Friday, March 3, 2017

OLPH Friday Fanfare for Week Ending 3/10/2017

                             OUR LADY OF PERPETUAL HELP CATHOLIC SCHOOL FRIDAY FANFARE
March 6 - March 10, 2017 www.myolph.com

Virtue for the Month of March: Temperance - Enjoying things in a proper balanced way.

"May God be gracious and bless us; and let his face shed its light upon us." Psalm 66:2
Please attend Mass this weekend with your Parish Priest.

LUNCH MENU
·        Monday, March  6--Hot dog, baked beans, cole slaw, fruit, milk
·        Tuesday, March 7--Ravioli, garlic bread, salad, applesauce, milk
·        Wednesday, March 8--Cheese pizza, corn, pineapple, salad, milk
·        Thursday, March 9--Hamburger, tri-tater, fruit, pickles, cheese, milk
·        Friday, March 10--Fish sticks, cole slaw, french fries, fruit, milk

SCHOOL CALENDAR
·        Saturday, March 4--NDHS Admissions Test
·        Sunday, March 5--1st Sunday of Lent.
·        Wednesday, March 8--$1.00 Out of Uniform
·        Wednesday, March 8--Home and School Meeting--6:00 P.M.
·        Wednesday, March 8--Boy Scout Meeting--Webelos
·        Thursday, March 9--Girl Scout Meeting--3:30 P.M.
·        Friday, March 10--7th Grade Virtue Mass--8:15 A.M.
·        Friday, March 10--Stations of the Cross--5:30 P.M.--Church
·        Sunday, March 12--2nd Sunday of Lent

SCHOOL NEWS: IOWA Testing, Family Honor, Home and School Meeting, Yearbook Ads, PreK and Kindergarten Open House, K of C Lenten Dinners, Mother/Son Night and House Numbers 
1.      Iowa Testing - IOWA Test of Basic Skills (ITBS) will be administered the week of Mar. 13-17 for grades 1-8. The Cognitive Abilities Test (CogAT) will be administered to grades 3, 5, and 7 only on Mar. 28-30. ITBS is written in levels. Each test level consists of a series of tests administered in content sections with each section designed to measure specific skills. The tests in grades 1and 2 are given to gain information about classes and students for instructional planning, to supplement teacher observations regarding student abilities, and to establish a basis for subsequent annual evaluation of student progress. Sections include: Vocabulary, Word Analysis, Reading Comprehension, Listening, Language, Mathematics, Social Studies, Science, and Sources of Information. The primary purpose of the test for grades 3-8 is instructional development. Our Diocese will use the standardized achievement battery to learn supplementary information useful in choosing curriculum and lesson planning. Teachers may use testing batteries to suggest areas where the skills of individual students are most and least developed. Sections include: Vocabulary, Reading Comprehension, Spelling, Capitalization, Punctuation, Usage and Expression, Math Concepts and Estimation, Math Problem Solving and Data Interpretation, Math Computation, Social Studies, Maps and Diagrams, Reference Materials, Word Analysis (grade 3 only), and Listening (grade 3 only).The CogAT measures students’ learned reasoning abilities in the three areas most linked to academic success in school: Verbal, Quantitative and Nonverbal. Although its primary goal is to assess students’ reasoning abilities, CogAT also can provide predicted achievement scores when administered with The Iowa TestsCogAT is well-suited to help educators make important student placement decisions.
2.      Family Honor - Save the Date: Family Honor Real Love & Real Life, Saturday, April 1st 8:30 - 3:30. Sponsored by: Sugar & Spice, OLPH School Community.   For 8th grade students and their parents (counts for Confirmation Retreat). Mature 6th & 7th grade students are welcomed with their parent. For more information and registration go to www.familyhonor.org.  Contact Patti Morrison at pmorrison@myolph.com if you have any questions.
3.      Home and School Meeting - Math Night at OLPH- March 8, 2017. Our Winter Home and School meeting will be an exciting and fun Math Night hosted by Mathnasium of Chattanooga. Kids and adults will have the opportunity to rotate to different stations and "play" while learning various Math concepts! Go on a Pi Scavenger Hunt, play Tangoes, Four-way Countdown and more!  Mathnasium will have cool swag to give away, prizes and will even have a drawing for a chance to win a one-month Mathnasium Membership! In order to prepare materials for the evening, we are asking each family to RSVP with the number attending. You may RSVP on the Facebook event OR email rams.home.and.school@gmail.com.  This event is designed for both parents and students, therefore, no babysitting will be provided. We need parents to volunteer for 30 minutes to be at a station. All stations will have easy instructions! The stations will be open for 1 hour, so all volunteers can still participate. You can follow the link to sign up or go on line to the school website or FaceBook page.  http://signup.com/go/3mvEJk
4.      Yearbook Ads - It is time to purchase ads for our Yearbook.  If you are interested in buying a whole, half or quarter of a page in the yearbook, there are forms available in the school office.  Cost is $100 for a whole page, $50 for a half page, and $25 for a quarter of a page.  This is a great way to remember the school year.
5.      PreK and Kindergarten Open House - Please join us at O.L.P.H. School for a Preschool and Kindergarten Open House, on Wednesday, March 15th, 2017 from 4 to 6PM.  If you have a child, who will be three, four or five years old, before August 15th, 2017, come and check out our PreK (3 and 4) program and our modified Montessori Kindergarten program. Let us help your little one on the road to becoming a confident lifelong learner! Meet us in the Kindergarten classroom, underneath the church office. See school.myolph.com for more information, or to schedule a tour, call Teresa Hennen at 423-698-3274 or email Teresahennen@myolph.com.
6.      Lenten Dinners -  OLPH School is partnering with the Knights of Columbus to help set up, serve, clean up and provide dessert for the next 2 Lenten Dinners- March 10th and March 17th. This is a great way to serve your school and church community as well as earn PIP hours, Middle School House points and service hours. As an added BONUS, the homeroom with the highest attendance (from all three weeks) will win an ice cream party!  Middle School students can volunteer (set up, serve, clean up) each 30 min. time slot will earn 25 points for their house as well as count toward service hours. If both a Middle School Student and Parent volunteer together, both can also claim PIP hours. Beta Club members, Mrs. Burns will allow you to claim those service hours for your house as well as Beta Club! Follow the link to sign up! https://signup.com/client/
7.      Mother/Son Night - Time for a Mother / Son date night. Come to OLPH Sunday, March 12th 4:30-6:30 for a fun-filled evening with Bricks 4 Kidz! We'll create a motorized build together, have a pizza party and explore all sorts of amazing Lego™ fun! The cost is $35 for 1 mom/aunt/grandma/ special lady and 1 son. It will be $12 for each additional son. .Space is limited and registration is required so sign up now.https://my.bricks4kidz.com/index.php?action=classdetail&record=169968  For additional son rate of $12 please email djones@bricks4kidz.com.
8.      House Numbers - Ministro - 3364 ,  Cognitio - 3585, Caritas - 3463

SPORTS CALENDAR
·        Tuesday, March 7--Tennis Exhibition @ McCallie- St. Jude--4:00 P.M.

SPORTS NEWS
·        The Catholic Football Awards Dinner will be at 6:00 P.M. on Tuesday, March 14th at the Brainerd BX.  Dress for players is coat and tie. Doors open at 5:30 P.M. Mike Keith, voice of the Tennessee Titans, will be the speaker.  The Rams will be celebrating back to back undefeated seasons.
·         Summer Football Camp is set for June 5th -9th, 9am-12pm. The camp is open for rising 2nd through 8th graders. Please mark your calendars.  Registration forms will soon be available. 

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