Dr. Seuss Week at SHAS
Dr. Seuss Week is February 27th-March 2nd at Sacred Heart Area School, with fun dress themed days, readings, and activities. Monday’s theme is Crazy Socks. Tuesday is Favorite Character. , Wednesday is Wacky Dress with Mr. O reading, Horton Hears a Who. Thursday is Fun Hat Day, and Friday is Dress All-in-One Color Day with a viewing of Horton Hears a Who in the afternoon. What a fun way to end I Love to Read Month.
Ms. Rinke Reads Dr. Seuss to the preschoolers as the Cat in the Hat
Lent
We hope and pray your Lenten season is off to a great start. At Sacred Heart Area School the children and staff are celebrating Lent with weekly school wide prayer services, daily reflection in their classrooms, and individual acts of stewardship, fasting, and/or prayer. We encourage our families to do something special this Lenten season to grow into a deeper relationship with God. It is a simple truth that all happiness comes from the grace of God and our relationship with Him. The greatest life long gift we can give our children is to instill this relationship in their hearts. As a community we are very fortunate to have a Catholic school for our children to attend, where with the critical help of our families we can accomplish this task. May the spirit burn within us, all the brighter this Lenten season, and let our light shine for all to see.
Apple Pie Day at SHAS
The students at Sacred Heart Area School love Apple Pie Day, which was held February 16th. For the past few years, Marge Meyer and parishioner friends have facilitated and shared in the event, allowing students to practice their baking skills. This is a great chance for our students to interact with members of our church community.
Hollywood Red Carpet Spring Blast April 14th, 2012
It’s Oscars time again! This year’s Spring Blast, “Hollywood Red Carpet”, will be held at the SHAS gym on April 14th. We are anticipating the most exciting event yet, with such an upbeat, fun theme. Be sure to join us for an elegant night on the town, without long lines at the airport or traffic jams on the freeway. Dinner will be served at 6pm, with the auction to follow. Call the school for details.
Carnival Fun
A busy day at the duck pond.
The Sacred Heart Area School Carnival was a fun time for boys, girls, young and old, with plenty of fun games and tasty food. All of this was made possible by the parishioners, school families, school staff, and members of the community that donated so much of their time, talents, and treasures. We want to especially want to recognize our carnival chair Ms. Heather Rinke (SHAS preschool teacher) and our carnival dinner chair Denise Brown (SHAS parent) for all their efforts in the organizing the event. The dinner, carnival, and raffle tickets rose over $24,000 for the continued operation of the school. Nearly $17,000 of that was from raffle ticket sales made by our families.
Crazy Hats and Community Service
On Friday of Catholic Schools Week the children celebrated with a Crazy Hat Day. The students sported everything from skunk fur hats to Dr. Seuss hats. Students were also asked this week to donate to those less fortunate. They brought in a total of $81.oo and two bags of groceries for the food shelf. Let your light continue to shine boys and girls!
Second graders are counting the money they collected for the food shelf.
SCRIP ORDER
We will be placing a SCRIP order on Monday, February 13th. We normally order on the first Wednesday of every month but things got a little crazy with the carnival. Order forms have been sent home with the kids, so please return them to the school by Monday the 13th. Remember SCRIP is fundraising while you shop for all of the things that you would normally buy for your family, groceries, clothing, toiletries etc…. Please call the school with any questions you have on SCRIP!!
Pajama Day and Community Dance
This was one of the most exciting days of Catholic Schools Week for the students. Everyone was very comfortable in their pajamas. All of us enjoyed taking some time this morning to drop everything and read. We also enjoyed dancing the last 20 minutes of the school day with our religious education students from Staples Elementary. Later that evening we met up again for our annual community dance. It was a great time for all. Many thanks to those who volunteered to help make this a success!dinner and auctiondinner and auction
Catholic Schools Week Fun and Games
This week’s Catholic Schools Week theme is SHINE, Share His Incredible News Everywhere. Each classroom decorated their door to the theme and students made mirror balls from crushed CD’s and styrofoam balls. Monday was Camouflage Day at Sacred Heart Area School, where the students and staff had fun showing off their favorite greens and browns. It looked like we were ready for a duck hunt. The day was topped of with delicious root beer floats.
Tuesday was Crazy Hair Day. There was a lot of creative hair-styling done in the morning. Thank you parents for all the laughs. We started the day off with a friendly game of Wheel of Fortune, and wrapped it up the with a “Drop Everything and Pray” event. All the students shared with us the person who taught them the most about their faith and then we prayed for all of them.
Catholic Schools Week Kicks-off at Sacred Heart Area School
This past weekend the students of Sacred Heart Area School participated in the Catholic Schools Week Kick-off Mass at Sacred Heart on Saturday evening and Sunday morning at St. Michael’s, reading the liturgies, performing with song and instruments, and hosting fellowship meals after. This was a great opportunity for parishioners of our two parishes to see the seeds that have been planted by their school.
Sacred Heart Area School students performing at the Catholic Schools Week Kick-off Mass last Saturday evening
This week Catholic Schools around the country will be celebrating what they are all about, which is family, faith, living, loving, and building the Kingdom of God hear on Earth. Keep checking sacredheartareaschool.org to see what we are up to throughout the week!