St. Mary's School
                  Following Christ's command to TEACH, rule and sanctify.

Calendar Raffle Winner

Congratulations to this week’s $100 calendar raffle winner, Shannon Radoush of Gaylord.  Congratulations also go to Laura Lanoue of Tracy, last week’s $500 Grandparents Day Calendar Raffle winner.  Thank you for supporting our school!

CPT Late Start

Tomorrow is our CPT Late Start.  School will not begin until 10:05 a.m.

SMS Family Picnic

We look forward to seeing everyone tomorrow night at our 2^nd Annual St. Mary’s Family Picnic.  Please join us at 6:30 p.m. at Sebastian Park.  Don’t forget your dish to pass! We had a ton of fun last year and can’t wait to have fun again this year!  Thank you to everyone for your generous donations of money and items for the Family Picnic!  They are greatly appreciated.

2009-2010 School Year

If you know of anyone who is interested in sending their child/ren to St. Mary’s School for the 2009-2010 School Year, please have them call the school office.

2009-2010 Forms

The textbook and health forms were sent home last week.  These forms help the school get textbook and health funding.  If you haven’t done so, please fill out one form per child, so for each child you will turn in 2 forms.  If you have any questions, please call the school office.

Field Day

St. Mary’s will have their annual Field Day on Tuesday, May 19^th at 12:30 p.m. at Swift Lake Park .  We enjoy having many people and you are more than welcome to come.  We are also in need of volunteers.  If you would like to help out at any of the events, please let the office know.  Thank you!

Field Day #2

If you feel that your child needs sunscreen for field day, please send the bottle of sunscreen with a note to school with your child on Tuesday.  We will hold onto the bottle in the office and will hand it to your child to use before they go.  Also, please pack a pair of shorts in your child/ren’s backpack that day.  If it is extremely warm, we will let the students change into shorts before leaving for Swift Lake Park .  Thank you!

May Service Project

The box is sitting outside the school office for the birthday kit donations.  Each grade is in charge of a certain item to bring in.  The Sixth Grade and Fourth Grade have done a great job; those two grades have brought in their 20 items.  We need about 15 more items from each grade and we’ll package those up to deliver next week.  Thank you for supporting our service projects this year!

Boxcar Day Food Stand Chairperson

We thank Gary and Joan LaVoy for being the 2008 chair-people for our Boxcar Day Food Stand.  Their daughter, Jennifer, is graduating from St. Mary’s this year and they won’t be involved with St. Mary’s any longer.  We need someone to take their place.  The information for running the food stand is put together and ready for someone to take over.  Joan mentioned that she would be willing to guide the new chair-people on how to get ready and how to run the day.  If you would like to volunteer, please let the school office know.  Thank you!

6^th Grade Graduation

The 6^th Grade Graduation Mass and Banquet will take place on Wednesday, May 20^th at 6:30 p.m..  This year we celebrate the achievements of Morgan Benson, Tayler Carlson, Samantha Gervais, Cassandra Hook, Scott Lanoue, Jennifer LaVoy, and Nicholas Schons.  Let us keep them in our thoughts and prayers as they go on to seventh grade next year.

Last Day of School

We invite everyone to join us for the last day of school.  Mass will be at 8:30 in the morning.  At 10:00 we have our awards ceremony.  If you plan to pick your child up that day, please keep them here until the very end.  We need everyone to participate in the hand arch for the 6^th graders.  They will leave school through the hand arch to say “Good-Bye.”

May

          15^th – CPT Late Start

          15^th – May Birthdays at 10:30 a.m.

          15^th – Living Rosary at 2:00 p.m.

          15^th – SMS Family Picnic at 6:00 p.m. Sebastian Park

          19^th – Field Day at Swift Lake Park ; activities to start at 12:30 p.m.

          20^th – Field Day (Rain Day)

          20^th – 6^th Grade Recognition Mass at 6:30 p.m.

          20^th – 6^th Grade Reception to follow Mass

          22^nd – Last Day of School

          22^nd – All School Mass at 8:30 a.m.

          22^nd – Awards Day at 10:00 a.m.

          22^nd – Dismissal at 10:50 a.m. (Bus picks us up at that time.)