Presentation ECC Weekly Newsletter
2/24/20
Our Lady of the Presentation
Early Childhood Center
ECC Families,

Good afternoon. I hope everyone has had a wonderful weekend! I will be out of the office on Monday if you need anything urgent you may contact our Assistant Director, Teresa Button at tbutton@olpls.org or call the office and speak with our office staff. Friday, February 21 was the last day for current families to register their student or any siblings for the 20/21 school year. If you were unable to register by Friday please send an email to ckoob@olpls.org. This week we will celebrate Ash Wednesday which will signify the beginning of Lent. Fr. Tom and Fr. Olvin will be coming by on Wednesday to dispense Ashes. Make sure to check out our important dates for 20/21 in the update this week. This Friday will be the first Parish Fish Fry hopefully you can make plans to attend one of the Friday's in Lent. If you have any questions or concerns feel free to contact me anytime.

God Bless,

Catherine M. Koob
Director 
Ash Wednesday
This week we will celebrate the beginning of the Lent season on Ash Wednesday. Fr. Tom and Fr. Olvin will come by at 10:00 AM to dispense Ashes. If you do not wish for your child to have Ashes placed on their forehead please let your child's teacher know before Wednesday morning.
What is Lent?
The Lent season is coming up soon. It will begin on Wednesday, 2/26 with Ash Wednesday. Take a few minutes to watch the quick video about Lent. We will have our resource table for Lenten materials available up front the first week of Lent.
Important Dates 2020-2021
Below you will find the dates Presentation ECC will be closed during the 2020/2021 school year, the dates for the summer session 2020, and the first day of school for 2020/2021. We have not decided on our last professional development day which is usually in October but we may be moving it to March for the 20/21 year. As soon as we have this date we will add it to the full calendar which will be out in May.

2020 Summer Session - 6/1/20 through 8/11/20
Center Closed - 7/3/20 Fourth of July
Center Closed - Professional Development and New School Year Prep - 8/12/20 - 8/18/20
Meet Your Teacher - 8/17/20 3:00 PM -5:30 PM
First Day of School - 8/19/20
Center Closed - 9/7/20 Labor Day
Center Closed - 11/26/20 & 11/27/20 Thanksgiving
Center Closed - 12/8/20 Feast Immaculate Conception
Center Closed - 12/24/20 & 12/25/20 Christmas
Center Closed - 1/1/21 New Year's Day
Center Closed - 1/18/21 MLK Day
Center Closed - 2/15/21 Conferences
Center Closed - 4/2/21 Good Friday
Center Closed - 5/31/21 Memorial Day

Office Communication
We want to make it easier for you to stay in communication with us. If you need to send general information to the office we have created an email address which will send your email message to all of our office staff. You can still send sensitive information to an individual by sending your email to their personal email address but if you want to send general information to be answered by any of our office staff then please use the email address indicated below.

Email goes to all office staff ecc.office@olpls.org


Cathy Koob Director - ckoob@olpls.org
Teresa Button Asst. Director - tbutton@olpls.org
Kim Brummett AM office - kbrummett@olpls.org
Deanna Driskell PM office - ddriskell@olpls.org
Spring Pictures with Lil'Angels
3/9- 3-12
Our spring pictures will be taken again this year by Lil' Angels. The dates pictures will be taken will be Monday, 3/9 through Thursday, 3/12. A link to the picture schedule can be found below. For these pictures there is no need to dress your child they will be placed in different outfits which go over their clothes by the photographer. All Pre-K students will have a graduation picture taken as well.

We Need Your USED Eggs!!
Do you have plastic eggs left over from last Easter you are not going to use again?? If so please bring them to us. Our goal is to collect enough recycled plastic eggs to use for our Easter Egg Hunts this year and going forward. We already have well over half of the eggs we are going to need this year but we definitely need more. Our goal is to have enough for 10 eggs per child. Our plan is to reuse as many of these as we can from year to year. So if you have an over abundance of plastic eggs just send them our way. We will have a large box in the front office. More information about egg filling opportunities coming soon!!
Please join us for Fish Fry Fridays
Friday's during Lent Presentation Parish hosts a fish fry. This is a great way to share a meal with friend and family during the Lenten season. Check out the dates in the flyer attached below.

New Remind Notification Groups for 2019-2020 School Year
Families we had to set up new Remind groups based on your students last name. If you had previously subscribed to the Presentation ECC Families 2019-2020 group it has been deleted and you will need to resubscribe to one of the groups found in the link below. Sorry for the inconvenience changes were made after we sent out the information in the enrollment packets. When you click on the link below it will take you to the remind app page under the Current Family Secure Page. You will need the password, Famil$Ec$ (case sensitive)

Families we need you to Like us on Facebook!
Did you know when you like something we post it is more likely our posts will show up in your news feed! We want to get the word out about our preschool!
We are going to do more Tweeting! Make sure you are following us on Twitter! 
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