COMMUNITY BASED-FAMILY ORIENTED CHILD CENTERED January 25, 2018 Volume 17 Issue 18 Inside this issue: Steps for Students 2 FIC Balance Sheets 2 Ice Cream Friday 2 Red for Women 2 What’s Happening and When... Volunteers Needed 3 Sunday, January 28th After School Program 3 9:00am-Family Mass—All families are encouraged to attend this Mass and Attention Families 3 sit together as a school. Children should come in full dress uniform. GeoBee Class Winners 3 9:00am to Noon—Open House! This is a wonderful opportunity to Lion’s Fund 3 showoff SMMCS! Feel free to bring a guest, and let us show them all that PTO Movie Night 4 SMMCS has to offer! Jeans Day 4 Monday, January 29th 100th Day of School 4 7:00am to 7:50am—Parent Appreciation Breakfast (more information on Mardi Gras Beads Needed 4 page 4) Make-Up Dates 4 Parent Appreciation Breakfast 4 Tuesday, January 30th Chuck E Cheese Spirit Night 5 Student FUN Day! Student Spotlight 5 Wednesday, January 31st Stronger Together 5 8:30 am—Vocation Day Mass—Friends and families of SMMCS are more Spring Carnival Save the Date 6 than welcome to join us at 8:30am in the church. Sweetheart Dance Save the 6 10:00am - School Geography Bee! Please join us as we cheer on our Date favorite classroom winners! Enrollment Info 7 Thursday, February 1st UST Essay Contest Winners 7 Student Appreciation Day! Important Dates: Friday, February 2nd 1/26-Jeans Day 11:00am-1:00am—Teacher Appreciation Lunch - Sponsored by the PTO! 1/28-Catholic Schools Week 2018 Begins 7:00pm—Talent Show! 2/1-Lion’s Fund-Kiss A Pig Saturday, February 3rd (moved from 2/26) 6:30pm—PTO Family Fun Night (more information on page 4) 2/2-2:00 Release A Special Prayer: 2/2-Go Red for Women Loving God, We give you thanks for the many blessings you have given us 2/6-100th Day of School through our families, through our parents, through our siblings, and 2/8-Trash for Cash Free Dress through all who guard and guide us in your light and in your truth. Day (moved from 2/6) We pray that you will continue to inspire our families, so that our 2/8-PTO Meeting devotion to you and our care for one another may be a visible sign of your 2/12-Valentine’s Day Parties unconditional love. 2/13-Mardi Gras We ask this through Christ, Our Lord. Amen 2/4-Ash Wednesday FIC Balances were sent home on Tuesday with your youngest child. These balances are as of January 10, 2018. Anything turned in after January 10th (including the PTO Meeting) is not reflected in this balance sheet. Balances are not due until May 16th, but this is a great opportunity to see where you stand and make any corrections necessary. Please make sure that you have completed and turned in all FIC cards to the FIC Box in the front office. Nurse Donna will be selling ice cream tomorrow! All items are one dollar and will be bought and served during lunch. Look who’s joining us… Donna Mohrman, Micha Rucka, Roxanne Acevedo, Anthony Acevedo, Alexis Acevedo, Christina English, Kevin Saye, Barbara Saye, Mark Nuar, Benjamin Nuar, Meris Bridger, Joshua Raab, David Lulloff, Cody Grizzoffi, Kaley Lulloff- Grizzoffi, Kaden Lulloff-Grizzoffi, Carmen Rodriquez, Laura Valladares, Eddy Valladares, Natalia Valladares, Ales- sandro Valladares, Sandy Everett, Carry Everett, Callie Ev- erett, Natalie Everett, Cathi Hughes, John Hughes, Tom Walsh, Janet Orth, Haylee Hoang, Luke Hoang, Thanh Bui, Katie Decker, Leticia Garay, Michael Garay, Trinity Garay, Samuel Garay, Lynda Buchanan, Laura Rocha, Brianna Ro- Support Go Red for Women by participat- cha, Matthew Rocha, Jose Rocha, Elizabeth Reed, David ing in National Wear Red Day® on Friday, Herrera, Lexi Herrera, Rebekah Herrera, Rosa Herrera, February 2nd by wearing a red t-shirt for Merna Canavati, Emily Billafuerte, George Billafuerte, Janet a dollar! Funds raised will go to research Billafuerte, Jorge Billafuerte, Zachary Rubio, Jacob Rubio, during American Heart Month. Anna Rubio, Martin Rubio, Angela Holden, Albert Holden, AJ Holden, Donna Holden, Sabra Holden, Eric Huddleston, Don- February 2nd is a 2:00 Release Day; na Huddleston, Vera Huddleston, Quinn Huddleston, Patri- therefore, it is a Spirit Day. Students are cia Sanger, Christopher Kerr, Cindy Kerr, Christopher Kerr, welcome to wear their favorite pair of Jr, Kiersten Kerr, Abigail Paramo, Cesar Paramo, Sylvia jeans along with their spirit shirt, polo or Paramo, Antonio Camacho, Jamila Summers, Fausto Mosca, Clara Padilla, Erneso Rios, Katia Rios, Nadia Rios, Aubri organizational shirt at no cost. However, if Rios, Lyn Espiritu-Sarmeinto, Sophie Sarmiento, Phoebe a student would like to participate by Sarmiento, Abraham Sarmiento and Ariana Castillo! wearing a red shirt, they will need to pay Where do I sign up? Go to: one dollar. steps4students.org/register. For more information about Wear Red Day, visit Scroll under “Registration” to find St. Mary Magdalene and click to join! Please contact Nurse Donna with any https://www.goredforwomen.org/ questions that you may have. Page 2 Lion’s Roar Here’s Your Chance… The 2018/2019 School The PTO is looking for volunteers to help during the Year Calendar is Teacher Appreciation Luncheon on February 2nd, attached to today’s from 11:00am-1:00pm. This is a great way to earn FIC hours! newsletter. Sign-up at https://m.signupgenius.com/#!/ The 2018/2019 Tuition showSignUp/409094ea9aa2aa2f58-teacher1 Fee and Schedule is attached to today’s newsletter. The After School Program has returned Spring Sports to the Permission Slips are Family Life Center! attached to today’s newsletter. The following students will compete during next week’s School GEO Bee on Wednesday, January 31st immediately following Mass: Matthew Rocha - 4th grade, Mitchell Weatherford - 5th grade, Dominic Gasper - 6th grade, Makenzie Taylor - 6th grade, Itzel Deleon - 7th grade, Alex Mohrman - 7th grade, Xiomara Salinas - 7th grade, Andrew Cromwell - 8th grade, Gabby Docog- 8th grade and Chimere Egesi - 8th grade! YOU WILL ALL DO GREAT! We have reached another goal...and then some! The Lion Fund is now at $30,000!!! At 2:30 on Thursday, February 1st, we will learn the fate of who’s KISSING A PIG! Will it be Ms. Sam, Ms. Dee, Mrs. Rucka, Ms. Trish, Ms. Brown and Mrs. Valladares? The top three “money getters” from student/family donations to the specific jar (in the front office) will be puckering up on to KISS A PIG! All parents are wel- come to attend. We have now surpassed our next goal of $25,000, so now some lucky faculty/staff member will become a human sundae! Want to contribute to the Lion Fund? Consider adding this to your monthly tuition fees or making a one-time payment. Pledge Forms can be found at http://smmcs.org/lionfund. Remember this is one of the few ways to support SMMCS that is 100% tax deductible and applies to your FIC. For more information, please contact our Development Volunteer Eddie Greene at [email protected]. Page 3 Lion’s Roar Tomorrow is Jeans Day! Students are invited to wear their favorite pair of blue jeans, along with their uniform polo, spirit shirt, or organizational shirt. The cost is one dollar! This week’s collection is going to SMMCS Spirit Club! The 100th day of school is February 6th! All students are encouraged to Please join us for a night of fellowship and activities for all to dress up as 100- enjoy as we watch Boss Baby! year-old people. Snacks will be available, so bring your appetite, your comfy clothes, and even a blanket! Have fun! Be creative! SMMCS, along with the help of our St. Mary Magdalene Knights of Columbus, invite you That’s right! Mardi Gras is February 13th, and to join us on Monday, January 29th in the the Krewe of SMMCS is looking for beads, FLC for our Annual which will be thrown during our annual Mardi Gras Parade. Please drop beads off in the front office! We have been informed by the Students must be in the classroom for 8:00am Catholic Schools Office that we will have to make-up the two days we missed due to last week’s weather. The make-up dates are February 19th and April 2nd. Page 4 Lion’s Roar Join Us on Tuesday, January 30th at Chuck E Cheese in Humble! SMMCS will receive up to a 20% DONATION of all event sales! On Monday, January 15th, a few of our SMMCS What Time? 3:00pm the 9:00pm students participated in the 2018 Martin Luther King, Jr. National Day of Service at the Houston Food Bank. Where? 124 FM 1960 in Humble We would like to recognize Antonio Monterrey, A flyer has been sent home with a few Victoria Monterrey, Cristian Perez, Gianni Perez and amazing coupons! Caitlin Purcell for their participation in such a wonderful event! SEE YOU THERE! As you know, we are excitedly heading into National Catholic Schools week! BUT, it is also National School Choice week and in our capacity as a partner school system with the school- choice nonprofit, Families Empowered, Catholic Schools in the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston will be represented at the “Stronger Together: Celebrating School Choice” event at Minute Maid Park this Saturday, Jan. 27th (from 10am – 1pm)! All of our families are invited to join in the fun and fellowship as we gather to support the rights of families to choose the educational opportunities that will best serve their students regardless of district lines.