After attending a prayer service in the school gym today (due to the weather, we did not go to Mass), the 2nd grade students made homemade butter – by shaking heavy cream – to enjoy on their cornbread muffins. Even Principal Zorger stopped in to visit and share in the fun! If you have a 2nd grader this year, perhaps a great treat on the Thanksgiving table would be for them to make the butter!
Please help us spread the word! Shoppers on retail website Amazon.com can support Saint James School (for free) each time they make a purchase.
To participate in Amazon Smile, Amazon’s charitable giving program, you must enter Amazon by going to smile.amazon.com. The website experience is exactly the same, but you will be prompted to select a charity to support. Search for “St. James Church Corp” (donations go to the school’s account…this is just the name in Amazon’s system for tax number purposes) or by clicking the “Get Started” button below.
Each time you make a purchase using Amazon through the smile.amazon.com link, Saint James School will receive 0.5% of the purchase price in our account.
Please share this information with your family and friends and remember to use the Smile.Amazon address each time you purchase from Amazon going forward. If you have any questions, please e-mail our Director of Advancement, Amy Guenther, at aguenther@saintjamesschool.net.
Tomorrow, Wednesday, November 22nd, is a 12:05pm dismissal day. Aftercare will be in session but students going to aftercare will need to bring a lunch from home as there is no hot lunch served on early dismissal days.
There is no school on November 23rd and 24th in observance of Thanksgiving.
Important Note: Friday, December 8th is a 12:05pm Dismissal – THERE WILL NOT BE AFTERCARE AVAILABLE ON THIS DAY so please plan accordingly.
As a reminder, there is the option to subscribe to our electronic SJS calendar for just days off and early dismissal days. To do so, click HERE and choose “subscribe to filtered calendar” at the bottom.
As a reminder, there is no choir practice this coming Wednesday.
The HSA Christmas Wreath Sale is well underway! Thank you to all the families that have purchased wreaths so far! There is still plenty of time to order beautiful, locally-made Balsam Christmas wreaths. To place an order, please see the order form by clicking here. Once your order is placed, you will receive your redeemable coupon(s), sent home with your child. The farm is now open for wreath pick-up. Please note, all orders must be placed no later than December 15th and coupons have a “use by”date of December 18th. Should you have any questions, contact Jackie Smith, jacqmsmith@gmail.com.
Third grade students were surprised (and excited!) to return from lunch yesterday to find their two classrooms transformed into “Reading Cafés” – each with a roaring fireplace (on the smartboard), relaxing piano music, and decorated tables. This special lesson was to teach the 3rd graders about the word “genre” and the different genres of books.
Students sampled several types of books during this “book tasting” opportunity – spending 10-15 minutes at each station to get a taste of books from different genres. Any books the students enjoyed “tasting,” they could make a note for further reading in the future.
Today, students will switch classrooms – Mrs. Moran’s students will go to Mrs. Phelan’s classroom and vice versa – and sample books from a second selection of genres.
The Christmas Card Mini Session Fundraiser was a wonderful event. We are grateful to the 22 families that participated in the photo sessions!! A huge thank you goes to Mrs. Daley and Mrs. Fiereck for all their hard work, talent and generosity in donating their funds to our great school!! Thank you also to Mrs. Talaga, Mrs. VanBuren, Mrs. Malinowski, Mrs. Smith, and 8th grade student Isis Edwards for volunteering their time to help with the event.
On behalf of Mrs. Zorger and the SJS Student Council, THANK YOU to all the students and staff who brought in Thanksgiving donations for the St. Vincent De Paul Society. We collected a massive amount of food to help make the upcoming Thanksgiving Holiday a little brighter for some local families in need! This picture shows our Student Council members with a portion of food and beverages that were brought in.
Attached is the permission slip for the next Book/Art Club. If you would like your child to participate (grades 1 – 3), please return the permission slip and activity fee to the school by next Wednesday (11/29).
The HSA would like to thank all the families that came out to Movie Night on Friday! It was a fun time and a great way to end the week! Thank you to Mrs. Cattanach and Mrs. Poth for organizing the event and to Mrs. Johnson and the service hour students for running the concessions.