The Lion's Roar January 10, 2020

The Lion's Roar

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"We follow Jesus in our thoughts, words, and actions every day by learning to love, loving to serve, and serving to lead." ~SJPS student recited Mission

Dear SJPS Families,

We are deep into planning for our STREAM Open House evening on January 25th! PLEASE be sure to put this on your calendars as an event that you will not want to miss!

So what exactly is STREAM?

How does it differ from STEM?

Project Lead the Way (PLTW) https://www.pltw.org/ is our STEM focused curriculum for our 5K through 8th grade students. Our goal is to offer this learning to our 4K students beginning with the 2020-2021 school year too!

STEM represents science, technology, engineering and math. “STEAM” represents STEM plus the arts – some examples include the humanities, language arts, dance, drama, music, visual arts, design and new media. The main difference between STEM and STEAM is STEM explicitly focuses on scientific concepts. "STREAM" is our goal at St. Jerome Parish School! STREAM also incorporates and integrates our Catholic faith into our learning.

What a blessing to be able to bring it all together and teach the whole child!

On the evening of January 25th, we will be opening our 5K through 5th grade classrooms to allow our students to demonstrate their learning this year in PLTW. They will walk visitors through their projects and they are excited to share all that they have learned! The classroom teachers will be sending out information on signing up for time slots for the kids.

In addition, we will be having lab sessions with STEM challenges for kids! There will be a challenge for gr. 4 to 8 in our middle school science room and also one for 4K to gr. 3 in our dedicated STREAM room in our elementary wing.

Watch for sign up information in an upcoming email very soon to reserve your spot for these exciting challenges!

There will be much more to see and learn about on this night! Every area of our school, from our early learning art show all the way up to our middle school's High Interest Project displays will be highlighted. Learn and ask questions about Catechesis of the Good Shepherd, Theology of the Body, Virtues in Practice, Spanish, Music, Art and so much more!!

We are working on a "Passport" design for families to travel from room to room and learn as they go. The passports, once signed and completed, will be used to put into drawings for STREAM related prizes which total worth is over $200! (We had a very generous donor help us with this purchase ❤) We plan to have them on display on the stage the night of the event and during the parish Chili Supper--same night, beginning after the 4:30 p.m. Mass.

So you can see that we are busy with planning for this event and want to be sure to let everyone know that this is something that you will want on your family calendars.

Invite a family to attend with you and have them sign up for the

STEM challenges too! Show them our beautiful school and invite them to

Peace and all good,

Mrs. Mary Johnson

Fr. Tom Brundage

Tournament of the Stars

February 13 - 18 6th grade Girls & Boys, 7th grade Boys

February 20 - 25 5th grade Girls & Boys, 7th grade Girls

February 27 - March 3 8th grade Girls & Boys

St. Jerome needs your help! The Tournament of the Stars Basketball Tournament is held in February. It is the Athletic Association's largest fundraiser. The money raised pays for the sports programs at SJPS.

Volunteer opportunities are always available at our sporting events. Check out the link under Sports Corner.

The links below are documents to help support us. One is to have your name appear in the tournament program at various levels. The other is for advertisements.

Program Ads

Family/Friend Sponsors donations

School notes:

Here is a revised school calendar as of January 6. Please discard any previous versions.
Has your child grown out of his/her uniform? Remember to check out our uniform closet during school hours and see if something fits!
Our 3K Monday/Wednesday/Friday class is almost full for next year! If you have littles who are not currently attending, please begin the application process today. Here is the link to the new child application for 2020/21 school year. Spread the word to family, friends and neighbors about our school!
Click here to order lunch.
Register now for Chess Scholars and Let's Code it, beginning in January! See flyers
Alex Kluth is organizing a basketball event on January 12, 2019 to support Family Promise. Click here for details.
Gentle reminder -all submissions and flyers for the weekly Lion's Roar are due on WEDNESDAY each week. Thank you!

Upcoming Events

1/17 Little Lion's Den

1/29 Daytime Open House 8:30 - 10:30 a.m. for new families

1/29 Free lunch from Gourmet Gorilla to celebrate Catholic Schools Week

1/25 Chili Supper and S.T.R.E.A.M Open House kick off Catholic Schools Week!

1/30 8th grade vs. Parent Basketball game, Grades 3 & 4 Intramural Basketball game

Support St. Jerome

SCRIP- Shopwithscrip.com enrollment code is F231CF44477

Support St. Jerome Parish School through SCRIP, Piggly Wiggly Receipts, Box Tops for Education and Coca Cola! See our website for more information, www.stjerome.org

Box Tops - no clipping needed, download the app & scan receipts. Visit the website for details.

Sports Corner

Click here to support our teams while volunteering to help at games!

1, 2, 3 Go Lions!! Coaches please submit your results to the office each Monday on the forms sent home so we can put on the athletic bulletin board.!

Volunteer Hours

Do you need to record volunteer hours?

🦁Volunteers- Click on this link to submit your volunteer hours. (This link is for the hours for the 19/20 school year). Remember volunteer hours should only be logged for hours volunteered by parents which would apply to service you provided to the school .