St. Joan of Arc Home School
Meeting- Wednesday, November 4th 2009, 8:15am
Ward Meehan Hall
- Welcome
- Recap of Oct events.
- Purchased an ad in the Virtuosi Concert Program and also purchased a ticket for the “Raffle of the Year” (Drawing will be on Dec 12th)
- PreK 3 & PreK 4 / K1 & K2 Pumpkin Patch- Pumpkins were picked by the children in the garden of the schoolyard.
- Pizza Lunch Oct 23rd - Our first Pizza Lunch was a great success. Mr. Fruner invited the eighth grade students that usually go out to lunch to have pizza with their class in the gym. Thank you to Debbie and Anna for helping in the other building. The children enjoyed the pizza and the volunteers worked extremely hard to make everything run smoothly.
- Halloween Treat Week- Every class in the school received a bowl of goodies. Each child got one treat each day of the week Mon thru Fri.
- Halloween Parade in school- Pre K, K, paraded around the school. Home School donated Halloween bags to the four classes to be used as needed.
- JHBG Halloween Parade on 37th Ave- Flyers were distributed to the school on Friday 30th .St Joan of Arc School was well represented with a large turnout of parents and children.
- www.sjahsa.com- Thank you to Ray and Christine Watkins for updating the SJA Home School website. They have made a lot of wonderful improvements. This is a work in progress, and they will continue to make it user friendly.
- Virtus- Thank you to everyone who attended the Virtus class on October 22nd. Anyone one who has not yet attended the Virtus class needs to take it as soon as possible. We are required to provide a list to the rectory and the diocese of all volunteers with proof that the course has been completed.
- Nov 6th Pizza Lunch and Nov 20th.
Volunteers
Set up at 10:15am
Serve Pizza / Drinks
K Lunch at 11am
followed
by 1st - 3rd Grade,
then
4th - 8th Grade
Clean up (finished by
1:00-1:30pm)
Please sign up on our website to volunteer for either of these events www.sjahsa.com
- Decorating the school for Thanksgiving
- Thanksgiving Month Long Fundraiser-
We will be raising money for the Grey Nuns of the Sacred Heart (the founders of our school). This fundraiser is also a display of our values and commitment to our school, so please promote to the other parents of your children’s classes. The children will be able to purchase a cross-coloring sheet for $1.00, they can purchase as many as they like. The sheets will be colored by the children and returned to school. Each class will display the drawings in school. The class with the most coloring sheets will win a Pizza Lunch for the class.
- Family Harvest Line Dance
This is our first fundraising event this year that we have planned for both parents and children to attend. The advertising flyer and the flyer for ticket orders went out this week, and we hope you will also help spread the word to other parents about this exciting night. The Harvest Dance was a wonderful event last year and everyone that attended had a great time.
We need volunteers to shop and purchase the food, drinks etc. that we need for the line dance. Volunteers are also needed for set up, working the event and clean up. Please promote this event to the other parents in your class. This is a fundraiser designed for the whole family to enjoy. (No babysitting involved) It promises to be a fun family event.
- Thanksgiving Mass – On Thanksgiving Day Thurs, Nov 26th at 9am, St Joan of Arc will be having a mass to celebrate Thanksgiving. Representatives from the Parish Societies are asked to show a token of appreciation to the less fortunate families in our community like, St Barbara’s Parish in Brooklyn and Marguerites Pantry. SJAHS Association will be making a contribution at this mass. There will be reserved seating for two representatives in the front of the church with the other representatives from the various societies at St Joan of Arc. But all SJAHS Representatives are invited to attend the mass with their families to celebrate in this mass of Thanksgiving.
Teachers Gift- Volunteers needed
It is customary at St Joan of Arc to show our appreciation to our wonderful teachers at Christmas time by having a non-mandatory collection from each class. We will need eight volunteers in total to spearhead this effort. Two representatives from each floor of the school are needed as well as two representatives from WMH building. These volunteers will be responsible for printing out the flyers, sending them home with the children and collecting the money for each teacher. This requires a lot of bookkeeping and organizing to keep track of all the donations. If you would like to volunteer please sign up on the website.- Next Home School Meeting: Wednesday, Dec 2nd.
