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November 29, 2023

Reminders

• Thursday, November 30 - St. Andrew Feast Day
• Friday, December 1 - Adopt a Family, Out of uniform for $2 (K-8), bake sale (4-8), button sale (K-5) and cake auction (6-8).
• Friday, December 1 - PTO Cookies with Santa, Pre K - Grade 3, 6:00 - 7:30 pm
• Tuesday, December 5 - Advent/Christmas Program, K-8 , 7:00 pm
• Wednesday, December 6 - Feast day of St. Nicholas.
• Friday, December 8 - Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mass at 8:45 am (Holyday of Obligation)
• Friday, December 8 - Early dismissal, 1:00 pm

Preschool News

Preschool Webpage

Dear Preschool families,

Now that we’ve had our Thanksgiving feasts, SASEAS Preschool is getting ready for Christmas. This week all preschoolers are learning about Gingerbread and Advent.

Mrs. Christina’s class is making an Advent Calendar in art. They are also matching gingerbread shapes and gingerbread letters.

Mrs. Maura’s three-year-old classes are picking gingerbread cookies with letters on them and writing the letter. They have ginger scented play dough, and they are reading about the Gingerbread Man. In religion this week everyone is learning about Advent and the Christmas story.

In our 4-year-old classes there are gingerbread clip cards and 10 frames and gingerbread play dough mats in math. Students are measuring gingerbread people with unifix cubes. There’s also some Gingerbread Man Cookie Science as the children graph which part of the gingerbread man cookie they bite first! In religion they have a special lesson on Advent and they will be making Advent wreaths in art.

Our five-year-old class is comparing and contrasting different versions of “The Gingerbread Man” story. They are assembling gingerbread houses made of shapes in art, and in science they are making gingerbread ornaments to hang on the Christmas tree as they practice following a recipe. In religion they are learning that “Advent is a time of waiting for the birth of Jesus”.

Thank you all so much for your help with the Preschool Giving Tree. We have adopted 4 families this holiday season with a total of 15 children, and almost all the wish ornaments have been taken! Please return the wrapped items with the ornament attached to the

preschool office by Wednesday, December 13^th. Once again, thank you for your generosity and willingness to help those in need this Christmas season.

Thank you,

Mrs. Aimee

Adopt a Family, 2023!

Friday, December 1, 2023

Out of Uniform (K-8) $2.00 donation

Bake Sale (4-8) - items are priced at $.50

Magnet Sale (K-5) - items are priced at $1.00

Cake Auction (6-8) - cakes are bid on and usually fetch a high price.

A little history.....

St. Andrew-St. Elizabeth Ann Seton School has been involved in an ongoing service project for the last 23 years. The eighth grade class, along with help from the fifth grade, adopts as many as 10 families, sometimes more, each Christmas. Our Adopt-A-Family program is completely funded by the work that the eighth grade class does. Each year we hold a bake sale and cake auction to raise money to buy gifts and a Christmas meal for families in need from the St. Vincent de Paul Society from both the St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Parish and the St. Andrew Parish.

Here is how it works:

First, each year the date of the bake sale/auction is designated as an out of uniform day for the cost of $2 per student. Secondly, students raise money through the traditional bake sale for the Junior High Students (grades 4-8) and a magnet/button/key chain sale for students in K - 5. (All magnets, buttons, key chains are created by the fifth grade class). The bake sale is run by the eighth grade class and the magnets/buttons are sold by the fifth grade class to the students in K - 5. Year after year the eighth graders (and their parents) respond to the bake sale by making baked goods. After the sale, the leftover baked goods were then boxed into three, four, maybe five packages and sold in auction format in the cafeteria to the highest bidder. Early on during the service project, these packages sold for five, eight, or ten dollars, but it did not take long for students to realize that there were plenty of cookies, cupcakes, etc. in each of the packages and if they pooled their money together, the combined effort would have a far better chance of winning the auction item than the effort of just one buyer. This is how the idea of having the cake auction was born. Students, faculty, staff, and parents began making their own special cakes to be sold in auction format to sixth, seventh and eighth grade students who get into groups and combine their money to be able to bid on cakes in the auction. In the spirit of giving, some of these cakes have sold for $150 or more. Students are not pressured to give what they do not wish to give. Charity is not when money is taken from individuals and redistributed, but when one freely wishes to give out of love for a neighbor. The students have fun and are extraordinarily generous.

The Adopt a Family project does not end after this day. The week following the auction the 8th grade students, as well as, faculty and staff members go shopping at Kohls to purchase gifts for the families we have adopted. We also purchase gift cards for the adults in the families to shop as they wish. The amounts of gifts purchased is truly amazing and it usually takes an hour to check out. We try to purchase the basic essentials first, like socks, underwear, pj's, coats, shoes, etc., then items for each child that are fun in nature.

Another group of 8th graders take over and wrap all of the gifts purchased. This is quite the undertaking and the students have fun wrapping and seeing what was purchased.

Finally, after the gifts have been purchased and wrapped, a separate group of 8th graders deliver the gifts either to the families personally or to St. Vincent de Paul.

All of this is possible because of the bake sale/magnet sale/cake auction/out-of-uniform day and some very generous, hard-working students and parents here at SASEAS School. Thank you in advance for your generous support!

AN ANNOUNCEMENT FROM

THE MUSIC DEPARTMENT!

Please join us on Tuesday, December 5 at 7:00pm, in the school cafeteria, for our K-8 Advent/Christmas program. The children have been working hard to share, through word and song the true reason for the season, Jesus' Birth.

I look forward to sharing this very special evening with you!

Sincerely, 

Mrs. Theresa Niehaus 

Music Teacher 

WHAT'S FOR LUNCH?

• Thursday, November 30 - Pancakes and scrambled eggs
• Friday, December 1 - Sweet and Sour Chicken with rice
• Monday, December 4 - Spaghetti with garlic bread
• Tuesday, December 5 - Taco in a bag
• Wednesday, December 6 - Papa John's Pizza
• Thursday, December 7 - Dutch waffle and sausage
• Friday, December 8 - Early dismissal, no lunch served

Dine to Donate

• Wings and Rings
• Wednesday, December 13th from 5PM-8PM
• Mention this fundraiser or show the flyer in the restaurant and 10% of your bill will be donated back to St. Andrew St. Elizabeth School PTO

Join The Action - Coordinator Positions and Board Position Available!

Boosters is looking for the following volunteers:

Secretary, Registration Coordinator, Uniform Coordinator and Vice President for the 2024-2025 school year. If you are interested and want to know more about the three positions, please reach out to Michelle McCord at michellekwalter@yahoo.com or Jason Reeves at saseasboosterspresident@gmail.com. We offer the opportunity to do a shadow year now if interested.

Thank you for your consideration and we are humbled by the many volunteers SASEAS has. All of this would not be possible without the support from Parents and Parishioners. 

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