SJS Foundation Golf Outing Rescheduled

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Please be advised that the Saint James School Foundation’s 26th Annual Golf Tournament has been rescheduled to Wednesday, September 2nd.  Please mark your calendar accordingly.

From the Librarian

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To our Saint James School Families,

While we are all adjusting to our new reality of distance learning I wanted to reach out with some reading resources that might help add some fun into our long days at home. Scholastic has added a great Learn at Home website which includes free resource articles, stories and learning challenges (www.scholastic.com/learnathome). There is also a #savethestories on Instagram that has authors and celebrities reading stories to children!  For our Manchester residents, our Manchester Public libraries have ebooks, audiobooks, and magazines that can be downloaded using your library card. Visit Manchesterctlibrary on Facebook or their website for info.

March is typically a very exciting time in our library, celebrating Dr. Seuss all month, we will continue with our Hats Off to Reading contest with an ending date when we return back to school. Please let our K-6 students know that any books, audiobooks, ebooks etc. they read or listen to over our time at home can be logged on paper and submitted to me when we return back to school. I will also continue with our fun activities and contests we had planned for March during our library when we return and hope this brings a smile to our students who were looking forward to this!

Thank you to all of the parents , teachers, and students for all working together as a team to make the most of our learning experiences during these difficult times! I am truly missing all of our students smiling faces during our library time and am looking forward to seeing everyone when we return to school.

We are blessed to be part of such a wonderful community; stay healthy and safe.

Mrs. Carpenter

Distance Learning Schedules for Middle School

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Middle School Parents: Please ensure you reviewed the email from Mrs. Zorger that was sent over the weekend (we also send a text via our SJS app to middle school parents).  If you need another copy of the middle school distance learning schedules, they are as follows:

Distance Learning Mrs. Wolpert’s Homeroom Schedule

Distance Learning Mrs. McQuaid’s Homeroom Schedule

Distance Learning Mrs. Oei’s Homeroom Schedule

Distance Learning Mrs. Grondin’s Homeroom Schedule

Distance Learning Mrs. Gordon’s Homeroom Schedule

Distance Learning Mr. Adams’ Homeroom Schedule

Distance Learning & Saber Socks

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A Note From Mrs. Zorger

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With Saint James School’s Distance Learning successfully underway I wanted to take a moment to share my overwhelming gratitude for all of you (teachers, parents, and students) who are working so hard to make the best of this situation.

Research has shown the importance of keeping to a schedule during this time. Students should still be getting up early, starting their day with a prayer, pausing school work for a healthy snack and some physical activity in the morning, eating a healthy lunch, and concluding any additional school work in the afternoon.  Please be sure you are talking to your child/ren about what they are working on and reaching out to teachers with questions.

Of course, it is going to take some time to master this temporary new reality – especially when combined with the multitude of uncertainties that we are all facing right now.  Yet, as we approach the end of distance learning day 3, I can say with full confidence that Saint James School is beyond blessed.  From the creativity and determination of our teachers to make this work for our students, to all the parents who have reached out to share your positive experiences, unique ideas, and constructive feedback – this is the true meaning of community.  Thank You!!

On a similar note, to keep up the school spirit, we are designating tomorrow (Friday) a Saber Sock Day for those that purchased Saber Socks.  And, Saber Socks or not, if you are willing to share pictures of your children doing their distance learning, we would love to post some out in our emails and possibly on Facebook.  We really miss seeing our students and the daily bustle of kids here at school.  Please send pictures to Amy Guenther at aguenther@saintjamesschool.net.

Please know you are all in my prayers as we navigate this together.

Sincerely,

Bridget Zorger

Middle School Parents

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Please note that 6th, 7th, and 8th grade parents should have received a special email this morning with an additional code for the students to add to Google Classroom (for Middle School Technology Class).  If you did not receive the email with the code this morning from SJS, please check your SPAM folder first, then reach out to Amy Guenther at aguenther@saintjamesschool.net for a copy.

Community Partners in Action Donations

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We would like to extend a big thank you to everyone who donated to the Community Partners in Action drive that we had started two weeks ago.  A representative from the organization came by today and picked up everything that had come in and they were exceptionally grateful for your support.

Thank You!

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A huge THANK YOU to all our SJS families for stopping by our Breezeway Pick-Up area yesterday and today to get the materials we had for you and to all our 8th grade parents for dropping off your students’ research papers that were due today.  We also wanted to share our gratitude for so many kind words and emails that were shared with the administration and faculty during these past few days.  We feel so blessed to be part of this special community.  Please know that each and every family is in our prayers.

Instrumental Music Notes From Mr. Corcoran

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General Performing Maintenance:

1) Remember if you play at one range or one dynamic level you will lose the others. It is recommended that you play your highest and lowest notes as well as your loudest note and your softest dynamic range.

2) Sight read every day.  Go to a new lesson in your book or old band music you have not played in a long  time.

3) Brass players play long tones in the upper register striving for 30 seconds.

4) Move as far as you can in your books. I showed everyone the  rhythmic concepts on charts 7 and 11.

My e-mail is jcorcoran@snet.net feel free to e-mail with any questions about what or how to practice. I hope to be able to Skype in a few days to we can continue lessons.

Sincerely,

Mr. Corcoran

 

Music on Google Classroom

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For students on Google Classroom (Grades 3-8) please have the students use the following codes for their weekly music special and also for choir:

Grade 3 – 4jnkyic
Grade 4 – mu6c3pv
Grade 5 – fzxkgwr
Grade 6 – rxmb5nb
Grade 7 – 2eointa
Grade 8 – cwifra2
Choir – zhfsc4j