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The XReport ST. XAVIER SCHOOL MONTHLY NEWSLETTER Issue 06 March 2010 The mission of St. Xavier Catholic School is to educate the whole personͶ body, mind, and spiritͶin Christian values in accordance with our Catholic faith tradition. /ƚ ůŽŽŬƐ ůŝŬĞ ŝƚƐ ƚŚĂƚ ƚŝŵĞ ŽĨ LJĞĂƌ ĂŐĂŝŶ ƚŚĂƚƐ ƌŝŐŚƚ ŝƚƐ ƚŝŵĞ ƚŽ ŐŝǀĞ ƵƉ ƐŽŵĞƚŚŝŶŐ LJŽƵ ƚŚŝŶŬ LJŽƵ ĐĂŶƚ ůŝǀĞ ǁŝƚŚŽƵƚ ĨŽƌ ĨŽƌƚLJ ĚĂLJƐ ƚŽ ŚŽŶŽƌ :ĞƐƵƐ ƚƌĂŝů ŝŶ ƚĞƐƚŝŶŐ in the desert. In the catholic religion we call this liturgical season lent. Conventionally lent, it is described as being forty days long. The forty days represent the time that, according to the Bible, Jesus spent in the desert before the beginning of his public ministry, where he endured temptation by Satan, in each one of the temptations Jesus quoted scripture in order to overcome the temptation. Lent is also known for days of fasting and abstinence from animal flesh, such as Ash Wednesday and Good Friday as well as every other Friday in lent. During lent it is also a common practice to give up a material item that we let get in the way of our relationship to God, by doing this, it allows us to get closer to God. Often as teenagers we like to give up stupid things, like wearing pants, or giving up the use of ƚŚĞ ůĞƚƚĞƌ ǁ dƌƵƚŚ ŝƐ ŐŝǀŝŶŐ ƵƉ ƐŽŵĞƚŚŝŶŐ in order to move closer in our relationship to God, is pretty serious business.

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The  X-­‐Report  ST.  XAVIER  SCHOOL  MONTHLY  NEWSLETTER  

Issue  

06  March  2010  

The  mission  of  St.  Xavier  Catholic  

School  is  to  educate  the  whole  personbody,  mind,  and  

spirit in  Christian  values  in  accordance  with  our  Catholic  faith  tradition.  

in  the  desert.  In  the  catholic  religion  we  call  this  liturgical  season  lent.  Conventionally  lent,  it  is  described  as  being  forty  days  long.  The  forty  days  represent  the  time  that,  according  to  the  Bible,  Jesus  spent  in  the  desert  before  the  beginning  of  his  public  ministry,  where  he  endured  temptation  by  Satan,  in  each  one  of  the  temptations  Jesus  quoted  scripture  in  order  to  overcome  the  temptation.       Lent  is  also  known  for  days  of  fasting  and  abstinence  from  animal  flesh,  such  as  Ash  Wednesday  and  Good  Friday  as  well  as  every  other  Friday  in  lent.  During  lent  it  is  also  a  common  practice  to  give  up  a  material  item  that  we  let  get  in  the  way  of  

our  relationship  to  God,  by  doing  this,  it  allows  us  to  get  closer  to  God.  Often  as  teenagers  we  like  to  give  up  stupid  things,  like  wearing  pants,  or  giving  up  the  use  of  

in  order  to  move  closer  in  our  relationship  to  God,  is  pretty  serious  business.      

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The  following  books  were  donated  to  the  St.  Xavier  Library  Birthday  Book  Program  for  the  month  of  February:    

 

Kids  in  Pioneer  Times    

Bright  Path-­‐Jim  Thorpe    

Roasted  Peanuts    

Midsummer  Knight    

The  Penultimate  Peril    

The  following  books  were  donated  to  the  St.  Xavier  Library  for  the  month  of  February:    

Extra  Credit  and  The  Report  Card-­‐  donated  by  Ms.  McConnell  

ST.  XAVIER  BOOK  FAIR    

March  22nd  30th    

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again,  and  this  years  track  teams  are  larger  and  better  than  years  past.  The  high  school  team  is  coached  by  Eric  Powers,  and  the  junior  high  team  is  coached  by  Tom  Silovsky.  With  track  meets  starting  in  April  the  teams  have  plenty  of  time  to  prepare  for  the  events  in  which  our  mighty  rams  will  be  competing  in  this  year.  With  new  track  uniforms  and  more  players  participating,  coach  powers  hopes  that  this  will  help  us  put  more  points  on  the  board  at  the  track  meets  we  go  to,  rather  than  only  a  few  points  here  and  there  

from  one  person  placing  in  the  event  in  which  they  participate.    The  middle  school  also  hopes  to  achieve  this  same  goal,  with  the  help  of  eighth  graders,  Katelin  Silovsky,  Alex  Wood,  Kelli  McCann,  Kim  Keating,  Myranda  Carr,  Joseph  Balderrama,  Keon  Jackson,  Seth  Carpenter,  and  Steven  Matthews.  Good  luck  and  have  a  great  season  Rams!  

 

     

Sports  with  Alex  Davis  

  On  Wednesday,  March  10,  2010,  St.  Xavier  held  a  pot-­‐luck  banquet  to  honor  the  athletes  who  participated  in  winter  basketball.  Among  the  great  food  and  lively  conversation,  awards  were  given  to  participants.  Special  awards  such  as  most  improved,  most  inspirational,  most  valuable  player,  and  a  sixth  man  award  was  given  out.  In  the  high  school,  junior  co-­‐capitan  Dylan  Moon  received  the  Defensive  Most  Improved,  and  Team  Inspiration.  Junior  team  captain  Alex  Davis  received  Offensive  Most  Improved.  Sophomore  Killian  Wood  received  Offensive  Most  Valuable  Player.  Freshman  Caleb  Flores  received  the  Offensive  Most  Valuable  Player  Award.  Freshman  Joshua  Pearce  received  the  Sixth  Man  Award,  for  being  a  valuable  asset  to  the  Rams  scoring  ability,  even  though  he  

was  not  a  regular  starter.  The  junior  high  was  also  honored  that  night  with  the  same  awards,  eighth  grader  Alex  Wood  received  the  Most  Valuable  Player  award  for  the  junior  high  girls,  and  Tony  Reese  was  

team.  Most  Inspirational  was  awarded  to  

team  and  sixth  grader,  Tyler  Tanguay  for  the  boys.  Most  Improved  was  given  to  sixth  graders,  Abby  McConnell  and  Simon  Englehardt.  Even  though  not  every  player  received  a  plaque  or  medal,  every  person  who  participated  this  season  received  a  certificate.  Go  Rams!  

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8th  Grade    

The  eighth  grade  is  just  

getting  started  on  a  poetry  

unit.    The  unit  is  broken  into  

groups  of  poems  that  focus  

on  specific  techniques  

(alliteration,  rhyme,  

etc.).    As  we  finish  each  

group  of  poems,  the  

students  will  be  given  a  

poetry  writing  assignment  

that  uses  those  same  

techniques.    By  the  time  we  

have  finished  the  unit,  each  

student  will  have  composed  

ten  to  twelve  poems.    Those  

poems  will  be  collected  into  

an  anthology  of  each  

   

   

9th  Grade    

The  ninth  grade  is  

currently  reading  The  

Odyssey  by  Homer.    This  

selection  is  an  epic  poem,  

so  we  are  doing  the  reading  

aloud  in  class  so  that  we  

can  discuss  it  as  we  

read.    The  version  in  the  

ninth  grade  text  is  edited,  

so  we  should  be  done  by  

the  first  week  of  

April.    Students  will  have  a  

test  and  a  project  to  

complete  once  we  finish  the  

reading.    

   

10th  Grade    

The  tenth  grade  just  

finished  Julius  Caesar  and  is  

getting  ready  to  move  on  to  

their  novel  unit.    The  novel  

they  will  be  reading  is  To  Kill  

a  Mockingbird  by  Harper  

Lee.    This  unit  will  last  for  

several  weeks,  and  it  will  be  

our  main  focus  in  class.    We  

will  still  do  weekly  

vocabulary.    All  of  the  work  

associated  with  the  novel  

will  need  to  be  complete  by  

Friday,  April  16.    The  test  

will  be  on  Monday,  April  19,  

and  the  paper  will  be  due  

on  Tuesday,  April  

20.    Students  will  received  

an  assignment  sheet  at  the  

start  of  the  unit  that  clearly  

states  what  is  expected  in  

the  unit  and  when  

everything  is  due.  

MRS.  DINSMORE  

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The  junior/senior  

Theology  class  will  be  hosting  

a  Passover  Seder  Meal  on  

Sunday,  March  28th  at  6  

pm.  This  meal  is  for  the  

benefit  of  the  sophomore  

class  studying  the  Old  

Testament  and  for  the  RCIA  

candidates  and  their  

sponsors  in  preparing  to  

join  the  church  for  Easter.  

The  meal  re-­‐creates  the  

Last  Supper  that  Jesus  had  

with  His  apostles  which  

was  a  Jewish  Feast  Day,  

Passover.  The  meal  is  a  re-­‐

telling  of  how  God  

redeemed  His  people  

from  slavery  in  Egypt.  Jesus  

takes  this  further  by  

showing  how  He  is  sent  to  

redeem  people  from  their  

slavery  to  sin.  

The  meal  has  symbolic  

ceremonial  foods  and  will  be  

followed  by  a  potluck  

supper  with  traditional  

Jewish  music.  

 

 

Lent:  As  part  of  our  

spiritual  growth,  middle  and  

high  school  students  

have  been  attending  

Stations  of  the  Cross  on  

Wednesdays  after  Mass.  We  

follow  the  path  Jesus  

took,  carrying  His  cross  to  

Calvary,  His  death  and  

burial.  At  each  of  the  

fourteen  stations  we  are  

reminded  of  what  He  

suffered  and  there  is  a  

prayerful  meditation  for  us  to  

reflect  upon.  

During  Holy  Week,  

students  will  be  asked  to  

examine  their  conscience,  

reflect  on  areas  that  may  

need  to  be  worked  on  in  their  

lives  and  offered  

a  chance  to  confess  their  

sins  privately  with  Father  Al.  

MRS.    BREIDENSTEIN  

MR.  JONES  

about  World  War  II.    The    8th  grade  U.S.  History  class  is  studying  the  

view  during  the  Civil  War.    The  7th  grade  Geography  class  is  now  

reading  about  Latin  America.  In  World  History  they  are  studying  

about  World  War  I.  

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Spanish  I  

In  the  past  few  months,  

the  Spanish  I  class  has  been  

learning  to  speak,  read,  and  

write  basic  Spanish.    Last  

semester  they  learned  the  

basics  of  a  Spanish  sentence.    

This  semester  they  have  

begun  to  learn  how  to  make  

their  sentences  a  little  bit  

more  complex  with  grammar  

that  includes  reflexive  verbs,  

stem-­‐changing  verbs,  subject

-­‐verb  agreements,  and  

adjective  agreements.  They  

must  also  use  in  their  

sentences  what  they  have  

learned  from  the  last  

semester.    They  have  

learned  so  many  things  since  

the  beginning  of  school.    

From  greeting  someone  to  

describing  someone  as  well  

as  themselves,  learning  the  

different  members  of  the  

family,  the  different  parts  of  

a  house,  the  different  parts  

of  the  body,  and  now  they  

are  learning  about  clothes.    

The  students  will  be  

presenting  to  the  two  

Spanish  classes  a  fashion  

show.    We  are  looking  

forward  to  the  fashion  shows  

next  

MRS.  ROBISON  

CLASS  ROOM  UPDATES    

Third  through  

eighth  grade  are  

doing  testing  in  

class.    The  testing  

consists  of  math  

and  reading  

subjects.    Fourth  

and  seventh  

graders  are  

testing  for  science  

as  well.    This  year  

testing  has  been  

solely  done  on  

the  computers  in  

the  computer  lab  

or  on  the  new  net  

books.    Third  and  

fourth  graders  

come  to  Mrs.  

room  to  do  

testing  during  her  

break  period,  

while  Mrs.  Sunley  

does  her  testing  

on  the  net  books  

in  her  class  room.  

TESTING  

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Spring Break By:  Monique  Nesbitt  

   The  students  are  back  and  ready  to  catch  up  with  their  friends.  After  being  gone  for  a  whole  week  there  are  tons  of  events  being  told  all  around  the  school.  The  ques-­‐

question  answered  by  students  and  teachers  themselves.  

stayed  at  a  friends  house,  got  my  hair  done  and  went  shop-­‐

 Madison  Miller  9th  Grade  

 Mrs.  DeArmond  

 Jeong  woo  Kim  11th  Grade  

 John  Ehlinger  9th  Grade  

 Alex  Davis  11th  Grade  

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Jump  Rope  For  Heart  

 

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Big  Smiles  Now  

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1.How  many  stars  were  there  on  

       the  first    American  flag?  

             Mr.  Korf:  13                Monique:  13    2.Who   is  the   richest  person   in   the  

United            States?                Mr.  Korf:  Bill  gates                Monique:  Bill  gates      3.Who  started  the  first  Wal-­‐Mart?                Mr.  Korf:  Sam  Walton                Monique:  Wallace    4.What   is   the   longest   river   in   the  

United  States?                Mr.  Korf:  Mississippi                Monique:  Mississippi  river      5.What  is  capital  of  Alaska?                Mr.  Korf:  Anchorage                Monique:  Pass      6.What  state  is  most  population?  

                           Mr.  Korf:  California                              Monique:  New  York        

7.Who  is  the  3rd  president?                  Mr.  Korf:  Thomas  Jefferson                    Monique:  Pass          

8.What   state   is   the   smallest   in  America?  

                           Mr.  Korf:  Rhode  Island                              Monique:  Maine    

 9.Where   is   the   area   code   402  

from?                  Mr.  Korf:  Oklahoma                  Monique:  New  Jersey    10.Where  did   Japan  attack   first   to  

America  on  war?                              Mr.  Korf:  Pearl  Harbor                              Monique:  Pearl  Harbor                      Correct,  Wrong                      Answer  key:                      1.  13                    2.  Bill  gates                    3.  Sam  Walton                    4.  Missouri  river  (2565miles)                    5.  Juneau                    6.  California                    7.  Thomas  Jefferson.                    8.  Rhode  Island                    9.  Nebraska                    10.  Pearl  Harbor  

                                       Mr.  Korf:  70        Monique  Nesbitt:  30                                Mr.  Korf  wins...!  

Are  You  Smarter  Than  A  Teacher?  By  Jeong  woo  Kim  

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Kindergarten  

Early  Enrollment    

Students  currently  attending  the  St.  Xavier  Pre-­‐School  classes  have  enrollment  priority  in  the  Kindergarten  program  for  next  year  until  March  31.    

Enrollment  for  parishioners  and  siblings  of  St.  Xavier  students  will  be  April  1-­‐28.      

Beginning  April  27,  enrollment  will  be  open  to  the  public.  

If  you  are  planning  to  have  your  child  attend  St.  Xavier  Kindergarten,  please  complete  the  attached  form  and  return  it  to  the  school  office  by  

March  31.  

In  addition  to  completing  and  returning  the  form,  you  must  attend  the  Kindergarten  Round-­‐Up,  April  27  at  7:00  p.m  231,  Building  B).  Childcare  will  be  provided  so  that  parents  will  have  the  opportunity  to  listen  and  

ask  questions  without  disruption.  

*A  registration  fee  of  $100.00  must  be  paid  that  night  to  ensure  placement.  

*Enrollment  is  not  ensured  until  payment  is  received.  

Kindergarten  Pre-­‐Enrollment  Form        

*Please  fill  out  and  return  to  the  school  office  no  later  than  March  31,  2010.    Registration  fee  must  be  paid  at  Kindergarten  Round-­‐Up  on  April  27.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              I  would  like  my  child  to  attend  St.  Xavier  Kindergarten  for  the  2010-­‐2011  school  year.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  

_____________                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Date  of  Birth            __________________________________________                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Parent  Signature__________________________________________  

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Extended  Day  Hours  

7:30  a.m.  -­‐  2:30  p.m.  

Additional  Aftercare  Available  

Students  must  be  eligible  to  attend  Kindergarten  the  

following  year.  

Class  Size:  9  students    

Students  currently  attending  the  St.  Xavier  Pre-­‐School  classes  have  enrollment  

priority  in  the  extended  day  

program  for  next  year  until  March  31.    In  order  to  enroll,  please  turn  in  the  attached  

form  and  $100.00  registration  fee  to  the  office.    

Enrollment  for  parishioners  and  siblings  of  St.  Xavier  

students  will  be  April  1-­‐28.  

     

Beginning  April  27,  enrollment  will  be  open  to  the  public.    

There  will  be  a  parent  

information  meeting  April  27  at  6:30  p.m.  

       

                   

           Extended  Day  Pre-­‐K  Early  Enrollment    

Extended  Day  Pre-­‐Kindergarten  

Pre-­‐Enrollment          

         *Please  fill  out  and  return  this  form  along  with  the  $100.00  registration  fee  no  later  than                            

                       

   

 

               Date  of  Birth____________________________________________    Parent  Signature_________________________________________  

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March 2010 Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

21 22 School Book

Fair Start

23 Six Grade

Vocation Day

24 25 Conferences

3:00pm~ 7:00pm

26 School Book

Fair End

27 CYO

Convention In Salina

28 Passover

Meal CYO

29 Scholars Bowl

League 3:45 pm

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April 2010 Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

1 2 No School

Good Friday

3

4 5 No Bus Service

6 HS Track

Meet

7 8 9 10 Confirmation

Spring Clean Up

11 12 13 Pictures

Spring Sports

14 15 16 HS/JH Track

Meet

17 School Auction

18 19 20 JH Track Meet

21 22 23 24

25 26 Diversity HS Track

27 28 29 JH

Track Meet

30