OPEN HOUSE

Monday, September 10 will be

our school Open House at 5:45

p.m. Please visit your child’s

classroom. Individual class-

room teacher’s may have spe-

cial events for you to sign up

for.

ACHIEVEMENT TEST

Students in grades 3-6 will

begin the Iowa Test of

Basic Skills Achievement

Test beginning Sept. 17-oct

5. Students will be tested

during the morning hours

over a two week period.

Please make sure your

child arrives promptly on

these dates so students are

not interrupted during

testing. Please reschedule

any appointments that

may conflict with this two

week period. Students

need plenty of rest and a

good breakfast each morn-

ing.

NOTICE

Just a few school rules to remember:

1. Girls tops must have two finger width straps (no thin spaghetti straps).

2. Children are not to bring toys to school unless it is directed by the teacher for sharing time.

3. Lunch orders are due at the beginning of the week so we can order the day before serving.

Angel of God My guardian dear

to Whom His love commits me here.

Ever this day be at my side to light and guard

to rule and guide. Amen

www.stpaulmacomb.com

Weekend masses: Sat. 5:15

Sunday 8:00 and 10:30 a.m.

Special points of

interest

Open H ouse —Se pt. 9

Home and Sc ho ol Mtg.—S ept. 9

Magazine Turn In Date— Sept. 10 (Fi nal tur n in prize day)

FIN AL MA GAZI NE TURN IN DATE — Sept. 13

Market Day Pick Up— Se pt. 14 12:3 0—1: 30 pm

Speci al Perso n’s Day— Se pt. 20

Achiev ement Testi ng—S ept. 2 3-3 1 (Grad es 3- 6)

NO SC HOOL—FRI DAY, SEPT. 28

St. Fra ncis Mass—Oct. 16

St. Paul School

Magazine/Gift Sales Magazine/gift sales will start

August 29. WE REALLY NEED

FOR EVERY CHILD IN KIN-

DERGARTEN THROUGH 6TH

GRADE TO SELL AT LEAST

NINE(9) MAGAZINES.

If you have any questions over the

weekend, contact Joy McQuillan

833-4689.

When turning in orders, please

use the Great Opportunities col-

lection envelope provided in your

packet of magazine materials.

Please look over the prize options—a single cash prize or the prizes listed in

each category. Turn in your prize choice option by Sept. 7. If no option

is turned in, you will receive the prizes accu-mulated.

Cash donations are accepted during the maga-zine sale. Every $20 donated that your child collects will count as one order towards

his/her cumulative cash/prize level.

Reminder! School Pictures are

September 7!

Special points of

Interest

Aug 29 Magazine/gifts sale

starts

Sept 7 Picture Day-

Sept. 10 Open House—

5:45 p.m.

Sept. 10 Home and

School Mtg.—6:30 p.m.

Sept 14 6th Gr. Macomb

History day

Sept. 17—Oct 5 Achieve-

ment Testing—(Grades 3-

6)

Sept. 22—Progress Re-

ports will be mailed home

Sept 28 No School Rum-

mage Sale-Teacher work-

shop

Oct. 3—St. Francis Pet

Blessing 6:00 St. Francis

Garden

Please call the office if there s a change in your child’s plans after school. The teachers may not see an email sent during the day because they are busy with their students. Thank you!

LIBRARY

Library day for grades 4-6 will be

every Tuesday and K, 1, 2 and 3

will use the library every

Thursday. Students may have up

to four books checked out at a time.

Most books are checked out for a

two-week period.

Library volunteers will help young-

er students choose books at their

reading level. Occasionally a young

student will choose a book at a

much higher reading level (as with

the Harry Potter and Tolkien

books). While we encourage

students to choose books they can

read themselves, we know that

many families read-aloud. Studies

have indicated that students can

listen to, comprehend and benefit

from higher level books. Therefore

library volunteers will check out all

books of a student choice.

LIBRARY SUBSCRIPTIONS

If you are interested in purchasing

a magazine through our magazine

sale for the school library, please

contact the school office for mag-

azines still available to purchase.

Call 833-2470 and Susan will help

you.

MACOMB HISTORY TOUR

All students in Macomb that are in

6th grade will be part of a Macomb

History Tour on Friday, Sept. 14

from 8:30—11:25 a.m. Students

will tour the Courthouse, Macomb

City Building, Chandler Park,

Western IL Museum, Old Bailey

House, Western IL Arts Center, and

County/City Police Station. NO

BAND OR CHOIR THAT DAY!

Safety Drills

As required by the State we

will have tornado, fire and

lock down drills. In order for

us to keep the children safe

we must practice how to stay

safe. Our first lock down drill

will be September 10. The

teachers will prepare the stu-

dents and Officer Matt Marass

will be at our school.

Nursing Home

The 4th grade class will be visiting

the The Elms Nursing Home the

second Tuesday of every month. The

children will have an adopted

grandparent. The time they spend

with their grandparent becomes

very special. They will play games,

do crafts, and sing songs with them.

This is a beautiful experience for

the children of St. Paul and the

Elms residents.

MORE NEWS

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INK CARTRIDGES

Please remember to send in your

old ink cartridges every time you

change your printer cartridge at

work or home. Ask family and

friends to save them also. The col-

lection tub is in our lobby.

SPECIAL PERSON’S DAY

Friday, October 5 will be our Spe-

cial Person’s Day. Students are

encouraged to invite Grandparents

and other Special Adults in their

lives to share lunch and attend

Mass with them. Lunch will be at

11:15 a.m. with Mass following at

1:00. This is a different format

than the past. Please make sure

special friends arrive at 11:15. Reg-

ular class will be taking place in the

morning. NO AFTER CARE ON

THAT DAY. Mark your calendars

now.

Our first Home and School Meeting

is Monday, September 10 at 6:30

p.m. in the upper classroom. The

purpose of Home and School is to

achieve a closer relationship and

understanding among the parents,

the pastor, the principal, and the

teachers of St. Paul School.

Furthermore, we act as a

fundraising unit for the school,

providing 15% of the total school

budget.

In addition to introducing all the

fundraising activities for the year,

we will be approving our budget for

this school year and how best to

utilize money that has been raised

for our school. Come out and be a

part of your child’s school.

Babysitting will be provided by the

sixth grade students in the library

during the Home and School

meeting.

Please LIKE our

Facebook page!

St. Paul Home and School Association

Reminders, pictures

and daily information

are posted!

All students in grades 3-6 will pray the Rosary together once a month. This is a part of our religion curriculum. September 21 at 2:00 p.m. will be the first date that the students will pray the Rosary in the church as a group. Students are praying individual decades of the rosary in their classrooms and the younger students are learning the basics of the rosary.

In the book Unexpected Answers by Barbara Bartocci, the story is told about Jim Castle a middle-aged management consultant, who sat next to Mother Teresa on a plane in 1981. Mother Teresa, turning to him, asked him, “Young man, do you pray the rosary often?” “No, not really,” he replied. So she took his hand, and placed her own rosary into his palm; she simply smiled and said, “Well, you will now.”

Of all the things that Mother Teresa could have said to him about the love of God and neighbor, she chose this simple ges-ture. It may seem perplexing at first, but for Mother Teresa, and for Christians through the millennia, the rosary is a summary of and inspiration to the love of God and neighbor.

The rosary has ancient Judeo-Christian roots. Jews, prior to the time of Jesus Christ and still to this day, recite their tefillah, daily prayers, at morning, afternoon, and evening. The content of the prayers include parts of the 150 psalms included in scripture. Some Jews made it a weekly or even daily habit of praying all 150 psalms and would use pebbles, knots, or beads to keep track of their prayers. As Christianity rose, Christian monks continued the habit of praying the psalms. Prior to the printing press, bibles were not widely available even to Christian clergy, so the habit of using knots or beads to keep track of reciting the memorized psalms was common. The lay Christian faithful had an understandable desire to want to pray throughout the day and to imitate Christian monastic life in the context of their own daily duties. Instead of reciting the psalms though, it became encouraged to pray 50-150 times from Matthew 6:9-13 the “Our Father” prayer. An alternative prayer also arose from Luke 1:28, 42 which is known as the “Hail Mary” prayer.

As of the thirteenth century, the rosary took on its current devotional form. It is usually a circular chain with 59 beads at-tached to a crucifix. Beginning from the crucifix (the sign of Christ’s saving love for us from which all Christian prayer begins), the Apostles’ Creed is recited. The recited Creed is always a renewal of one’s discipleship of Jesus Christ, and a renewal of our baptis-mal promises. The bulk of the rosary then consists in praying one “Our Father” followed by ten “Hail Marys” and concluded with a Doxology “Glory be to Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit.” Each set of ten is known as a decade of the rosary, and a typical praying of the rosary consists in five decades. During the recitation of the Hail Marys, one is encouraged to call to mind scriptural events from the life of Jesus such as his birth, his miracles, his suffering and death, his resurrection and ascension, etc. The spiritual wisdom of Mother Teresa becomes clear once we understand what the rosary is. If one wants to mature in the love God and neighbor, they must enter deeply into a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. Our relationship with Jesus is nourished by our encounter with him in sacred scripture. The rosary is a sure way to immerse oneself in scripture since the totality of the pray-er is the recitation of scriptural verses and the calling to mind of scriptural events. I hope to take Mother Teresa’s gesture to heart

and I encourage you too as well. Let us enter into the great bible study that is the rosary. Father Adam Stimpson

Home and School Association

Rosary

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Safe Environment Training

All volunteers are required by

the Diocese to take a Safe Envi-

ronment online class. This is a

one time training. Please go to

peoria.cmgconnect.org/

Please call the office and let us

know if you are planning to take

this one time class. If you did

the face to face in the past it

counts! Thank you!