St John the Evangelist Catholic School Chronicle

St John the Evangelist Catholic School Chronicle
December 18, 2009


Love the Learning. Build our Friendships. Live the Faith


Dear St. John’s Parents-

May the blessings of this Advent season be upon you and your family!

As we close out 2009, I’d like to take this opportunity to reflect upon some of the amazing things that have happened at our school so far.

We have expended our academic offerings to provide a Resource program for our students. Through Title money from the Recovery Act, our school has a Thompson R2J Resource teacher who comes to our school three days a week. We have allocated some of our aide money to hire Mrs. Daws to be our in-house Resource teacher. We have also created a Tutoring Corps with school parents and parish members to help with tutoring for our students. This all came as a result of the end-of-year survey where the feedback suggested we expand our academic offerings for all children– thank you for your feedback!
We continue to expand our extra-curricular offerings to provide a “whole child” education… Battle of the Books team, our State Championship Lego Robotics Team, our choir, our newly established Strings program, our band, Speech team, Yearbook, Spelling Bee…and much, much more! Our Athletics program continues to develop and excel here at St. Johns – our Volleyball girls and Basketball boys both had amazing seasons
We are the 2009 recipients of the Group Publishing grant for youth service to our community for the service projects that each class performs. We were acknowledged by Senator Bennet for the reception of this award: “Colorado is fortunate to have organizations like St. John the Evangelist making a positive impact in communities across the state. Thank you for your exceptional service.”

I can’t thank you all enough for your continued support of St. John’s. We are blessed and honored to be with your children each day! Your children are my source of inspiration each day – and I take great joy in seeing the students grow and develop!

I pray that each of you have a very blessed Christmas and a happy new year. – all of you stay in my constant prayers, and will say special prayers for each of you this holiday season.

+Blessings,
Dr. Sara Baird Amodio



UPCOMING SCHEDULE
We will return from Christmas vacation on January 4th. On January 6th it is early release and if you would like to use the extended day program Mrs. Haigh needs you to contact her and sign up ahead of time. January 18th is Martin Luther King Day and we will not have school.



ST. JOHN’S ANNUAL SOCK HOP
January 30, 2010, 5:30-8:00 P.M., Hoying Gym
It’s that time of year to start planning our Annual Sock Hop to kick off Catholic School’s Week!
We are planning a fun-filled family event and we need your help.See the volunteer sign up sheet and log in those volunteer hours. (Remember you need 50!) the sheet is posted on the website. We need volunteers for the clean-up crew, door greeter, photo booth, and food service. Please sign up to help us make this year’s Sock Hop a fun time for all St. John’s school and parish families. For more information, contact Shannon Lotz at 635-5844 or email at lotzsh@saintjohns.net


CATHOLIC SCHOOLS WEEK DVD
It’s that time again , when we make our annual Catholic schools week DVD. If you have pictures of school events or activities, please email them or put them on a DVD and bring them in the first week of January. We really need these ASAP to prepare the video for CSW.





PTO Updates:
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v Just a reminder, that we will not have a PTO meeting in December. We hope to see you at the January 14th meeting.



CHRISTMAS ORNAMENT
The school 2009 Christmas ornament is here, and we will be selling them in the loop. They will be available in the morning and afternoon loop, or you may drop by the school office.
This year’s ornament, crafted by Peyton Stroh, is a beautiful design of the Christ child under a star encircled in a twisted wreath.
Ornaments are $12.00 each, 2 or more- $10.00 each. PTO will also be taking limited orders for an ornament/cookbook combination. In addition, we have a few ornaments left from last year for $10.00 each. The 2008 ornament is a design of the Holy Family. Please consider these ornaments as a gift for friends and family when you are shopping for Holiday gifts. Thank you for supporting our school!







Greetings St. John’s Families,

Catholic Schools Week is quickly approaching and we have many great events planned for your child and the whole family. The theme for the year’s celebration is “Dividends for Life”.

Each school day we will celebrate with and outreach to the many different communities that are part of Catholic Education . The following is a schedule of events for the week so please mark your calendars!

Saturday, January 30th – Sock Hop!
5:30 - 8:00 pm, Hoying Gym – all families welcome!

Saturday/Sunday January 30th and 31st – Mass “In our Parish”
At each Mass Dr. Amodio will be speaking about the school and there will be a short DVD presentation. We will also be collecting prayer requests from parishioners so that our students can pray for our congregation during the week.

ACTION: 1. We will need volunteer families to collect these prayer cards at the end of each mass. Please contact Briana Lasher if you are interested in helping. brianalasher@comcast.net.

2. Please have your children to wear their uniforms to Mass.

Monday February 1st – “Our Community”
Third Annual Birthday Bag Community Service Project. Please see the list on the other side to determine what item your student(s) are to bring to add to the bag. After each class puts their items in the bags, we will donate them to local agencies who will distribute them to families who may not have the resources to celebrate a child’s birthday.

ACTION: Please have the students bring their items to school. We will also be in the loop on Friday January 29th collecting items for the bags.

Tuesday, February 2nd– “Vocation Day”
Each class will be adopting a staff member or a “feeder” church to say thank you for supporting our child’s education. The classes will be putting together thank you notes, goodies and prayers for these special people. We will be asking families to donate items for these thank you baskets.

ACTION: Please help the room parents by bringing in requested items – THANKS!

Wednesday, February 3rd – “Nation Day”
**EARLY RELEASE** MASS will be held at 8:30. (Note:Mass uniforms please!) This is also Father Franks Birthday; we will be celebrating with himJ. After mass we will be doing a LIVING ROSARY prayer service for world peace. The service will be held in the church. This is sure to be an amazing event as the students are representing the beads of the rosary. Please join us!

Thursday, February 4th – “Student Day”
To kick off student day Parents, Grandparents, Relatives and Friends are invited to come and have LUNCH WITH STUDENTS. RSVP forms will be sent home after the break, be sure to RSVP by January 22nd. RSVPs are required whether you plan on attending or not. After a fun lunch we will be cheering on the Staff VS. 8th Grade in an Olympic Games Competition. Feel free to come watch the mayhem in the Hoying Gym at 2pm!

Friday, February 5th –Teacher Appreciation Day - NO SCHOOL
The Catholic Schools Week committee will be providing a brunch for the teachers to enjoy.
BIRTHDAY BOX DONATIONS: We are asking for the following to be brought to school by Friday, January 29th. (Note: please make sure your item below will accommodate at least 8 children)


3 Year Preschool: 1 packet of birthday invitations
4 Year Preschool: boys – 1 pack paper cups girls – 1 pack cupcake papers
Junior Kindergarten: girls- Cake Mix boys-Frosting
Kindergarten- Campbell-Maher: 1 can of frosting per student
Kindergarten- Wood: 1 box of cake mix per student
1st Grade: Mertens Koolaid or Lemonade packet + 1 box of birthday candles
1st Grade - Lotz: streamers or other festive decorations
2nd Grade – Martinek: streamers or other festive decorations
3rd Grade Boney: boys – napkins girls - plates
3rd Grade Alyea: birthday napkins
4th Grade: Pigg birthday plates
4th Grade: Cunningham 1 packet of birthday invitations
5th Grade: Sgourdos balloons or other festive decorations
Middle School: girls - party favor items boys - party favor bags
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Check List:
q Return your RSVP by Jan 22nd for the Luncheon. Even if you cannot make it please return the form and indicate whom your child will sit.
q Please send in your items for the birthday box and goody item for thank you baskets, January 29th.
q Come to the Sock Hop on Saturday January 30th!
q Make sure the kids wear their uniforms (polo shirts) to Mass on the 30th or 31st.
q If you can help collect prayer requests at mass on Saturday the 30th or Sunday the 31st please contact Briana Lasher at brianalasher@comcast.net.
q Students need to wear their Mass uniforms on Wednesday February 3rd.
q Join us on Wednesday for Mass and the Living Rosary.
q Attend lunch on Thursday February 4th..
q Cheer on the staff and students at the Olympic games on Thursday the 4th.

Do you want to help volunteer for any of these events? Please contact Briana Lasher at brianalasher@comcast.net. We are specifically looking for someone to help video tape the living rosary, but there are many other opportunities to help as well.

This is a really fun-filled week of activities and we encourage as much family participation as you are able.











O God,bless our family and all its members and friends;bind us together by your love.Give us kindness and patienceto support each other;and wisdom in all we do.Let the gift of your peacecome into our heartsand remain with us.May we rejoice in your blessingsfor all our days.

v Please pray for the Holas, Hutchinson, Jacobson, Janda
v Let us give thanks to God for all the gifts he has provided us
v Especially give thanks to God for the gift of a parish school and ask his help as we continue to grow and prosper
v May Our Lord grant us all the graces we need and desire








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