OPEN HOUSE

Monday, September 11 will be

our school Open House at 5:45

p.m. Please visit your child’s

classroom. Individual class-

room teacher’s may have spe-

cial events for you to sign up

for.

ACHIEVEMENT TEST

Students in grades 3-6 will

begin the Iowa Test of Ba-

sic Skills Achievement Test

beginning Sept. 11. Students

will be tested during the

morning hours over a two

week period. Please make

sure your child arrives

promptly on these dates so

students are not interrupted

during testing. Please re-

schedule any appointments

that may conflict with this

two week period. Students

need plenty of rest and a good

breakfast each morning.

RUMMAGE SALE

THE WOMEN’S GUILD

W I L L A C C E P T

RUMMAGE SALE ITEMS

IN THE GYM ON MON.

SEPT. 11 THROUGH

WEDNESDAY SEPT. 13.

THE RUMMAGE SALE

WILL TAKE PLACE ON

FRI. SEPT. 15 AND SAT.

SEPT. 16.

NOTICE

Just a few school rules to

remember:

1. Girls tops must have

two finger width straps

(no thin spaghetti

straps).

2. Children are not to

bring toys to school

unless it is directed by

the teacher for sharing

time.

3. Lunch orders are due

at the beginning of the

week so we can order

the day before serving.

Angel of God

My guardian dear

to Whom His love commits me here.

Ever this day be at my side to light and guard

to rule and guide. Amen

Mrs. Laura Cody Principal

August 25, 2017

www.stpaulmacomb.com

Weekend masses: Sat. 5:15

Sunday 8:00 and 10:30 a.m.

Special points of

interest

Open H ouse —Se pt. 9

Home and Sc ho ol Mtg.—S ept. 9

Magazine Turn In Date— Sept. 10 (Fi nal tur n in prize day)

FIN AL MA GAZI NE TURN IN DATE— Sept. 13

Market Day Pick Up— Se pt. 14 12:3 0—1: 30 pm

Speci al Perso n’s Day— Se pt. 20

Achiev ement Testi ng—S ept. 2 3-3 1 (Grad es 3- 6)

NO SC HOOL—FRI DAY, SEPT. 28

St. Fra ncis Mass—Oct. 16

St. Paul School

Magazine/Gift Sales Magazine/gift sales will start

August 30. The turn in days

for our sale will be Wednes-

day, Sept. 6. and Wednesday,

Sept. 13. WE REALLY NEED

FOR EVERY CHILD IN KIN-

DERGARTEN THROUGH 6TH

GRADE TO SELL AT LEAST

NINE(9) MAGAZINES.

If you have any questions over the

weekend, contact Joy McQuillan

833-4689.

When turning in orders, please

use the Great Opportunities col-

lection envelope provided in your

packet of magazine materials.

Please look over the prize options—a

single cash prize or the prizes listed in each category. Turn in your prize

choice option by Sept. 12. If no option is turned in, you will receive the prizes accumu-

lated.

Cash donations are accepted during the maga-zine sale. Every $20 donated that your child

collects will count as one order towards his/her cumulative cash/prize level.

Special points of

Interest

Aug 30 Magazine/gifts

sale starts

Sept 6 Picture Day-

Magazine/gift order turn

in

Sept 7 Math Olympiad

starts grades 4-6

Sept. 11—Sept. 22

Achievement Testing—

(Grades 3-6)

Sept. 11 Open House—

5:45 p.m.

Sept. 11 Home and

School Mtg.—6:30 p.m.

Sept 13 Last Day Maga-

zine /gift sale

Sept 15 No School Rum-

mage Sale

Sept. 22—Progress Re-

ports will be mailed

home

Oct. 4—St. Francis Pet

Blessing 6:00 St. Francis

Garden

Reminder! School Pictures

are September 6!

LIBRARY

Library day for grades 4-6 will be

every Tuesday and K, 1, 2 and 3

will use the library every

Thursday. Students may have up

to four books checked out at a time.

Most books are checked out for a

two-week period.

Library volunteers will help

younger students choose books at

their reading level. Occasionally a

young student will choose a book at

a much higher reading level (as

with the Harry Potter and Tolkien

books). While we encourage

students to choose books they can

read themselves, we know that

many families read-aloud. Studies

have indicated that students can

listen to, comprehend and benefit

from higher level books. Therefore

library volunteers will check out all

books of a student choice.

LIBRARY SUBSCRIPTIONS

If you are interested in purchasing

a magazine through our magazine

sale for the school library, please

contact the school office for

magazines still available to

purchase. Call 833-2470 and

Sharon will help you.

CONSERVATION DAY

The fifth grade class will spend the

day at Argyle Lake on Fri. Sept. 22

learning many aspects o f

conservation; soil erosion, water

quality, forestry, wildlife habitat,

insects etc. The program is

sponsored by U of I Extension, Tri-

County Resources and McDonough

County.

MACOMB HISTORY TOUR

All students in Macomb that are in

6th grade will be part of a Macomb

History Tour on Friday, Sept. 29

from 8:30—11:25 a.m. Students

will tour the Courthouse, Macomb

City Building, Chandler Park,

Western IL Museum, Old Bailey

House, Western IL Arts Center, and

County/City Police Station.

Safety Drills

As required by the State we

will have tornado, fire and

lock down drills. In order for

us to keep the children safe

we must practice how to stay

safe. Our first lock down drill

will be August 31. The teach-

ers will prepare the students

and Officer J.P. McLaughlin

will be at our school.

Nursing Home

The 4th grade class will be visiting

the The Elms Nursing Home the

second Tuesday of every month. The

children will have an adopted

grandparent. The time they spend

with their grandparent becomes

very special. They will play games,

do crafts, and sing songs with them.

This is a beautiful experience for

the children of St. Paul and the

Elms residents.

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INK CARTRIDGES

Please remember to send in your

old ink cartridges every time you

change your printer cartridge at

work or home. Ask family and

friends to save them also. The col-

lection tub is in our lobby.

SPECIAL PERSON’S DAY

Friday, October 6 will be our Special

Person’s Day. Students are encouraged to invite Grandparents and other Special Adults in their lives to share

lunch and attend Mass with them. Mass will be at 10:00 a.m. with lunch

following. Students will be dismissed at 12:30 p.m. NO AFTER CARE ON THAT DAY. Mark your calendars

now.

New face in our building!

Please help me welcome Mark

Heflin to St. Paul School. He will

be taking over the morning

custodian position. We are

excited to have him at St. Paul!

Our first Home and School Meeting

is Monday, September 11 at 6:30

p.m. in the 5th grade classroom.

The purpose of Home and School

is to achieve a closer relationship

and understanding among the par-

ents, the pastor, the principal, and

the teachers of St. Paul School.

Furthermore, we act as a

fundraising unit for the school,

providing 15% of the total school

budget.

In addition to introducing all the

fundraising activities for the year,

we will be approving our budget for

this school year and how best to

utilize money that has been raised

for our school. Come out and be a

part of your child’s school.

Babysitting will be provided by the

sixth grade students in the library

during the Home and School

meeting.

Please LIKE our

Facebook page!

St. Paul Home and School Association

Reminders, pictures

and daily information

are posted!

All students in grades 3-6 will pray the Rosary together once a month. This is a part of our religion curriculum. September 29 at 2:00 p.m. will be the first date that the students will pray the Rosary in the church as a group. Students are praying indi-vidual decades of the rosary in their classrooms and the younger students are learning the basics of the rosary.

In the book Unexpected Answers by Barbara Bartocci, the story is told about Jim Castle a middle-aged management consultant, who sat next to Mother Teresa on a plane in 1981. Mother Teresa, turning to him, asked him, “Young man, do you pray the rosary often?” “No, not really,” he replied. So she took his hand, and placed her own rosary into his palm; she simply smiled and said, “Well, you will now.”

Of all the things that Mother Teresa could have said to him about the love of God and neighbor, she chose this simple ges-ture. It may seem perplexing at first, but for Mother Teresa, and for Christians through the millennia, the rosary is a summary of and inspiration to the love of God and neighbor.

The rosary has ancient Judeo-Christian roots. Jews, prior to the time of Jesus Christ and still to this day, recite their tefillah, daily prayers, at morning, afternoon, and evening. The content of the prayers include parts of the 150 psalms included in scripture. Some Jews made it a weekly or even daily habit of praying all 150 psalms and would use pebbles, knots, or beads to keep track of their prayers. As Christianity rose, Christian monks continued the habit of praying the psalms. Prior to the printing press, bibles were not widely available even to Christian clergy, so the habit of using knots or beads to keep track of reciting the memorized psalms was common. The lay Christian faithful had an understandable desire to want to pray throughout the day and to imitate Christian monastic life in the context of their own daily duties. Instead of reciting the psalms though, it became encouraged to pray 50-150 times from Matthew 6:9-13 the “Our Father” prayer. An alternative prayer also arose from Luke 1:28, 42 which is known as the “Hail Mary” prayer.

As of the thirteenth century, the rosary took on its current devotional form. It is usually a circular chain with 59 beads at-tached to a crucifix. Beginning from the crucifix (the sign of Christ’s saving love for us from which all Christian prayer begins), the Apostles’ Creed is recited. The recited Creed is always a renewal of one’s discipleship of Jesus Christ, and a renewal of our baptis-mal promises. The bulk of the rosary then consists in praying one “Our Father” followed by ten “Hail Marys” and concluded with a Doxology “Glory be to Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit.” Each set of ten is known as a decade of the rosary, and a typical praying of the rosary consists in five decades. During the recitation of the Hail Marys, one is encouraged to call to mind scriptural events from the life of Jesus such as his birth, his miracles, his suffering and death, his resurrection and ascension, etc. The spiritual wisdom of Mother Teresa becomes clear once we understand what the rosary is. If one wants to mature in the love God and neighbor, they must enter deeply into a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. Our relationship with Jesus is nourished by our encounter with him in sacred scripture. The rosary is a sure way to immerse oneself in scripture since the totality of the prayer is the recitation of scriptural verses and the calling to mind of scriptural events. I hope to take Mother Teresa’s gesture to

heart and I encourage you too as well. Let us enter into the great bible study that is the rosary. Father Adam Stimpson

Home and School Association

Rosary

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Safe Environment Training

September 16 at 6 pm Sue

Corey will hold a safe environ-

ment training class. All volun-

teers are required by the Dio-

cese to take this class one time.

Please mark this on your calen-

dar if you are volunteering at

St. Paul. Thank you!