Weekly News, December 04, 2023

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Pewaukee, WI 53072

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Luke 22:19

December 04, 2023

From the Desk of Mr. Marty Van Hulle, Principal

SAL Parents:

The 8^th graders did a great job of leading our all-school Advent prayer this morning where we lit the first Advent candle, called the “Prophet’s Candle, which symbolizes Hope. At our gathering, information about the Giving Tree was also presented by student body president, Connor Knapp. As you may know, the Giving Tree provides us the opportunity to donate items for the benefit of local charities. Donations to the Giving Tree help us provide needed items for the Pewaukee Food Pantry, the Jim Luther New Hope Center (formerly St. Hyacinth Food Pantry), and the MacCanon Brown Homeless Sanctuary. As we told the students this morning, Advent is not only a time of waiting, it’s also a time for us to live our Catholic faith in holy ways—and helping those in need is certainly a “holy way.” Students can bring Giving Tree items into their respective classrooms through the end of this week. Thank you to all who help us provide to those in need!

Take care and God bless,

M. Van Hulle

Principal, SAL

Upcoming Important Dates

Wednesday, December 6

No School Mass

Friday, December 8

Mission Shirt Day

Immaculate Conception Mass - 8am

Report Card Envelopes Due

Monday, December 11th

Out of uniform-Wear purple for pancreatic cancer

Wednesday, December 13

Birthday Blessings Mass

Christmas Concert - 5:45 PM (New start time!)

Wednesday, December 20

Culver's Night

Friday, December 22

Early Release Day - 11:30 AM release for Christmas Break

(Buses WILL run this day, No EDC)

For the full, live calendar, please see here.

For the 2023-24 Event Calendar

For more information regarding the mass schedule, including which grades will be doing the preparation for mass and upcoming Birthday Blessings , click here.

School News

Report Cards

Report cards went home with each student last week. Please sign and return the tan envelope to the school office by Friday, December 8th. We reuse the envelopes for each trimester.

EDC Billing

November EDC billing is now available in your WordWare account.

Cancer Awareness Fundraiser

During the month of November, our school participated in a fundraiser for the Pancreatic Cancer Foundation. This was done in memory of Diane Tylinski, our Middle School Math teacher who passed away last summer after a hard-fought battle with pancreatic cancer. The students met the fundraising goal for this cause and have earned an out of uniform day to wear PURPLE next Monday, December 11th.

Christmas Concert

This year's program, Bless Us All, will be presented Wednesday, December 13 at 5:45 PM. (Please note this time change as it is different than what was posted originally on the school calendar.) As is typical for many performing musicians, students in grades 1-8 are asked to wear white tops and black bottoms. Boys are welcome to wear a festive tie. Children in grades 3K, 4K, and 5K may wear their Christmas best! Please plan on having your musician in their homerooms by 5:30 PM that evening. Band members will receive their instructions from Mr. Krofta. As always, thank you for supporting music education in your child's life!

Christmas Carols at Lakewood

Please join Troop 37519 as we sing Christmas Carols at Lakewood Assisted Living and Memory Care Center on December 6th. Please meet in the parking lot at 4:15 where we will walk in together to start singing. We will sing for about 20 minutes. We will have song booklets for the families to use. Hot Cocoa to follow. Address: 4065 North Calhoun Road Brookfield, WI 53005. We ask that each child bring a Christmas card to give to the residents. We hope you can join us, RSVP here. If you have any questions please reach out to Marlo Dentice-Johnson

Student Government Update

Our current outreach project during December involves participation in the Giving Tree outreach opportunity. Students who wished to participate selected tags last Friday, and reminder slips identifying selected items were sent home with the tags.

The new, unwrapped items need to be brought to school this week, December 4 - 8. Tape the tag to the unwrapped item, please. Items may also be placed under the Giving Tree in the Church Gathering Space with the tag taped to the unwrapped item.

All items must be at school on Friday, December 8. Thank you for participating!

Christmas Spirit Days

12/7 - Crazy Socks Day (with uniforms)

12/14 - Wear Snowflakes or Blue Day

12/19 - Wear Red and White Day

12/22 - Red, White and Green Comfy Clothes Day

On December 22nd, SAL will be showing the movie Polar Express to the entire school. The movie will be in lieu of Christmas parties so we are asking for donations of supplies for this event instead. We are also looking for parent volunteers to help with serving cocoa and popcorn and supervising the kids so the teachers can tie up loose ends in their classrooms during the movie. Please remember this event is for the entire school so we are looking for donations from every class/grade level to help make this event successful. Please have all supplies to SAL by the morning of 12/22. Please click this link to donate items for this special day.

Christmas Break

School will be dismissed on December 22nd at 11:30am. All buses will be running, but there will be no EDC offered on that day. School resumes January 3rd.

SAL Musical - Save the Date

SAL Musical Committee is happy to announce our spring performance will be Disney’s Moana Jr. Tryouts for interested students in 5th through 8th grade will be the end of January. (Students interested in auditioning are asked to have this form printed off and completed to bring with them to the auditions) Performances will be held Saturday, April 27 and Sunday, April 28. Please save the date!

Called To Serve

Parent Volunteer Expectations

Trimester 2 Sign Up - Now available, sign up today! If you would like to be added to our sub list, please include your contact information to the spreadsheet on sign up. Thank you!

St. Anthony on the Lake School is a strong, vibrant school due to the help of many volunteers!

We are fortunate to provide more variety of volunteer opportunities to parents and be able to use classroom volunteers. In addition to any volunteer duties you wish to do, all families are expected to sign up for 3 specific duties per trimester (through Sign-Up Genius), St. Anthony on the Lake: Trimester 2 Volunteer Sign Up (signupgenius.com) This includes playground, lunch serving, lunchroom helper, or health room. If you are unable to come to help during the school day, you are asked to sign up and in turn, get a sub from the sub list.

Immediate Volunteer Needs

Tuesday, December 05 - Playground Helpers (2), Lunch Server, Lunch Helper

Wednesday, December 06 - Playground Helper

Thursday, December 07 - Lunch Server

Friday, December 08 - Lunch Server (2), Lunch Helper

Monday, December 11 - Playground Helpers (2), Lunch Servers (2), Lunch Helper, Health Room

Tuesday, December 12 - Playground Helpers (2), Lunch Servers, Lunch Helper

Thursday, December 14 - Playground Helpers (2), Lunch Servers (2), Lunch Helper

Friday, December 15 - Lunch Helper

Special Volunteer Opportunities

We have a couple of special volunteer opportunity needs throughout the school year! Please contact the school office for additional information.

Office Tasks – help sporadically with larger office projects (mailings, tracking, organizing).

Playground and hot lunch duties will take place from 11:30-12:45pm (11:15am arrival time for checking in with the office). New this year, Health Room this year will take place from 12- 12:45pm. Please note: ALL volunteers must participate in Safe Environment education before they may volunteer.

Safe Environment Education

Anyone who is volunteering in any manner here at St. Anthony on the Lake will need to participate in a one-time training titled “Safe Environment Education”. This training is mandated by the Archdiocese of Milwaukee. To register and for additional information, please go to the Safe Environment page on the Archdiocese website. Again, this training, along with a background check, is a one-time training requirement for all adults.

Open House Point Person Needed!

St. Anthony's Annual Open House will be on Sunday, January 28 beginning at 10:00 AM. This great event helps us to kick off our celebration of Catholic Schools Week! We are in need of support with our marketing for the Open House. If you would be interested in supporting our school through this role, please contact Ashley Packee (ashley.packee@gmail.com).

Prayers, Gratitude, and Celebration

St. Anthony on the Lake School participated in the House of Peace Holiday Food Box Drive with the parish and Family Program to help those in need. The school packed 24 boxes to help provide holiday meals for families who cannot afford the fixings for a traditional holiday dinner.

Please keep the Brunner family in your prayers.

Please pray for Kyler Hogan and the entire Hogan family.

Please keep the Beckes family in your prayers.

Please keep the Drees family in your prayers.

Pray for Mrs. Laurie Straehler for a quick recovery from surgery.

Parish Opportunities

O Come Little Children

Families are invited to join us for this Advent tradition on December 10 after 9:00 Mass. This fun-filled event will include an interactive telling of the Christmas Story along with a light breakfast, songs, crafts, and cookie decorating. Register on mySAL or on the website .

Middle School Youth Group Upcoming Events

For other upcoming events, please see our Middle School Youth Group page!

Early Childhood Events & Moms Group

Click on this link to see the many fun and engaging activities for toddlers and preschoolers as well as time just for Moms: SAL Parish Early Childhood Events

Marriage Enrichment Event - Trivia Night

Join the Marriage Enrichment Committee for our upcoming Trivia Night coming on Saturday, January 27! It is a really fun event filled with food, fellowship, and Trivia! Teams of six can either be made by you or you can sign up and we will put you with a team. Pizza, salad, dessert, beer, wine, and soda will be provided. If you have children, we are offering limited sign up for childcare and a movie for children 4 years old to 5th Grade for a fee. Contact Debbie Kusch at kusch@stanthony.cc to register for childcare. Click here to sign up for this great event and for additional information.

Resetting The Table Workshop

Have you ever been having a delightful conversation and the tension instantly goes from 0-60 when someone says something someone disagrees with? Or is there a difficult conversation you know deep down you need to have with someone important to you but you are worried about being misunderstood, dismissed, or even cancelled?

On the morning of Saturday, January 13 we are hosting the nationally recognized God is Here in Bridging Divides - Resetting the Table Workshop to help us in these situations, get to what really is the heart of the matter in a conversation, and melt tensions when opinions differ. Our parish leadership thought it important enough to bring to us an expert in communication from Texas who facilitates this workshop across the country. "How very good and pleasant it is when kindred live together in unity" (Ps 133:1).

It seems like a long way off, but registration is required and we want to tailor the experience to participants, so we ask you to register here or via MySal by December 20. If you have any questions, feel free to contact Kate Burke at BurkeKLY@gmail.com.

Catholic Memorial Junior Wrestling

Catholic Memorial Jr. Wrestling registration is now open and available for any boys in first through eighth grade. For more information and to register, please see the website here.