THE BLUE JAY FLYER

F rom the Principal’s Desk...

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as we forgive our debtors

Dear Parents,

October has arrived, and it finally looks and feels like fall. Last week we had a wonderful gathering for our Grandparents Day event. It was great to see all of the grandparents, parents, and those here to support their children. We also had the opportunity for everyone to participate in and support our Book Fair.

This Thursday we will have our annual Technology Walkathon. Our goal is focused upon providing the resources to install card readers on several of our main entrance doors. We have, through the wonderful generosity of a benefactor, several new security doors. We want to continue to upgrade and improve all of our security measures. Recently the entire faculty completed an online ALICE training course.

Last week, the PTO offered an in depth presentation about preparing for and affording a Catholic High School education. I was joined by Maria Schweikert who was my admissions director at McAuley HS to talk about the High School Placement Test, scholarships and financial aid. It was a very well attended event.

In today’s Gospel, we are reminded of Jesus teaching His disciples how to pray. He gives them the very simple prayer we know as the Our Father. Jesus identifies God as holy and His Kingdom is to come. He gives us only one condition in this prayer. “and forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors.” Jesus wants us to be aware of both the reality of and the need for forgiveness.

Last week I met with a second grader who needed to write an apology. He didn’t know how. I walked him through the three parts of an apology. I believe that this is an important thing to learn. I often find that it is a challenge for me to let go of old injuries and offenses. And yet, I recognize how powerful forgiveness can be for both the forgiven and the forgiver. I encourage you to talk with your daughters and sons about forgiveness; to demonstrate and to expect forgiveness. In so doing, we will be heralds of God’s love as we forgive our debtors.

Sincerely,

Daniel A. Minelli

October 9, 2019

St. John’s School Spectacular

Saturday, November 16, 2019 6:30pm-11:30pm

St. John the Baptist Parish Center

Enjoy an evening of cocktails, dinner, live and silent auctions, raffles and dancing!

Proceeds from this event will benefit the students of St. John the Baptist School by funding additional staff,

offering more academic programs and controlling tuition increases.

EARLY BIRD PRICING OF $75 UNTIL OCTOBER 18TH Tickets may be purchased online at St. Johns School Spectacular Facebook page and Eventbrite

After October 18th, price will be $100 per ticket.

For more information, please contact Mary Beth Salyers at mbsalyers13@gmail.com

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Oct 10 Walk-a-thon 9:45am-1:30pm Oct 11-14 NO SCHOOL Oct 15 Taft Theatre Field Trip Grade 1 9 am-12 pm Oct 16 Gorman Heritage Farm Field Trip, 4 yr olds, 9 am-12 pm Oct 17 EARLY RELEASE 1:30 pm Shopping Cents Orders Filled Oct 18 All School Mass 8:30 am Performing Arts Play 1:30 pm Burwinkel Farm Field Trip Pre K 9:00 –11:30 am Oct 19 Performing Arts Play 7:00 pm Parish Center Oct 21 Mass Grade 4 8:30 am Oct 23 Mass Grades 6-8 8:30 am

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Calendar of events

Volunteers Needed!

We are still looking for volunteers to enter reward codes from Coca-Cola products. Codes can be entered online or scanned from your phone. Our school earns money for each code entered. If you are willing to help, please contact the school office at 385-7970.

Dress Code Reminders &

School Spirit Wear

The cooler weather seems to have arrived and we want to remind families of the school dress code.

Last day to wear shorts is October 31st! Girls are permitted to wear white, navy blue, or black leggings to the ankle, or footed opaque/ knit tights without designs under their uniform skirt/jumper. Solid navy blue cardigan or crew neck sweaters may be worn (no oversized sweaters or sweatshirt material). Solid navy blue pull over sweater vests are also acceptable. These must be worn over uniform shirts or white turtlenecks. Official school spirit wear, with the triangle logo, including sweatshirts, fleeces, and sports wick jackets/pullovers may be worn everyday over uniform shirts. These items may be purchased through the school office. Athletic spirit wear sweatshirts/jackets are only permitted on Spirit Days. Older school spirit wear that is either passed down or found in the uniform exchange is still permitted. If you are unsure if an older style is uniform or athletic, please call the school office. For the complete dress code, please refer to pages 21-23 in the Student/Parent Handbook which can be found by clicking on the Parent Tab on the homepage of the school website.

St. John’s Performing

Arts Troupe

Proudly Presents...

Twinderella

By Charlie Lovett

Friday, October 18, 2019

7:00 pm St. John the Baptist Parish Center

EARLY RELEASE DAY 1:30 PM Thursday, October 17, 2019

PTO Dine to Donate Monday, October 14

11:30am-9:30pm

Dine in or Carry-Out

Pebble Creek Restaurant will again be donating 10% of all food sales to St. John the Baptist School. This includes Dine-in and Carry-out orders. All proceeds go directly to our Student Enrichment Programs.

You must tell your server that you are dining for St. John the Baptist School.

Make sure to purchase your Pebble Creek Gift Cards through Shopping Cents

at mass this weekend and our school will earn even more money!!

http://www.pebblecreekgc.com/golf/emailer2020/img/

pebblecreek/pebblecreek menu 2018.pdf

High School Open House Schedule

Mercy McAuley Sunday, Nov. 10 1-3:30 pm

Mount Notre Dame Sunday, Nov. 3 1-4 pm

St. Ursula Academy Sunday, Oct. 27 1-3:30 pm

Ursuline Academy Saturday, Nov. 2 10 am-1 pm Sunday, Nov 3 1-4pm

Badin High School Sunday, Nov. 3 1-4 pm LaSalle High School Sunday, Nov. 10 1-4 pm

St. Xavier High School Sunday, Nov. 17 1-4 pm

Moeller High School Sunday, Nov. 3 2-5 pm

Roger Bacon H.S. Sunday, Oct. 27 1-3 pm

Purcell Marian H.S. Sunday, Nov. 3 2-5 pm

Elder High School Thursday, Nov 14 5-8 pm

Bishop Fenwick H.S. Sunday, Nov. 10 1-3 pm

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Shopping Cents Program Needs Volunteers

Our Shopping Cents program is in need of several volunteers to fill orders before and after weekend masses at St. John the Baptist Church. It takes less than one hour a month to help! This is an easy way to volunteer and meet new people. All of the proceeds benefit our school and help lower tuition rates, so we would love to get more school families involved. If you have any questions, please contact Amy Roetting at amyroetting@hotmail.com.

AmazonSmile News For Android Users

Good news! AmazonSmile is now available in the Amazon shopping app to all AmazonSmile customers using supported Android devices.

Please follow these instructions to support St. John the Baptist Catholic School and generate donations with every purchase you make:

1. Make sure you have the latest version of the Amazon Shopping App and then open the App on your Android device.

2. View Settings and select AmazonSmile.

3. Follow the in-App instructions to complete the process.

AmazonSmile within the Amazon Shopping App is not currently available for iOS users. However, you can still shop through AmazonSmile on your iPhone by simply going to smile.amazon.com from your internet browser.

You Shop. Amazon Gives.

If you shop on Amazon, our school earns .5% of all Amazon

orders provided that you shop through the Amazon Smiles link, smile.amazon.com, and select St. John the Baptist Catholic School Cincinnati as your charity.

P.T.O. News

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Save the Dates Skating Parties at The Place

6:00pm-8:30pm

Thursday, November 14 Monday, February 24 Thursday, May 21

~New this year~

CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE!!

Decide when you arrive if you want to pay $6.50/person for just skating/skate rental OR $20/person for all-inclusive package that includes skating/skate rental, all activities (except video games) and UNLIMITED pizza and soda.

On Friday, October 4th, students in grades K-3 celebrated Grandparents Day. A big thank you to our PTO Grandparents Day Committee for making this special day possible!

Grandparents Day

IMPORTANT REMINDERS

* Students need to bring a water bottle.

* Students must pack a lunch, the cafeteria

will be closed.

* Students may be out of uniform with their

class color spirit shirts (or a t-shirt to match

their class color), shorts or pants, and

comfortable walking shoes.

Kindergarten Red

First Grade Orange

Second Grade Green

Third Grade Blue

Fourth Grade Yellow

Fifth Grade Purple

Sixth Grade Pink

Seventh Grade Light Blue

Eighth Grade Gray

PTO Fun Committee Events

Fall Family Fun at Burwinkel Farm

Tuesday, October 22

3:30pm-6:30pm

Includes a hayride to the pumpkin patch and sunflower fields, a small pumpkin picked from the field and a sunflower (when in bloom) to take home, two corn mazes, one skid maze, a corn pool, crawl-through straw tunnel, sensory station, goats to visit, and a fall activity/coloring book. Hayrides will leave at 4:30 and 5:30, more times may be added based on crowds. Cost is $8 per person (under age 2 is free).

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The creative possibilities never end with BENDAROOS! Check out these eyeglasses that fifth grade students have been making in art class.

Mrs. Flick’s accelerated reading students recently finished reading The Diary of Anne Frank play. In keeping with the traditions of the Jewish New Year (Rosh HaShanah) they enjoyed challah bread with honey, pomegranates and apples. Students also traveled to Thomas More University to watch a performance of The Diary of Anne Frank and visit the BB & T Observatory. Dr. Wes Ryle discussed with them the sun, solar flare, Northern Lights and astronomy as a profession.

Junior high students attended a NET Ministries retreat last week at St. John Neumann’s Daniel Hall. A team of twelve young adults from NET Ministries shared the love of Christ with our stu-dents through games, skits, personal witness, small group discussion, prayer and quiet reflection. The theme, “Fully Alive”, explored our search for finding true happiness, highlighting the one thing that is big enough to fill our deepest desires—God. It was a great day of faith for-mation and personal reflection. To learn more about NET Ministries, please visit netusa.org or facebook.com/netministriesusa

In honor of The Feast of St. Francis last Friday, students gathered in the church with photos of their pets for an all school pet blessing.

A BIG thank you to all of our school families that donated and/or volunteered at the St. John’s Parish Create the Good event. Together, we worked to be able to donate: *84 “no sew” fleece blankets to Pregnancy Center West *246 personal care item bags assembled for Hope’s Closet *130 swimsuits, 115 towels, 87 bottles of sun screen, $300 in gift cards and 41 games and puz-zles for Santa Maria Community Services *Countless cards made for Vivian’s Victory

Animal Blessing

NET Ministries Retreat

Create the Good

Fun with Bendaroos!

7th Grade Accelerated Reading

A New Spin on Math Mrs. Zeller’s eighth grade math students recently learned about how math relates to a fireman’s job. The Little Miami Joint Fire & Rescue District explained how they convert pounds to kilograms for the purpose of calculating medication doses in pediatric patients. Also, the weight of the fire gear and pressure of the hoses in relation to math was discussed.