THE KNIGHTLY NEWSPreschool - 8 September 2019 Newsletter

Important Upcoming Events

Welcome back everyone! We are off to a great start on another memorable school year here at Kuemper! We were blessed to have celebrated the Eucharist as a K-12 student body and staff at our Back to School All School Mass. What a way to kick off the school year. Simply breathtaking! The big changes this past summer include updates at the Holy Spirit playground including field turf to help preserve our green space as well as our biggest move of shifting 4th and 5th grade to St. Lawrence and 7th and 8th to St. Angela. These changes have already been positive for our students and have started providing them more opportunities long term. For instance, our 7th graders will all have a Foods class for 6 weeks this year to help them learn the basics of cooking and our 8th graders will all have a Woods class for 6 weeks to help them learn the basics of woodworking. Our students really seem excited about these changes! As a Kuemper staff and faculty, we would like to thank all of the parents for sharing your child(ren) with us. Your children are blessed by your sacrifice to give them a Catholic education by sending them to Kuemper. Thank you! God’s Blessings to all of you this school year! Sincerely, Ted Garringer PK-8 Principal

Welcome to the 2019-2020 School Year

September 2nd - No School (Labor Day) September 7th - Middle School Band march in Pufferbilly Days parade (Boone) Sept 11th - PK-8 Parent Club Meeting (6:30 pm) September 16th - PreK-11 Picture Day September 23rd - No School - Teacher Professional Development September 24th - Fr Kuemper Walk-a-thon September 26th - Theology on Tap September 27th - Homecoming & Kuemper Pride Day

Kuemper Catholic School System's mission is to provide excellent Catholic education of mind, body, and soul to

empower all students to achieve to the best of their abilities in fulfillment of God's call.

Special Notes...The master school Google calendar is available at www.kuemper.org on the left side of the page. This is where the school lunch menu can be found as well.Check your Infinite Campus Parent Portal often for numerous items (i.e. lunch account information, student schedules, report cards, etc…) When you are on Infinite Campus, please check and update your contact information if necessary. All students should have gym shoes that they change into for their P.E. class.All regular Mass times are at 8:20 this school year. NEW THIS YEAR - St. Lawrence (Grades 4-6) and St. Angela/KHS (Grades 7-12) Masses are on Wednesdays and Holy Spirit (Grades K-3) are on Thursdays. You are invited to join us in celebrating our weekly Masses at all of our centers! If you email a change of plans to your child’s teacher, please copy it to jmhalbur@kuemper.org in the Holy Spirit office, amirlbeck@kuemper.org in the St. Lawrence office, or grgreving@kuemper.org in the St. Angela office. Sickness can sometimes reach teachers and we will have a substitute in the room. Those substitutes do not have access to the teacher’s email and your child won’t get the message.Special Request: Because the end of the day becomes quite hectic, please try to have all messages to us by 2:00.Dismissal: If you are picking up your child after school, please park on the playground of the Holy Spirit Center or behind the school at St. Lawrence. At 3:13 the doors at Holy Spirit will be unlocked so you may enter the building and wait by your child’s classroom door. School is dismissed at 3:15 at Holy Spirit and St. Angela and at 3:30 pm for the St. Lawrence Center.Just a reminder that all doors are now locked throughout the school day for safety purposes. You need to press the buzzer button at the front entrance of each center and be “buzzed” in by the building secretary. We ask that you please wait and make sure that your child is able to get into the building when dropping them off after an appointment. Thank you!

Smart TuitionPlease Note: When making an online purchase with your debit or credit card through Smart Tuition for items such as activity fees, tshirts, yearbooks, tuition, and even PhonAThon and Kuemper Ball donations -- your bank or credit card statement will show "Smart LLC ". If you question a charge, please call the Kuemper Business Office at 712-792-3313. Thank you!

HOMECOMING

Homecoming will be held on Friday, September 27th. Students in grades K-3 and afternoon optional kindergarten and preschool classes will watch the Homecoming parade. Students in grades 4-6 will be bussed over to Kuemper Catholic High School for the pep assembly along with the students in grades 7-12. After the assembly, students will walk to the Southside Park where they will watch the parade. At the conclusion of the parade, students will either load the buses at Holy Spirit or be picked up by parents at Holy Spirit. More information will be coming home for the 4- 6 students. We will also show our support on the 27th with a Kuemper Pride Day for Homecoming. Students may wear red and gold clothing or apparel with the Kuemper name/logo on it. Uniform pants with a Kuemper t- shirt is acceptable. For Homecoming only, out of the ordinary clothing like tutus may be worn. If you have any questions, please review our Dress Code in the Student Handbook which is at www.kuemper.org under the school information tab.

4th Annual Fr. Kuemper Homecoming Walk-a-thon

The PreK-8 Parent Club will host the 4th Annual Fr. Kuemper Homecoming Walk-a-thon. The walk will be held throughout the day on Tuesday, September 24th at Rolling Hills Park. Please be looking out for more information about this great fundraiser!

Flu Shot ClinicPlease save the dates of Monday, October 7th and Tuesday, October 8th as our annual flu shot clinic. Grades K–3 and 4-6 will have their clinic on Monday the 7th, while the Preschool, Optional Kindergarten, 7-8 and High School will have their shots on Tuesday the 8th. This is an OPTIONAL flu clinic provided by the Carroll County Public Health for a small fee. Only flu shots will be given this year; no flu mist will be available at these clinics. If you have any questions, contact the school nurse at 712-830- 8222 or by email ejbehrens@kuemper.or

Your "trash" is our treasure...

BoxTops is going digital. You may have noticed the new "Scan" logo on some of the General Mills products. I have included information about how to use the new app in this newsletter. During the transition, General Mills will allow us to "double-dip"! So if you see a BoxTop on GM products, scan your receipt for credit and also clip off the BoxTop and send it into school! BoxTops Contest: We will do a school wide goal to get started this year. If we can raise $1000 by the fall deadline of Oct 31st, everyone will get a reward. So download the app and scan and also keep clipping and send in to school! Pizza Ranch has discontinued their "Covered Wagons" logos from their delivery boxes. Our Pizza Ranch will give us credit for any we do have collected, so please send them to school now! Keep saving the Godfather's "Fedora" hat logos. If you have any questions about these programs, contact Marlys at mayawarsky@kuemper.org or stop her and ask!

September 2nd: No School - Labor Day September 23rd: No School - Teacher Professional

Development October 14th: 2 hour early out for Conferences October 17th: 2 hour early out for Conferences October 18th: No school due to Conferences

November 4th: No School - Teacher Professional Development

November 27th - 29th: No School - Thanksgiving Break

December 9: No School - Teacher Professional Development

December 23rd - January 1st: No School - Christmas Break

January 15th: No School - Teacher Professional Development

February 17th: No School - Teacher Professional Development

March 9th: 2 hour early out for Conferences March 12th: 2 hour early out for Conferences March 13th: No school due to Conferences

April 10th - April 14th: No School - Easter Break

September 2nd September 18th September 23rd

October 9th October 14th

October 17th & 18th November 4th November 13th

November 27th - 29th December 4th December 9th

December 23rd - January 1st January 8th January 15th February 12th February 17th

March 9th March 12th & 13th

March 18th April 10th - April 14th

April 22nd

Kuemper is Online! Kuemper Catholic School System is on social media! As a school system, we are working together to improve our communication with our Kuemper Family. First, Kuemper is on Facebook, Twitter,

& Instagram. Please check it out and Like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter @KuemperKnights, and on Instagram @KuemperCatholicSchool.

Our St. Angela Center can be found on Instagram @kuemper78, while Mr. Garringer's Instagram can be found @tlgarringer

Mr. Garringer, Mrs. Milligan, and Mr. Steffes also have Twitter accounts to post what’s happening in our centers, interesting articles, and many other items. Please feel free to follow us on Twitter

@tlgarringer, @kathimilligan, and @jjsteffes.

Alternate School Schedules: Preschool No School Schedule:

We are excited to share that our 4th - 6th grade students are

engaging this year in a new reading curriculum, Fountas & Pinnell

Classroom. Fountas and Pinnell offers a wide variety of rich

literature with a guided reading approach and was successfully

implemented in grades K-3 last school year. 

Students learn grade level reading and writing skills through mini

lessons and interactive read alouds with authentic picture books.

The classrooms  are filled with rich text for all of our students to

learn from and enjoy as well as to make reading come alive. 

Students will also receive small group instruction at their individual

reading level during the Guided Reading portion of the literacy

block. During this time, the students will be learning and practicing

skills at their instructional level.

Fountas and Pinnell Classroom will create an excitement of

literature and foster a love for reading in students!

Attached is an overview video of Fountas & Pinnell Classroom. We

look forward to the adventures that our students will go on each day

through reading. 

Continuing to create a passion for knowledge!

                                                                                             Mrs. Milligan

New Reading Series at St. Lawrence

Click here to access the video link: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9w-odYVknI