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MR. RIDDER’S REMINDERS Oct 20 Picture Retakes PLEASE PREPARE AHEAD OF TIME FOR 2:00 DISMISSALS – Remember that on 2:00 dismissal FALL PARENT / TEACHER CONFERENCES – Below you will find how the various grade levels are implementing Parent/Teacher Conferences. Fall conferences will be held on two different days for kindergarten through 8th grades.
These fall conferences are required. This is a great time to receive feedback and ask questions of teachers on how your child is performing in school. Report cards will be given to parents at that time. Sign- up sheets will be posted in the front entrance area on THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13th. Appointments need to be made by October 21st. If you feel you need more than the allotted time, please email the teacher to make other arrangements. The Specials teachers for Art, Music, PE, & Spanish will be located in their classrooms and it is not necessary to make an appointment to see them. KINDERGARTEN – 6th GRADE PARENTS will conference with every student’s homeroom teacher. If you feel you would like to visit with your child’s other core subject teachers, please make an appointment with the homeroom teacher and the additional core subject teachers at the same time. In these cases, the meeting will take place in your child’s homeroom. 7th & 8th GRADE PARENTS will go to the lower level middle school area to pick up your student’s report card. Then, you should proceed to his/her homeroom teacher. Conferences for these students will be an open forum style, with a waiting area. If you would like to visit with the teachers of other subjects after conferencing with the homeroom teacher, feel free to go to their desk. Please keep conferences with each teacher to no more than 10 minutes. Appointments are not necessary for 7th & 8th grade conferences. PRES & PREK PARENTS conferences meet in Mrs. Andersen’s classroom on the following days:
Mrs. Andersen visits with every child’s parent/guardian. Please reserve a 10 minute appointment time on the sign- up sheets that will be posted in the entrance today, October 13, 2011. Please make an appointment by Friday, October 21, 2011. FORGOTTEN ITEMS FROM HOME - There have been times this year when we (school and home) have WELCOME DESK VOLUNTEERS – CALLING ALL PERSPECTIVE WELCOME DESK VOLUNTEERS – We need your help! We are looking for a volunteer for each afternoon while children are still in the building for after school activities from 3:00 – 6:00pm on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. You or your friends, parents, grandparents, could volunteer once a week, or once every two weeks, once a month or what works best for your schedule. We are very flexible! Don’t miss out; this could be a lot fun for you. If you have a friend or relative that might be interested, please let us know. If you or someone you know are interested, please email Deanna Timmerman at dtimmerman@stpatselkhorn.org. PART – TIME KITCHEN HELP – Our school is currently looking for a part-time employee to work a few days a week from 7:30-1:30 in the kitchen to help our cooks. If you or someone you know is interested, please contact Cheri O’Hara at dohara@stpatselkhorn.org. VOLUNTEERS NEEDED FOR LUNCHROOM DUTY - Each month we need to fill 100 volunteer positions in the lunchroom to help serve and clean up after the students. Whether your child buys their lunch at school or is a cold lunch kiddo - they utilize the lunchroom. Parents (or grandparents) are needed from 10:45 - 12:50 each school day. We need help every day of the week, but specifically we could use additional volunteers on Mondays and Fridays. Please call or email Kris Morrissey if you would like more information or are willing to help: krismorrissey@cox.net or 402-630-8964. CALLING COPY MOMS/DADS/GRANDPARENTS/AUNTS/UNCLES -The St. Patrick’s School Copy Mom Team is searching for volunteers for in the mornings and/or afternoons. If you are interested in this fun and helpful volunteer opportunity please contact Deb Strumberger at dstrumberger@cox.net.
Sunday October 23th 9:00am – 2:00pm (Donut Sunday with a visit from Buzz Light-year! (Please join us after mass!)
JUMP ROPE FOR HEART – Our school is proud to partner with the American Heart Association to help kids with special hearts! Mark your family calendars NOW for our upcoming Jump Rope For Heart event taking place on November 7-11, 2011. Please see the attached flyer in regards to the upcoming event! JUMP ROPE FOR HEART INFORMATION STUCO BAKE SALE - Thursday, October 27th from 4:30-7:30, Student Council will be having their annual bake sale during parent teacher conferences. There will be a table set up in the school lobby with all sorts of delicious treats! Don't forget to stop by and support your school! ST. PAT’S APPAREL - Get your St.Patrick’s apparel…. We have a few in-stock apparel items now on
WELLNESS COMMITTEE HEALTH TIP OF THE WEEK: The American College of Sports Medicine just updated their exercise guidelines. They recommend exercising 5 days a week for 30-60 minutes at a moderate intensity or 3 days a week for 20-60 minutes at a vigorous intensity or 3-5 days a week for a combination of both. These exercise sessions may be completed as one continuous session per day or multiple sessions of 10 minutes or more to accumulate the desired duration. USED UNIFORM SALE:The next Used Uniform sale will be held Sunday October 23, 2011, 8:30-12:30 in the school lobby. Plan to stop by for all your fall & winter needs. Remember, 100% of the profits from the sale benefit ALL STUDENTS. As always, uniform donations are greatly appreciated! Uniforms in good, clean conditioncan be left in the school lobby. Heavily soiled, stained or severely torn uniforms are not accepted as they cannot be placed for resale. If you would like to help with the sale, please contact Suzanne Kahnk at skahnk@otcvs.com or Tracy Fernandez at fernan52970@cox.net. 2011-2012 HOME & SCHOOL DIRECTORIES PICK-UP - If you are a Home & School members who has not received your directory, please stop by the office as soon as possibleto collect it! Thanks to everyone who has already picked up your family's directory or made alternate arrangements. If you notice any errors in the directory, please forward your corrections to Jaymie Oehler at jaymie@jaymie.net. A list of modifications will be electronically distributed in the next few weeks, if necessary.
YEARBOOKS ARRIVED - The 2010-2011 yearbooks, that you ordered last spring, were sent home the end of September. There are a few additional yearbooks available on a first come/first serve basis. If you are unsure if you purchased a yearbook, or if you would like to order a 2010-2011 yearbook, please contact Victoria Brichacek at victoriabrichacek@hotmail.com.
Community Day has been expanded to a 2 Day event! It will take place on Friday, November 11 and Saturday, November 12, 2011 at Younker’s. Please contact Tina Jansen tina.jansen@target.com or Kelly Lanphier kelland87@msm.com to get your booklet today!
BOXTOPS = FREE MONEY FOR OUR SCHOOL! Last year we earned approximately $4400 for St. Patrick's. This year our goal is $5300. To achieve this goal, we will be doing a monthly promotion. Each student will receive a sheet on which to attach boxtops. (They may cut slits to slide the boxtops in or place them in an envelope or baggie and staple it to the sheet). For each sheet turned in, the student's name will be placed in a drawing for a $10 scrip card of their choice. All sheets and boxtops should be turned in to me. I will take care of the paperwork. We plan to put a link on the website for extra sheets so that it will be the responsibility of the parents to get those extra sheets. If you have any questions, please let me know. Thanks for your help in getting our school a little extra money!
WINTER BASKETBALL - Registration is now open for the 2012 Winter Basketball Session for parish
SCRIPTURE STUDY ON THURSDAY MORNINGS! - St. Pat's is offering a wonderful adult education opportunity for you to participate in after mass on Thursday mornings. It's a great way to be an example to our kids that learning about our faith is life-long! Join Michael Willis, our director of Liturgy and Music, as he explores the readings for the upcoming Sunday liturgy and how they all connect. This is a great way to gain a deeper understanding of scripture and develop a fuller appreciation for the mass. You can join in at anytime!
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days, we ask that you please be in the parking lot by 1:50pm and students will be dismissed promptly at 2:00. Teachers use this time for in-services and begin right after dismissal. There were an unusually high number of children picked up late on our last early out. All early dismissals are on the calendar available on the website. Also, note that TUESDAY, OCTOBER 25th is a 2:00 dismissal so that the teachers may prepare for the evening Parent/Teacher conferences. Thanks for your support of our faculty. 
been enabling the students by allowing forgotten items such as: backpacks, lunches and homework to be delivered to school. One of the most important things we can all teach our students is responsibility and we want to make sure everyone is following the same expectation. Therefore, if your child forgets something at home or in the car, he/she will be accountable for whatever the consequences are. I know that most of you already know and follow this rule. However, if you are new, you may not know this expectation. We would greatly appreciate it if you would please refrain from delivering forgotten items to school. In addition, students and parents are not allowed in the school (classrooms, lockers, or hallways) after 3:45 on Wednesday nights due to RF. Your assistance in teaching your child(ren) the important skill of being responsible is greatly appreciated. Thank you for working in cooperation with the school and your child's teacher to make this happen.
INFORMATION ABOUT HALLOWEEN FOR YOUR PLANNING PURPOSES – PreK – 5th Grades will have the opportunity to dress in costume and celebrate Halloween with parties hosted by room parents. Halloween gatherings will run from 2:00- 2:35 pm. The PreK-pm – 5th grade costume parade follows at 2:40pm. All students in PreK – 5th grades, may come to school in their costumes that day. No make-up, colored hairspray, guns, swords, knives or any type of weapon props are allowed. Grades 6th – 8th students and the school staff may wear ORANGE & BLACK and do not have Halloween parties. All students will be dismissed in the same fashion as a normal school day and at the regular time.
HEART MINISTRY CLOTHING DRIVE - It's time to make a difference!! Student Council is starting our annual coat, gloves, hats, and shoe drive to help support the Heart Ministry! We will be accepting donations from now until November 4th. Coats, gloves, hats, and shoes of all sizes can be dropped off outside the office at any time. Last year, our St. Patrick's Community collected over 1,500 shoes! Within three months, all of those shoes were on the feet of people who depend on the Heart Ministry through our support and donations. The Heart Ministry's shelves are bare and they really need our help! Every little bit counts. Please be as generous as you can during this time! 
TO THE BOOK FAIR AND BEYOND! Mark your calendars and join us in the St. Patrick's Library. Here is the link to the online book fair. The link will be open October 21st thru October 31st for those of you who are not able to attend in person: 
SCHOOL MUSICAL - We invite you to attend the performance of our 7th & 8th grade fall musical, “Once Upon A Mattress Jr.” The show will be performed on November 3 at 6:30pm in the Parish Center. Come see our talented students act, sing and dance in this hilarious musical!
sale 20% off. Now is the time to order your St. Pat’s sweatshirts, sweatpants, plaid flannel pants for winter or Christmas stockings… order forms will be available at Parent/Teacher conferences next Thursday, October 27. Questions… contact Jane Chapman @
WALKING CLUB - Congratulations to the following Walking Club members for walking 10 miles this year so far! They are Caden Carlson, Cael Carlson, Henry Diers, George Diers, and Grace Diers. Please contact Christina Diers at
SCRIP - TheOctober promotionhas kicked off and we have added a new local vendor to the program,
YOUNKERS COMMUNITY DAY BOOKLETS AVAILABLE - Since 1999, Community Day has partnered the Younker’s stores with local, non-profit organizations to raise over $80 Million for charity. Community Day allows you to give back to St. Patrick’s by purchasing coupon booklets, good toward store merchandise. With 100% of booklet sales benefiting ST. Patrick’s, shopping has never felt so good. The coupon books cost $5.00 and is filled with great savings coupons and exclusive offers — valued at more than $200! Take advantage of: 
HEY ST. PATRICK'S FRIENDS! Donate your Hy-Vee Smart points to St. Patrick's. St. Pat's is currently in 2nd place! Here is how it works: For every $20 of Procter & Gamble products you purchase at Hy-Vee from October 1, 2011– December 30, 2011 you earn 100 SMART Points to donate to the school of your choice. Get 100 additional points when you purchase two (2) or more Sara Lee Fresh Bakery products in the same transaction as your qualifying $20 Procter & Gamble purchase. Find the promotional code printed on your receipt of purchase, and enter it by clicking on the "Donate Points" button. From there, select the school for which you would like to make a donation. More than 200 schools with the most points will win! 
CASH FOR STUDENTS - St. Patrick’s School is once again participating in Hy-Vee’s Cash for Student program. Here’s how it works: Send to school ALL receipts from area Hy-Vee stores, pharmacies and gas stations from September 1- December 31, 2011. Ask family members to save them…grandparents, aunts, uncles, friends and neighbors. For every $200.00 in receipts, St. Pat’s will earn a $1.00! Send in the receipts to school weekly, monthly or when the envelope is full! Whatever works for you. Contact Susan Drvol at 
POP TOPS!!! - Please save your pop tops again this year. Bring them to school and put them in the Ronald McDonald box on top of the "Lost and Found" cabinet. We recently received a "Thank You" note from the Ronald McDonald house for the 60,000 pop tops I took down 2 weeks ago. Our Grand Total is 298,000 pop tops over the past 3 years. Great job people!!!! They really appreciate what you do. Thanks!! Dan Van Anne. 
youth grades K-4. The grades will be separated as the following: Kindergarten, 1st/2nd grade boys, 1st/2nd grade girls, 3rd/4th grade boys, 3rd/4th grade girls. The season runs January 7th - February 25th. For any questions regarding this session please contact Scott Kubicek:
SPIRIT - Looking for a way that you can help with SPIRIT? Consider underwriting our parish's largest fundraising event. Your contribution will be used to cover some of the event expenses, but will mostly be used to build exciting live auction packages like trips. Every little bit helps! We are eagerly collecting any increments $25 and greater. For more information, please see the underwriting letter you should have received this week in the mail, or see the event website: 
IT’S THAT TIME AGAIN…CLASS BASKET DONATIONS for the SPIRIT Dinner & Auction. Class Baskets are always great sellers at the auction. An envelope has been sent home to each family via youngest or only this week – please look for it in your child’s backpack. Please return the envelope, noting your student(s) & their grade(s) and write one check made payable to St. Patrick’s. All contributions for Class Auction Baskets are due October 20th. Thanks in advance for your participation. If you have any questions please contact Stephanie Vosik at 
PARISH FOOD DRIVE - Watch those sales and purchase non-perishable grocery items for our 3rd annual parish-wide food drive. Our parish 7th graders and their parents will be coordinating the food drive again this year. Grocery bags will be distributed the weekend of October 29th/30th and food collected and sorted the weekend of November 5th/6th. All items will be delivered to the Western Douglas County Food Bank for distribution in our community. The wish list for the Western Douglas County Food Bank is as follows: canned fruit, muffin mixes, regular size toothpaste, regular size shampoo, canned pasta, pancake mix, regular size bar soap, Kleenex, evaporated milk, pancake syrup, ranch dressing, toilet paper, boxed potatoes, hamburger helper, tuna, canned vegetables, dry spaghetti, spaghetti sauce. COPE (Christian Outreach Program, Elkhorn) diapers, pull-ups, feminine products.
FREE FAMILY FESTIVAL – Lutheran Family Services is sponsoring a free family festival Saturday, October 29th from 10 am to 2 pm at the Village Pointe Roundabout. There will be free pumpkin carving, local celebrity carvers, fun kids’ activities, foster care & adoption information booths.