Parent Bulletin
May 7, 2020
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It's almost time for the premiere of the Walk-
E
-Thon, when your children will have two weeks (May 11-24) to record how many minutes they walk and do any types of exercise, from walking the dog, to jumping rope in the driveway, to shooting hoops, to kicking the soccer ball in the backyard. Any type of physical activity that gets the heart-rate up is considered exercise, and every minute that these activities take place should be recorded.
You can use the timer app on your cell phone to record active exercise minutes, or hand your child an old phone or watch to self-time. The Walk-
E
-Thon email you received last Friday gave you an ongoing
activity-tracker
sheet to keep track of the movement/exercise minutes. Then or soon after the 24th, you'll submit your child's total minutes using this
electronic form.
If you did not receive the Walk-
E
-Thon parent packet that co-chairs, Jim, Cari, Eugene, and Ann, emailed out last Friday (check your junk folder), please contact them today:
Walkathon@stlouiseschool.org
.
The Walk-
E
-Thon co-chairs will tally all PreK-8th grade students' totals to come up with how many minutes in all the student body exercised, which grade levels had the most energetic kids, and which students overall had the most minutes moving and being active. Prizes will be given for the most active students.
Prizes will also be given for the kids who were able to bring in the most donations, which is always a part of any "a-thons" or in this case, "
E
-thons." This year, however, there will be no minimum requirements for families to gather pledge amounts, as we realize you might not be able to hit up the same people as much as you have in the past. Yet, we still are hoping every student has some neighbors or extended family members who are doing fine during today's uncertain economy and would be willing to donate to St. Louise in your child's name and in recognition of their efforts to "walk" and exercise for their school's benefit. The donation page you should direct your potential donors to is:
https://app.99pledges.com/fund/StLouiseWalkethon.
Besides a parent packet last Friday, you also received a separate email from the Walk-
E
-Thon that noted your "goal" was $20 per child. That tiny goal was to demonstrate that we truly have no required amount for fund raising for this year’s Walk-
E
-Thon, due to realizing some families have had to adjust their family budgets during this closure-time…however….we are confident that most students can do much, much more than bring in $20 in donations, and we believe we will see a number of families able to add a second “0” to the $20 amount.
With the individual email you were sent, you can easily share your Walk-
E
-Thon page with friends via email, text, and social networks. You were given sample text to use and even a link to share.
Although your child's walking, moving, and exercising begins Monday, the donating and pledge-collecting begins now! Thanks for getting started by no later than this weekend with reaching out to friends, neighbors, and extended family.
We believe that having this fun event in the middle of our school closure period will be a great pick-me-up for the students! In-between or after daily online-learning sessions starting this Monday, your kids will be encouraged for 10 straight weekdays to put down the pencil, walk away from the laptop, and get their legs moving and their blood pumping. We even will have two days - May 12 & 21 - when we will cancel online-learning classes so kids can solely focus on moving and collecting donations those days. It will be good for your child's health and good for your child's spirit to get moving - whether it be by walking, running, skipping, jumping, dancing, dribbling, shooting, tumbling, or throwing.
Thanks for your support!
ALLELUIA!
HAPPY EASTER SEASON!
MR. FITZ
p.s.
Two important people have special days this weekend. Having a special day this Saturday is LOUISE. That would be Saint Louise de Marillac, the patron of our parish and school. Her feast day is May 9. Go
HERE
to find out the history of this famous saint, and you'll even learn the reason why the Archdiocese chose her for whom to name our church after, in 1960.
Of course, MOM has a special day Sunday. Happy Mothers' Day to all our St. Louise moms and also to the grandmothers of our students! Mothers are so important in our lives, and during "normal" times, their husbands and kids would be doing lots of special things for them this Sunday - going out to brunch, dinner and a movie out, etc. But for 2020 Mothers' Day, we know what you moms really want....
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EASTER SEASON REMINDER
"
The resurrection gives my life meaning and direction and the opportunity to start over no matter what my circumstances."
~ Robert Flatt
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CALENDAR OF UPCOMING EVENTS
Tonight
- Virtual Parents' Club Meeting at 6:45PM; if you are a parent who might want to consider joining the Parent's Club Board this fall, you should listen in on this meeting; please email Parents' Club President, Karen Reed for the meeting log-in information.
Saturday, May 9
- Saturday Spruce-Up of the grounds from 8AM-12PM. (See the article below.)
Sunday, May 10
Monday, May 11
Tuesday, May 12
- No online-learning will take place today.
- Students are asked to focus today solely on the Walk-E-Thon; use today to accumulate a lot of minutes exercising and moving; use today to contact neighbors and extended family members and ask for their support as you walk and exercise for St. Louise; they can give HERE.
Thursday, May 14
- Virtual School Commission Meeting at 6:30PM; if you would like to join the meeting, please email Commission chair, Sean Manne.
Friday, May 15
- The school is open today from 8:00-4:00 for:
- parents to drop-off and/or pick-up assignments ONLY IF teachers have requested;
- grade 8 families to come in to pick-up cap/tassel/gown ONLY IF they have signed-up for a specific time through Mrs. Herridge's Signup-Genius;
- CYO volleyball uniforms to be dropped off in designated boxes in the lobby;
- claiming lost items in the lost & found bin outside the 5th grade classroom.
Tuesday, May 19
- Only specialists' lessons are on the schedule for today; homeroom teachers will not be sending any assignments or holding any online-lessons today; instead, this is a bonus day for specialist classes in computers, art, PE, and music; the specialists will be emailing families with today's lessons, and any assignments are to be worked on and completed today
Thursday, May 21
- No online-learning will take place today.
- Students are asked to focus today solely on the Walk-E-Thon; use today to accumulate a lot of minutes exercising and moving; use today to contact neighbors and extended family members and ask for their support as you walk and exercise for St. Louise; they can give HERE.
Sunday, May 24
Monday, May 25
- Memorial Day: God Bless Our Fallen Heroes!
- No online-learning this day.
Saturday, May 30
- Saturday Spruce-Up of the grounds from 8AM-12PM. (See the article below.)
Monday, June 1
- Donations due from current school families for their 2020 Auction procurements.
- Only specialists' lessons are on the schedule for today; homeroom teachers will not be sending any assignments or holding any online-lessons today; instead, this is a bonus day for specialist classes in computers, art, PE, and music; the specialists will be emailing families with today's lessons, and any assignments are to be worked on and completed today
- The school is open today from 8AM-4PM; every family is asked to come to school to:
- clean out desks or lockers;
- find lost and found sweaters and jackets;
- bring home PE shoes;
- gather the summer-work packets the teachers have prepared for all current PreK-7th grade students;
- pick up your Yearbook (if you ordered one);
- drop off a gift for your teacher (if you would like to gift him/her).
CHECK OUT OUR COMPLETE SCHOOL CALENDAR
HERE
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We hope you are safe and healthy during this crazy time! Thinking of you all as we begin to transition from Phase 1 to Phase 2 of the COVID 19 recovery and reopening. We are in Phase 2 of auction planning too! Here is what that means for you.
1.
Your procurement commitment is due by June 1st.
If you are donating cash, you can simply do that online by
clicking here
. If you are going to donate an item, experience or Charger Cards, please fill out the
procurement form here.
2.
Physical items, gift certificates, etc. are not due until September 18th.
This change in date will greatly compress our normal schedule, so that's why we are asking for you to fill out the online procurement form by June 1st, so we can plan ahead, for what will likely be a crazy start to school!
3. If you would like your children to receive the benefit of
Free Dress
on a date to be determined in September, you'll need to exceed the requirement and donate $400 or more.
4. If you are donating
Charger Cards
, please email
chargercards@stlouiseschool.org
and let Marsha know which of the following cards you would like to donate:
Delta, Nordstrom, Disney, Amazon, Bai Tong, Daniel's, Seastar, Trophy, or Zappos
. We have specific quantities of each that are needed, so if your plan is to donate these, please know that the sooner you request the Charger Cards, you'll have the better chance of getting the higher rebate cards.
5. This is a year when we are really going to need
School Sponsorship
support to cover 100% of the auction costs. If you know which level you would like to sponsor,
click here
to make that critical donation. Thank you so much for your sponsorship! New to St. Louise and want to find out more about how you can sponsor the event?
Click here for details!
If you need more information, visit the
SKYBALL - Chargers are Forever
website by clicking
here
. For the most up to date and special information, follow us on Instagram @stlouiseauction. I will be posting some iGTV and Facebook videos with auction info as well, so definitely follow the Auction!
Thank you so much to the following families who have already completed their requirement and those that have exceeded
*
the minimum donation! We sincerely appreciate your incredible generosity!
Adamson + Aitken* + Anyichie + Blaha* + Brown* + Cam + Cambridge + Colby + D'Ambrosio + DeBord + Flaat + Jensen* + John-Britto/Vimal + Khedy* + Kincaid + Kujath + Macias/Soto + Magnotti + Nightingale* + Nowak + Rabon* + Read* + Russell (Tim/Andrea) + Sequeria + Weber + Wu + Zappala
And special thanks to those who have chosen to be School Sponsors:
Barros* + Catorcini* + D'Costa* + McCulloch* + Salmon* + Schmidt* + Widodo*
Thank you again, for all that you are doing - parenting, working and homeschooling. You are doing a great job!
St. Louise Parent & Auction Director
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Jane, Nathan, Rithika, Java, Joie, and Sophia are all proud of the "land art" they created, as part of Mrs. Walker's recent art lesson. To see all the creations from students, check out Mrs. Walker's
latest video
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Keeping Your Faith Strong During COVID-Time
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Two weeks ago, we wrote about "Divine Mercy Sunday," and Jesus's Divine Mercy message was further explained
HERE
. This week, we'd like to expand upon this discussion regarding the topic of "Mercy."
Mercy is a gift, not a right. But the good news is that God’s heart burns with a desire to pour forth that gift. Recall some of what Jesus told Saint Faustina:
"Let the greatest sinners place their trust in My mercy. They have the right before others to trust in the abyss of My mercy. My daughter, write about My mercy towards tormented souls. Souls that make an appeal to My mercy delight Me. To such souls I grant even more graces than they ask. I cannot punish even the greatest sinner if he makes an appeal to My compassion, but on the contrary, I justify him in My unfathomable and inscrutable mercy. Write: before I come as a just Judge, I first open wide the door of My mercy. He who refuses to pass through the door of My mercy must pass through the door of My justice…"
This time we find ourselves in with a virus affecting the world is not unprecedented. From biblical times to the present day, plagues have periodically afflicted the human race. Widespread diseases remind us of our weakness and susceptibility to harm. Not to say we shouldn't pray for a medical breakthrough that will relieve the suffering we see across the world, but we must first accept the truth that the deadliest illnesses are those that endanger our souls.
God’s mercy is always offered to anyone who earnestly seeks it. In a troubled age, Catholics can cherish a special peace, knowing that our sins can be forgiven.
Even though you might not be able to get to a priest during this time of church-closures, one can make a perfect act of contrition until confessions can once again be heard. To learn how to make that perfect act of contrition, go
HERE
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Volunteer While Staying Physically-Distant
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How would you like to earn one volunteer hour for simply typing a few sentences about why you love St. Louise School?! We would appreciate having parents write positive reviews about our school on the various sites prospective parents check-out when deciding on choosing a school. If you love St. Louise School and would be willing to write a few sentences about what makes our school special, please contact
Cindy Wagner
in the development office. Cindy will send you the link to the review sites that need your positive comments.
Another way to earn volunteer hours while staying away from others physically is to help us promote St. Louise School admissions. If you have a friend or coworker whom you think would be interested in enrolling their children in a Catholic school, tell them that St. Louise is still accepting applications for admissions for the upcoming school year. You can also promote us by tagging St. Louise in your posts about distance learning and by sharing
our school posts. You'll find our school posts
HERE
and
HERE
. Figure out the time it took you to email/text friends and/or to tag/post and count this as volunteer hours. We figure that connecting personally with a specific friend/coworker to discuss the benefits of enrolling at St. Louise can count as at least 1 volunteer hour, depending on how much time you spend with them. Also, each time you tag a post about our school on Facebook/Instagram, you can count this as 1 volunteer hour. So get your social media promotions going please, to help out your school and to earn some hours!
Finally, we could use more Mentor families - current school families who would be assigned a newly enrolled school family to contact from May to August to answer their questions, such as how to purchase school uniforms or what volunteer opportunities you suggest. Once it's okay to get together later this summer, as a Mentor family you would find a time to set up a playdate with your child and other kids in the class with the new family, as you would be assigned a newly enrolled family to mentor who has kids your same age. This is a great act of service, and we could use more Mentors! Please contact
Daisy Mendes
or
Laura Bonner
, our Mentor program co-chairs, if you would be able to mentor a new school family this summer.
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An Update on Commitments of St. Louise Parents Regarding Charger Cards
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Knowing that most school parents are not affected financially by our pseudo-quarantine…and understanding that you can buy/reload Charger Cards online…and realizing that a cash payment can always be made in lieu of buying Charger Cards…and remembering that there will not be any minimum requirement for the other Parents' Club fundraiser, the Walk-A-Thon….
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school parents are still expected to fulfill their Charger Cards commitment.
Please note: if any parent's employment/earnings has been affected by the lockdown at a point where fulfilling their Charger Cards commitment will be an impossibility, please contact Mr. Fitzpatrick.
One modification we are making due to our unique circumstances this spring is if a family can’t foresee themselves buying enough Charger Cards by June to earn the
required minimum $125 contribution/rebate
, they can pay the difference between the $250 opt-out payment and how much in contribution/rebate they’ve already earned. For example, if a family’s purchases of Charger Cards so far has earned the school $50, and they can’t foresee buying enough cards in the next month to earn another $75 in rebate, they would be asked to pay $200 cash, so to bring their total contribution to $250.
Thanks for working with our Charger Cards chair,
Marsha
, if you need to know the amount due to fulfill either your $125 contribution/rebate through purchase or the $250 buy-out.
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School Accessible One Week from Tomorrow
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Families may come to school next Friday, May 15, between 8:00-4:00, if any of the following pertain to them:
- Need to drop-off and/or pick-up assignments ONLY IF teachers have requested;
- Grade 8 families are to come in to pick-up cap/tassel/gown ONLY IF they have signed-up for a specific time through Mrs. Herridge's Signup-Genius;
- CYO volleyball uniforms are to be dropped off in designated boxes in the lobby;
- Claim lost items in the lost & found bin outside the 5th grade classroom.
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Saint of the Week
please read this with your kids
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