St. James Catholic School Weekly News

Volume 22 February 2, 2012

Growing Together: Faith, Family and Friends

Dates to remember:

Thursday, February 2nd

6:00 PM ~ STUCO Skating Party

Friday, February 3rd 9:00 AM ~ All School Mass-7A

11:00 AM ~ 3rd grade Dad’s Super Bowl Luncheon –Social Hall

1:45 PM ! Staff vs 8th grade Challenge!

Monday, February 6th

Dental Education for pre-kindergarten-5th grade

3:15 PM ~ MIDI

Tuesday, February 7th 3:15 PM ~ Chess Club

4:00 PM ~ Band

Wednesday, February 8th Happy Birthday Bishop Boland

3:15 PM ~ MIDI

Thursday, February 9th

3:00 PM ~ STUCO meeting – St. Therese Room 3:15 PM ~ MIDI 4:00 PM ~ Band

Candy packets go home

CiCi’s Pizza Night! CiCi’s Pizza Night! CiCi’s Pizza Night! CiCi’s Pizza Night! Thank you to all the families that joined us last week for our restaurant school night at CiCi’s Pizza. Together we earned the school $250.00 for our professional development fund. Congratulations to Mrs. Parrish’s 4th grade class for having the most students in attendance. Your class has won a pizza party provided by CiCi’s Pizza!

St. James Catholic Schools Week! St. James Catholic Schools Week! St. James Catholic Schools Week! St. James Catholic Schools Week! Friday, February 3, 2012 Faith. Academics. Service: In Our

Faculty, Staff, and Volunteers

• Staff will be greeting families at morning carline with a special treat

• Principal Sophia Tulipana and Assistant Principal Kaleigh Klosak will help plan the day • All School Mass 9:00 AM • Staff vs 8th Grade Challenge 1:45 PM – 2:45 PM . The

staff fully expects another win! Special guest referees include our very own Fr. Mike and St. Pius X High School Principal, Mr. Joe Monachino. No sidelines for Fr. Timothy, he will be playing with our school staff to help us beat the 8th grade!

Special Thanks Thank you to all the families that came and supported the Knights of Columbus Spaghetti Dinner/Teacher Cake and Pie Auction. We had a full house! The food was wonderful and the desserts were delicious. The pre-school and pre-kindergarten did a great job of entertaining our guests! To-gether we raised $2705.00 for our professional development fund. We had such a great turn out. We greatly appreciated your patience throughout the serving of chili. Thank you!

Student Appreciation Raffle Winners! Student Appreciation Raffle Winners! Student Appreciation Raffle Winners! Student Appreciation Raffle Winners! Congratulations to the following students who won spirit wear or a skating pass from our drawing on Tuesday.

Morgan Rumsey, Kenna McFadden, Emmy McFather, Madeline Steiger, Sebastian Mares,

Emily Murphy, Logan Redmond Jordan Sellmeyer, Makenna Smock, Nina Adrineda,

Eli Griffin, Cecilia Davidson Makayla Carr, Sophia Tulipana, Gabe Cain Angelina Glorioso, Annie Jones, Oliva Ervie

Selena Andrade, Conrad Mojica Matt Kaspzyk, Jenna Zackert Valerie Nierman, Michael Park

HOPE CARDSHOPE CARDSHOPE CARDSHOPE CARDS

The 2011/2012 HOPE commit-ment year is almost to an end! Please stop by the office to pur-chase your HOPE cards today!

2

JUMP ROPE & HOOPS FOR HEART

During Catholic Schools Week, our school participated in The American Heart Association’s Jump Rope & Hoops For Heart! Each student came home with a packet containing informa-tion on how they can participate in raising money to help others who have cardiovascular dis-ease, including kids! Please read through the information in the packet. Students are not re-quired to solicit donations, but each child participated in the Jump Rope and Hoops for Heart activities in class. You can help with the fundraising portion by asking friends and family to give in support of your child’s efforts. To learn more about The American Heart Association, Jump Rope For Heart, how children are affected by heart disease and how to keep your own family healthy, visit americanheart.org/jump. Our events took place during regularly scheduled PE classes. Students should return fundraising packets no later than Monday,

February 6th. No forms will be accepted after this date. Thank you, Mrs. Stephens

Pre-School/Pre-Kindergarten

Playground Is On The Way! Please note the change in date due to the large amount of rain expected for this Sat-urday. The new date for the playground installation will be Saturday, February 11th.

Calling all hard workers! We are in need of all hands on deck to help! NO SKILL RE-QUIRED!

There will be two shifts of 8 or more workers. The first shift will be from 6:00 AM-12:00 PM, and the second will be from 12:00 PM-6:00 PM.

Breakfast and lunch will be provided by our PTO. Please contact David Gray at 816-529-3559 or davidgray816@gmail.com to sign up. Thank you in advance for your help and flexibility with our schedule change!

2012201220122012----2013 SCHOOL REGISTRATION2013 SCHOOL REGISTRATION2013 SCHOOL REGISTRATION2013 SCHOOL REGISTRATION Registration for the 2012-2013 school year is officially open to all current school families! Families should access the school’s website to download the 2012-2013 packet. Stewardship continues to be the focus at St. James Parish. St. James Parishioners will be asked to make their commitment to the parish by completing their pledge card in June. Each family will be receiving pre-printed Contact Information Sheets with current family information. These forms are to verify or update any information. Please make changes and then sign the form. Once signed and completed, the form needs to be returned to the school office to be used as a refer-ence for our family data base. The data base contains impor-tant information including home and email addresses to en-able the staff to contact parents in an efficient manner when needed. The enrollment process is complete when all packet information is returned to the school office and appropriate fees are paid. Current school families should return their packets by Friday, February 24th, as en-rollment will then open up to families on our waiting list. If you have any questions regarding enrollment or accessing the website, please contact the school office at 816-781-4428.

Special Note to families in

Pre-school, Pre-kindergarten and Kindergarten The deadline for early enrollment ended on Tuesday, January 31st. At this time if you wish to enroll your student for next year, please send in your completed registration packet as soon as possible, as we will begin enrolling families on the waiting list. Thank you.

SAVE THE DATE!SAVE THE DATE!SAVE THE DATE!SAVE THE DATE!

FINE ARTS SUMMER CAMP Be sure to plan ahead… mark your calen-dar for the Fine Arts Summer Camp! The camp is for students currently in 1st thru 5th grade. It will be held June 11th – June 15th from 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM at St. James School (1/2 day is optional, as well). Please look in future newsletters for more information!

Ms. Biggs – Art Teacher and

Mrs. Barron – Music Teacher

3

Google would like to invite K-12 students in the U.S. to participate in our fifth annual U.S. Doodle 4

Google contest. Draw your rendition of the Google logo and you may see it on the ultimate gallery:

the Google homepage. The winning doodler will also take home a $30,000 college scholarship and a

$50,000 technology grant for his or her school.

The theme for this year’s contest is “If I could travel in time, I’d visit...”. That could mean visiting a

past, present or future setting—whether it’s traveling back in time to the signing of the Declaration

of Independence, to the future to witness everyday space travel, or to just a few moments ago to

relive a poignant experience.

There will be five finalists and one winner per state, so everyone will have a local doodle champion to

cheer on. From these 50 State Winners, we’ll find 5 National Finalists and the lucky National Winner.

We’re also partnering with Crayola this year and the winning doodler’s artwork will appear on a

special edition of the 64-crayon box—a first!

Participating is easier than ever, since we’ve eliminated the registration step. All you need to do is

submit your child’s or student’s artwork by March 20 with a signed and completed entry form. On

May 2, we’ll put the 50 state winners up for public vote. All 50 State Winners will be flown to New

York City for the national awards ceremony on May 17, with the winning doodle appearing on May

18.

The doodles by the 50 State Winners will be displayed at The New York Public Library's historic

Stephen A. Schwarzman Building. We’ll also be partnering with museums across the country to

display the artwork of the state finalists in areas near their homes.

For more details, check out google.com/doodle4google,

where you’ll find full contest rules and entry forms.

Happy doodling and good luck!

Ms. Biggs

Art Teacher

Doodle 4 Google Contest… Huge Prizes!

4

Our student’s artwork is on display at local businesses during Catholic Schools Week. We thank the following businesses for their support and displaying our art: Clay County Savings Bank, Surber’s State Farm Insurance Office and Zona Rosa. Our students proudly represented St. James School by using their personal best effort in their artwork! Congratulations to the fol-lowing students:

All artwork will be placed on display at our school upon return. We hope you have time to view the variety of projects from the various grade levels.

Ms. Biggs ~ Art Teacher

Kindergarten – Lauren Stewart Kindergarten – Tessa McCabe Kindergarten – Madeline Steiger Kindergarten – Isabelle Harrelson

First Grade – Chloe Orness First Grade – Isabella Peregrine First Grade – Kylie Chester

First Grade – Logan Redmond Second Grade – Megan Corrigan

Second Grade – Olivia Redmond Second Grade – Eli Elliott

Third Grade – Lauren Taylor Third Grade – Killian Beck

Third Grade – Jerry Mutchler Third Grade – Daisy Gowin Fourth Grade – Grace Burns Fourth Grade – Kaleb Power Fourth Grade – Daniel Duffin

Fourth Grade – Sophia Tulipana

Fifth Grade – Kaleigh Klosak Fifth Grade – Jordan Murphy Fifth Grade – Annie Jones

Fifth Grade – Michael Fassbinder Sixth Grade – Grace Brancato Sixth Grade – Shannon Hennen Sixth Grade – Hamilton Trinidad Sixth Grade – Brandon Bednar Seventh Grade – Charlie Henn

Seventh Grade-Bailey Briscoe

Seventh Grade– Jack Henn

Eighth Grade-Lexi Cox

Eighth Grade – Claire Jackson Eighth Grade – Maddy Platt Eighth Grade – Nicco Salazar