Week of Monday,October 7th
Week of Monday, October 7th
Show and Tell: Something that begins with the letter L
Monday:
Tuesday: Music
Wednesday: Gym, Home and School Meeting at 7pm. For every Home and School meeting you attend, a ticket will be entered into a raffle at the last meeting to win $500 dollars for next year's tuition.
Thursday: Firefighters visit
Friday: Walk-A-Thon at 1pm. Envelopes went home last week. Donations can be made online at: http://school.simonandjude.org/walk-a-thon-1. Please share the link with family and friends. All donations go towards school upgrades and enhancements. If you're available to help out at the Walk-A-Thon, a link to a sign up genius can be found in the school newsletter.
The children may wear any SSJ t-shirt ( blue ribbon shirt, spirit wear t-shirt, etc.).
- Please label all clothing, etc. your child comes in with. Thank you so much!
- No School: 10/31 and 11/1. We will have conferences on Thursday, 10/31. I will send out a sign-up genius for conferences soon.
- Please send back the permission slip and fee for our field trip to Highland Orchards on Thursday, October 17th. All permission slips are due by this Friday, October 11th. Thank you!
-We’re in need of lunch time volunteers Monday-Friday from 12-1pm. Mrs. Franz, the Pre-K 4 aide will be in the classroom with you as well as a lunch helper on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. We especially need parent volunteers on Mondays and Fridays because we don’t have a lunch helper from the cafeteria.The sign-up genius link for October is: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/5080b4ca4ae2baafd0-october
You must have all your clearances to volunteer. Please contact Candy Savarese in the rectory for more information on obtaining your clearances. Her email is csavarese@simonandjude.org
- Tickets for SSJ's Home and School raffles were sent home. Please support us!! Any questions? Email Megan DelFra at megandelfra@yahoo.com. Raffles start this Friday!
-Mark your calendars and show your school spirit! SSJ will participate in the West Chester Halloween Parade on Wednesday, October 23rd! More details to follow!
- SSJ's Trunk or Treat is on Friday, October 25th. The event is from 6-7:30 pm, but cars will enter the parking lot at 5:30 pm. More information to follow, but get those car decorations ready!
- Save the date for the Knights of Columbus Italian Night at SSJ! This fun and family-friendly event will be on November 2nd, 6 to 9:30 p.m. in The Meehan Center. The cost is $45 for adults AND kids K- grade 8 are FREE. This includes live entertainment for all, Italian food, wine, beer, and soft drinks.
- Trivia Night returns to SSJ on Friday, November 15th.
- Support SSJ through Giant’s A+ School Rewards Program! Go to the Giant website for more information. https://giantfoodstores.com/school-rewards/. If you already support SSJ, you don’t need to sign up again. Thank you!
- Tuition assistance is available for all Saints Simon and Jude families who qualify or have a short-term financial need. In the 2019-2020 school year, over $160,000 in aid was awarded to SSJ students. We ask families to please submit an application through FACTS prior to applying for aid through SSJ's Catholic Education Fund. More information can be found in the newsletter.
- Be a Christmas Angel! This upcoming Advent season, you can make a difference to the less fortunate children in our local area. Our SSJ school and parish communities will once again partner with the Delaware Valley Children’s Charity (dvcconline.org) to assist thousands of area children who would have otherwise gone without. Last year SSJ sponsored 334 children! Please see the newsletter for more information.
Recap of the Week:
Last week was another busy one. We continued to talk about apples and began to talk a little bit about fire safety. In Math the children matched numbered clothespins to trees with the correct amount of apples. We also talked about position words. We played a game called: "Teddy Says" to review the words. In our unit: "Ready for School" we read: "Friends at School". Before reading, we made predictions about what the children might do at school. We talked about the story words: scoop and lid. We acted out the word scoop and talked about why it's important to use lids. In Religion we read the bible story: "Jesus Blesses the Children".We talked about how we can thank God for loving us. On Friday we read about Saint Francis and Father Gerlach came in to bless our stuffed animals.
We continued to practice spelling and writing our names. We started our Handwriting without Tears curriculum. We learned the Mat Man song and built him as a class. After building Mat Man, the children practiced drawing a person.
The children had fun doing their first STEM project. They built apple trees with Popsicle sticks and toilet paper rolls. The goal was to build a tree that could hold the most apples (red pom poms).
The children also completed their "Ten Apples Up on Top" craft. They glued numbered apples in order from 1 to 10 above a picture of themselves.
This Coming Week:
We will focus on the letter L this week. A letter book will come home on Tuesday or Wednesday. We do four pages in school and the children can finish it at home.They may bring it back in for a sticker. Please send in 2-3 pictures or environmental print beginning with the letter L. We will add the pictures and words to the back of our list of L words. In Religion we'll read the story: "Who is God's Favorite?". We'll talk about how we're all different and that's what makes us special. We'll continue to talk about Fire Safety. We'll read about some safety tips in our Weekly Reader. We will make a firetruck from shapes of construction paper.
In our unit: "Ready for School" we'll read: "A Splendid Friend, Indeed". Our story words are: splendid and note. After reading, we'll talk about ways we can share like Bear and Goose in the story.
The children will make fall trees. They will glue a silhouette of a tree on to a piece of construction paper and glue scraps of colored paper to the tree for leaves. We will begin to paint pumpkins at the easel this week.
Show and Tell: Something that begins with the letter L
Monday:
Tuesday: Music
Wednesday: Gym, Home and School Meeting at 7pm. For every Home and School meeting you attend, a ticket will be entered into a raffle at the last meeting to win $500 dollars for next year's tuition.
Thursday: Firefighters visit
Friday: Walk-A-Thon at 1pm. Envelopes went home last week. Donations can be made online at: http://school.simonandjude.org/walk-a-thon-1. Please share the link with family and friends. All donations go towards school upgrades and enhancements. If you're available to help out at the Walk-A-Thon, a link to a sign up genius can be found in the school newsletter.
The children may wear any SSJ t-shirt ( blue ribbon shirt, spirit wear t-shirt, etc.).
- Please label all clothing, etc. your child comes in with. Thank you so much!
- No School: 10/31 and 11/1. We will have conferences on Thursday, 10/31. I will send out a sign-up genius for conferences soon.
- Please send back the permission slip and fee for our field trip to Highland Orchards on Thursday, October 17th. All permission slips are due by this Friday, October 11th. Thank you!
-We’re in need of lunch time volunteers Monday-Friday from 12-1pm. Mrs. Franz, the Pre-K 4 aide will be in the classroom with you as well as a lunch helper on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. We especially need parent volunteers on Mondays and Fridays because we don’t have a lunch helper from the cafeteria.The sign-up genius link for October is: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/5080b4ca4ae2baafd0-october
You must have all your clearances to volunteer. Please contact Candy Savarese in the rectory for more information on obtaining your clearances. Her email is csavarese@simonandjude.org
- Tickets for SSJ's Home and School raffles were sent home. Please support us!! Any questions? Email Megan DelFra at megandelfra@yahoo.com. Raffles start this Friday!
-Mark your calendars and show your school spirit! SSJ will participate in the West Chester Halloween Parade on Wednesday, October 23rd! More details to follow!
- SSJ's Trunk or Treat is on Friday, October 25th. The event is from 6-7:30 pm, but cars will enter the parking lot at 5:30 pm. More information to follow, but get those car decorations ready!
- Save the date for the Knights of Columbus Italian Night at SSJ! This fun and family-friendly event will be on November 2nd, 6 to 9:30 p.m. in The Meehan Center. The cost is $45 for adults AND kids K- grade 8 are FREE. This includes live entertainment for all, Italian food, wine, beer, and soft drinks.
- Trivia Night returns to SSJ on Friday, November 15th.
- Support SSJ through Giant’s A+ School Rewards Program! Go to the Giant website for more information. https://giantfoodstores.com/school-rewards/. If you already support SSJ, you don’t need to sign up again. Thank you!
- Tuition assistance is available for all Saints Simon and Jude families who qualify or have a short-term financial need. In the 2019-2020 school year, over $160,000 in aid was awarded to SSJ students. We ask families to please submit an application through FACTS prior to applying for aid through SSJ's Catholic Education Fund. More information can be found in the newsletter.
- Be a Christmas Angel! This upcoming Advent season, you can make a difference to the less fortunate children in our local area. Our SSJ school and parish communities will once again partner with the Delaware Valley Children’s Charity (dvcconline.org) to assist thousands of area children who would have otherwise gone without. Last year SSJ sponsored 334 children! Please see the newsletter for more information.
Recap of the Week:
Last week was another busy one. We continued to talk about apples and began to talk a little bit about fire safety. In Math the children matched numbered clothespins to trees with the correct amount of apples. We also talked about position words. We played a game called: "Teddy Says" to review the words. In our unit: "Ready for School" we read: "Friends at School". Before reading, we made predictions about what the children might do at school. We talked about the story words: scoop and lid. We acted out the word scoop and talked about why it's important to use lids. In Religion we read the bible story: "Jesus Blesses the Children".We talked about how we can thank God for loving us. On Friday we read about Saint Francis and Father Gerlach came in to bless our stuffed animals.
We continued to practice spelling and writing our names. We started our Handwriting without Tears curriculum. We learned the Mat Man song and built him as a class. After building Mat Man, the children practiced drawing a person.
The children had fun doing their first STEM project. They built apple trees with Popsicle sticks and toilet paper rolls. The goal was to build a tree that could hold the most apples (red pom poms).
The children also completed their "Ten Apples Up on Top" craft. They glued numbered apples in order from 1 to 10 above a picture of themselves.
This Coming Week:
We will focus on the letter L this week. A letter book will come home on Tuesday or Wednesday. We do four pages in school and the children can finish it at home.They may bring it back in for a sticker. Please send in 2-3 pictures or environmental print beginning with the letter L. We will add the pictures and words to the back of our list of L words. In Religion we'll read the story: "Who is God's Favorite?". We'll talk about how we're all different and that's what makes us special. We'll continue to talk about Fire Safety. We'll read about some safety tips in our Weekly Reader. We will make a firetruck from shapes of construction paper.
In our unit: "Ready for School" we'll read: "A Splendid Friend, Indeed". Our story words are: splendid and note. After reading, we'll talk about ways we can share like Bear and Goose in the story.
The children will make fall trees. They will glue a silhouette of a tree on to a piece of construction paper and glue scraps of colored paper to the tree for leaves. We will begin to paint pumpkins at the easel this week.
Things to work on at home:
- identifying and writing their first name
- Putting on their own jacket and zipping
- letter and number recognition
- Putting on their own jacket and zipping
- letter and number recognition
Important Dates
These Dates are subject to change.
Firefighters Visit- 10/10
SSJ Walk-A-Thon- Friday, 10/11 1pm
Field Trip to Highland Orchards- 10/17, leave at 9:30am and arrive back at 12:00pm
Trunk or Treat- 10/25, 6-7:30pm
Halloween Parade- 10/30, 8:30-8:40
Knights of Columbus Italian Night- 11/2, 6-9:30pm
Trivia Night- 11/15
Thanksgiving Celebration- 11/26, 10:00-10:30
Pre-K Christmas Play- 12/16
Gingerbread Houses with 8th Grade in the cafeteria- 12/18
Donuts with Dad- 3/19, 8:45- 9:15/9:30
Muffins with Mom- 5/7, 8:45-9:15/9:30
Pre-K Spirit Day- 5/27, 10:00-10:45
Pre-K Beach Day- 6/4, 11:45 Dismissal
Pre-K Closing Ceremony- 6/5, 9:30am
**You must have all your clearances to volunteer. For more information on obtaining the required clearances, please contact Candy Savarese in the Rectory at csavarese@simonandjude.org
**You must have all your clearances to volunteer. For more information on obtaining the required clearances, please contact Candy Savarese in the Rectory at csavarese@simonandjude.org
*Reminder: If your child is absent please email myself at mpmauer@simonandjude.org as well as Mrs. Conlon in the main office at mconlon@simonandjude.org
Thank you!
- If your child's dismissal procedure changes, I must be emailed by 1:00pm. If it's past 1:00pm, please call the main office.
- If your child's dismissal procedure changes, I must be emailed by 1:00pm. If it's past 1:00pm, please call the main office.
- If you need to pick up early, we must have a written note or email.
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