St. Philip Neri Catholic School
St. Philip Neri Catholic School8202 N. 31st Street, Omaha, NE 68112Phone: (402) 315-3500January, 2019Fax: (402) 453-3620Mary Simerly, PrincipalImportant dates to note for January:Tuesday, January 8th --- Classes resumeSaturday, January 12th --- 8th grade Catholic High School entrance examsMonday, January 14th --- Earned Dress Down DayTuesday, January 15th --- 2nd quarter report cards go homeWednesday, January 16th --- RESPECT presentations for grades K-8Monday, January 21st --- Martin Luther King Day; No school - Teacher In-ServiceFriday, January 25th --- Student Council sponsored bake saleSunday, January 27th --- Catholic Schools Week Kick off Mass at 10:30 a.m.Monday, January 28th --- Dress Down Day for AllOn behalf of the St. Philip Neri School Faculty and Staff — I want to wish you all a very Blessed New Year.Your family is and will remain in our prayers. Thank you for sharing your greatest gifts, your children, with us.We are blessed to have you in our lives.God’s love and blessings be with you, now and always.Mrs. SimerlyPrincipal
New Year’s PrayerGod, thank you for a New Year. May everyone in ourfamily be willing to begin anew with a clean slate. Weknow that you are always ready to forgive us. Help us tobe willing to forgive ourselves and to forgive oneanother.As we begin a new year, remind us of our truest valuesand our deepest desires. Help us to live in the goodnessthat comes from doing what you want us to do. Help usto put aside anxiety about the future and the past, sothat we might live in peace with you now, one day at atime.Doctor’s Appointments, Tardiness andMissing SchoolIt is understood that doctor appointment times are oftenhard to come by or not always convenient with regard toschool hours. However, it is very important that studentsbe in attendance as much as possible in order to obtainthe maximum benefits of the school’s educational andreligious programs. We ask that, if you must schedule adoctor’s appointment during that school day, you makesure your child is in attendance as much as possibleprior to and after the appointment on that given day.As stated in the student handbook, it is important that achild arrive to school on time. School begins at 8:00a.m. Any student arriving after 8:00 a.m. will be markedtardy. In accord with Nebraska state law, St. Philip Nericounts minutes of tardiness towards a student’sabsences. Students miss out on valuable instructiontime when they are tardy. We ask that you please makeevery effort to make sure your child/children get toschool on time.Thank you, Mrs. MillerA huge thank you to Mrs. Miller for a wonderfulChristmas program!! The staff, students and familiestruly appreciate all of your hard work. Job well done!!Kindergarten Round-UpSave the Date! Kindergarten Round-Up will be held onWednesday, February 27, 2019. Please encourage yourfriends and neighbors to send their children to St. PhilipNeri School and attend our Kindergarten Round-Up.Additional information will be sent home in the Februarynewsletter. Kindergarten and Pre-School will not haveclass that day. Please call the school if you have anyquestions, (402) 315-3500.High School Entrance ExamsThe eight area Catholic high schools will offer theirScholarship and Placement tests to current 8th graderson Saturday, January 12th. The tests are used in theadmissions process and to determine scholarshipwinners.New Lunch PricesEffective Tuesday, January 8, 2019 the price for aschool lunch will increase to 2.70 per lunch. Theincrease is required so that our lunch program is incompliance with the State of Nebraska guidelines.If you have any questions, contact Mrs. Simerly at (402)315-3500 or at mrsimerly@schools.archomaha.orgChristmas VacationChristmas break will begin at 3:15 on Friday, December21. Classes will resume on Tuesday, January 8, 2019.All VolunteersPlease remember that if you currently volunteer or wantto volunteer in the future at St. Philip Neri School, youmust be Save Environment trained. This does includeall room parents, coaches and parents who want to goon field trips with their child. To sign up for the training,please go to the Archdiocese of Omaha website,www. Archomaha.org, click on the tab that says SafeEnvironment, then on the Training link. Listed in thissection are classes that are being offered in the Omahaarea. If you have any questions, please contact Mrs.Weaver the school secretary.Hy-Vee ReceiptsPlease remember to save your Hy-Vee receipts for SPNSchool. Receipts can be dated up through December31st. Please turn in your Hy-Vee receipts when yourchild returns to school on Tuesday, January 8, 2019.The 2018 Hy-Vee receipts will not be accepted afterThursday, January 10th. Anything that comes in afterthat day will have to be thrown away. Hy-Vee recordsand totals the receipts collected by each school andagrees to donate 1.00 for every 200.00 spent. Themaximum award to be donated per school is 2,000.00.Help us reach our goal of 2,000. Thanks for helping ourschool!!Text NotificationWe have the capability, through Sycamore, to text youwith important school information. If you would like toreceive a text message from us, please contact Mrs.Weaver at (402) 315-3500. You will need to supply uswith your cell phone number as well as the name of yourcell phone service provider (Verizon, Sprint, etc ).No SchoolThere is no school on Monday, January 21, 2019. Theteachers have an In-service day.Thanks!Thank you to everyone for your kind donations to theStaff Christmas Fund!God Bless,Your H & S
Nebraska Family HelplineStudent CouncilThe Nebraska Family Helpline is a collaborative effortinvolving the state of Nebraska and Boys Town. TheHelpline’s focus is on improving families’ access toservices within the child and family care system.The Helpline is supervised by licensed mental healthprofessionals. Trained Helpline counselors assist callersby: assessing immediate safety needs. identifying the potential level of a behavioral healthcrisis. making recommendations or referrals toappropriate resources. helping them connect to emergency resources orproviders.Congrats to the 8th grade class for winning our can fooddrive! They had a free dress down day and ice-creamsponsored by the student council on November 30th.As a school, we brought in 1,633 cans! In third place, the 4th grade brought in 20 cans perperson. In second place, the 3rd grade brought in 23 cansper person. In first place, our winners, the 8th grade with 28cans per person!Our next meeting is Thursday January 10 from3:20 - ovHelp St. Philip Neri School Year RoundHere’s a list of fundraisers that go on throughout theyear. These are easy ways to help St. Philip Neri earnmoney or merchandise for the school! Keep this listhandy as a reminder that helping is easy.Neri Dollars: Neri Dollars are gift cards to your favoritevendors. They are easy to use and a percentage comesback to St. Philip Neri. Contact Marie McFarland at 402455-1289 with questions or to make your purchase.Box Tops 4 Education – Please collect Box Tops fromvarious products like Fruit Roll Ups, Ortega products,Kleenex, etc. It’s easy to do. Just cut out the box top andsend it to school. (Shelly Philbin – parent representative)Hy-Vee Receipts – This year’s CASH FOR STUDENTSprogram began on Friday, September 1st andcontinues through Monday, December 31, 2018 andincludes the Omaha and Plattsmouth Hy-Vee stores.Here’s how it works: Parents, grandparents, friends, staffand administrators who shop at any of the Omaha andPlattsmouth Hy-Vee stores save your receipts and turnthem into our school. Hy-Vee records and totals thereceipts collected and agrees to donate 1.00 for every 200.00 spent. The maximum award to be donated perschool is 2,000.00. (Trisha Cech – parentrepresentative)Please save box tops of General Mills cereal and BettyCrocker products.CLASSROOM NEWSPre-KindergartenMrs. HolzapfelBottle caps and Coke codes from all Coke products.Please send in the bottle caps and the code from insidethe 12-packs, 18-packs, or 24-packs. (Chris Berkey –parent representative)Pop Cans for Scholarships. We also collect andrecycle pop cans for the Knights of Columbus. Themoney is used to fund scholarships for eighth grade.For to us a child is born,to us a son is given,and the government will be on His shoulders.And He will be called
Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God,Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.Isaiah 9:6We pray that you & your family have aMerry Christmas &A Blessed New YearLots of Love,Mrs. Holzapfel&Pre-School StudentsOn the sixth day of Christmas my true love gave to me100 billion diamonds.On the seventh day of Christmas my true love gave tome my dog Shadow.On the eighth day of Christmas my true love gave to mesix little rings.On the ninth day of Christmas my true love gave to methat every kid would have his own special family.On the tenth day of Christmas my true love gave to me1,000,000 dollars.On the eleventh day of Christmas my true love gave tome spaghettis.On the twelfth day of Christmas my true love gave to mea big bag of presents.KindergartenMiss ThomsenFirst Grade StarsOur stars this month are Charlie and Zeke!Charlie’s favorite food is meat. His favorite subject isP.E. His favorite song is “Believer.” Fishing is his favoritehobby. Red is his favorite color.Zeke’s favorite holiday is Christmas. His favorite food ispizza. The Night Before Christmas is his favorite book.Blue is his favorite color. Coco is his favorite movie.First GradeMrs. DeSalvoMerry Christmas from the first grade! Here are the 12Days of Christmas as if they were written by firstgraders!:On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me anelf.On the second day of Christmas my true love gave tome presents.On the third day of Christmas my true love gave to methreeeee potatoes!On the fourth day of Christmas my true love gave to mefour calling birds.On the fifth day of Christmas my true love gave to mefive days of Christmas.Second GradeMrs. MerrimanDuring the season of Advent, the second grade hasbeen doing many good things to prepare for Christmas.Each day on our Advent tree we mark off that we haveprayed and done something good to help someone. Wechoose a Bible story to read and hang an ornament/storyon our little tree. We also tear a link off of our Adventchain for another suggestion on things to do. EveryMonday we “light” another candle on our Advent wreath.In class we continue to focus on the Sacrament ofPenance. We’ve read about a shepherd with a lostsheep and about Zacchaeus. We are trying to learn thedifference between confession, contrition, penance, andabsolution. The students are being very diligent aboutmemorizing the Act of Contrition.
In Language Arts we have spent a lot of time reading,writing about, and comparing many types of storms. Weeven wrote weather poems! We are becoming proficientat digraphs, compound words, and changing the endingson verbs to match the tense of our sentences. We allwork very hard.We have completed our unit on numbers to onethousand and are currently working on addition of threedigit numbers with regrouping. Congratulations to Jessewho advanced two levels in math facts this month,William and Delaney who advanced four levels, andGizzy who is smokin’ through the facts by finishing eightlevels this month! Many students are stuck on facts withsums between eleven and twenty. Please practice thesemore difficult facts at home periodically.We have started a new unit in Social Studies by lookingat different landforms and bodies of water. We will finishour unit on land habitats with a test before Christmasbreak in Science.Have a blessed Christmas! We’ll meet again on January8th . Next year!Third GradeFifth GradeMrs. BoisenFifth graders are eagerly participating in St. Philip Neriand classroom Advent activities. Every day they want toread from our Advent calendar and take turns puttinganother ornament on our little Christmas tree. A studenttakes a link from our Christmas Kindness CountdownChain and reads what our act of kindness will be for theday. (Students brainstormed different acts of kindness,then a chain was made out of their ideas) The class isparticipating in bringing in baby items for The EssentialPregnancy Service. Classroom religion assignmentshave included creating a Scripture Star ornament andconstructing their own Advent reflection. They know andshow the quiet peace and light that they can bring toothers this Advent Season as we wait for Jesus. MerryChristmas from the Fifth Grade!Mrs. OttingerSixth GradeMr. HughesLiterature classes are going strong – guided reading ison Tuesdays and Thursdays, in which students arereading and analyzing novels together in small groups.Sixth, seventh, and eighth graders are also practicingreading and writing poetry, and reviewing literature termsfor their mid-term vocabulary exam.Middle school math classes are also going very well!The sixth graders have been studying percent,proportions, and introductory algebra; seventh andeighth graders have been perfecting their skills withfigures, scale models, ratios, and proportions.It has been a pleasure wrapping up a busy 2018 with themiddle schoolers!Seventh GradeMiss KnippthFourth GradeMiss Schroer8 Grade ScienceEighth Graders can now identify the products andreactants in a chemical equation, as well as balance anequation to reflect the amount of each element neededfor a reaction to occur. While incorporating math withscience can be difficult, they have worked exceptionallyhard to master this skill!7th Grade Science and ReligionSeventh Grade has enjoyed learning about classificationof organisms. They can now explain the purpose ofscientific names. They were particularly challenged touse a dichotomous key to identify insects, but enjoyedlearning about different insect names in the process!In Religion, students have taken the time to prepare forAdvent by writing out acts of kindness to do each day.This, along with daily reflection questions focused on thisseason of preparation, has taught them how to calmtheir hearts and prepare for Christ’s coming.
6th Grade Science and ReligionSixth Grade has recently learned about earthquakes andvolcanoes. Although it is unlikely there will be anearthquake in Nebraska, if you need any advice on whatto do during an earthquake, ask a sixth grader foradvice! Or, if you are curious why an earthquakeoccurred in Alaska recently, they can explain why.Library and ComputersMrs. ClaytonIn Religion, students have been learning about theliturgical year. They enjoyed making a liturgical calendarto show the different seasons. We have discussed howto prepare our hearts for Christ during Advent whileawaiting the celebrations of the Christmas season!5th Grade ScienceFifth graders are now experts about adaptations andecosystems. They can explain several examples ofmimicry and camouflage, as well as name biotic andabiotic parts of an ecosystem. This group is alwaysexcited to learn something new!Thank you to everyone that brought in Christmasornaments to decorate the library Christmas tree. After aslow start we had 10 ornaments brought in that thestudents voted on. Our winners were first place TianaEarlywine, Dhiadra Nelson second place and third placeGianna Fink. Dhiadra was unavailable for a picture.ArtEighth GradeMs. AdamsMerry Christmas from 8th grade!Mrs. MillerWe have done some fun projects in this last month of thesemester. Kindergarten made snowmen out of modelmagic clay to practice their small motor skills and clayhandling techniques. 1st grade tried “telephone drawing”to see how different people interpreted and changed artover time. In 2nd grade, we learned about depth andperspective. In two dimensional space, when somethingis smaller and higher up on the page, it looks like it isfarther away! In 3rd grade we have been working onseveral kinds of weaving, including learning aboutGhanaian Kente cloth. 4th and 5th grades have beenusing most of their art time to practice for the ChristmasProgram, so all of the music classes in the last week ofschool before break going to be additional art classes!6th grade has just finished their illuminated letters. Wealso watched the movie “The Secret of Kells” which isloosely based on the history of one of the most importantilluminated documents in history, the Book of Kells whichwas made in Ireland. 7th grade finished making threedimensional flowers. Their acrylic paint and paperleaves give life to their sculptures! 8th grade finishedtheir batik projects. We have had a lot of fun usingmelted wax and cloth dye to make beautiful textile art inthis traditional Indonesian style. In the last week ofschool before break, all of the classes will be working onsome crafts that can be given as gifts. Keep an eyeopen!
Physical Education, Health and SpanishMrs. PlewaTime flies when you’re having fun! It is mind-boggling tome that we are already half-way through the school year!We have had so much fun in all of our classes, but Iknow that our students are ready for the break! I hopethat the upcoming Christmas break will allow you manyopportunities for fun, for memory-making, for rest, andfor wonderful time with family and friends. MerryChristmas and a Happy New Year to you! May Godbless you greatly!MusicMrs. MillerCongratulations to everyone involved in the ChristmasProgram! It was truly a performance to remember! Greatjob, everyone! Thank you for everyone’s help in settingup and taking things down. A very special thank you toMrs. Collins and Mrs. Jones for decorating the gym withsuch beautiful decorations!After Christmas break, students in grades 6-8 will startrehearsing songs for our Spring Program. We aresinging through many different songs, and the studentswill choose which ones will be on the concert.The Omaha Archdiocesan Schools admit students of any race, color,national and ethnic origins to all the rights, privileges, programs, andactivities generally accorded or made available to students at theschools. They do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, nationaland ethnic origin and administration of their educational policies,admissions policies, scholarship and loan programs, and athletic andother school administered programs.
January 2019SundayMonday30TuesdayWednesday31New Year’s EveNo School –Christmas Break61New Year’s DayNo School –Christmas BreakNo School –Christmas Break7No School –Christmas Break138K – 4 Mass27Catholic SchoolsWeek BeginsMass at 10:30 am221117School Board Meetingat 7:00 pmLittle Flowers3:15 – 4:452918192nd Grade FirstReconciliiation@ 10:00 am24All School Mass305 – 8 Mass128th Grade HighSchool Placement /Entrance ExamsAll School Mass235 – 8 MassK – 4 Mass10165No School –Christmas BreakAll School Mass5 – 8 MassK – 4 Mass28Dress Down Dayfor AllSaturday4Student Council meeting3:20 to 3:50 pmH & S Meeting at 6:00 pm1521No SchoolTeacher Inservice95 – 8 MassK – 4 MassReport Cards go homeFriday3No School –Christmas BreakCLASSES RESUME!!1420Thursday225Student Council 0.50Bake Sale3126
Jan 12, 2018 · Hy-Vee Receipts Please remember to save your Hy-Vee receipts for SPN School. Receipts can be dated up through December 31st. Please turn in your Hy-Vee receipts when your child returns to school on Tuesday, January 8, 2019. The 2018 Hy-Vee receipts will not be accepted after Thursday, January 10th. Anything that comes in after
contributions to St. Philip Neri Church, please contact or email the rectory office: 215.679.9275 ext. #101 or email: ofcmgr@spnparish.org. GIVE A SAINT PHILIP NERI PERPETUAL MEMORIAL For a donation of 50 or more, there is a beautiful Folder recording the gift and donor name to be presented to the family. Weekly Financial Report
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will resume in the Fall. Our Mission Saint Philip Neri Parish is a welcoming Roman Catholic Parish of believers that is rich in faith and history. as the center of our parish life at our two churches of St. Philip Neri and St. Stanislaus. .
St. Philip Neri School campus is located at 6401 S. Orchard Road in Linthicum, Maryland. The school and the church share a 15-
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