Friday Newsletter 1-26-2024

THE WEEK AHEAD:

School Motto: We are learning, serving & praying – every moment of every day. We are COUGARS!

 

CATHOLIC SCHOOLS WEEK!!!

 

Mon –   CSW: Our Nation –

          Wear red/white/blue or camo

          National Guard presentation – 8:00 am

Tues – CSW: Our Staff

          Twisted Tuesday – wear inside out, mismatched, backwards clothing

          100^th Day of School

          Staff Luncheon – 11:10 am

          Staff Cornhole – 2:30 pm

 Wed – CSW: Our Vocations -

          Spirit Day – wear spirit shirt with khakis – Mass Day!

          All School Mass 8:00 am (K/1 ministry)

          Fr. Aubuchon visits school 8:30 – 9:30 am

Thur – CSW: Our Community –

          Wear Community “Heart” Shirts

          Fr. Alex visits 2^nd/3rd grade – 8:45 am

          Electric safety presentation – 9:30 am

          Highway Patrol presentation – 2:00 – 2:30 pm

          Parents provide desserts for quilters & weekly volunteers

          HR Library lady visits – 10:00 & after

Fri -    CSW: Our Students

          Wear PJs or comfortable clothes (no slippers)

          Fun activities/treats throughout the day!       

 

DUE TO VALENTINE’S DAY falling on Ash Wednesday (day of fast and abstinence), the Valentine’s parties are scheduled for Friday, Feb. 9^th from 2:15 – 3:15 pm.

CATHOLIC SCHOOLS WEEK is here! We will be celebrating themed days all week next week, and end with an all-school Mass on Sunday, February 4th at 10:00 am. You will find an updated schedule in today’s folder. We are looking forward to a great week!

THE STUDENT COUNCIL is once again sponsoring Valentine Grams – with candy or a salty treat for $1.00 each. More information is in this folder. If you need more copies, please contact the office. All orders are due by Feb. 6^th. Thank you for supporting the Student Council!

ART CLUB: Rescheduled: The first meeting of our newly formed art club will be Monday, Feb. 5th, from 3:30 – 4:30 pm. Mrs. Hoecker sent out permission slips last week to all 5^th through 8^th graders. If your child is interested, and you have misplaced the form, please call the office or contact Mrs. Hoecker.

DANCE TO BE RESCHEDULED: Due to a scheduling conflict, the Morgan County Line/Pizza Kwik event originally scheduled for March 9^th is being rescheduled to an alternate date. More information will be available soon! You may discard the flyers sent home last week. Sorry about any confusion this may cause.

OLOS SCIENCE FAIR: Our local science fair has been tentatively rescheduled to Friday, Feb. 9^th (from Jan. 19^th). All 5^th through 8^th graders are working hard on getting their projects finished up. We hope to have them on display before our Valentines’ parties that day. We look forward to seeing all their interesting projects!

SHOW ME SUDS Fundraiser begins today, Friday, January 26th. If order forms are ready, you will find them in this folder. Otherwise, they will be sent separately with your child on Friday. This is a great opportunity to help our school and parish youth by selling and purchasing quality laundry detergents, dish soaps, dishwasher pods, and dryer sheets. Order forms with payments must be returned by Friday, February 19th. All products will be available for pickup on Sunday, February 25th. Contact Joan Doerhoff or the school office for more information. Thank you for your continued support in our school and parish youth!

CHANGE IN LUNCHES: The lunches for Monday and Tuesday have been switched from what was previously published, as you will see on the new lunch calendar found in the folder today. Monday we will have the Chinese chicken meal and Tuesday we will have the corndog meal.

SCHOOL CLOSING: Any emergency early dismissal or closing of the school due to weather will be announced by parent alert (text, email) and through social media, as well as over area television stations. Parents should not call the school office during inclement weather conditions to learn if the school is closing early. This unnecessarily ties up our phone lines for emergency communications. A phone call into school during this time will delay the process of getting our communications out to all families. Please note that afternoon extended care services are not available in the event of early dismissal due to weather or other emergencies.

Derrick & Patrick are the lucky winners of the weekly Friday Folder dress down drawing!

 

MARK YOUR 2024 CALENDAR!

Wednesday, March 13, 2024 – First Reconciliation

          after Mass

Sunday, April 21, 2024 – First Eucharist – 10 am

          Mass

Saturday, April 27, 2024 – 8^th Grade Graduation –

          4:00 pm Mass

Wednesday, May 1, 2024 – Confirmation – 6:30 pm

 

 

Please return your folder on MONDAY!

 

Wishing you a happy weekend!

 

 

 

 Friday Newsletter 1-19-2024

THE WEEK AHEAD:

School Motto: We are learning, serving & praying – every moment of every day. We are COUGARS!

 

Mon – School Spirit Dress Down Day

        Art Club – 3:30 – 4:30 pm

Tues –

Wed – All School Mass 8:00 am (2nd/3rd grade ministry)

Thur – Fr. Alex visits 4^th grade – 8:45 am

Fri -   Dress Down Day

        100^th Day of School (tentative)

 

 

DANCE TO BE RESCHEDULED: Due to a scheduling conflict, the Morgan County Line/Pizza Kwik event originally scheduled for March 9^th is being rescheduled to an alternate date. More information will be available soon! You may discard the flyers sent home last week. Sorry about any confusion this may cause.

OLOS SCIENCE FAIR: Our local science fair has been tentatively rescheduled to Friday, Feb. 9^th (from Jan. 19^th). All 5^th through 8^th graders are working hard on getting their projects finished up. We hope to have them on display before our Valentines’ parties that day. We look forward to seeing all their interesting projects!

DUE TO VALENTINE’S DAY falling on Ash Wednesday (day of fast and abstinence), the Valentine’s parties are scheduled for Friday, Feb. 9^th from 2:15 – 3:15 pm.

EMPOWERING GOD’S CHILDREN Youth Safe Environment Program: This program will be taught in the classroom during the month of February. Detailed information is in today’s folder, and you will get more information from the classrooms as each lesson is introduced to your child. Please note that the form included in today’s folder is an OPT OUT option. If not returned by Feb. 6th, we assume your child CAN participate.

CATHOLIC SCHOOLS WEEK is almost here! It is the week of Jan. 29^th, culminating with an all-school Mass on Sunday, February 4th at 10:00 am. The committee has planned activities centered around daily themes. Volunteers are needed throughout the week to assist the committee in helping with food prep./serving staff on Tuesday and help with bowling, popcorn & soda on Friday. You will find a tentative schedule of the week and a sign-up sheet for help with these activities in today’s folder. You will also find a sign-up sheet for the Catholic Schools’ Week Mass on Feb. 4th. Please return the sign-up sheet early next week so that plans can be finalized.

THE STUDENT COUNCIL is once again sponsoring Valentine Grams – with candy or a salty treat for $1.00 each. More information is in this folder. If you need more copies, please contact the office. All orders are due by Feb. 6^th. Thank you for supporting the Student Council!

FREE THROW CONTEST: The Mary’s Home Knights of Columbus will hold a Free Throw Contest on Sunday 1/21 from 11:00-12:30 pm in the Parish Center gymnasium. Boys & girls ages 9-14 may participate. Participants must be this age as of January 1^st, 2024. Bring your own ball, or one will be provided. Call or text Sam Berendzen with any questions @ 573-690-5245.

SHOW ME SUDS Fundraiser will begin on Friday, January 26th. This is a great opportunity to help our school and parish youth by selling and purchasing quality laundry detergents, dish soaps, dishwasher pods, and dryer sheets. Order forms with payments must be returned by Friday, February 19th. All products will be available for pickup on Sunday, February 25th. Contact Joan Doerhoff or the school office for more information. Thank you for your continued support in our school and parish youth!

ART CLUB: The first meeting of our newly formed art club will be this Monday, Jan. 22, from 3:30 – 4:30 pm. Mrs. Hoecker sent out permission slips last week to all 5^th through 8^th graders. If your child is interested, and you have misplaced the form, please call the office or contact Mrs. Hoecker.

8^th GRADE MASS at Cathedral of St. Joseph, Jefferson City. The diocese intends to begin a tradition of having all 8^th graders from our diocese come together for a special Mass at the end of each school year. This Mass is scheduled for Thursday, May 2, 2024, which is after our 8^th graders are dismissed for the school year. 8^th grade parents are encouraged to take their 8^th grader. Mass will be mid-morning with lunch provided afterward. More information will be forthcoming.  Please let us know if your child will attend so that we may RSVP.

SCHOOL CLOSING: Any emergency early dismissal or closing of the school due to weather will be announced by parent alert (text, email) and through social media, as well as over area television stations. Parents should not call the school office during inclement weather conditions to learn if the school is closing early. This unnecessarily ties up our phone lines for emergency communications. A phone call into school during this time will delay the process of getting our communications out to all families. Please note that afternoon extended care services are not available in the event of early dismissal due to weather or other emergencies.

Jessi W. is the lucky winner of the weekly Friday Folder dress down drawing!

MARK YOUR 2024 CALENDAR!

Wednesday, March 13, 2024 – First Reconciliation

          after Mass

Sunday, April 21, 2024 – First Eucharist – 10 am

          Mass

Saturday, April 27, 2024 – 8^th Grade Graduation –

          4:00 pm Mass

Wednesday, May 1, 2024 – Confirmation – 6:30 pm

20 HOURS OF SERVICE: 20 hours of service to OLOS School & Parish is required of parents of all school children. Most parents do many more than 20 hours of service here, but the expectation is that you do at least 20 per household. Student service hours are not included in the 20; they have their own goals within the school and classroom. Parent service hours should be logged on your family portal. Once in your portal, on the left side choose “Family”, select the parent’s name at the top middle, click “add” in the righthand corner and log your hours. They will be verified periodically by the school office staff. For tracking purposes, it may be easier to log all service hours performed by either parent under the parent who normally checks the portal. If you are not able to fulfill this obligation, you may pay the hours out @ $10/hour, for a total of $200.

 

 

 

Please return your folder on MONDAY!

 

Wishing you a wonderful winter weekend!

 

 

 

 Friday Newsletter 1-12-2024

THE WEEK AHEAD:

School Motto: We are learning, serving & praying – every moment of every day. We are COUGARS!

 

Mon – NO SCHOOL – Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday

Tues –

Wed – All School Mass 8:00 am (4th grade ministry)

        Dr. Vader, Superintendent of Schools, visits in the morning

Thur – Fr. Alex visits 5^th & 6^th – 8:45 am

Fri -   Dress Down Day

 

REPORT CARDS – 2^ND QUARTER - GRADES: Report cards are available online through your FACTS parent portal. If you haven’t already done so, please review and then sign & return the slip provided in last week’s folder. As always, if you have any questions or concerns, please contact the classroom teacher.

To access the grade card on your family portal, please follow these steps:

·          Log into your account at factsmgt.com – use school code ols-mo and your username & password.

·          On left, click “Student”.

·          On left, directly under “Grades”, click “Report Card”.

·          If you have more than one student, you can switch between grade cards in the upper middle of the screen.

HOME & SCHOOL MEETING: As you are aware, due to the weather the H & S meeting was cancelled. Our next meeting will be in conjunction with our “Meet & Greet”, scheduled for March 11, 2024. An additional H & S meeting will be scheduled for April to plan for the 24-25 school year.

OLOS SCIENCE FAIR: Our local science fair has been tentatively rescheduled to Friday, Feb. 9^th (from Jan. 19^th). All 5^th through 8^th graders are working hard on getting their projects finished up. We hope to have them on display before our Valentines’ parties that day. We look forward to seeing all their interesting projects!

8^th GRADE MASS at Cathedral of St. Joseph, Jefferson City. The diocese intends to begin a tradition of having all 8^th graders from our diocese come together for a special Mass at the end of each school year. This Mass is scheduled for Thursday, May 2, 2024, which is after our 8^th graders are dismissed for the school year. 8^th grade parents are encouraged to take their 8^th grader. Mass will be mid-morning with lunch provided afterward. More information will be forthcoming.  Please let us know if your child will attend so that we may RSVP.

FREE THROW CONTEST: The Mary’s Home Knights of Columbus will hold a Free Throw Contest on Thursday 1/18 from 5:30-7:00 pm, and Sunday 1/21 from 11:00-12:30 pm in the Parish Center gymnasium. Boys & girls ages 9-14 may participate. Participants must be this age as of January 1^st, 2024. Bring your own ball, or one will be provided. Call or text Sam Berendzen with any questions @ 573-690-5245.

SCHOOL CLOSING: Any emergency early dismissal or closing of the school due to weather will be announced by parent alert (text, email) and through social media, as well as over area television stations. Parents should not call the school office during inclement weather conditions to learn if the school is closing early. This unnecessarily ties up our phone lines for emergency communications. A phone call into school during this time will delay the process of getting our communications out to all families. Please note that afternoon extended care services are not available in the event of early dismissal due to weather or other emergencies.

PARENT ALERT CHANGE: Starting January 15^th, messages sent via Parent Alert will have a new short code. We encourage you to add the new short code 317065 to your saved contact for school, so it does not display as an unknown sender. This is simply a change in the carrier for services provided.

Jacob & Magdaline B. are the lucky winners of the weekly Friday Folder dress down drawing!

MARK YOUR 2024 CALENDAR!

Wednesday, March 13, 2024 – First Reconciliation

          after Mass

Sunday, April 21, 2024 – First Eucharist – 10 am

          Mass

Saturday, April 27, 2024 – 8^th Grade Graduation –

          4:00 pm Mass

Wednesday, May 1, 2024 – Confirmation – 6:30 pm

20 HOURS OF SERVICE: 20 hours of service to OLOS School & Parish is required of parents of all school children. Most parents do many more than 20 hours of service here, but the expectation is that you do at least 20 per household. Student service hours are not included in the 20; they have their own goals within the school and classroom. Parent service hours should be logged on your family portal. Once in your portal, on the left side choose “Family”, select the parent’s name at the top middle, click “add” in the righthand corner and log your hours. They will be verified periodically by the school office staff. For tracking purposes, it may be easier to log all service hours performed by either parent under the parent who normally checks the portal. Make sure to log your hours from the picnic! If you are not able to fulfill this obligation, you may pay the hours out @ $10/hour, for a total of $200.

CATHOLIC SCHOOLS WEEK is almost here! It will be the week of Jan. 29^th, culminating with an all-school Mass on Sunday, February4th at 10:00 am. The committee will be meeting to plan fun activities centered around daily themes. We always look forward to this most special week in our school year!

 SCHOOL MOTTO: We are learning, serving and praying - every moment of every day. We are COUGARS!

C - Christ Centered

O – Optimistic

U – Understanding of Others

G – Generous

A – Achieving Academic Excellence

R – Respectful

S – Serving Others

There will be no school this Monday, January 15^th, due to the MLK Holiday.

 

Please return your folder on TUESDAY!

 

Enjoy the long weekend and stay WARM!

 

 

 

 

Friday Newsletter 1-5-2024

 

THE WEEK AHEAD:

School Motto: We are learning, serving & praying – every moment of every day. We are COUGARS!

 

Mon –  Home & School Mtg – 6:00 pm, begins with potluck, meeting starts @ 6:15 pm

Tues – Community Service Dress Down Day – wear yellow heart shirts

Wed – All School Mass 8:00 am (5/6th grade ministry)

        Student Council Mtg – 3:15 – 4:15 pm in cafeteria

Thur – Fr. Alex visits 7^th & 8^th – 8:45 am

Fri -   Dress Down Day

 

REPORT CARDS – 2^ND QUARTER - GRADES: Report cards are available online today through your FACTS parent portal. Please review and then sign & return the slip provided in today’s folder. As always, if you have any questions or concerns, please contact the classroom teacher.

To access the grade card on your family portal, please follow these steps:

·          Log into your account at factsmgt.com – use school code ols-mo and your username & password.

·          On left, click “Student”.

·          On left, directly under “Grades”, click “Report Card”.

·          If you have more than one student, you can switch between grade cards in the upper middle of the screen.

COMMUNITY SERVICE DAY: Our January 2024 CS Day is this upcoming Tuesday, Jan. 9^th. Students may dress down if they wear their YELLOW community heart shirts, with all length requirements met. This month we focus on our parish. Students in each classroom will take time to help clean and rejuvenate our facilities – both school buildings, the church, and annex & parish grounds.

HOME & SCHOOL MEETING: We will have our third Home & School meeting this Monday evening, January 8^th, beginning at 6:00 pm with a potluck meal – please bring a dish to share. The meeting will start at 6:15 pm sharp. Topics to be discussed include Catholic Schools Week, VIP Day, and the upcoming Morgan Co. Line dance, along with updates from the classrooms & office. Please plan on attending. You will receive a bonus dress down pass for your child just for your attendance at this meeting. Hope to see you Monday evening!

SCHOOL CLOSING: Any emergency early dismissal or closing of the school due to weather will be announced by parent alert (text, email, voice) and through social media, as well as over area television stations. PARENTS SHOULD NOT CALL the school office during inclement weather conditions to learn if the school is closing early. This unnecessarily ties up our phone lines for emergency communications. A phone call into school during this time will delay the process of getting our communications out to all families. Please note that afternoon extended care services are not available in the event of early dismissal due to weather or other emergencies.

TIME & TALENT: Thank you to the many school families who have already returned their annual time & talent parish commitment forms. For those who have not returned their forms another copy is included in today’s folder. Please complete and return this form to school, to the parish office, or in the collection basket at Mass by January 19^th. We truly appreciate your participation and involvement in our parish family!

Braden E. is the lucky winner of the weekly Friday Folder dress down drawing!

MARK YOUR 2024 CALENDAR!

Wednesday, March 13, 2024 – First Reconciliation

          after Mass

Sunday, April 21, 2024 – First Eucharist – 10 am

          Mass

Saturday, April 27, 2024 – 8^th Grade Graduation –

          4:00 pm Mass

20 HOURS OF SERVICE: 20 hours of service to OLOS School & Parish is required of parents of all school children. Most parents do many more than 20 hours of service here, but the expectation is that you do at least 20 per household. Student service hours are not included in the 20; they have their own goals within the school and classroom. Parent service hours should be logged on your family portal. Once in your portal, on the left side choose “Family”, select the parent’s name at the top middle, click “add” in the righthand corner and log your hours. They will be verified periodically by the school office staff. For tracking purposes, it may be easier to log all service hours performed by either parent under the parent who normally checks the portal. Make sure to log your hours from the picnic! If you are not able to fulfill this obligation, you may pay the hours out @ $10/hour, for a total of $200.

SCHOOL MOTTO: We are learning, serving and praying - every moment of every day. We are COUGARS!

C - Christ Centered

O – Optimistic

U – Understanding of Others

G – Generous

A – Achieving Academic Excellence

R – Respectful

S – Serving Others

  

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2024!

Please return your folder on MONDAY.