watertown campus connection · 2020-03-31 · help support your watertown catholic schools...

© Watertown Catholic School ⚫ St. Bernard Campus ⚫ St. Henry Campus ⚫ www.watertowncatholic.org/school

Serving Parents, Staff and Students of Watertown Catholic School March 2020

March

H&S

Meeting

T he next H&S Meeting will be Thursday,

March 5th at 6:30 p.m. at the St. Henry campus. Please contact Lorraine Rhodes, at [email protected] with any questions. Hope to see you there! Please note that Home & School meetings will alternate between the St. Bernard and St. Henry campuses. Be sure to check the calendar and/or contact the school or Lorraine Rhodes to verify the place and time.

Our Mission

O ffering a Christ-centered education that develops

the academics, morals and values needed for students to reach their full potential in this world and the next.

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“Where students grow in

faith, knowledge, and service

to others”

by Principal Sherry Harms

I would like to take this opportunity to thank our families for their patience and support while we had our school shutdown due to influenza. It was a difficult decision to close

the campuses, but one that we needed to make. We do not need to make these days up. Let's just hope for good winter weather for the rest of the season!

Thank you for celebrating Fat Tuesday with WCS! We had a great time eating pancakes, participating in the cake walks, and building our own ice cream sundaes! Thank you to our volunteers for making it a success. It was an awesome opportunity to celebrate with our school community before Lent began.

Now we enter into this time of preparation and reflection. We contemplate sacrifice – the sacrifice of Christ, as well as our own Lenten sacrifice. Each campus will take part in Stations of the Cross. The St. Bernard Campus will hold theirs on Tuesdays at 2:30 from March 3-April 7. The St. Henry Campus will do theirs on Fridays beginning at 2:15 from February 28-April 3. There will not be Stations on Friday, March 27 during spring break. The Faith and Family groups provided a Lenten handout in our family envelopes that provides families with ideas to complete at home. Each campus will participate in a Penny War where the money collected will be given to a charitable cause.

May you have a blessed and fruitful Lenten season!

Mrs. Harms

Watertown Campus Connection “School Edition”

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W ow, time sure flies! It's difficult to believe it’s March!

So far in 3K we have met new friends and learned so much.

In February, we had a Valentine’s party. Each child made their own box to hold their valentines and students enjoyed handing out their valentines to their classmates.

We also learned about dinosaurs. We learned that dinosaurs are extinct, and we learned the names of a few dinosaurs.

Pizza shop was a big hit in dramatic play. Students enjoyed taking orders and making pizzas for students and teachers!

Each student is working hard on tracing their name and we are working on recognizing their name and some of the letters in their name. We have also been working on naming shapes and colors. Students enjoy playing the fishing game while working on these skills!

In the months ahead, we look forward to learning about zoo animals, insects, and ocean animals. We will visit the public library each month, and we welcome warmer weather to play outside!

HomeLights

Grade 3K News by Mrs. Porzky, Grade 3K Teacher


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Watertown Catholic School

Student Council Update

I n February the Student Council collected nonperishable food items for the Food Pantry. Thank you to all who

brought in items. The service project for March and April will reflect our Lenten Penny War recipients.

Spirit days in March include wearing fun beach clothes to celebrate the coming of summer on Thursday, March 5. No swimsuits allowed and the dress code applies except shorts WILL be allowed. Wear green on Tuesday, March 17 in celebration of St. Patrick.

Thank you to our paid sponsors for their support!

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Run an ad for your business, or even better, showcase your child’s birthday

or a special event. Contact Nikki Zimmerman at [email protected] for

more information.

Geography Bee

“B efore Phoenix became an official city, it was called Pumpkinville. Phoenix is the largest city in which

southwestern state?”* (Answer is below)

Do you know the answer? This was a potential question for the Geography Bee. The National Geographic Society School Wide Geography Bee was held at St. Henry Campus on February 4. Each class from fourth grade to eighth grade held a preliminary bee in their classrooms to determine two finalists to participate in the school wide bee. This year’s finalists were Liam Field and Lillian Hady from fourth grade, Sarah Johns and Ellie Mudler from fifth grade, Andrew Harms and Makenah Novotny from sixth grade, Eliot Roethle and Izze Kresnak from seventh grade, and Ximena Ruiz and Briana Moreno from eighth grade. The winner of the school level bee was Andrew Harms with Liam Field being the runner-up. Andrew took a state qualifying test that is administered online.

(*Arizona)


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H ello Families! I hope you have been enjoying the sunshine lately! I wanted to thank all the families that

participate in the Scrip program! It is one of the easiest fundraisers that the school does because you are spending the same money you normally do! If you have any questions don't hesitate to reach out! Did you know you can pay your Kohl's credit card bill with Scrip?!

Did you know that you can purchase from over 750 merchants?! Did you know there are larger quantities that you can special order?! Did you know you can get hotel scrip?! Did you know you can buy your yearly Amazon Prime from Scrip?! Lots of ways to use Scrip locally as well! Again, PLEASE reach out if you are curious about Scrip! We all once didn't know what we didn't know! Happy Scripping! Amber Hady, Volunteer Scrip Coordinator

Watertown Catholic School

Sports News

W hat an exciting few weeks of basketball.

Thank you to all the adult volunteers that help make the season great! The season will conclude the first two weekends of March. Tournament for the girls’ teams will be the weekend of March 6-8 and the boy’s on

March 13-15. GO SAINTS! A basketball recognition assembly will be held at Watertown Catholic-St. Henry Campus on Monday, March 16 at 2:30 pm. We will recap the season and share the results of the tournaments. Student athletes are encouraged to wear their jerseys for the assembly.

Watertown Catholic Athletic Board is under the direction of President Joseph Rhodes. Scott Krahn fills the role of Basketball Athletic Director and Kristen Kazsmarek is the Volleyball Athletic Director. New members are always welcome, and the next meeting will be Wednesday, April 1, 2020, at 6:30 pm at Watertown Catholic-St. Henry Campus

in the meeting room/

Faith & Family

C ore Value: Charity- Loving god above all things and selflessly loving one another.

Scripture: “God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him.” John 4:16 St. Thomas Aquinas considers charity the greatest of the theological virtues. He defines it as “the friendship of man for God”, which “unites us to God”. According to Aquinas, charity is an absolute requirement for happiness, which he holds as man’s last goal. Using the Catechism and Aquinas’ definition of charity, we are expected to love God above all things for His own sake, and love our neighbor as ourselves for the love of God. During this Lenten season, dedicate your prayers, fasting or almsgiving to uniting yourself to God, bringing you closer to man’s last goal- happiness. Use your Lenten prayers to ask for God’s help to love all people as you love yourself. Think about a habit that keeps you from answering God’s call and give up that habit for Lent. Find a way during Lent to give of yourself to those who are less fortunate. Join the Watertown Catholic community during Holy Week and attend all the services leading up to Easter Sunday Mass.


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T hank you for bringing in your

box tops! Don’t forget to keep clipping, or, you can utilize the new

mobile app to scan Box Tops! For more information on how the scanning feature works, be sure to visit https://www.boxtops4education.com/. The app has easy to follow instructions. Feel free to contact Jeanne Wolf at the St. Henry campus school office if you have any questions.

Lent & Holy Week Activities

W e found these ideas for the whole family to do during Lent and Holy Week at http://www.reallifeathome.com/.

Third Grade Wax Museum

W atertown Catholic School’s Third Grade students hosted a Wax Museum in February. Do any of these historical figures look familiar?

https://www.boxtops4education.com/

https://www.boxtops4education.com/


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100 Days!!

W atertown Catholic had fun celebrating 100 days of school in February.


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W hat an exciting month February has been! February is the shortest month of the year, but it is filled with many special events. It is Dental Health Month.

Dr. William Buchholz, Jr., a dentist who graduated from St. Bernard School, visited our school and demonstrated the importance of taking care of our teeth. We are grateful for the bag of dental products he gave each one of us. The hundredth day of school finally arrived on February 13th. Each day, since the first day of school, we read from the book Emily’s First One Hundred Days of School and looked forward to this day. Everyone shared the 100 items they brought to school. We made posters, 100 day necklaces, and wore our 100 day glasses which we’re sure helped make us look 100 days smarter. The next day we celebrated Saint Valentine’s Day

with a great party. Now we are practicing our readings for the Ash Wednesday Mass and preparing for Lent. In Religion class we colored “Alleluia” banners. These will be placed in a box and “buried” until Easter to remind us that we don’t use the “Alleluia” during Lent. We also learned we don’t count Sunday as a part of the forty days of Lent. This day is a celebration of the Resurrection and therefore not a day for fasting. One Religion homework assignment we enjoy is completing chapter reviews on the internet and sending the results to school. No paperwork!!

Presidents’ Day was celebrated on the third Monday of the month. With a little help from our parents we did research on a president. We displayed our new knowledge on poster boards, and reported what we learned to the class. Many interesting facts were shared such as our 10th President, John Tyler, had two wives and fifteen children. Of all the presidents, he had the most children.

In math class we found patterns on the hundred chart and counted by twos, fives, and tens to 100. We learned to estimate. Now we are practicing our estimation skills. We take turns taking home the estimation jar and filling it with a variety of items. Each day we anxiously wait to celebrate with those students whose estimate is closest to the correct number of items in the jar. Some students may even award a prize.

Each day our reading and writing skills are growing. We are working to improve our reading comprehension skills by reading Accelerated Reading Books and taking tests on chrome books. We learned the difference between fact and opinion. After we read the book The Best Part of Me we each picked one part of us to describe. Now we have our own book that tells what makes our class special and unique. All parts of us are important and we are all an important part of the Body of Christ.

This year we even get an extra day to celebrate in February for it is leap year. We look forward to the exciting educational experiences and celebrations we’ll have the last third of this school year.

HomeLights

Grade 1D News by Sister Julie, First Grade Teacher


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This issue was designed by Nicole Zimmerman. Contributors include Mrs. Harms, Amber Hady, Mrs. Smedema, Mrs. Porzky, Sister Julie, Lorraine Rhodes, and Sherry Strupp. Thanks so much for your help!

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Upcoming Deadline

T he next newsletter deadline is Friday, March 20, 2020. If there any items you wish to have included in the April issue, they may be emailed to Nikki Zimmerman at

[email protected]. In the upcoming issue you can expect to read about Music and Physical Education classes, receive an update on the Box Tops for Education collections, and read about various school updates. Stay tuned!

(B) = St. Bernard Campus (H) = St. Henry Campus (WC) = Watertown Catholic School

Last day to submit school newsletter

info to Nikki Z.

Just for Laughs

School Mass 8:15A

(B) Grade 3G (H) Grade 6

School Mass 8:15A (B) Grade 2H (H) Grade 5

School Mass 8:15A

(B) Grade 3J (H) Grade 7

WI Catholic Youth Rally Grades 6-8

School Mass 8:15A (B) Grade 2M (H) Grade 4

Athletic Board 6:30P @ St. H

Spirit Day Wear Green

Spirit Day WCS Spirit Apparel

St. Patrick’s Day

Dinner St. B Gym

5P-7P

End of Second Trimester

2020

Knock Knock

Who's there?

Irish!

Irish Who?

Irish you a happy

St. Patrick's Day.

Q: What do you get when you

cross poison ivy with a four

leaf clover?

A: A rash of good luck!

Spring Break (March 23 through March 27)

Beach Dress Up Day

Stations of the Cross St. H Campus 2:15P

WC Home & School Meeting

6:30P St. H Campus


4K Families

Dr. Seuss Night 6P-7P St. B Campus



Q: Why should you

never iron a shamrock?

A: You should never

press your luck!

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