PRINCIPAL’S PAGE

APRIL, 2008

 

Even though it doesn’t quite feel like spring yet, the trees are beginning to show some green, daffodils and tulips are creeping upward, and daylight savings time gives us more opportunity to enjoy God’s gifts of nature.

 

*Click below to see what’s happening at Saint Anthony’s during April.

http://www.stanthonynet.org/HCalendar/  

Any additions or changes to the calendar will be posted with “announcements” on the school home page.

 

*Click below to for teacher websites Clicking on course number takes you to homework. Clicking on teacher name takes you to website.

http://www.yourhomework.com/course_list.html?school_id=86900

 

Items of Interest

Home and School sponsored Spring Fling takes place Saturday, April 4, beginning at 6:00 P.M.  Come to Fournier Hall for a family evening of fun.

 

The Parish & Family Life Committee will sponsor the Monthly First Sunday Social in the Ballad Room on April 6th, 2008, after the 11:00 Mass.  Coffee, tea, juice, donuts, bagels and tomato pie will be served.

 

Our Excellence Fair is scheduled for the week of April 7, and will be set up in the gym.  I hope you’ll be able to stop in and see how talented our children are.

 

Knights of Columbus Chess Tournament will be April 19 starting 8:30 A.M.

Location: St. Pius X Council  at Lancaster and Scott Sts. 

Children who signed up please be there no later than 8:30 a.m. and bring your chess set.  Chess sets will not be provided.

 

We’re also looking forward to our first Italian Culture Week which begins Monday, April 28. It includes, music, dance, food, puppetry, and bocce instruction.  Money from the Festival’s Trevi Fountain made it possible.  Thank you for all those coins you tossed.

 

Congratulations to Amanda DeFilippis, grade 5.  For the second time, Amanda has placed FIRST in the “Clear Water Begins and End With You” drawing contest, in the 3rd-5th grade division.  Her drawing will be featured in a special calendar, sponsored by DelDOT and Partnership for the Delaware Estuary.  Overall, there were 1,428 entries submitted!

 

 

MARCH’S STUDENTS OF THE MONTH:

PRE-SCHOOL: EMILY OEI; HONORABLE MENTION JORDAN MOUNTZ

KINDERGARTEN: ISABELLA SQUILLACE

GRADE 1: DANIEL BOROWSKI

2A: SYLWIA PIETRZAK(Sylwia became a part of the family this year from her native Poland!)

2B: NATHAN THOMAS

3A: DANIEL ROCHE; HONORABLE MENTION EMILY RANDOLPH

3B: SEAN SETTING; HONORABLE MENTION ISABELLA FABRIS

4A: OLIVIA SCHNEESE

4B: HANNAH DI DONATO

5A: TERESA LUCK

5B: RICHARD EVANS

6A: VINCENT VELLA; HONORABLE MENTION ANGELO ALBERTI

6B: TYLER BALDO; HONORABLE MENTION BETHANY STEPHANO

7A: KELLY HUMMEL

7B: BRIANNA KENT-MCLAUGHLIN

8A: LISA LUCK; HONORABLE MENTION SAMANTHA HRIVNAK, DANIELLE WINTER

8B: ALEXIS RYAN

 

Middle School students will be visiting the Jewish Community Center on Thursday, April 3 for a presentation on the Holocaust.

 

 

LOST AND FOUND

We have pants, shoes, winter coats (yes, winter coats), and many, many gym clothes in the lost/found box.  If your child is missing anything, please encourage him/her to check in the cafeteria.  On Monday, anything unlabeled will be sent to Good Will.

 

DRESS DOWN COUPONS

From the last Home-School general meeting were distributed before the Easter break and are good for Friday, February 11.  Requests for Fridays being the better day for dress down have been honored, hoping to make your end-of-week a little easier J!

 

And finally, I received a lovely note from Brittany Hanks, class of ’07, now attending Delaware Military Academy.  She credits her success there with the foundation she received here.  Moreover, she is working with students helping them to prepare for Model UN.  She’s well suited to it, since she was one of our “stars” at St. Anthony’s. 

 

FROM THE PEN OF SAINT FRANCIS DE SALES:

Don’t lose any opportunity, however small, of being

gentle toward everyone.

Don’t rely on your own efforts,

but only on God’s help.

 

God’s blessings on you and your families,

Patricia M. O’Donnell