E-Herald October 26-30, 2009

This E-Herald contains the following Information:

  • Friday, October 30th: Divine Mercy Chaplet after Mass
  • Friday, October 30th: Confessions, grade 6
  • Friday, October 30th: Living Litany of the Saints and K - 8 All-Saints Day Parade after Mass; Kattar Hall
  • Friday, October 30th: Basketball Registration Due - Coaches needed!!
  • Monday, November 2nd: Confessions, grade 5

 Upcoming Events:

  • Tuesday, November 3rd: St. Louis Park Noodles Fundraiser, 4:00 - 7:00 pm (100% of sales go to HFA!)
  • Friday, November 6th: End of Quarter One
  • Friday, November 6th: Early Dismissal; 11:30 am
  • Wednesday, November 11th: Veteran's Day Breakfast
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One of our many curriculum initiatives this year is to expand our students’ poetry repertoire while helping develop their memorization and presentation skills. To assist with this, we have started Poetry Wednesdays. Every Wednesday immediately after Mass one of our classes will present a poem that they have memorized to all who remain in the church. The presentation takes only minutes but the children prepare for it for weeks! You are invited to stay with us after Mass on Wednesdays to witness the students’ wonderful work. Please also check with your child for the date that they will be presenting their poetry.   Top
 
 
Every Friday our students pray either the Rosary or the Divine Mercy Chaplet following Mass in the church. The Rosary is prayed on First Fridays and the Chaplet all other Fridays. Parents and guests are invited to remain after Mass on Fridays to join us in these beautiful devotions.  Top
 
 
Holy Family Academy School Board welcomes our newest appointed member, Elizabeth Brown. Elizabeth has been a Holy Family Academy parent for the past nine years and currently has three children enrolled in our school.  She joins our current School Board consisting of President Bernie Grutsch, members Tom Bengtson, Bill Schroeder, and Tony Grgas, and ex officio members Father Dufner and Mrs. Coone. Parents are always welcome to attend School Board meetings for the first one-half hour they are in session to share concerns and/or successes. Our next School Board meeting is Monday, November 9th, 4:30 pm in Moorman Hall (our church basement). Top
 
 
If you are in doubt about keeping your child at home when they aren’t feeling well, seem under the weather, or are exhibiting flu-like symptoms, please keep them home. We will send home all little ones (and big ones!) for the following reasons – EVEN if parents object, don’t agree, or doubt our wisdom:
  • Their temperature is 100 degrees or more;
  • Their temperature rises while they are resting in the nurses office and reaches 99.8 or more;
  • They have been out due to a flu like illness and upon checking back into school their temperature is 99 degrees or more (please remember that all children who have been out with an illness of any type MUST come to the office to have their temperature taken BEFORE going to their classroom);
  • They have a persistent mucousy cough unrelated to allergies;
  • They complain of persistent tummy aches and or head aches and show signs of fatigue, lack of energy or lethargy;
  • They have a thick runny nose that they are unable to manage, (i.e. blow into tissues when needed, wash hands or use hand sanitizers after blowing, sneeze into sleeve or tissues).
Extreme? Perhaps, but we have been very blessed so far in our numbers of children who have been sick with flu like illnesses and we want to keep it that way. For more information on the H1N1 virus and to read about the warning signs in children that we should all pay extra special attention to, please read or download this new brochure put out by the CDC:       
 
 
Parents and guests are invited to attend our annual Living Litany of the Saints and All-Saints Day Parade this Friday, October 30th immediately following Mass in Kattar Hall. Students dressed like saints will parade class by class on the stage and then introduce themselves one by one to the audience. After each saint is introduced, everyone sings the traditional, “St. _____ (saints name), pray for us.” This parade is always a favorite and a wonderful chance for students and guests alike to learn about different saints while praying for their intercession.  Top
  
 
 
Amazing! What a wonderful opportunity for Holy Family Academy to earn funds!!! 
Please gather up your family, friends, and neighbors and bring them to the new Noodles Restaurant in St. Louis Park, West End Shops, 5326 16th Street (new shopping complex across the street from Costco and Home Depot). Noodles has offered to give Holy Family Academy 100% of their sales (not profit – but sales!) from 4:00-7:00 p.m. on Tuesday, November 3rd. Noodles officially opens the following day, November 4th, and this is a great way for them to work out any “kinks” prior to their official opening. Money raised at this event will go toward purchasing our new musical instruments including glockenspiel, xylophone, hand chimes, snare drum, and hand drums. Top
 
 
Providence Academy has extended an invitation to all Holy Family Academy 8th graders for a very special Shadow Day on Friday, November 6th, from 11:00-3:15 p.m.  The day includes being picked up at Holy Family Academy by the Providence Academy bus at 10:50, eating a free and delicious lunch at Providence Academy, shadowing a current Providence Academy student from class to class while touring the school, and lastly a parent tour from 2:45 – 3:15 before going home with your parents at the end of the day. Every effort will be made to split up the 8th graders when they arrive for the day so that they can experience Providence Academy as well as possible without their current classmates at their side. Students must R.S.V.P. to Holy Family Academy at 952-925-9193 to reserve a spot if they will be attending. Please note that this is an early release day for Holy Family Academy so our 8th graders will not be missing any school.   Top
 
 
Holy Family Academy will be honoring Veterans on Wednesday, November 11th with breakfast, a delightful program put on by our students, and guest speaker, Top Gun Fighter Pilot, Lt Col Alex Plechash.  The event will be in Kattar Hall and begins immediately following morning Mass (about 8:40). If you know Veterans who would like to attend, please invite them and their spouses to this special morning of appreciation. RSVPs are required; please call the school office at 952-925-9193 to make reservations today. Free-will donations will be accepted.  Top

We are pleased to announce that Margaret Grgas will be assisting our Kitchen Manager, Christina Zielinski, in our hot lunch program as a volunteer coordinator. Although we have been very blessed with a number of faithful lunch volunteers, many more are needed. If you have not done so yet, please consider volunteering to help serve lunch - whether it be once a week or once a month - we need many more volunteers to help lighten the load of those already working many shifts. Thank you to everyone who has already volunteered; your service is greatly appreciated by our students and families! Top 

 

 
There are many opportunities for parents to get involved at Holy Family Academy and make our wonderful school even stronger. Currently, the two areas most in need of help are:  
  • Volunteer teaching P.E. to grades 3, 4, or 5. As you know, our P.E. program suffered a significant blow this year when it was prudently removed from the budget. Our P.E. classes thus far this year have been taught by classroom aides and teachers. Although this is working out just fine, we could really use the aides and teachers in many other capacities in the school. We are looking for dedicated parents to volunteer teach P.E. to grades 3, 4, or 5 twice each week for 40 minutes. I need two parents per grade level (3, 4, 5) who are willing to make the commitment to come in at the same time every week and lead our kids in organized recreation and exercise. Please call Mrs. Coone at 952-925-9193 if you are interested.  
  • Helping out in either the lunchroom or the kitchen during lunch. This is an ongoing need and one that you can do once a month or daily – whatever your time allows. Please email Christina Zielinski at czielinski@hfamn.org if you are interested.   Top 

 

Crusader Soccer News

This year's Varsity Soccer team, consisting of many of the seventh and eighth graders, has had a phenomenal season!  They won all of their regular season games which puts them in first place.  They will begin post season tournaments this Wednesday at 5:00 pm at Louisianna Oaks.  If you have the evening free, it is very exciting to watch how well these students play together as a team.

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