Weekly Update - March 6 - 10

We have had a busy time completing assessments for report cards in the last couple of weeks. I am so proud of your children! They have made some substantial gains in the past few months.

The next few weeks are going to be very busy! We are off to the Shrek production at St. Francis on Thursday. We have Spiritual Development day on the 13th and a fieldtrip to Green Haven on the 14th. There was some confusion over times but we will be leaving the school at 12:40ish and our session is from 1:00 - 2:10.

Soon it will be St. Patrick’s Day!! We know that it is at this time of the year that those “wee little leprechauns” are out to make their mischief. It is our job then to try and catch them. Therefore, we are asking each child, with the help of his/her family, to build a “leprechaun trap”. Last year we just about caught the rascals and we have pictures to prove that they were cavorting around our traps. But alas, we failed to catch one. This year could be the year! We can feel it in our bones. Please bring the traps to school between Tuesday  March 14 and Friday March 17.  They will be returned on Monday March 20th.

Parent-teacher interview are from 4:30-8:00 pm Thursday, March 23rd and 9:00-11:00 am on Friday, March 24th. The conference manager is open on the 15th for parents to book interviews. If you find that none of the times work for you, I am happy to meet after school or at lunch on a different day.


Students have just started to practice one of their two poems for Kiwanis Festival. Our performance will be held in the  St. Patrick Fine Arts school gymnasium on Tuesday March 28th. I will give more details as we get closer to the date. Here is one of the two poems they will be reciting. Please take some time to go over the poem's words with your child.

The Crocodile’s Toothache  by   Shel Silverstein

The Crocodile went to the dentist
And sat down in the chair,
And the dentist said, “Now tell me, sir,     
Why does it hurt and where?”
And the Crocodile said, “I’ll tell you the truth,    
I have a terrible ache in my tooth.”
And he opened his jaws so wide,   so wide, 
That the dentist……..he climbed right inside,
And the dentist laughed, “Oh isn’t this fun?”
As he pulled the teeth out, one by one.
And the Crocodile cried, “You’re hurting me so!
Please put down your pliers and let me go.”
But the dentist laughed with a   Ho Ho Ho,
And he said, “I still have twelve to go —
Oops, that’s the wrong one,   I confess,
But ……what’s one crocodile’s tooth….. more or less?”
Then suddenly……….  the jaws went……….  S N A P, 
And the dentist was gone, right off the map,          
And where he went one could only guess…              
To North or South or East or West…     
He left no forwarding address.            
But what’s one dentist, more or less?  

Dates to Remember:

Mar 8 - Lenten Prayer Service 10:30 - 11:15 am

Mar 9 - Shrek - St. Francis performance - 9:30 - 10:30 am

Mar 13 - Spiritual Development Day - no school for students

Mar 14 - 1B to Green Haven 1:00 - 2:15 (bus leaves 12:40)

Mar 15 - Conference Manager opens up

Mar 20 - Lenten Prayer Service 12:30 - 1:15 pm

Mar 28 - Kiwanis Festival in gymnasium 9:00 am.

Mar 23 - Student-teacher interviews 4:30 - 8:00 pm

Mar 24 - Professional Development Day - no school for students

Mar 24 - Student-teacher interviews 9:00 - 11:00 am