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ST. MICHAEL Catholic School
D E D I C AT E D T O S P I R I T UA L G RO W T H , AC A D E M I C E XC E L L E N C E , A N D S O C I A L
D E V E L O P M E N T, T H E M I S S I O N O F S A I N T M I C H A E L C A T H O L I C S C H O O L I S T O
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is the amount of money our wonderful
students and families raised for Pat Casey!
Students raised the money by wearing green
(Traumatic Brain Injury Awareness) and
purchasing green “Prayers for Farmer Pat”
bracelets.
The airplane toss was a huge hit. At $1 per sheet, the airplanes were
flying all around the court. 39 prizes were up for grabs. Thank you to
the Imholte family for your work on this fun event. Not only did our
students and their parents participate, but so did many other families
from our competing schools.
Finally, a big thank you to Fong’s for supplying such wonderful food.
We are a very blessed community!
Absentee Line:
952-447-2230
Call anytime your
child is going to
be tardy or
absent.
In this issue:
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Mrs. Maxwell’s Corner
Children’s Mass
Faith Community
Upcoming Events Calendar
Important News
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Keaton’s Cure Club
Class News
Teacher Wish List
Polar Plunge Flyer
Catholic High School News
Children’s Mass
Mrs. Woods’ 6th grade class is planning the
Children’s Mass on Wednesday, February 11th
at 8:00 a.m.
January food shelf collection:
1 lb. bags of rice
FAITH COMMUNITY
Please remember our St. Michael Community in your prayers the week of February 9th.
William Steigauf
Daniel Deis
Grace and Matthew Mahowald
Zachary Wise
Evelyn, Rosemary, and Teddy Edwards
George and Joseph Sher
Evan and Grant Laughridge
Leyla Fitzgerald
Isabelle Schumacher
Charlotte, Emma, and Isabelle Henry
Pat Casey
Rhonda Zweber
Barb Stark
Sheridan Hafdal
Loretta Eller
Upcoming Events for February 9-15, 2015
MONDAY
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY
THURSDAY
Chess
2:15-3:30
Kids are
Authors
Media
Center
Children’s Mass
8:00 am
Girl Scouts
Cookie
Pickup
6 pm MPR
Spanish 2:15
FRIDAY
SATURDAY
SUNDAY
Spring Book Fair
Volunteers needed. Please consider giving of your time to this great event!
http://www.signupgenius.com/go/20f0944afaf2cab9-under1
Spring Book Fair Details: We receive 60% profit on all purchases. The media center depends on our book fair
profits to purchase new books for our students.
Theme: Scholastic Book Fair Under The Sea - Explore An Ocean Of Books! Friday, February 27 - Saturday, March 7, 2015
Take the Plunge with St. Michael Catholic School and Wildcat Mike!
Join Ian Leonard from FOX 9 and Adam West from KOOL 108 along with members of our St.
Michael staff and families on February 21st at Sand Point Beach for the Polar Plunge! Proceeds support
the Special Olympics Minnesota. https://reg.plungemn.org/team/theblues
See the attached flyer for more details.
Sign-Up Genius Coordinator
We are looking for a new Volunteer Coordinator for Parent Connections. This individual is in charge of
maintaining the Sign Up Genius on the school website. It is not time consuming and if someone is
interested please contact the school office at 447-2124.
Facebook
Follow us on Facebook and stay in touch with current events.
Auto Decal
We love seeing all of the autos sporting their school spirit with the decals sent out at Christmas. They
are simple to apply, easy to remove and stay on through car washes - which seem to never end this time
of year! The office has more if you need them.
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Dear St Mike’s Families,
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On February 21st, Keaton’s Cure Club will be walking for the 4th year, alongside thousands of others in the annual JDRF One Walk at the Mall of America. We all walk so that JDRF can conCnue funding type 1 diabetes (T1D) research that improves lives and keeps people healthy and safe unCl a cure is found.
With your support, JDRF will conCnue to fund life-‐changing advances that bring us closer to a world without T1D. In the past year we have gone from checking Keaton’s blood every two hours (even in the middle of the night) to being able to track Keaton’s blood sugars with the aid of an amazing device called a Dexcom Monitor. Recently we were told that as of March 1st we will be able to see his blood sugars on our Apple iPhones and iPads. That is an amazing feeling as a parent who constantly worries about him falling too low and passing out. It is even more exciCng for a liPle boy who will FINALLY be able to spend the night at his best friend’s house!! With conCnued research and amazing support via millions in donaCons, we know in our hearts that our prayers will be answered and Keaton will have a life without Type 1 Diabetes some day!! We ask for prayers and/or donaCons to help us achieve that dream.
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To donate please visit our team site http://www2.jdrf.org/site/TR?
team_id=175097&pg=team&fr_id=4785&et=4rzKEm9wv0ZL5Wm9Taj3cg
You may also send a check in an envelope marked Keaton Daniel, payable to JDRF, and write KEATON’S CURE CLUB on the memo line. Keaton is in Mrs. Block’s 3rd Grade Class.
If you’d like to join us for this amazing walk please email Andrea at [email protected] for details! Keaton would love to have you support his team and walk with all of us!!
Thank you for everything you do to help us and the millions of others living with T1D. Your dollars are helping turn Type One into Type None.
Sincerely,
Jason, Andrea, Keaton & Alaina Daniel
Prayers for Farmer Pat
Airplane Toss
MN Gopher players, Joey King & Darren
Haugh, show their support too!
Class News
Students in Mrs. Morgan’s Literature classes have spent 4 weeks learning that informational text and nonfiction text
is all around us! They spent class times focusing on each of the following textbooks: religion, social studies, math,
and science, while discussing how to read textbooks and use graphic organizers that lend themselves well to that
discipline. They spent additional class periods discussing text features in magazines, newspapers, and even cereal
boxes.
To share what they learned, seventh graders created presentations in the form of slides, posters, games, activities,
handouts, and interactive activities to teach the 4th and 5th graders during Catholic Schools Week. They presented
their information 3-4 times in each class, teaching small groups of elementary students who rotated around the
room. Seventh grade students would like to extend a special “thank you” to the elementary teachers for letting us
visit: Mrs. Vochoska, Mrs. TenEyck, Ms. Friske, and Ms. Kaczmarek!
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Congratulations to former students Abby Glaser and Christina Berg. They are the
Spanish Students of the Month at Prior Lake High School!
Parent Connections’ Teacher Wish List
Art/Mrs. Olmanson:
1) KidKraft Wooden Block Set (Lowe's, or similar blocks): used when students are learning about basic shapes, especially when
learning about architecture. 2) Sewing Machine and Thread: for the creation of puppets, for art used in stop motion animation, and to apply hand-stiched
images onto pillow, bags, etc.
3) Tripod Phone Holders (Quantity: 12): used in photography units, for making stop motion animation videos, in creating time
lapse videos etc. http://www.eforcity.com/univeral-tripod-phone-holder-black-cothxxxuph11.html?int=efsechtxtrigos-items
6th Grade/Mrs. Woods:
Stress balls and stress/squeeze gadgets for the classroom.
2nd Grade/Mrs. Gillham:
3 Wiggle Seats
Catholic High School News
HOLY FAMILY - Winter Open House - February 12
Join us at our winter open house, Thursday, February 12, and discover the people and programs that
make Holy Family such a special school.
Schedule for the night:
6:15-6:30pm- Registration and Check-In
6:30-7:00pm- Club and Activities Fair
7:00-7:30pm- Principal's Presentation
7:30-8:30pm- Curriculum Tour
Pre-registration for the open house is appreciated.
BUS INFORMATION!!
We are pleased to announce that Holy Family Catholic High School will be expanding bus
service in the mornings to Shakopee in the 2015-2016 school year. There will be a centralized
pick-up area determined by rider residences and pick-up time will be approximately 6:45 a.m.
The cost of this service for the school year is $800 per student, with a discount for families
with multiple student riders. Enrollment for this service is included in our tuition contract.