Spring Concert and Art Walk 2023
Our Spring Concert is scheduled for this Wednesday, April 19. We are asking second graders to please report to our classroom at 5:15 pm. Concert Attire is your Spring Best! We look forward to seeing you on Wednesday. If you know your child will not be able to attend, I ask that you please send me an email to let me know.
This coming Wednesday is our K - 5th Grade Spring Concert and Art Walk!
- April 19th from 5 - 6:15 P.M. in the GYM!
- With YOUR support from last year’s Auction, we were able to pay for a NEW sound system in the gym! It’s been a long process of shipping, construction and installing but we were blessed to debut it for the Spring Musical and now for the Spring Concert!
- PLEASE READ TO UNDERSTAND THE NEW CONCERT FORMAT:
- Think of our Christmas Concert but instead, ALL performances are on the Gym Stage.
- You must drop off your student to their classroom 15 minutes prior to their performance time.
- You then can head towards the gym and wait for the doors to open for your child’s performance.
- Your students will be escorted by their teacher to the stage just like in previous concerts.
- Students will perform at their scheduled start time. We will have seating for families of the performing class only. Once again, think of our Christmas Concert and how you only had to stay for your student’s performance rather than sit through ALL classes.
- Once done performing, the students will be escorted off the stage and taken to the outdoor basketball court.
- You will then pick up your student from the outdoor basketball court area immediately after the performance. They will not return to the classrooms.
- If you have another child performing directly after, please be sure to send a relative to pick up your first child and bring them into the gym for your second child’s performance.
- Throughout the entire evening, we invite you to head to the Art Walk in the Parish Hall to check out the amazing work done by our Kinder-5th Grade Students in Art with Mrs. Ozlanski! There will also be light refreshments in the drive through/ramada area!
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World Mission Rosary
Friday January 27th at 11:00 in the courtyard
The word mission means “to be sent out.” A missionary is someone who is sent out to bring the Good News of Jesus to others. Missionaries often go to far-off places, especially places where people struggle every day to survive. They help run hospitals, schools, orphanages, clinics. They provide food programs, and they help people learn how to care for and build better lives for themselves, their families, and their community. And, most importantly, they share their Catholic faith– all of their actions for others motivated by God’s great love for each one of us! This rosary reminds us that our brothers and sisters in Christ, all over the world, live, play and pray just like we do!
Please see the sign up to participate:
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/20f0f4daaa92ca7ff2-world#/
Spoon Saint Project
As All Saints Day nears, the 2nd grade students will be participating in an activity called a Spoon Saint project. They will take an ordinary wooden spoon and using materials of their choice, transform that spoon into the saint they have researched in their saint report. The students will showcase their spoon saint with the class as part of their saint presentation. Be creative! They must take pride in their work! Please be sure the spoon is easily identifiable as the saint they studied. Do NOT glue a picture of the saint on the spoon! They must actually use the spoon as the body and create all the pieces of the saint. Please include a stand for the spoon saint. Some examples that could be used for a stand are: balloon weights, styrofoam blocks, etc. We will proudly display their spoons in our classrooms.
Spoon Saint Projects are DUE: Monday, October 31st.
Have fun and we look forward to seeing their creations!
(See sample below)
Blessings,
2A Mrs. Johnson, 2B Mrs. Karellas, 2C Mrs. Barton
As All Saints Day nears, the 2nd grade students will be participating in an activity called a Spoon Saint project. They will take an ordinary wooden spoon and using materials of their choice, transform that spoon into the saint they have researched in their saint report. The students will showcase their spoon saint with the class as part of their saint presentation. Be creative! They must take pride in their work! Please be sure the spoon is easily identifiable as the saint they studied. Do NOT glue a picture of the saint on the spoon! They must actually use the spoon as the body and create all the pieces of the saint. Please include a stand for the spoon saint. Some examples that could be used for a stand are: balloon weights, styrofoam blocks, etc. We will proudly display their spoons in our classrooms.
Spoon Saint Projects are DUE: Monday, October 31st.
Have fun and we look forward to seeing their creations!
(See sample below)
Blessings,
2A Mrs. Johnson, 2B Mrs. Karellas, 2C Mrs. Barton
HARVEST FESTIVAL FAMILY REGISTRATION!
Our beloved Harvest Festival is back! On October 28th from 6-9 P.M., you and your family are invited to join us back on campus for this community event that will include inflatables, carnival booths, a rock climbing wall, dunk tank, cake walk, dancing, pizza, prizes and MORE - all for just $45 per family!
All families must PRE-REGISTER for Harvest Fest using this link.
Each family must submit their own online registration form.
Last day to register is October 21st!
Within the link, you will have the option to pre-order 18” Cheese Pizzas (10 Slices Total) as well as any tickets which can be used for water/chip purchases and dunk tank throws!
The week of Harvest Fest you will be asked to pick up your registration items from the courtyard to have for the event! More details to come from Marissa Heinley next week!
CLASSROOM HARVEST FEST BOOTH SIGN UPS!
Many hands make for light work! Click on your child’s classroom below to sign up for their booth/attraction for just 20 mins to help make our Harvest Festival the best one yet!
We are so grateful for your help!
PreK1 PreK2
K1 K2
1A 1B
2A 2B 2C
3A 3B
4th Grade
5A 5B
6th Grade
7th Grade
8th Grade
PUMPKIN CONTEST - Submissions Due TUESDAY, October 11th
PreK-8th Grade Artists!!! Your Pumpkin Contest entries are due by TUESDAY, OCTOBER 11th and can be brought to the front office.The winners from each class will be announced during courtyard prayer on FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14th.
The chosen artwork will then take the foam pumpkin home that same day to begin their work of art.
HARVEST FEST T-SHIRTS Are Being Sent Home NEXT WEEK!
If you ordered a shirt for Harvest Fest, be sure to check your student’s backpack for a brown gift bag that will have your shirts!
As a reminder, you may wear these shirts for Spirit Days!
**Shirt Instructions** - Be sure to wash them inside out. If you set a light on the pumpkins for about two mins, the glow-in-the-dark effect will last even longer!
The 2nd Grade Faith IN Action Project is in the works! Our awesome 2nd Grade will be hosting a Health Room supply Kit Drive which will take place Monday August 30th through Friday September 3rd. This is a very important and meaningful project for our students and those with need within our Diocese. This year the items collected from the drive will go to help keep the kids at Saint Matthews School in Phoenix as healthy as can be! The following items are on the list:
Alcohol wipes
Different size band aids
Hand sanitizer
Clorox wipes
Lysol
Tissues
Paper Towels
Baby wipes
Medical tape
Reusable ice packs for injuries
Ziplock bags all different sizes
Our 2nd grade students will be making announcements at courtyard prayer all of next week!
The work of our students is so appreciated by so many as is the generosity of our Saint John XXIII Catholic School Community!
What is Faith IN Action
The Faith IN Action Program at Saint John XXIII is a stewardship program designed to teach our students, as they grow, how to be good stewards of all the gifts God has given them. This is done by:
1) Helping students see that God has given them many blessings 2) to teach a gratefulness for those blessings 3) To show that Active Catholic Stewardship is a call in our DAILY lives...we ARE the hands and feet of Christ!
In age appropriate ways, through different categories of service for each grade, students will come to learn of different needs within our own community. Coordinating with Administration and Faculty, we welcome and invite parent volunteers to help with FIA projects.
How can I help?
1) Research the topic of "need" with your student and have a dinner discussion as a family about where there is need within a community and how we are all called as called as Catholics to BE the hands and feet of Christ.
2) Support your student in wanting to sign up to help. There are student opportunities to make posters, do announcements, curbside collections, participate in courtyard prayers as well as sorting supplies, counting and boxing them up!
3) Check out the Sign up Genius link for opportunities to volunteer with your student.
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/20F0F4DAAA92CA7FF2-2ndgrade1
Thank you in advance for all your help and support of your student and school community as we all guide our children in being "The Hands and Feet of Christ"
Many Thanks, Many Blessings
Faith IN Action 2022
Alcohol wipes
Different size band aids
Hand sanitizer
Clorox wipes
Lysol
Tissues
Paper Towels
Baby wipes
Medical tape
Reusable ice packs for injuries
Ziplock bags all different sizes
Our 2nd grade students will be making announcements at courtyard prayer all of next week!
The work of our students is so appreciated by so many as is the generosity of our Saint John XXIII Catholic School Community!
What is Faith IN Action
The Faith IN Action Program at Saint John XXIII is a stewardship program designed to teach our students, as they grow, how to be good stewards of all the gifts God has given them. This is done by:
1) Helping students see that God has given them many blessings 2) to teach a gratefulness for those blessings 3) To show that Active Catholic Stewardship is a call in our DAILY lives...we ARE the hands and feet of Christ!
In age appropriate ways, through different categories of service for each grade, students will come to learn of different needs within our own community. Coordinating with Administration and Faculty, we welcome and invite parent volunteers to help with FIA projects.
How can I help?
1) Research the topic of "need" with your student and have a dinner discussion as a family about where there is need within a community and how we are all called as called as Catholics to BE the hands and feet of Christ.
2) Support your student in wanting to sign up to help. There are student opportunities to make posters, do announcements, curbside collections, participate in courtyard prayers as well as sorting supplies, counting and boxing them up!
3) Check out the Sign up Genius link for opportunities to volunteer with your student.
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/20F0F4DAAA92CA7FF2-2ndgrade1
Thank you in advance for all your help and support of your student and school community as we all guide our children in being "The Hands and Feet of Christ"
Many Thanks, Many Blessings
Faith IN Action 2022