FRIDAY NOTES

1-14-11

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What’s Up For Next Week…

Saturday        4/5 Boys BBall @ St. Stanislaus – 8:00 am

                        5/6 Girls Bball @ Honey Creek – 9:00 am

Monday          SCHOOL IN SESSION (MLK) SNOW MAKE UP DAY

                        Student Council Meeting – until 3:30 pm

Tuesday        

Wednesday    JV Girls BBall @ St. Thomas – 6:00 pm

                        JV Boys BBall @St. Martin – 6:00 pm

Thursday       All School Mass (3^rd & 4^th grade ministry)

                        Home & School mtg. – 6:30 pm

                        School Adv. Board mtg. – 7:30 pm

                        Fundraising mtg. – 7:30 pm

Friday             Pro – Life Rosary at Capitol – 12:00 noon (7^th & 8^th graders)

                       “Dress Down for $1 Day” for Guido

OLOS students will be participating in the Science Fair this year (occurs on alternating years). PACKETS WERE IN LAST WEEK’S FOLDER THAT CONTAINED INFORMATION REGARDING PROJECT GUIDELINES. PLEASE KEEP THIS FOR YOUR REFERENCE. Students in grades 3rd through 8^th will be required to do a project, which will be part of their science grade. Younger students are encouraged to do projects for show. Boards are now being offered for a nominal fee – see paper enclosed in this folder. Students in grades 6^th, 7^th, & 8^th are required to also do a paper with their project. THE OLOS SCIENCE FAIR WILL BE FEBRUARY 22. All projects and papers will be due for display on that day. The diocesan fair will be held March 19^th.

REPORTED SCORES: The JV Girls played against Holy Family, Freeburg at home last Thursday night and won by a score of 34-22. They played again on Friday night in the Wardsville Tournament and won against St. Francis – score 36-16. They played Saturday in the tournament and took a second win in a week from Holy Family, Freeburg, with a score of 35-23. They ended up the tournament on Sunday with a loss to St. Martin, final score 32-28. THEY TOOK

2^ND PLACE

IN THIS TOURNAMENT! GREAT JOB, GIRLS! The 5/6 Girls took a loss against St. Peter, Jeff. Cy. on Saturday.

8^th grade parents take note: 8^th grade retreat @ Folk – scheduled for Fri, Feb. 18^th. Thanks so much to Patsy Bond for volunteering to drive & chaperone our 6 students that day. The fee for each student to attend will be $10, which is paid by the parent. You may send your payment in anytime before January 17^th, checks payable to OLOS.  (Please note – the retreat is not Jan. 18^th, as listed on calendar sent home before Christmas.)

PLEASE TURN IN ALL BEST CHOICE UPC LABELS TO THE OFFICE. THEY ARE ONLY REDEEMED ONE TIME PER YEAR AND THEY WILL BE SENT OFF VERY SOON. THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT!

Please SIGN & RETURN GRADE CARDS if you have not already done so. If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact the classroom teacher.

Let’s try this again!! Student Council members: Please note the meeting this Monday, Jan. 17^th, until 3:30 pm or so. We will be decorating and making plans for Valentine’s Day. Please bring a note with permission to stay for the meeting.

Make a point to attend the Home & School meeting (and Fundraising meeting too!) on Thursday night to catch up on what is going on at our school. The meeting is at 6:30 in the computer lab. Parents earn a “bonus dress down pass” for each of their children, just for attending the meeting! See you there!

Please pray with our 7^th & 8^th graders at noon on Friday for an end to abortion. All are welcome to go to the Capitol for this event. If you cannot be there in person, please be there in spirit.

ITALIAN FEAST REMINDERS:
Work List: Please return sign up sheets to work, if you have not already done so.  The Italian Feast is quickly approaching and we have lots of planning left to do.
Silent Auction: Please help make the Silent Auction successful again this year.  We ask each family to donate to their class theme baskets as well as help round up other nice items for the Auction.  Please send these into school at any time so we can start preparing the bid sheets.  If you would like to go together with other families and donate some bigger items that would be great too.  

Class Basket Themes:  PK – Scrapbooking, K/1 – Sports Day, 2 – A Day at the Beach, 3/4 – Camping, 5 – Kitchen stuff, 6 – Religious, 7/8 – Mizzou. Every child in the classroom should either bring an item for their classroom basket or send in $5 to the classroom teacher so that they may do the shopping for the basket.

Tickets:  Please try to pre sell your dinner tickets to help with the up front food expenses.  Money can be turned into the school office.  You can also get more tickets via the office as well.

House Points Update: The 6^th graders – “The House of St. Peter” -  are a very happy bunch these days! They are excited because they finally earned the “Spirit Stick” in our House points race. Up until now, the 7^th & 8^th graders had been keepers of the stick, but the 6^th graders are now in the lead with 207 points (4 points ahead of 7/8).

PS “House of St. Theresa” –      22 points Dec. – 133 points total

K/1 “House of Mary”                  27 points Dec. – 180 points total

2^nd “House of Eucharist”             32 points Dec. – 175 points total

3^rd “House of St. Lucy”               41 points Dec. -  139 points total

4^th “House of Assisi”                  31 points Dec. – 136 points total

5^th “House of Crusaders”            37 points Dec. – 162 points total

6^th “House of St. Peter”              42 points Dec. – 207 points total

7/8^th “House of St. Clare”            29 points Dec. – 203 points total

We thank Ray Bax, Jim Schulte, Dave Schwaller, Bruce Berendzen, and Darryl Love, & Brian Kliethermes for clearing the snow off of the parish drives, parking lots and sidewalks. Those tractors, trucks and shovels were really busy moving the snow out of the way! We appreciate it!

PRO LIFE MARCH ATTENDEES: There is a MANDATORY MEETING THIS SUNDAY, JAN. 16^TH AT NOON AT ST. JOSEPH CATHEDRAL. There is an 11:00 Mass at St. Joseph’s Cathedral, if you would like to attend, and then just stay over for the meeting. Please bring $20 to cover the cost of two meals and the metro tickets that Fr. Joe has procured ahead of time, which will offset some of the challenges of eating after the tour of the Holocaust Museum and after the Mass at the Basilica. Please also bring your photo release form to this meeting.

NCYC NEWS: There will be a NCYC meeting between the Masses Sun. Jan. 23. Some of the youth and adults will not be here because of attending the March For Life in D.C. but EVERYONE ELSE--youth and parents please attend. We will begin accepting everyone's $100 deposit for the trip at this meeting. This will be your commitment to the trip and give us an idea of the exact number planning to attend. The Diocese has not given the date the deposit will be due to them so if something comes up for you between now and the date the Diocese requires a deposit it could be refunded. From the last email Donna received from the Diocese it looks like the cost of the trip will not be as expensive as we had guessed. There was a schedule mix-up for the KofC/NCYC steak dinner. It will NOT be Feb. 12. Hopefully it can be rescheduled before Lent.

Due to the snow day on December 16^th – SCHOOL WILL BE IN SESSION ON JANUARY 17 – MLK.

Lunch for Jan. 17^th will be:  Spaghetti, salad, garlic bread, fresh fruit

IMPORTANT DATES:    FEBRUARY 27^TH – FIRST RECONCILIATION – AFTER 10:00 AM MASS

                                    MAY 1^ST – FIRST HOLY COMMUNION – 10:00 AM MASS

                                    MAY 14^TH – 8^TH GRADE GRADUATION – 5:00 PM MASS