receive the short code messages. As explained by School Messenger, since they use the short code, the receiver must approve getting the short code (text) messages.

Most importantly we want to communicate that this message is going out to our parents and staff so that they do not delete/ignore the text message when they receive it next week. Please CLICK HERE to read this important flyer! You MUST opt in to keep receiving school texts!

Here is a flyer regarding this new feature, however, it won’t be applicable till you’re received the text. 
As soon as a date is set by Arch tech people, you will be alerted. Please stay tuned for additional information and the text message when it comes.
PARENT ROSARY

THURSDAY, Dec. 19th, 8:15am
SFX CHAPEL (located next to Joyce Hall in the school)

Join us in serving the SFX Community with our prayers.  This week, we will specifically be praying for the PreK 4 class & their families. As always, bring your special intentions! As always, bring your specific special intentions.

Questions: contact Katie Kanzer k.f.kanzer@gmail.com or Karen Trayser karentrayser@yahoo.com.
no cars allowed
Parking Reminder for our wonderful parent volunteers... In a continued effort to keep the parking spaces in front of school open for pick-up of half day Early Childhood students, please remember to park south of the playground exit on Waiola (where the grass begins) when at school for more than 5 minutes. Thank you so very much for your cooperation and for your stewardship of your time and talent!
Early Childhood Dismissal

Reminder! Dismissal for All Day PreK4 and Kindergarten is now at 3:10 pm (previously 3:05 pm) in an effort to eliminate the amount of time that parents and early childhood children are waiting outside on the cold for their older siblings to dismiss.

12/19
All School Caroling 
2:30 pm (gym) 

12/20
Advent Prayer Service 10:00 am (gym)
Christmas Break begins with NOON Dismissal

Jan 6th Classes Resume

Buona Beef Fundraiser
1/14/20 10:30am-10pm


CHECK HERE EVERY WEEK - MORE TO COME!


Click & Clap is our year-round positive recognition program allowing families to acknowledge special moments, and thank a SFX Faculty or Staff member for something they have done that has left a positive impression on a student or on your family in a special way.
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Shop For SFX

Y our family has the option of getting 40% of the profit back as a tuition credit, or you can choose to send your credit to another family or return it to the school.
 
HOW TO ENROLL:
 
1)     www.ShopwithScrip.com   and click on Join a Program.
2)     Enter our enrollment code: 5471CCD65575L
3)    Enter a user name, password, and your account information. Fill in the validation, click Register, and you can start earning money for SFX!



 
Did you know that when you shop for the holidays at:
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Use SFX ID # 70032987
at Office Max - program is valid all year long!