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SCHOOL NEWS November 2017

Mark Your Calendar! Nov. 1: All Saints Day Mass – 5th and 6th Grades to present their Saints in the Church after Mass Nov. 2: York Symphony Field trip for grades 4 - 6 and BINGO at the New Freedom Community Center (doors open at 5 PM, Games start at 7PM) Nov. 3: No Mass, Noon Dismissal Nov. 4: Christmas Bazaar Nov. 7: 6th Grade to tour York Catholic Nov. 8 or Nov. 16: Presentation on Virtual Integrity from Sr. Geralyn, 6:15 Nov. 9: 1st Grade Prayer Service at 6:15 (MC) Nov. 12: HSA meeting at 10:15 in the School Library Nov. 16: Mission Day, to benefit the Food Pantry and Claire’s Gourmet delivery Nov. 17: Report Cards go home Nov. 20/21: Conferences – check with your child’s teacher for the time Nov. 21: Noon Dismissal Nov. 22- Nov. 27: No school, Thanksgiving break Nov. 28: School Resumes

St. John the Baptist Catholic School Newsletter

Here at school, we are working on a specific character trait each month. See the list of children below who most exemplified respect month (October) from each classroom. November is about remembering things for which we are most thankful. We are so blessed at St. John’s school, with wonderful children and their families and fantastic teachers, who work daily to provide the best learning and growing experiences possible. I see your children growing in their prayerfulness, thoughtfulness and kindness towards each other. It’s actually quite difficult for me to “catch” the kids being good for the principal awards as they all do such kind things regularly. They are also making great strides in accepting the consequences for decisions or actions they shouldn’t have done – which is a hard thing for us all!

From the Principal’s Desk…

October - Respect Month During the month of October, we worked on the

character trait: Respect. We talked about what it

means to show respect for parents, teachers,

ourselves, friends, our school, others, etc. The

following students were awarded the respect

certificates for October:

K - Jacob Powers

1st - Casey Campbell

2nd

- Jenny McLain

3rd - Kate Benesch

4th - Jack Uphouse

5th - Jacob Kelchaw

6th - Scout Miller

The month of November we will be working on showing our Thanks for all of God’s Blessings.

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Upcoming Events All Saints Day The 5

th and 6

th grade spent time in October researching a Saint of their choice. At the end

of the All Saints Day Mass on Nov. 1st, they will do a presentation on their saint to the entire

student body. We will learn many facts about the saints that day! Bingo Night St. John’s School is having a CASH Bingo on Thursday, November 2

nd at the New Free-

dom Community Center. Doors open at 5:00 and Bingo starts at 7:00. Food will be availa-ble from 5:00 to 7:00, and again during intermission, sold by Caterer Tasteful Occa-sions. Tickets are $20 each and are being sold in the school and church offices. Tickets will be $23 at the door, so please get your tickets early! This fundraiser will support tech-nology upgrades for our school, so please come out and support our students. Symphony Field Trip Mrs. Bailey arranged a field trip for Grades 4 - 6 to attend a concert put on by members of the York Symphony Orchestra. This was a wonderful experience for our students. Thanks, Mrs. Bailey! Claire’s Gourmet This yummy sale is underway! Orders are due back to school by Oct. 31

st. The orders will

be available for pick-up at school on November 16th from 2:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. Please mark your calendar for pick up as the items are frozen and we don’t have room to store them! Save the Date for the 2018 Auction and Dinner Dance on Saturday, April 28! The theme will be a 70’s Disco! This is our biggest fundraiser of the year, and a wonderful evening! If you volunteer 10 hours of your time to school events up to that date, you will be

able to purchase 2-for-1 tickets to the event. Just go into the link for the volunteer sign up!

http://www.stjnschool.org/volunteer-sign-up/

Virtual Integrity Presentation Sr. Geralyn, from the Diocese, will be here on Nov. 8

th or 16

th, from 6:15 – 7:15 to discuss

how parents and their children should navigate Cyberspace as a Catholic Christian. This is open to all parents, grandparents and anyone concerned with internet safety.

Conferences Teachers offer a time to meet and discuss your child’s progress on either Nov. 20

th or Nov.

21st. You should have heard from your child’s teacher by now to schedule a time. If you are

unable to meet with your child’s teacher on one of these dates, please schedule an alterna-tive time with the teacher.

Thanksgiving Break Thanksgiving Break begins on Wednesday, Nov. 22 and goes through Nov. 27. School re-sumes on Nov. 28

th. Enjoy the break! Don’t forget to keep reading!

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In a recent competition our 5th grade class

placed 5th place against 44 other schools

with a total 2,720 students participating. In

total, the students answered an outstanding

825,752 questions between themselves dur-

ing this contest!

Please make sure that you communicate any changes in your child’s schedule with the school office and not just another parent or your child’s teacher. If we do not hear from you, your child may be put on the bus when you planned to pick them up and vice versa. We have many after school clubs now, and it’s important that you communicate your plans with us, so we get your child safely where they need to be.

LIBRARY NEWS This school year we will be participating in the Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Awards Pro-gram. In order to qualify to vote the students must read or have listened to at least 3 books from the list. Students will vote in early March. Mrs. Grohal will be reading some of these books during library class. We have the following books available for the students to borrow in our library:

Grades K - 3 When Green Becomes Tomatoes by Julie

Fogiano Sling Shot and Burp by Richard Haynes Mother Bruce by Ryan T. Higgins We Dig Worms by Kevin McCloskey The Hole Story of a Doughnut by Pat Miller My Dog Bob by Richard Torrey Anything But Ordinary Addie: The True

Story of Adelaide Hermann, Queen of Magic

Grades 4 - 6 Pax by Sara Pennypacker Tucky J and Little Heart by Patrica Polacco Fuzzy Mud by Louis Sacher Ghosts by Raina Telgemeier Whoosh: Lonnie Johnson's Super-Soaking

Stream of Inventions by Chris Barton

Mrs. Miller’s 1st grade class decorated pumpkins to raise

money for Pennies for Life. The class raised $108 during

the month of October and displayed the pumpkins for the

other students to vote for their favorite pumpkin.

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Breakfast with Santa St. John’s Home & School Association will sponsor Break-fast with Santa on December 2nd. This event features a gift shop, baked goods, book fair, crafts, face painting and of course, Santa! Tickets may be ordered online starting on

November 1st at http://www.stjnhsa.org/events/.

Order your tickets early as this delightful event usually sells out and tickets may not be available at the door.

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Principal’s Awards This award is given for being kind, helpful and compassionate.

The following students have earned the Principal’s Award

Sunday liturgy participants: Abby Sheldon, Olivia Struck,

Nicky Struck, Caroline Fitzgerald and Evan Waltemire

Told Mrs. Mareck about a water spill in the hallway and then cleaned it up:

Allie Scott and Andrew David

Tied a friend’s shoestring:

Aiden Goloboski

Picked up a friends game piece: Gabe Wooden

The students pictured above proudly display the certificates they

received for being respectful during the month of October.