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Dear St. Michael-St. Gabriel Families and Friends,
Next week we celebrate Every Kid Healthy Week, which is a week where we focus on helping our students make healthier choices in what they eat and what they do in their spare time. It is also a good time for students to learn about doing some things to address self-care, which helps address their mental well-being. We know that sometimes the quickest food options are not always the healthiest, so we want to assist students in learning to prepare snacks that they can take with them when they are away from home and also look at ways to get them moving more and stepping away from their devices even for just 15-30 minutes each day. As adults, we also need to remember how important it is for us to model these behaviors for our students and children, as they are constantly watching us. Even one or two small changes can make a huge difference in their overall well-being.
As a way for us to wrap up Every Kid Healthy Week, we will host our annual Color Run next Friday around 1:00. Due to construction on site, we will be shortening the route a little bit and only allow our junior high students to run through the neighborhood. All other students will stay on campus either on our own school lot or between our lot and Cardinal Ritter’s campus. We will ask students to wear spirit wear or clothes and shoes that they do not mind getting dirty, and we will ask parents to also bring some towels for their cars, as we will throw non-toxic colored powder at our students that afternoon. This really is a fun, yet messy, afternoon.
Lastly, we have one week of ILEARN testing completed with about two more to go. Thank you for making it a point to see that your children are here on time and in attendance at school. It helps to lessen the number of make-ups that we need to do, and it lessens the stress that students may already have with standardized testing.
As always, please reach out with any questions you may have.
God Bless,
Mrs. Ramos
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