Elementary Announcements
August 12, 2021
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What's Happening This Week? |
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Thursday, August 12
- First Day of School! Welcome Back!
- Lunch - Chicken Strips
- Joke - What do you get when you throw a lot of books into the ocean?
Friday, August 13
- Lunch - Pizza
- Joke - What has four wheels and flies?
Monday, August 16
- Lunch - Bagels
- Joke - Why couldn’t the bicycle stand up?
Tuesday, August 17
- Lunch - Chicken Patty
- Joke - What do you call a boomerang that doesn’t come back?
Wednesday, August 18
- Lunch - Hamburger
- Joke - Why did the man take his clock to the vet?
Thursday, August 19
- Virtual Parent Night
- Lunch - Pork Chop
- Joke - What did the mouse say to the other mouse when he tried to steal his cheese?
Friday, August 19
- Beginning of the Year Prayer Service
- Lunch - Cheese Max Sticks
- Joke - Which is faster, heat or cold?
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School Prayer
Oh God, creator of the universe, You hold each of us in the palm of Your hand. Extend to each member of the Villa community an awareness of your presence, your healing, and your peace. Help us to love and respect one another, to develop our gifts to the best of our abilities, and to use those gifts in the service of others. Help us work together to grow into mature Christian people. We ask this in the name of Jesus, Your son, and our brother. Amen.
Pledge of Allegiance
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
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Welcome to the first day of school! We are very excited to begin a new school year together. This school year we welcome 70 new students to Villa in grades K-6. Please remember to show the Benedictine spirit of hospitality to each of the new students today and throughout the rest of the school year.
Many wonderful things have happened around school over the summer. You will notice clean classrooms and hallways, freshly painted classrooms and playground, updated posters in hallways, and touch-less faucets and hand towel dispensers in bathrooms. In addition, you will notice the beautiful banners lining the drive around the school building. These are an excellent reminder of the Benedictine values that help provide us all with a foundation for a life filled with happiness and peace.
Arrival: Students, thank you for doing such a wonderful job entering the building this morning. Ms. Haskamp, Mrs. Wuebben and Mrs. Bosley will greet you at these doors each morning. Once you come inside the building, you will see teachers throughout the hallways. They will help you get to your classroom. Don’t forget to tell your teachers good morning!
Lunch/Recess: Your teachers are going to explain how to go through the lunch line and find your spot to eat lunch. After lunch, we will head outside for recess (or to the gym - weather permitting)
Dismissal: Many of you are already familiar with the dismissal procedure, but it is always good to review the rules in case you have forgotten or are learning. At 2:40, your homeroom teacher will bring you to an assigned hallway. We will all get quiet and say an end of the day prayer together. Then, teachers will begin calling carpool names. Listen carefully for your name. When you hear your name, walk to the Holy Spirit doors and wait at one of the blue numbers on the patio pavers until your car pulls forward and stops. The teachers on duty will then ask you to get into your car. Please remember to pay attention and listen to the teachers in charge at dismissal time.
Have a wonderful day meeting your new teacher and learning more about your classmates and upcoming school year!
Blessings,
Mrs. Soshana Bosley
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Happy Birthday!
Birthdays will be announced each day. August birthdays may be out of uniform on 8/31.
3 James Wang 5 Giana Stapleton
9 Joey Ernst 12 Anna Bacon
14 Simon Hughes 15 Jack Holmes
16 Max Bakkum, Oliver Hessling, Mrs. Eichmann
17 Mclane Krieg, Mrs. Wuebben
21 Caleb Wolkenberg 22 Lucia Adams
We will add more August names to our list later in the month!
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Welcome
We welcome all of our new elementary students, faculty members, Ms. Althaver and Mrs. Borchardt, and therapy dog, Corie, to Villa Madonna Academy. Please be sure to show our new Villa family members some true Benedictine hospitality! You can show this value by greeting others, speaking in a caring/respectful manner, welcoming others to join your conversations, being courteous, say things that build people up, use good manner, use eye contact and listen.
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Forms
Students, many of you have already returned the forms that were included in the opening of school packets. If you have not returned the forms, please do so as soon as possible.
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Gym Uniform
We sold so many gym uniforms we have to place another order for supplies! We have a few youth large shirts and shorts. We will let you know when other sizes are back in stock. Gym Uniforms can be purchased throughout the school year from the main office.
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Dear Parents,
Our first day seems to be going very well! We thank our families for their help in making sure students were ready for school today. We thank our teachers for making the students feel comfortable and excited about the year. We thank our students for being such good listeners and for bringing life back into the building!
We are dedicated to taking on the responsibility of educating children in the most challenging pandemic of our lifetime. We have no doubt that our students will get our best effort. We also need every single one of our families to give us their best effort as well. This year we will need everyone on board with what we must do each day.
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DO NOT send your child to school if they are sick. If your child has a fever before coming to school, Tylenol will only “mask” it for a few hours. If during our temperature checks we discover a fever, there are protocols which we must put in place by our back to school policy, in accordance with the CDC. Keep your child home if there is a fever, or other defined coronavirus symptoms.
- Be cooperative and patient. There will be times when you may not agree with the protocols we must follow. There may also be times when we are not able to answer a question as quickly as we would have in the past because we are with the students and have no planning blocks built into the school hours. We thank you for your patience and your trust in our teaching professionals.
Thank you for all that you have done to prepare your child for the new school year!
Sincerely,
Mrs. Soshana Bosley
COVID-19 Resources: The Diocese of Covington has shared its guidance on the reopening of schools. The information may be found here.
Forms: Don’t forget to turn in your completed beginning of the year forms that can be found in the Opening of School Packet. These forms need to be signed and returned on the first day of school. The updated 2021-2022 school handbook has been placed on our website as has important information about our return to school.
Parent Night: Our annual parent night will be conducted via a virtual grade level meeting the night of August 19. Grade level teachers will be communicating a link that will allow you to join the virtual meeting for your child's grade level.
Grade 5 and Grade 6 @ 6:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Grade 3 and Grade 4 @ 6:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Grade 1 and Grade 2 @ 7:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Kindergarten @ 7:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Grading Scale: Grades K – 3 will still report student progress via a skills based report card. The grading scale for grades 4 – 6 is:
A+ = 100 A = 99-93 A- = 92-90;
B+ = 89-87 B = 86-83 B- = 82-80
C+ = 79-77 C = 76-73 C- = 72-70;
D+ = 69-67 D = 66-63 D- = 62-60;
F = 59 or below.
Communication: Once a week (typically Monday) you will receive a weekly email with general school information and announcements for grades K-6. You will also receive an email on Wednesday with our Villa Week newsletter that has important information from the office for grades K-12. In addition, your child’s teacher has a page on our website that will be updated with important classroom information. These are ways to keep you connected to your child and know what is going on at school.
Website FORMS: Forms sent home during the school year can also be found on our website (www.villamadonna.org) in an electronic folder. Once you log in with the parent username, go to the MY VILLA LIFE tab and click on EFOLDER K-6. There, you will find flyers.
Virtus: Parents who wish to volunteer at Villa must be Virtus trained. Please contact Eileen Junker, in the main office if you have any questions. To register and sign up for a class, visit www.virtus.org and click on “Registration.” Don’t forget that August is an open month. If you missed a bulletin, be sure to go into your Virtus account and catch up before you are locked out of the system!
Dismissal: Elementary dismisses at 2:40 p.m. Please note that the Villa Hills Police Department and the Crescent Springs Fire Department have informed us that cars may not be lined up around the building at any time. Nor may cars park in the fire lanes around the buildings – at any time. As a result, elementary parents will not enter the campus until 2:30 P.M. for elementary carpool dismissal.
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August
12 First Day of School!
19 Parent Night Virtual Meetings
20 K-6 Prayer Service
27 K-6 Mass
31 August birthdays may be out of uniform; Boy Scout Informational Meeting 6:30 PM in the cafeteria
September
1 2:15 PM Dismissal for Faculty Meeting
3 K-6 Mass; Rosary Club
6 Labor Day – No School
10 K-6 Prayer Service; Enrichment Blocks
11 9-11 Service at Crescent Springs Park
13 Faculty Goal Meetings
15 Diocesan Principals Meeting; Servers Training; Board Meeting
17 K-6 Mass; Enrichment Blocks; Rosary Club; Scavenger Hunt
24 Enrichment Blocks; Middle of the 1st Trimester
29 Servers Training
30 September birthdays may be out of uniform; Bishop Iffert Ordination
October
1 K-6 Mass; Enrichment Blocks; Rosary Club
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Villa Madonna Academy, a private, Catholic, K-12 school, educates students in a Christ-centered community rooted in the Benedictine traditions of scholarship, service, and hospitality. |
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