Dear Parents, Big week coming up!   We will be celebrating Spirit Week as we lead up to the benefit. Please see the Weekly for the specific daily themes. Students should be in uniform, with additional clothing, on Monday and Tuesday. The other days are free dress down days.  We have two special things going on in conjunction with Spirit Week.  We will be holding a Bulldog Cookie raffle. Students can bring in a dollar per ticket for the class. On Thursday, we will have a drawing and two classes will win a Bulldog Cookie treat for the afternoon snack. Duffy (and others) will be promoting this fundraiser for the benefit. On Friday, we will be having our International Day. We have a couple of dozen families who have signed up to represent countries from around the world. Each grade level will have an opportunity to visit the auditorium and explore the cultures of these countries. Thank you to the Foreign Language department and all of the families who have volunteered to help out that day. Finally, on Saturday we will celebrate as a parent community to support the school through our annual benefit. Please be sure to register to attend if you have not already purchased tickets (we do have a limit). If any families would like to attend and the cost of the ticket is a hardship, please contact me directly. It will be a great way to celebrate the coming of March and (soon) warmer weather. If you can, please join us tomorrow morning at 11:00 am for the Special Olympics Basketball game in the gym and come cheer on the athletes.   Faithfully, Chris Kelly

UPCOMING EVENTS Feb. 25th Special Olympics Basketball Game 11:00 am Feb. 27th Bring in Food Drive items and Jersey Day! Feb.28th Tie Dye Day March 1st Down on the Farm Day March 2nd Bulldog Spirit Day March 3rd International Day 12:30 Dismissal March 4th Spring Benefit To order for the week of March 6th - March 10th orders must be received by Tues, Feb.28th Order online HERE    Click Here to view the March lunch menu.

Lunch at Little Beast! Gather your friends and family for lunch at Little Beast on Friday, March 3rd (12:30pm dismissal) when the restaurant will donate 20 % of all food and beverage sales to BSS.  Crunched for time? Schedule your order for pick up directly on Little Beast’s app or website and add Blessed Sacrament to your cart before checking out. Offer applies between 12:20-2:30 pm only!

Week of the Arts is March 29-31 K-4: A Sign Up Genius will be sent out the end of February for families to volunteer for activities in the classrooms as well as to offer any behind the scenes prep work for the events. 5-8th graders will be participating in a whole range of 2-day workshops. We will need parent drivers, so be on the lookout for further information next month.   We now have K-4 parent coordinators for each grade. Thank you for offering to help!  K - Lisa Clemente and Jessie Perkins (Discovering Japan) 1st - Fegan Forte (Viva Mexico) 2nd - Andrea Murray and Katie Leachman (Adventures in the Rainforest) 3rd - Lisa Nelson and Elizabeth Kramer Dugan (Exploring African Culture) 4th - Giulia Jaeger and Meredith Mason (Road Trip Across America) Questions? yclark@blessedsacramentdc.org

Milk and Cookies Party! The Benefit Committee is excited to announce a RAFFLE for a MILK AND COOKIES PARTY - donated by BSS’s own, "The Cookie Mackster" (aka, BS Parent, Mackenzie Clark). Two lucky classes will receive a cookie party with custom cookies for Cheers to 100 Years.  Help your child’s class win this sweet treat and support the auction - send in money for $1 raffle tickets by March 2nd!

25th Exhibition Basketball Game Saturday, February 25 11:00 am School Gym Come Support! Special Olympics Unified Basketball (Special Olympics athletes play alongside unified partners) at BS since the 2004-2005 season. This is our 17th Year at BS! Please come support and cheer on our players and partners on Saturday, February 25th! The students make posters and Star of the Sea Sodality will provide lunch for the players and families. Come be a part of this long standing event at BS!

Take advantage of the Family Discount! $25 for the 1st book, $20 for the 2nd, and $18 for any additional yearbooks.   A limited number of yearbooks will be printed, so reserve your copy before they sell out!  Yearbooks will be distributed the last week of school.  Click here to order your copy now! Two of our teams will be playing in the City Championship this Saturday! Good luck to our 12U Boys A team who will play St. Jerome and our 14U Girls A team who will also play St. Jerome for the city title. This is also the final weekend for our 10U boys and girls teams and our 12U teams. Good luck Bulldogs! Congratulations to our BS alumni who play on the girls BS 10th grade High School CYO team who brought home the division championship trophy last weekend.  Spring soccer registration is now open for 1st-8th graders and registration can be found at: https://reg.sportspilot.com/106645/leagues  For those interested in participating in track and field this spring, please contact maryseidel@blessedsacramentdc.org  for more information.

There is a new way for you to earn Box Tops for Education to benefit Blessed Sacrament School. Just download the app, then scan your receipts! BSS parents have tried the app, and the process seems to work smoothly. Don’t forget to credit your earnings to a specific grade level on the app. (A little competition never hurts!) All the information can be found HERE, and it only takes a few minutes to register: Questions? Contact Monica Murphy Kumar (mokumar09@gmail.com), //www.boxtops4education.com/

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