Summer Friday Notes
July 30, 2010
Dear Families,
Thank you for sharing your little ones with us this summer. It has been a fantastic summer. For those of you returning to your regular school, we hope you consider Villa Teresa next summer. We are also available during spring break and Christmas holidays if you should need our services for daycare.
So that you can plan ahead due to budget challenges, next summer we will no longer allow credits for vacation absences. We are also considering an activity fee that may help fund entertainers that come to visit and swimming pool expenses (we most likely will need to repaint before opening next summer, another cover is needed, and various other pool needs). Announcements of specific costs will be made early February and on the website before we open next summer.
This week concludes our formal Summer Program. Next week is daycare – children can bring a toy item to share. Mechanical or computerized games are not allowed. Please remember to take home all swimming items (towels, suits, swim shoes, etc).
We welcome our new families and look forward to your being at Open House, Saturday, August 14 from 2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. We are closed the week of August 9-13 for teacher training. The FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL is Monday, August 16.
Open House is an excellent opportunity to come meet your teacher and to orient your child to their new classroom. In the main school’s cafeteria, informational tables for various activities will give you an opportunity to sign up your child for extracurricular activities (sports, dance, piano, violin, martial arts, cheerleading). Our Spanish and P. E. teachers will also be present for you to talk with them about their courses.
We ask that you seek opportunities to volunteer – parental involvement is very important. There are some opportunities, such as gardening which could be arranged after hours or on the weekends. Lunch hour cafeteria duty can help a teacher be able to have some quiet time at lunch and ease the workload of the server. It’s just another way to explore volunteer opportunities.
A big thanks to all our teachers – who worked very hard this summer creating a fun and enjoyable summer! We are truly blessed to have such great STARS!!! This Friday, Mr. McGhee came as storyteller – sharing Dr. Seuss with us. Sr. Joseph Marie – who is supposed to be on vacation – popped popcorn and provided an enjoyable movie for the children.
Menu for August 2- 6, 2010
Monday, August 2 – Tuna salad sandwiches, green salad and applesauce, milk
Tuesday, Aug 3 – Meat and cheese nachos, refried beans, chocolate pudding, milk
Wednesday, August 4 – Bologna sandwiches, chips, pickles and oranges, milk
Thursday, August 5 – Cheese ravioli, corn and pineapple slices, milk
Friday, August 6 – Chicken wings, potato rounds, jello with mixed fruit, milk
Immersed in Christ (Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time) A Way of Life
INVENTORY: What is life all about? What do you want out of living? Are you getting it? Is it enough? Are you in Control? Directing your life toward what you really desire?
INPUT: If we think we can acquire true freedom by changing something in our environment, or in our relationship to someone else, we do not understand ourselves. Enslavement is always an inside job. It is an interior problem of attitude and will. Jesus said, “If you…are truly my disciples, you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”
Scripture: Ecclesiastes 1:1-2:23; Luke 12:13-21; Colossians 3:1-11
INSIGHT: What are you living for? Are you directing your life to this end?
INITIATIVE: Make a rule of life for yourself.
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Fri, July 30, 2010
by Sr. Veronica