Family Messenger, December 18, 2012

WEEKLY BULLETIN December 18, 2012

 

Lord God,

As we get ready to leave school this week,

help us to remember your greatest gift of all,

sending your Son to walk with us

and share his life with us.

May we always be mindful of his life in ours.

Amen.

A Message from the Principal

May the blessings of the season be with you throughout this Advent season, Christmas, and the New Year. On behalf of the faculty and staff of Incarnation School, I wish all of you a very Merry Christmas. We will see on you Monday, January 7, 2013!

Mrs. Diana Girskis

Principal

Important Dates

·      December 19 - Christmas Show 7:00 p.m.

·      December 20 - All School Field Trip to Nutcracker –Dress Uniform

·      December 21 - Noon Dismissal-NO ASP

·      January 7 - School Resumes

Christmas Concert Information

Come this Wednesday, December 19 at 7:00 p.m. in the church. Students are to meet in their classrooms at 6:30 p.m. in the following attire:

·      Pre-K -caroler apparel (sweater, sweatshirt, or jacket; gloves/mittens; snow hat)

·      Kindergarten - animal costumes

·      Grades 1-8 - Holiday/dressy Christmas/church clothes

Remember that concert attire must still follow school free dress guidelines. Therefore, girls may not wear dresses with bare shoulders (no spaghetti straps, strapless, halter, etc.) and the length of the skirt or dress may not be shorter than 2” above the knee.

Students should be in their classrooms at 6:30 p.m.—no earlier!! Students must be supervised by an adult until the homeroom teacher is available to supervise. Please do not leave your child(ren) unattended in the yard.

The only entrance to the church on the day of the concert will be the main entrance on Brand. The show will begin at 7:00 p.m.

Friday Free Dress

On Friday, December 21 students may wear free dress in Advent or Christmas colors (purple, pink, red, and/or green). Festive hats are permitted. Otherwise please follow free dress guidelines.

No ASP Friday, December 21

Please note that we will dismiss at noon on Friday, December 21st. ASP WILL NOT be available. Please make arrangements so that your child(ren) is (are) picked up promptly at noon.

Library Policies in our Parent Handbook

There have been some questions regarding the library policies. Mrs. Hihn has placed the policies from the handbook on the website. If you have any other questions or concerns please email or call.

Spring Social Event

We are excited to announce our 2013 Spring Social Event to be held on May 18, 2013.

Mark your calendar! It will be a casual and fun dinner at a local restaurant. We will continue to hold a silent auction and a raffle for cash prizes!

Please look for an invitation with more information about our INCA Fiesta, coming soon in your home messenger! We look forward to having everyone join us to celebrate yet another successful school year with our amazing Incarnation Community!

From the Business Office

Statements will be e-mailed this week, which will include any late fees. Please submit payment for open invoices as soon as possible. If you need assistance, please contact Mrs. Girskis or Mrs. Fenton.

SCRIP Tip

Thanks to everyone for purchasing SCRIP for your holiday shopping and including your family and friends! We have been trying to keep up with your support and appreciate your patience.

By popular demand, we will be selling SCRIP at the Parish Center on Thursday and Friday, January 3 & 4, 2013.  Note: the last day to place special orders (must include payment) will be this Thursday, 8:30 am. Delivery will be on Sunday, December 30 at the SCRIP table. If you can’t make it your order will also be available at the parish center on either Thursday or Friday.

See attached SCRIP Sales flyer for details.

Family Messenger, November 26, 2012

WEEKLY BULLETIN November 26, 2012

 

Generous and loving God,

Our hearts overflow with gratitude as we celebrate

your unending goodness to us.

May we always remember who has given us

everything we can see or touch or hold, including our lives!

Amen.

A Message from the Principal

Thank you to all of our families for your generous support of the food drive for St. Columbkille.  The donations they received helped them fill Thanksgiving baskets for their school and parish families in need.

On behalf of the faculty and staff at Incarnation School, we hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving!

Sincerely,

Diana Girskis

Principal

Important Dates

·      November 30- Awards Assembly, 12:30-1:30 p.m.

·      December 4- See’s Candies Fundraiser Ends

·      December 5- PTO Board Meeting at 6 p.m.

·      December 7- Santa Pictures

·      December 8- Christmas Tree Pick up

·      December 8- Barnes and Noble Fundraiser-Details will follow!

·      December 11- Tours of the School for prospective families at 9 a.m.

·      December 12– All School Mass 11:00 a.m.

·      December 14- Half Day; Fall Sports Banquet at 5:30 p.m.

·      December 19- Christmas Show 7:00 p.m.

·      December 20- All School Field Trip to Nutcracker

·      December 21- Noon Dismissal-NO ASP

Fall Sports Banquet

Save the Date: Fall Sports Banquet Friday, December 14^th @ 5:30 p.m. in Gym; Details to follow. 

  

INCA Families are Awesome!

Our fundraisers are doing great thanks to you!  So far, Fresh & Easy has earned us $1,575 (we still have until 12/31 to collect receipts!) and our INCA Family Nights have earned $1,300.  We look forward to seeing you at our next Family Night in January...restaurant to be announced! Thank you for supporting our great school!

WANTED!- INCA photos from school events, looking for really good quality shots from different school events such as the jog-a-thon, school field trips, etc.  Please send your hi-resolution files to Tina at IncaMarketing@hotmail.com.  Also, please include the names of the children in the photos.  Thank you!

LOST and FOUND

We put out quite a few items last week, and some of it was collected. We thank you for labeling your items and taking care of them. The rest of the lost and found will be sent on to St. Vincent de Paul at the end of the week. If you still need to look at the items, they will be in a large plastic bag in the resource room. Thank you. 

All School Field Trip

As you know, we are celebrating the holiday with a school-wide field trip to see the Nutcracker on December 20^th. Please make sure that you have filled out the form and paid with a check.  If you decide not to send your child on the field trip, please plan to keep them at home. School supervision will not be available.  Thanks.

Academic Decathlon

Congratulations to the students for making the Academic Junior High Decathlon team this year:

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We wish them all the best as they prepare for the big event on March 2!

Jog-a-thon

Thanks to everyone who made this year’s Jog-a-thon a success.  Thus far we have collected $40,831 which includes $10,300 from our sponsors! Expenses have not been deducted from this amount; please submit your reimbursements as soon as possible. Invoices will e-mailed this week to families who have not submitted their donation. Please call/e-mail Mrs. Fenton is you have any questions.

From the Business Office

Statements will be e-mailed this week which will include any late fees.  Please call or e-mail Mrs. Fenton if you have any questions.

SCRIP Tip

Take advantage of this week’s SCRIP promotions.  Available until supplies are depleted: Bath & Body Works, buy $25 gift card worth $26.25; $10 gift card worth $10.50.

Bonus profits until December 7:  CVS from 6% to 7%;  Panera Bread from 9% to 11%;  Smart & Final from 3% to 5%;  Starbucks (all denominations) from 7% to 10%.  Log onto the ShopWithScrip website to view all bonuses, including special orders.  Next Friday, December 7 new bonus profits:  Lowes from 4% to 5%; Target (all denominations) from 2% to 3%.

Also don’t miss out on The Great Gap Giveaway!  Beginning December 3 order $100 total in any Gap brand purchases and you will be entered in a drawing for prizes.  First Prize—reimburse the cost of your ShopWithScrip order up to $1,000 and Incarnation will also receive free shipping for a year plus $1,000 in Gap/Banana Republic/Old Navy Gift Cards!

If you are looking for suggestions for Christmas gifts for teachers/staff, please check at the SCRIP Desk for their wish lists.

Family Messenger, November 13, 2012

Faithful God,

Help us to wisely use

the gifts you give us,

and to trust you to guide and care for us.

Amen.

A Message from the Principal

This Friday is also our 28^th annual Jog-a-Thon. Students will have lunch from 10-10:30, and the Jog-a-Thon will begin at noon. Parents please make sure that you check your student out with the teacher before going home. We are grateful to the following sponsors for their support of our event:

·       Mission Community Hospital ·       Gail Roque, Roque & Associates ·       Citizens Business Bank ·       Fresh & Easy Neighborhood Market ·       Criminal Justice Institute, LLC ·       Gina Marie Fenton Memorial Scholarship ·       Haik Vardanyan Memorial Scholarship ·       The Orthodontic Studio ·       AMCO Fire Protection, Inc. ·       Braces By Bergh ·    Cathedral High School ·       Cristina B. Gamboa, DDS ·       Flintridge-Sacred Heart Academy ·       G & C Properties ·       Gay's Automotive & Towing, Inc. ·       Hillside Dental Group ·       Holy Family High School ·       Lisa B. Tabora, DDS ·       MDM Staffing ·       Mugshots Photobooths ·       Pontrelli & Laricchia, LTD ·       Providence High School ·       Respond First Aid Systems ·       Richard Williams Photography Studio ·       Two Guys From Italy

I would also like to thank Mrs. Anne Marie Guinane, our Jog-a-Thon chairperson, the PTO Board, and all other parents who have been volunteering behind-the-scenes and will be volunteering on the day of the event. Thank you for making this event possible!

Sincerely,

Diana Girskis

Principal

Important Dates

·      November 16 – Jog-a-Thon – 12:00 p.m.

·      November 16 – End of Trimester 1

·      November 16 – Report Cards go home today

·      November 19-20 – Parent Teacher Conferences

·      November 19-23 – No School/No ASP ` Happy Thanksgiving

·      November 26^th – All Christmas Tree orders are due- NO exceptions!

·      November 30^th – Awards Assembly - 12:30 p.m. in Auditorium

·      November 30^th ­– First Grade Bake sale

WELCOME two new staff members to INCA!  Mrs. Sanchez will be assisting third grade and Matt Eckel will be assisting Ken Collins for Jr. High Math.  Please make them feel welcome!!

Morning Math Schedule has changed:  Every Tuesday morning, grades 6-7^th only, Every Thursday, 8^th grade to study for the HSPT.  A big thank you to Mr. Collins for his help!!

FAMILY NIGHT AT CALIFORNIA PIZZA KITCHEN, NOVEMBER 14^TH, ALL DAY INCLUDING TAKE OUT, PLEASE BRING IN THE FLYER AND 20% WILL BE DONATED TO THE SCHOOL!!

Parent Teacher Conferences

Parents, if you have not signed up for Parent conferences, please contact the teacher by email. They have the schedule and will be able to accommodate you. They will only be confirming dates and times. If you are going out of town, please let them know. We are taking these two days for conferences, so please make use of their time.  The conferences are only fifteen minutes; they need a five minute transition time for the next appointment.

St. Columbkille Food Drive

The Prayer Service will begin at 8:15 on November 15^th. Thanks again for the donations!!

A list of suggested food items was sent home with students last week. The blessing of the food for St. Columbkille will take place this Thursday morning and the food will be delivered following the blessing.  Thank you for your generosity.

SWIM TEAM NEWS

The INCA Eagles Swim Team came in 7^th place out of 17 teams at this Sunday’s Saint Frances de Sales Finals Swim Meet.   Thank you to everyone for a great season Go Eagles!!!

SCRIP Tip

Please take a moment to glance over the SCRIP flyers in this week’s Home Messenger.  There are quite a few SCRIP promotions.  Also, remember to order SCRIP this week for Thanksgiving Dinner: Smart & Final, Vons and Whole Foods are always on hand, however, if you need more than 5 gift cards please let us know this week so we can order more. 

We will be selling SCRIP next week on Tuesday and Wednesday (November 21-22), 7:30 am to 8:30 am.  Don’t forget Black Friday!!!  Our SCRIP Vendor, Great Lakes, will have an extra ordering day—order by Thursday, November 15 and it will be ready for you to pick up on Tuesday or Wednesday.

Thanks to our volunteers for taking time from their busy schedules!

A Note from the Science Lab:

     Ask any of my science students to finish this sentence, “In science, matter is always in ___________”, and they will answer “motion”. In the same way, our science lab is always in motion. If you had come by our science room in the past two months, you would have seen students investigating electric circuits, experimenting with chemical reactions, measuring matter with balance scales and graduated cylinders, observing magnetic fields in magnets using iron fillings, testing a parachute’s air resistance, taking a ride on a hovercraft, dissecting a sheep’s heart and a chicken’s wing, making a model of a brain, calculating the speed of toy cars with the use of ramps, observing kinetic and potential energy in hand-made rocket launchers, making glue with milk and vinegar, investigating the properties of wet corn starch and building various simple machines.  And to think we are only through our first trimester in school!

    Students learn best when they are given an opportunity to explore and investigate scientific ideas for themselves. Incarnation recently made a large purchase of various scientific tools and gadgets. Our purchase included: more dissecting tools, wires, batteries, bulbs, chemicals, an accurate balance scale which measures mass to the tenth place, graduated cylinders of various volumes, large ramps, stop watches, simple machines, magnets, mineral samples and much more. And yet, we have more items to purchase. With these items, students are able to work in small groups no larger than two or three. This allows for better practice of scientific inquiry skills. It is my goal to ignite every student’s interest in the natural world and curiosity in how it works.

    Next week I will be sending out a letter with information on our Science Fair. This year, our Science Fair will take place the week of February 11^th.  In the letter, students will be given a time line of due dates for their assignments.

Thanks so much for your continued support,

Juana Salazar