ST. ANN CATHOLIC SCHOOL

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1 7241 Mission Road Prairie Village, KS January 26, 2018 Upcoming Events at St. Ann Catholic Schools Week January 28 February 2 School Open House Chris Cakes A er 9:00am Mass January 28 in Cafeteria See schedule of events within this Newsle er State of the School Presenta on St. Thomas Aquinas Room January 30 at 7:00pm All School Mass Near and Dear Day January 31 Talent Show Spirit Day Spirit Café February 2 A Message From Mr. Riley DEAR ST. ANN FAMILIES: TWO DAYS UNTIL THE BEGINNING OF CATHOLIC SCHOOLS WEEK! STUDENTS AND TEACHERS ARE EXCIT ED TO BEGIN ALL OF THE AWESOME ACTIVITIES, OUT OF UNIFORM DAYS, THE COIN DRIVE, TALENT SHOW, AND MOST IMPORTANT, OPPORTUNITIES TO SHARE OUR FAITH AND CELEBRATE WHAT MAKES ST. ANN CATHOLIC SUCH A UNIQUE FAITH AND LEARNING COMMUNITY. THIS YEAR FAMILIES WILL RECEIVE A CATHOLIC FAMILY PRAYERS BOOK AS A GIFT FROM THE SCHOOL. CONTIN UE TO KEEP YOUR FAMILY PRAYER LIFE STRONG WITH THESE SIMPLE BUT POWERFUL PRAYERS. YOUR YOUNG EST CHILD ENROLLED AT ST. ANN WILL BRING IT HOME ON MONDAY. MY PERSONAL FAVORITE IS THE ST. TERE SA OF CALCUTTA PRAYER FOR FAMILY ON P SEE YOU ON SUNDAY MORNING AT THE 9:00AM MASS. THE MORE STUDENTS IN ATTENDANCE, THE GREATER THE OPPORTUNITY WE HAVE TO WITNESS TO OUR FEL LOW PARISHIONERS THE POWER OF CATHOLIC EDUCA TION. ALSO, PLEASE REMIND YOUR FRIENDS, NEIGH BORS, AND FELLOW PARISHIONERS WITH YOUNG CHIL DREN TO VISIT CLASSROOMS FROM 10:00AM NOON ON SUNDAY. WE ARE...ST. ANN! MIKE W.S. A! Always in the Presence of God

2 2 News Flash Catholic Schools: Learn. Serve. Lead. Succeed. Catholic Schools Week 2018 Theme A State of the School address, an update on the school, will be presented by Mr. Riley this Tuesday night at 7:00pm in the Aquinas Room at the church. The format will be a 20 minute update and then a reception to follow in the gathering space. All school families are welcome to attend. To enroll your student for next year, please go to this link: If anyone has old microwaves, the school would be happy to take them for the cafeteria we are in need of two! Save a life by donating blood on February 12th. Blood is a perishable commodity so donated blood needs to be replaced in our blood banks with fresh donations on a regular basis. The 12th of February is our next drive in the Parish Hall from 1pm-7pm.

3 3 Faith and Discipleship School of Love Date Night, Thursday, February 1. Location: Classic Cup Wine Cellar, 6:30pm. Come enjoy fellowship, faith and food at the Classic Cup on the Plaza. Catholic Schools Week is next week! It's a time to celebrate the bright light that Catholic schools are to the children and the communities that they serve.take a moment this week to pray and reflect on the immense gift that is Catholic education. May you all have a blessed Catholic Schools Week! Train up a child in the way he should go, and he will not depart from it. Proverbs 22:6 A Saints Prayer for Catholic Schools Week Blessed are you, O Lord our God. You give us time for growing and learning and you give us the gift of Catholic education. May we, with your servant, Saint Ann, thank you for our school. Response: We thank you, Lord. And with your servant, Saint John Baptist de La Salle, we thank you for our teachers. Response: We thank you, Lord. And with your servant, Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton, we thank you for our knowledge. Response: We thank you, Lord. And with your servant, Saint John Neumann, we thank you for our faith. Response: We thank you, Lord. And with your servant, Saint Katharine Drexel, we thank you for all your gifts to us. Response: We thank you, Lord. As these holy men and women have been your servants, Help us also to serve You always, and to work towards a faith-filled future during our time here at St. Ann Catholic School. Amen. First Fridays with Deacon Steve: We have Vespers (Evening Prayer) led by Deacon Steve in the chapel from 5:45-6:15pm every first Friday. Please join us Friday, February 2nd for prayer and benediction, a special blessing of Christ's Eucharistic presence. Lent will be here before you know it! Don't let Lent sneak up on you this year. Spend some time thinking about how you'll grow in holiness this Lenten season. There are lots of ideas here and here. Ash Wednesday Mass times are: 6:30am 8:10am (school) 7:00 pm Moms in Prayer will be held Wednesday, February 14, Ash Wednesday, right after all school Mass in the Gathering Space. We will be praying for our 5th-graders! Come one, come all and join us!

4 4 Mrs. Courville s Christian Leader of the week: This amazing second grader is Kind and caring to everyone Is really great at cheering you up when you are having a bad day If you get hurt, this student will quickly get a teacher, and then stay by your side until you are feeling better Will always include others by asking them to play Is a great friend who plays nicely with others and takes turns Has a beautiful smile and gives lots of compliments Has really great handwriting and works hard in class This student will always help you, and never gives up on you Is willing to share her crayons, and even her extra jacket with others This student is a true friend with a huge heart and her name is. Margaret Wilkerson!!!!!! CHRISTIAN LEADER OF THE WEEK

5 5 St. Ann Families, Please see the schedule below for Catholic Schools Week 2018! We are excited to start our week with Mass at 9:00 am on Sunday, and look forward to celebrating this special week with you! Joyfully, St. Ann Faculty and Staff We are St. Ann! Sunday, January 28 th 9:00 am Mass (St. Ann students, please wear your uniform) 10:00 am 12:00 pm St. Ann School Open House 10:00 am 12:00 pm Chris Cakes will be in the school cafeteria Monday, January 29 th All School Rosary read by 8 th grade leaders in the church. Everyone is welcome! Students can wear their favorite sports team jersey/t-shirt with their uniform bottoms Students will participate in a Faith Family activity to make cards for Children s Mercy Pep Rally for students at 2:20 pm with the Teacher-Student Volleyball game Tuesday, January 30 th Crazy hat day with school uniform Students that wore their uniform to Mass on Sunday can wear jeans/casual dress today in addition to wearing a crazy hat (refer to the handbook for casual dress expectations) Wednesday, January 31 st Everyone dresses in their school uniform 8:05 All School Mass Near and Dear Day following mass about 9:00 am Near and Dear visitors (Grandparents, parents, special friends, etc.) are welcome to visit classrooms until 9:30 am Thursday, February 1 st Crazy sock day with school uniform Friday, February 2 nd Spirit Day wear (Show your St. Ann pride for Catholic Schools Week!) Spirit Day Café Talent Show at 1:00 pm All Week we will be collecting food for the Catholic Charities Give Lunch program (see next page for details) We will also have a coin drive to raise money for our sister school Resurrection. The winner of the coin drive will be announced at the end of the Talent Show on Friday!

6 6 Catholic Schools Week Food Drive January 29 th February 2 nd Please join us in a food drive for Catholic Charities Give Lunch program and help feed more than 10,000 people during the summer months! Grade Items to Donate Kindergarten and 1 st 1 WHOLE GRAIN ITEM crackers, pita chips, pretzels. Must be individually packaged single servings. 2 nd, 3 rd, 4 th 1 PROTEIN ITEM single serving POP-TOP canned meat, shelf stable hummus, single serving peanut butter or chicken/tuna single serving salad kit. 5 th & 6 th 1 SNACK ITEM individually packaged single servings of raisins, granola bars, chips, trail mix 7 th and 8 th 1 FRUIT CUP MUST BE AN EASY OPEN TOP. Items such as peaches, pineapple, applesauce, etc. Bring one individually packaged item from your pantry or donate a package of items (ie: goldfish, peanut butter cups, chips, etc.). The grade teams that bring in the most food will win a TCBY treat delivered at school!

7 7 Next Week is the Coin Drive! It s Boys vs. Girls in a Coin Drive Competition! Let s help raise money for new library books at our sister school, Resurrection Catholic School, along with new books for our St. Ann Library and Classrooms. Check out those couch cushions, clean out that junk drawer, or do extra chores to earn some change for a wonderful cause. Bring in your money all next week during Catholic Schools Week. Girls are the reigning champs! Boys need to reclaim the title! A free dress day on Monday, February 5 th will be awarded to the group with the most money at the end of the week. Good luck to all!

8 8 Congratulations to seven of Mrs. Schafer's English Language Arts students pictured above: Evelyn Roth, Kate Lovick, Maria Nguyen, Caroline Gorman, Emily Douglas, Audrey Condon and Emma Hiss. From thousands of poems submitted, Creative Communication has selected the poems written by these St. Ann students for publication in their Poetic Power Winter 2018 Anthology!

9 9 Congratulations to Amalia Millard, First place winner of the Spelling Bee for 5th-8th graders! Oscar Ludwikoski placed second, and Lucy Wittek, third. Amalia and Oscar will represent St. Ann on February 6th at the Johnson County Catholic Schools Regional Spelling Bee at Bishop Miege High School. Congratulations Amalia, Oscar and Lucy and to all of the spelling bee participants!

10 10 Parish Pen Friends Dear Parent, Your 3rd through 8th grade student is participating in a new project at St. Ann s beginning during Catholic Schools week. It is called Parish Pen Friends! Each student is being assigned an older member of our parish to write a letter to. The hope is that they will also receive a letter back...and that the letters will continue to flow back-andforth between the two Pen Friends! The students will initiate the letter writing at school, and the letter will be mailed to their Pen Friend this coming week. When their Pen Friend writes them back, the letter will come to St. Ann s and be delivered to the student. We hope receiving mail in their classrooms will generate enthusiasm for the project, encouraging the students to write back! From this point on, the students will be responsible for keeping the correspondence going from home. We will send you the name and address of your child s Parish Pen Friend so that you have the contact information. We have many aging members in our Parish. Some of these are widowed, homebound, or in senior living facilities. Regardless, all of them would love connecting with a younger person! Your child s letter will undoubtedly be a highlight of their day! Please encourage your daughter/son to continue writing letters to their Pen Friend from home. By connecting the two, we hope to instill a greater sense of community at St. Ann and show our students the value of building relationships with their elders. Thank you! Anne Edmonds

11 11 SPIRIT WEAR We have some new items just in time for Valentines Day. We also will be offering a 20% discount on cups, water bottles and in stock shirts/sweatshirts! Spirit Wear will be available to purchase after Sunday mass by the cafeteria and again in the foyer on Near and Dear day... so come take a look and give your Tiger some Tiger love for Valentine s Day! See how cute Emma Platt is modeling one of the new headbands below!

12 12 SCRIP NEWS! We are taking a break from non-local SCRIP orders We a NEW Scrip order form coming soon! Help us reduce our inventory by purchasing: Amazon $100, Barnes & Noble, Applebee s, Arby s, Bath & Body Works, AMC Theater, Bed, Bath & Beyond, Bob Evans, Buffalo Wings, Burger King, Cinemark, Dillards, Great Harvest, JC Penney, TJ Max/Marshalls/Homegoods, Pizza West Thank you so much for supporting SCRIP! Field Rental Applications for the use of the practice fields are now being accepted for the spring/ summer season. Please forward your request to stannfields@gmail.com using the field request form found on the church website. Questions regarding the schedule process, contact: Mike Orrick at

13 13 Turn Your Box Tops In for a 3D Printer Grab those Box Tops off your Cheerios and turn them into a 3D printer! Our students have big plans to make their ideas come to life, and collecting Box Tops will help. Bring your Box Tops in from February 1-March 2 and keep track of our progress in the school foyer, Check your cupboard and recycling, don t let a Box Top go to waste! (Psst... Box Tops aren't just on Cheerios, check your Lysol cleaning supplies, frozen veggies, granola bars, trash bags and Kleenex boxes!) Questions? Contact Tracy Blasdel at tracyblasdel@gmail.com or Charlotte Butler at charlotte.a.butler@gmail.com First grade teacher Hannah Beaudoin is pictured above during her Guided Reading session with Evelyn Beerman, Ryan Hughes, Rosie Dunn, Agnes Porto and Jack Gatz.

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