• ANNOUNCEMENTS • UPCOMING EVENTS • NOTEWORTHY ITEMS OF INTEREST •
Announcements
Accelerated Reader (AR) Program Information and Newsletter
With the end of the first trimester winding down, you may have heard your child talking about his or her “AR goal”. Please click AR Newsletter 2018 to read the newsletter to find answers to frequently asked questions about the Accelerated Reader program. If you have any remaining questions, please contact Mrs. Edmonds at bedmonds@svdpk8.com or reach out to your child’s classroom teacher.
SVDP Serves – Thank YOU!
THANK YOU!
The first all-school service day of this year is over and it was great! Friday, November 16, was a day filled with caring, learning, joy, giving, and most of all service. At this time of Thanksgiving, we of SVDP Serves would like to take a moment to thank everyone who helped make it so special – especially the parent volunteers. We are grateful for you!
NET Retreat Missionaries Host Families Needed
Hello families of St. Vincent De Paul, we are having NET ministries come put on a day retreat for our 7th and 8th graders on January 30th. We have found this to be an invaluable retreat for our students for the second half of the year. The NET team is usually made up of 12 volunteer missionaries, so we need about 6 families to host them for the night of January 30th. They must travel and stay overnight at least in pairs. Please email Miss Donahue at edonahue@svdpk8.com, our Student Advocate, if you would like to host. You do not need to have a child in 7/8 grade to volunteer; these young men and women are devoting one to two years of their lives deepening their own Christian lives and traveling to schools and churches to put on retreats for middle and high school aged children. They are a great blessing to our church.
SVdP Spirit Shop: Ordering closes November 20th.
SVdP Spirit Shop is only open for a few more days! Order by Tuesday, November 20th and orders will be delivered to your student via kid mail the week of December 10th. You will get your gear in time for the December Spirit Gear Day on the 14th!
Spirit gear is only available during the specified campaign deadlines. The next ordering period will not be until March 2019.
To order, click here http://shop.bornfit.com/categories/merchandising-partners/st-vincent-de-paul.html. Please note when ordering on the website, you will have to fill out the shipping section but your purchase will be delivered to school and delivered to your student.
Crusader Cards – Order forms due December 6th
This is your last chance to place a gift card order before Christmas! Turn in your completed order form and check to the front office by Thursday, December 6th. Orders will be delivered/ready for pick up by Monday, December 17th.
Click here to see our informational flyer and to print your order form. Look for the form to also come home in your child’s Tuesday folder on Nov. 27th and Dec. 4th. This is a great way to get your Christmas shopping done early, while also raising money for our school. If you need help placing an order or have questions on retailers please contact Stef Liley at sdliley@yahoo.com.
SVdP Cookbooks
SVDP COOKBOOKS are ready for purchase! We are so excited to offer these for $20 each. How can you buy one? Try the new online purchase option, or you can stop in and purchase one from the front desk at school, AND we will be selling them at a pop up store right after dismissal on November 29th. Bring a check or cash to purchase one (or more) that day. These will make great hostess gifts, Christmas gifts, and SVdP memorabilia for your family! We do have a limited quantity so get them while you can! Questions? Reach out to the Cookbook Committee: Shannon Tiger, Sarah Krier, Lauryn Meyer, Lisa Buesing & Courtney Ranson
Jamba Juice
Jamba Juice ordering now has more flexibility. You can either continue to place a one time order for the whole trimester, OR order anytime up to two weeks in advance throughout the trimester. (For example, if you’d like Jamba Juice November 27th, your order needs to be in by November 12th and if you’d like Jamba Juice December 4th, your order needs to be in November 19th, etc.) It is our hope that this change in ordering availability encourages even more participation in this valuable SVdP fundraiser. You can begin ordering NOW at https://secure.boonli.com/login. Please email Kay Watson (kmclean_max@yahoo.com) with any questions.
2019 Kentucky Derby Gala
Save the Date: Sat, May 4th at the Cable Center (DU) 5pm
Theme: A Night at the Derby, hats off for SVdP!!!
Ladies grab your hats and gents grab your bowties, you won’t want to miss our biggest fundraiser!
We are still looking for additional sponsorships. Click Gala Sponsorships Levels 2019 for sponsorship benefits. Click 2018-2019 Sponsorship Form to sign up and please let Courtney Ranson (CRanson@perryandco.com) know if you are interested in being a gala sponsor. In addition, please utilize any corporate matching programs. Many companies have a match program, so please inquire about these. This is a great way to maximize our gifts! If you do submit a check, please make sure to put “gala” in the subject line.
We are off and running with acquisitions. Thank you to Mary Catel for leading the charge. A couple things we wanted to mention regarding acquisitions. First, the donation parties are mostly scheduled. Please try and attend if you can, as these are great community opportunities. Bring your donations and ideas to the parties. We are also asking for everyone to bring a bottle of wine to the parties to contribute to the wine pull. Note that no donation is too small either!!! For example, if you have a gift card that you won’t be using, we can package with something else!
Read the monthly newsletter from the Office of Catholic Schools (click on the link below):
Office of Catholic Schools Nov News
Upcoming Events
November 30 // Preschool Families Coffee
December 19 // Kindergarten Christmas Play Performance
Noteworthy Items of Interest
Screen Time on the Brain – Updated Research (5 min video)
This video link, put out by the Catholic Medical Association, teaches about the impact that excessive screen time has on the development of the brain. As research has shown, brain development seems to be complete around age 25. As you continue this important conversation in your family, and with your children, this five minute video may stimulate a renewed effort in regulating the use of screen time in the family and especially with children. Establishing healthy boundaries with screens is the very important call of this generation.
Blog // Fully Alive – by Sr. Dominic
Can you remember back to Saturday morning cartoons featuring, among many others, Popeye the Sailor Man? Perhaps the tune comes racing to the forefront of your memory as you envision our hero reaching for a can of spinach and ingesting its entirety through his pipe. We witnessed the immediate effect of amazingly strong biceps which enabled Popeye to deliver the saving punch on his opponent. The discerning eye can find spiritual wisdom in this once-popular, animated figure. Read More >
