Wednesday, September 11, 2024

From the Principal

The Lord takes delight in his people.

Psalm 149

Hello Everyone!

Thank you to all the parents/guardians who attended last week’s Back to School Night for grades 5-8. I know the teachers enjoyed seeing you, as did I!  It was a great night for all!

i-Ready Diagnostic - Over the next two weeks, students in grades K-8 will take both the reading and math diagnostics to establish a baseline for the year.  If you would like to know more about i-Ready, please see the FAQ provided by Curriculum Associates.  These diagnostics help determine each student’s learning path for the weekly lessons and measure growth mid-year and at the end of the school year.  Here are the 

testing windows for the diagnostics later in the year: 

January 13 - February 3  

May 5 - 23.

Happy Feastival!  I hope you can join our parish family this Sunday, September 15  (12:30 - 5:30) for an afternoon of food and fun as we celebrate the feast day of St. Emily de Rodat, our patron saint.

Help Wanted - Do you enjoy working with children or know someone who does? Do you have a few extra hours in the afternoon? St. Emily Extended Care Program is looking for a few people to help out from 2:45 to 4:30 pm daily and one day from 2:45 to closing (which is usually between 5:45 and 6:00 pm) If interested please contact Kathy Wosz at kwosz@stemily.org.

Have a great week!

Ms. Booth

SAVE THE DATES - Please mark your calendar:

St. Emily Parish Dinner Dance Committee needs YOU!

St. Emily Family T-shirt Order Form - coming home today - due 9/21

LEGO Club for 2nd and 3rd graders - coming home today

STEM Club for Grades 4-8 - coming home today

Junior STEM Club for Grades 1-3 - coming home today

WINTER SPORTS registration at St. Emily is open!:

3rd-8th boys basketball - registration due 10/18 - practices may begin 10/8

3rd-5th girls basketball - registration due 10/18 - practices may begin 10/8

5th-8th girls cheer/poms - registration due 10/18

6th-8th girls basketball - registration due 11/11

Please view this FAQ if you have questions regarding the 2024-25 basketball season. If you are interested in volunteering as a coach, you will register yourself as a volunteer on the registration page. If we can not secure a volunteer head coach for a sport/team, we will not be able to offer that team for our student-athletes.

RTPD Trails Challenge Youth OCR - October 5th:

Are you and your family looking for a fun and challenging activity? There is still time to register for the RTPD Trails Challenge Youth Obstacle Course Race on October 5. The course will take adventurous youth throughout the Woodland Trails Park. All participants will receive a t-shirt, medal, goodie bag and bragging rights they conquered the trail. If you're interested in running the race with other St. Emily families, contact Vic and Elissa Maurer.

HOT LUNCH PROGRAM:

Got Lunch? Get started here!

• Registration page
• Lunch at a Glance

EXTENDED CARE:

Registration

Wk 4 (9/9 -9/13)

Wk 5 (9/16 -9/20)

Wk 6 (9/23 -9/27)

LUNCH VOLUNTEERS ARE NEEDED DAILY to monitor the K-8 students during lunch and recess at the following times: Kindergarten-3rd grade 11:15 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.; 4th-8th grade 12:10 p.m. to 12:50 p.m. If you would like to help at either or both, please sign up on this link. If you want to volunteer in any capacity (lunch duty, field trip chaperone, classroom party helper, coach etc.), you need to be Virtus trained and up to date on your compliance: Returning volunteers, please complete a new CANTS form and return to David Mika. New volunteers, need to complete: Keeping Children Safe packet, CANTS, and mandated reporter form..

FSA Lou Malnati's Frozen Pizza Certificate Fundraiser - hard copy coming home today with NEW deadline of 9/27

2024/2025 One Page Calendar available here. September calendar here.

School News Page: 9/15/24

St. Viator Events: Euchre Night; Feeder Basketball

Maine East FREE Play Tickets for Students

Reminders:

ABSENTEE HOTLINE: If your child is going to be late or out, you must call the Absentee Hotline at 224-500-3743. Please leave your child's name, room number and reason for absence or tardy.

PLEASE LABEL ALL OF YOUR STUDENTS' BACKPACKS, LUNCH BOXES, WATER BOTTLES AND UNIFORM PIECES.

EAGLE-RAMA Raffle Tickets came home two weeks ago. These have already been paid for with your tuition. Simply fill out the stubs and return them to the office to be entered into the daily drawing which started on September 1.

BAND - for grades 4-8

Feastival Flyer

Room Parents Needed - hard copy came home two weeks ago

Little Warriors Soccer Club

Kid's Choir and Teen Choir

If you have a kindergarten through 5th grade son or daughter and they are interested in joining Mt Prospect's Cub Scout Pack please see flyer for more information or contact Kristen Kresca. 

It is not too late to order the 2023/2024 Yearbook (or any previous yearbooks), click here for details.

NEW PE Uniforms available from Office

Parents, email your photos of student activities as an attachment,

to lgeiger@stemily.org for promotional use.

Thank you!