From the desk of Sister Stella
PWC President
Traffic Duty Assignments
Weekly Readings/Reflections
Playground Volunteer
Hot Lunch Volunteers
SPA Ski Club News
SPA Golf Club News

From the Desk of Sister Stella Maria, Principal:

NEW YEAR, NEW START! It is that time of year again; the NEW YEAR brings in a flurry of NEW RESOLVES and NEW RESOLUTIONS. The tradition of a New Year’s Resolution goes all the way back to 153 BC. Take a look at the following Top Ten Alternative New Year’s Resolutions, compliments of Bible Alive, and see if any one of them appeal to you:

• To grow in the knowledge of God’s love.
• To deepen your prayer life.
• To become more familiar with scripture.
• To grow in Eucharistic wonder, amazement and awe.
• To frequent the sacrament of reconciliation more.
• To learn to conquer an area of sin.
• To learn to control the tongue.
• To read more spiritual books.
• To forgive and let go of resentment.
• To practice the Beatitudes and the Sermon on the Mount.

Parents, the following Christmas reflection will let you understand that everyday can be a Christmas celebration:

A Christmas Prayer

Source of divine Light, Emmanuel, God-with-us, your radiant love illuminated our waiting world

with the surprise of your Bethlehem birth.

Each year since then we celebrate this astonishing event, rejoicing in your coming anew, not as a newborn Babe, but as the hidden presence of divinity contained within each of us.

To our great astonishment, we have become your dwelling place.

We are now your Bethlehem.

Now you are Treasure birthed in the secret place of our soul.

Now you are Light gleaming through our gestures of generosity.

Now you are Hope radiating inside the core of our courage.

Now you are Joy shining into the dark caves of our gloom.

Now you are Peace glowing quietly in the crevice of our anxiety.

Now you are Love brilliantly reflected within our kindness.

O Christ, Light of all lights, Star of all stars,

 dweller within these human homes of ours,

                                      open our wandering minds and hesitant hearts

so your endless goodness radiates more completely in us.

We welcome you again and again, with gratitude and trust,

not only in this Christmas season of remembrance and celebration

but all through the new year that awaits us.

— Joyce Rupp

 

Welcome the Light was written by Joyce Rupp the Creative Communications forthe Parish, 1564 Fencorp Drive Fenton, MO M0 63026-2942 @2006 Phone 800 325-9414 Art by Salk Beck wwwcreatyvecommunications.com All rights reserved. Printed in the USA.

 

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PWC President

Dear SPA Families:

Happy New Year!!  Welcome back to school.  I hope that everyone had an enjoyable and relaxing holiday.  On behalf of the PWC, I would like to wish all of you a very
Happy and Healthy 2007.

Mary Kay Lalli

PWC President

 

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Traffic Duty Assignments

Month of January Traffic Duty Assignment 4th Grade Parents

PARENT TRAFFIC RESPONSIBILITIES. 

TRAFFIC REPORT for Parents and Children -- URGENT

Please, please do not J-walk anywhere, at any time,

FOR ANY REASON.  Remember, we are all teaching by example, and no child (or parent) should ever think that it is safe to J-walk.

Children should only be dropped off at designated drop off points – NEVER anywhere else.  Parents should walk them to school and cross with the crossing guards and/or in official crosswalks.  At pick up, follow traffic guidelines (per SPA handbook).  If you do not drive in to the parking lot, you are expected to park and walk in to the school to get your child.  Upon exiting, walk alongside them, take care that you both stop at the driveways, and PLEASE have them cross with you at the crosswalks.

At no time should a child exit school without a parent alongside them.  Should anyone see this occur, please personally escort that child back inside the school to wait for their parent to come inside to get them. 

SPA Traffic Rules are in effect from the moment you drop off your child (as per our traffic system), up until those children are SAFELY inside their parent’s car at the end of the school day.

Please go over the Traffic Rules with your children and make sure they understand and practice them.

We are all responsible for everyone’s safety.  Please make this a priority for your children, and everyone else’s.

Thank you.

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Weekly Readings/Reflections

Readings for Sunday January 14

Reading 1
Isaiah 62:1-5

For Zion’s sake I will not be silent,
for Jerusalem’s sake I will not be quiet,
until her vindication shines forth like the dawn
and her victory like a burning torch.

Nations shall behold your vindication,
and all the kings your glory;
you shall be called by a new name
pronounced by the mouth of the LORD.
You shall be a glorious crown in the hand of the LORD,
a royal diadem held by your God.
No more shall people call you “Forsaken, “
or your land “Desolate, “
but you shall be called “My Delight,”
and your land “Espoused.”
For the LORD delights in you
and makes your land his spouse.
As a young man marries a virgin,
your Builder shall marry you;
and as a bridegroom rejoices in his bride
so shall your God rejoice in you.

 

Gospel
Jn 2:1-11

There was a wedding at Cana in Galilee,
and the mother of Jesus was there.
Jesus and his disciples were also invited to the wedding.
When the wine ran short,
the mother of Jesus said to him,
“They have no wine.”
And Jesus said to her,
“Woman, how does your concern affect me?
My hour has not yet come.”
His mother said to the servers,
“Do whatever he tells you.”
Now there were six stone water jars there for Jewish ceremonial washings,
each holding twenty to thirty gallons.
Jesus told the them,
“Fill the jars with water.”
So they filled them to the brim.
Then he told them,
“Draw some out now and take it to the headwaiter.”
So they took it.
And when the headwaiter tasted the water that had become wine,
without knowing where it came from
-. although the servers who had drawn the water knew -.,
the headwaiter called the bridegroom and said to him,
“Everyone serves good wine first,
and then when people have drunk freely, an inferior one;
but you have kept the good wine until now.”
Jesus did this as the beginning of his signs at Cana in Galilee
and so revealed his glory,
and his disciples began to believe in him.

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Playgound Volunteer

1st GRADE: 11:45-12:15
January 2007

4th GRADE: 12:10-12:40
December

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Hot Lunch Volunteers

Hot Lunch Volunteer Schedule
January 2007

1st Gradde        11:20 – 11:45
Mondays                               Wednesday                         Thursdays

4th Grade        11:45 – 12:10
Mondays                                 Wednesday                          Thursdays

7th Grade       12:20 – 12:45
Mondays                                  Wednesday                         Thursdays

1/8	Villablanca	1/10	Lynn Casey	1/11	Tina Cathcart
1/15	NO SCHOOL	1/17	Mona Horton	1/18	Tina Cathcart
1/22	Fortier	1/24	Fortier	1/25	Mary Curry
1/29	Villablanca	1/31	Harold

 

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**ATTENTION**

**SKI CLUB PARTICIPANTS**

VOLUNTEERS & BAKED GOODS

NEEDED FOR SKI CLUB BAKE SALE

On Friday, January 19th  we will be having our Ski Club Bake Sale.  We would greatly appreciate if all Ski Club members would help with this endeavor to raise money to offset some of the costs of our Mammoth trip.

We are in need of baked goods (cupcakes, cookies, brownies, etc.)  Once again, we will be taking orders for Krispy Kreme dougnuts and Diddy Reese cookies for anyone wishing to go this route. 

We also need eight helpers for set-up and each  recess time (you may volunteer for any or all recesses):

          

           Set-up: 7:45 - 8:30 am

      Grades K-2                  Grades 3-4        Grades 5-8

        9:20-9:40                 9:45-10:05          10:05-10:25

Please contact Marcie Newby (# and email in school directory) to let her know whether you will be able to volunteer, bring baked goods, and/or place a doughnut or cookie order.  All goods should be brought to the pavilion on Friday morning, January 19th at drop-off.

Many thanks for your support!

 

 

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SPA GOLF CLUB 2007

Golf Anyone?

When? –Mondays starting at 3:30pm  . Dates: April 2nd, 16th, 23rd, 30th

and May 7th, 14th, 21st, 2007

Where? – Ranch Park Par 3 Course

What? – Just a City of LA Golf Certification Card and your own equipment

Who? – All SPA Students with an interest in golf- Not a Competition

Get friends in your grade and form a golf group (limited to 30 kids)

Please request your Registration information packet via E-mail

to Tim Murphy, listed in the school directory .

Include your E-mail address and the forms will be sent to you.

See you on the course!!!

 

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