S.P.P.C.S. Newsletter

Parents:

The holiday season is upon us and the weather has grown chilly! In this time of hustle and bustle let us remember the true meaning of the season and take time in our lives to truly rejoice in the coming of our Lord.

We will celebrate on December 14 with our Christmas Music Program. We will have an afternoon program in the gym starting at 1:00 and our evening program will start at 7:00. Please join us for a lovely evening of entertainment.

As the temperatures drop please double check with your children to make sure they are coming to school dressed appropriately to go out for recess. The little ones certainly appreciate having their gloves and hats on these very cold days!

I wish you each a wonderful Christmas and Happy New Year!

May God’s Blessings be with you and your family,

Mrs. Buchheit

The Principal’s Pen

OUR STUDENTS REACHING OUT

December 2010

S.P.P.C.S. Newsletter

Special points of interest:

ü Waterloo Lion’s Club Peace Poster Contest Winner

ü Beginning Speech Team celebrates Per-fection

ü 1st Quarter Honor Roll

ü All Saints’ Day Photo

ü Holy Name Dates for your Calendar

ü Classroom Corner—Third Grade

ü Kids’ Rummage Sale Information

The holiday season brings many reminders of all that we have to be thankful for—and plenty of opportunities to help those that may not be as fortu-nate. Thanksgiving Eve Mass was so special as we each gave thanks for our blessings, as well as gave a can of food to help the food pantries of St. Vincent de Paul Society. Hun-dreds of cans were donated by our school families—thanks for your donations.

Also in November, the 8th grade classrooms collected Halloween candy from stu-dents to give to troops over-seas. Thousands of pounds were collected and shipped to the men and women of the armed forces. As the season of Christmas is upon us, may our students con-tinue to spread Christmas Kindness throughout the community through service.

Max, Sophie, and Lexi gathering food together for St. Vincent de Paul’s

Classroom Corner

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Mrs. Riebeling’s Class

Mrs. Castello’s Class

Third Grade Spotlight

Mrs. Kim Castello

Mrs. Kathy Riebeling

Books Read in Class

Boxcar Children

Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing

Ramona Quimby, Age 8

Chocolate Fever

Mouse and the Motorcycle

Ralph S. Mouse

Field Trips Bird Sanctuary & The Lewis and Clark Heritage Site #1

Mission Projects Collect and organize “Essentials for the Poor” and participate in Scholas-tics’ 100 Books to benefit

Kindergarten Buddies

We meet with our buddies once a month to read sto-ries and make a few pro-

jects together. Poems Memorized “Battle of the Leaves”

“October, November” by John Updike

“Stinky Boys”

“Ribbon Snake”

Accelerated Reader

Science Topics Volcanoes and Landforms, Matter, Force, Simple Machines, Plants, Ani-mal Kingdoms, Habitats, Energy and Conservation, and Recycling

Social Studies Topics Citizenship, Mesa Verde, Lewis &

Clark, Jamestown, Pilgrims, Washing-ton D.C.

Projects We do lots of fun pro-jects this year! We make Pilgrims,

Mazes, Leaf Collec-tions, Covered Wag-ons, Pueblos, and have a fun Prairie Day in the Spring.

Classroom Corner

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Fourth Grade Zoo Field Trip on a VERY,

chilly Day!

Will at “Isaac Newton Day” in Classroom

Enrichment Several students participated in the Gibault Art Contest in Novem-

ber.

Look for Our Monthly Holy Hero!

The Catholic Identity Committee features the story of a saint in order for our families to learn more about the lives of these inspiring role models. We are so blessed as Catholics to have such a vast number of diverse people to give us hope and show us examples of how we can love and serve God. Our featured saint for December is St. John of the Cross. He was a Carmelite priest who endured many hardships throughout his life, yet never lost faith. His feast day is December 14th. All children at SPPCS receive a Holy Hero handout each month—ask them about it! The hand-

outs will also be available each month on our website under “Quick Links”.

All Saints’ Day Mass on November 1st

Prayer List Please let us know if we can add

someone to the

list.

Ben Rongey, Mike Sladek,

Sgt. Brad Dieker—U.S. Air Force serv-ing in Afghanistan, Laura Holzweg, Kali Blechle, Tom Helfrich, Janeen Rheinecker, Sgt. Martin Mertz—U.S.

Army, and A.J. Krump

B-I-N-G-O BINGO is doing well—thanks in no small part to the success of our wonderful volunteers!

As of this fiscal year, BINGO has netted $7,195.76! For vol-

unteer schedules, dessert schedules, and more, check

out the BINGO website www.orgsites.com/il/sppsbingo/

Family News

Congratulations to the Willson family who wel-comed baby boy, Jude Matthew to their family on November 13th.

Please welcome our new family, Mike and Jennifer Isaacs and their sons Drew (6th grade) and Alec (2nd grade) to SPPCS.

They will begin school on Decem-ber 6th.

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THIS & THAT

Butter Braid Fundraiser Butter Braid order forms need to be turned into school by December 8th. Continue doing your best to sell for this important school fundraiser. Butter braid or-ders should be picked up at school on December 17th from 3—5:30. Please re-member to pick up your or-ders on that day. Thanks to all of our families who sold.

FUNderwear! Please remember to turn in those underwear!! We don’t have many items as of yet,

and while we would love to keep the Whitey Tighty Trophey at

SPPCS, we also want to make sure to provide Day Star in Cairo, IL with items

Art News Congratulations to all of those students who participated in the Gibault Art Con-

test and the Waterloo Lion’s Club Peace Poster Contest. Elizabeth P. won

the Lion’s Club Poster Contest with Makenzie P. being the runner up. We are blessed to have so many talented artists in our school. The art teacher at SPPCS

is Mrs. Julie Doerr.

Kids’ Rummage Sale

As you clean out for the holidays, please remember the Children's Rummage Sale for the Missions, which the 5th Graders sponsor each year at SPPCS to help needy children around the world. This year the date will be Thursday, Feb.3rd, during Catholic Schools Week. All money raised will go to places and organizations like: Food for the Poor, Catholic Relief, Covenant House, Smile Train, Appala-chia, Native American Missions, etc. and our local St. Vincent de Paul Society. To be successful, we need LOTS of items to sell. The sale is mostly geared to the

SPPCS children, but it is open to the pub-lic after school.

Donated items will be accepted beginning Dec. 20th, and all through Jan., the earlier the better. We are looking for: working toys(please put batteries in them if needed), games, puzzles, books, jewelry, decorative items,

candy, soda, sporting goods, movies, candles, lotions, dolls, purses, etc. We also could use giftcards or other

items for the Children's Raffle. Please, no clothing or stuffed animals,

unless they are new.

The Coveted Trophy

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S.P.P.C.S. Shining Stars

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Students and Staff at SPPCS helped Mama Osang

celebrated her birthday this month!

Our Beginning Speech Team took home four perfect scores

(Ellie, Sarah, Abby and Sophie) and two first place ribbons

(Mandy and Sydney)! The SPPCS Speech Team is coached

by Beth Lyons and Lynn Dugan.

Congratulations to Andrew and Maura who were chosen by the junior high

teachers as SPPCS’s recipients of the 2010 Waterloo Optimist Award given for

those students who display outstanding qualities of leadership and service to

others.

Waterloo Lion’s Club Peace Poster Contest Participants.

Congratulations to winner Elizabeth P. and runner-up

Makenzie P.

1st Quarter Honor Roll Volume 1, Issue 1 Newsletter Date

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FRIENDS OF SPPS NEWS

Due to the craziness of the holiday season, the November and December FRIENDS Meeting will be combined. Parents, grand-parents, teachers, and all friends of SPPCS are welcome to at-tend. Please join us on December 7th in the school cafeteria.

NEXT MEETING: December 7th at 7 p.m.

First Honors

Eighth Grade

Kylie Albrecht

Ryan Aycock

Morganne Blechle

Sam Constan-tine

Austin Doerr

Riley Garner

Jared Goessling

Keegan Gordon

Emma Huels

Chloe Meehan

Sam Range

Molly Skaggs

Rachel Warden

Zach Birkner

Conner Brink-mann

Maura Buchheit

Scott Gannon

Lauren Haas

Eric Helfrich

Kati Koesterer

Megan Kraus

Hannah O'Neill

Danielle Poep-per

Andrew Rein-holz

Seventh Grade

Kaitlyn Crites

Hannah Greg-son

Laura Kimlinger

Jonathan Kre-her

Colin Kruse

Abby Mueller

Jessica Neary

Veronica South-worth

Morgan Wie-gand

Jenna Bivens

Ashley Groh-mann

Abby Hasen-stab

Max Mechler

Connor Meehan

Madeline O'Neill

Carley Olson

Jake Wagner

Emily Whelan

Jessica Wit-tenauer

Sixth Grade

Lauren Blodgett

Trevor Davis

Shane Douglas

Emma Garner

Sarah Garner

Amanda Grither

Alyssa Hayes

Ben Huels

Collin Kessler

Briannon Kettler

Matthew Lock

Alaina Metz

Blake Metzger

Kelsey Pfeil

Madison Phelps

Tyler Brink-mann

Tessa Buchheit

Andrew Durrer

Joseph Green

Brenden Haas

Baker Kipping

Ellie Naumann

Caralyn Papen-berg

Elizabeth Pat-rick

Andrew Pluff

Samantha Stogsdill

Amanda War-den

Fifth Grade

Quinten Albrecht

Jordan Floerke

Caden Gordon

Alaina Henry

Jacob Jung

Ellie Kuhn

Sarah Mueller

Lexi Poepper

Sophia Purcell

Ethan Schilling

Riley Aczinowicz

Elizabeth Boyle

Joseph Busch

Adam Goette

Kassidy Grant

Jacob Green

Aaron Groh-mann

Michala Heise

Logan Lannom

Dallas Morrow

Abigail Phelps

Gabriella South-worth

Sydney Wie-gand

Second Honors Eighth Grade

Brice Bement

Veronica Kueker

Alec Skaer

Andrew Crites

Dylan McCoy

Matthew Schwalbert

Ethan Shields

Talia Toal

Joey Wirth

Seventh Grade

Nate Albers

Claudia Bradley

Catie Brink-mann

Aubrey Davis

Michelle Donjon

Drew Dugan

Johnny Frances-con

Emilia Kueker

Madelyn McGinnis

Rebecca Muich

Dillon Scheibe

Cale Tutor

Matthew Blodgett

Valerie Grant

John Harbaugh

Hannah Knese

Marryn Madrigal-Kaltenbronn

Clayton Metz

Carter Pate

Caleb Schilling

Tess Skaggs

Nichole Stonich

Avery Wheat

Sixth Grade

Dylan Coleman

Alex Dietz

Jacob Hooser

Katie Knese

James Neary

Lexis Tutor

Miranda Foster

Samuel Kueker

Bailey Lehmann

Regan McCoy

Nate Mechler

Makenzie Pate

Michael Re-bholz

Logan Tutor

Ryan Wodo-chek

Fifth Grade

Samantha Dav-inroy

Joshua Hooser

Kailey Lechner

Max Moeckel-Arbeiter

Sidney Wight-man

Bernadette Will-son

Amanda Kraus

Karleigh Sonder-man

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Youth Ministry

Monthly Youth Gatherings are to take place on the first Sunday of each month from August 2010-May 2011 in the Youth House. Middle School youth (Grade 6-8) will gather at 6:30 p.m. and Sr. High Youth (Grades 9-12) will gather at 7:30 p.m.

Monthly youth masses for 2010-11 are scheduled for the third Sunday of the month at 5:00 p.m. Mark your calendar and make it a priority to at-tend as a family.

For more information on Youth Ministry and Youth Ministry programs and activities contact Paula Beasley, Youth Ministry Commission Chairman at 939-4839 or jbeasley@htc.net.

Spread the word.

MARY & MARTHA NEWS

Mary and Martha Cookie Walk and FRIENDS of

SPPCS Vendor Night December 11th from 8—noon

Shop Lia Sophia, 31 Bags, Silpada, Party Lite, and More!

NOVEMBER 2010 Save the Date:

December 31st—Holy Name Family New Year’s Eve Party in the SPPCS Gym—8 p.m. until 12:30 a.m. More information to follow.

January 29th—Holy Name Euchre Tournament—SPPCS Gym 6 p.m. until 11:30 p.m. More information to follow.

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HOLY NAME SOCIETY

SOCIETY NEWS

All men of the parish are wel-come at any monthly meeting.

We especially welcome fa-thers of S.P.P.C.S. grade

school children since support of our school is our main (but not our only) focus. We have

free food, drinks and a $25 attendance prize at every

Thank you for your support of the Holy Name monthly raffle.

November winners:

$1,000 - D-61 John Watson

$100 - B-78 Jim & Jeanette Scheibe

$50 - C-32 Don Dietz

$50 - W-66 Denise Vogt