Final Details: Haunted Forest Walk - Saturday October 24

LOCATION/ARRIVAL TIME:
Please plan to meet at the Woodridge Park District, 2600 Center Drive, Woodridge at 6pm or shortly after...the event begins at 6:30 p.m.

KELLY NOVOTNY will be at the park at 6:00 p.m. to meet the group. If you need to make changes or add a name to the list of attendees, please call Kelly's cell at (630) 935-7934. By doing so the chaperone's will know when all students have arrived to begin the walk.

PICK UP:
Plan to pick up your child at 8:30 pm at the park.

COST:
Event fee is $7 and the students may wish to bring extra $$ for purchasing refreshments.

TRANSPORTATION:
Carpooling is suggested but is not required as you may drop off your child at the Park District.

Leticia Pedraza and Andrea Petrino have offered to drive after the conclusion of 5:00 p.m. Mass, so please contact them directly to arrange rides.

ATTENDEES:
The following 8th graders have currently signed up for the walk.

Michael Delaplane
Colleen Durkin
Connor Economou
Bridget Guiffre
Sydney Huggins
Kaileen Mangan
Kelly O'Brien
Matt Pedraza
Charlie Roth
Lauren Ryan
Ryan Walaszek
Emma Welsh

It is not too late to sign up. The more the merrier...or should I say ....the more the spookier?

REMINDER: Reading Tree Registration due October 22

If you are interested in enrolling your child in the Reading Tree High School Entrance Exam Prep Course, the forms are due to the SJS office on Thursday October 22. Here is the original blog post:



Information on the high school entrance exam prep course, offered through The Reading Tree, was sent home last week to all 8th graders.

The eight (8) session course is offered on-site, after school at SJS starting on October 26, 2009.

Registration forms are due to the school office by Thursday October 22, 2009.

Volunteers Needed - Final Home Matches for Volleyball

Next weekend marks the last home matches/games for the 8th grade girls volleyball teams. As is tradition at SJS, the event is celebrated by decorating the gym and recognizing the 8th grade team members.

Volunteers are needed to help decorate the gym. If you are available, please contact Mary Durkin at dkn61@comcast.net or (630) 971-9214.

FYI, here are the dates and times for the final home matches:

8A - Friday October 23 @ 8:00 p.m.
8B1 - Saturday October 24 @ 1:00 p.m.
8B2 - Saturday October 24 @ 2:00 p.m.

Even if you are unable to volunteer for decorating, everyone is welcomed to attend to cheer on our 8th grade girl volleyball players on this special occasion.

RSVP Needed - Haunted Forest Walk

If your child is planning on attending the Haunted Forest Walk and Hayride on Saturday October 24, please send an RSVP to Anne Harris no later than Wednesday October 21, 2009:

steveharris70@comcast.net

In your note, please indicate if your child will be:

1) Attending mass at 5:00 p.m.; and/or leaving directly from SJ's; or
2) Meeting at Hawthorne Hill Woods.

Your RSVP will help inform the chaperone's who they are expecting so that everyone can walk together as a group at the event.

Please remember that transportation is not provided so car pooling is encouraged to help get the kids to/from the event.

Haunted Forest Walk & Hayride - Saturday October 24, 2009

Here is the information on the Haunted Forest Walk and Hayride at the Woodridge Park District on Saturday October 24, 2009. For those parents who signed up to chaperone and/or drive, the room mom's are suggesting that the children attend 5:00 p.m. mass and then leave from the church parking lot, arriving at the event between 6:30 and 6:45 p.m. However, this is not mandatory and the children can be driven directly to the event where they will meet as a group.

Haunted Forest Walk
Carpool to: Woodridge Park District
2600 Center Drive
Woodridge, Il 60517

Event begins at 6:30 p.m.

Hawthorne Hill Woods will be transformed into a thrill of scary scenes, complete with ghosts, ghouls and all sorts of creatures that slither and groan. There will be plenty of monsters and ghouls out to WELCOME you!

Park at the Community Center, 2600 Center Drive, and enjoy a hayride to Hawthorne Hills Woods.

Parental Discretion
$7.00 per person /evening hours
Tickets can be purchased when arriving to Woodridge Community Center.

Wear Gym shoes, walk will take place on wood chips.

8 – 9 haunted scenes will be viewed

Hot Chocolate and candy can be purchased

School Pictures - Clarified

During 8th grade, there are two different times in the school year that our children are officially photographed at SJS and pictures offered for sale.

--The first happens on Thursday October 15 and is the annual pictures that all children and teachers participate in at SJS.

--The second will happen in early February and will be for the 8th graders only. This is traditionally a more formal portrait of each student taken for graduation, as the students will also have an opportunity to pose for a picture in a cap and gown. There will also be a large class photo created of all of the 8th graders (both classes) in their caps and gowns. (Similar to the ones hanging outside of the School Office.) There may also be a group photo taken on the altar at church of all of the students.

Hope this clarifies some of the picture mystery for the 8th graders.

8th Grade T-Shirts - ACTION NEEDED!

The reprinted 8th Grade t-shirts have arrived and will be distributed during lunch on Tuesday October 13.

All students must turn in their original, misprinted t-shirts in order to receive the new shirts.

Please let your child know to bring the old t-shirts with them to school on Tuesday (tomorrow).

Thank you.

Kazma Family Foundation - Tuition Assistance Grant

Mrs. Stasi would like to share the following information from the Catholic Education Foundation of the Diocese of Joliet with all of our 8th Grade Families.

Please note that the attachments referenced in the letter below will be sent to all 8th Grade parents via e-mail :


_____________________________________
October 2009

Dear Eighth Graders,

The Catholic Education Foundation is pleased to announce a tremendous opportunity for eighth-grade students.

The Kazma Family Foundation will be providing a four-year renewable tuition assistance grant to students entering any of the Catholic high schools in the Diocese of Joliet. Thirty-five students will be selected based on financial need.

Please review the attached information regarding the Kazma Family Scholarship and complete the application by February 19, 2010.

If you have any questions regarding this grant, contact Jane Lagger at the Catholic Education Foundation at 815/834-4033 or jlagger@dioceseofjoliet.org.

Sincerely,

Jane Lagger, Director
Catholic Education Foundation

Confirmation Retreat - Out of Uniform Tomorrow

Thursday October 8 is the 8th graders confirmation retreat at school. It is an out of uniform day but the children should be neatly dressed.

Entrance Exam Prep Course - The Reading Tree

Information on the high school entrance exam prep course, offered through The Reading Tree, was sent home last week to all 8th graders.

The eight (8) session course is offered on-site, after school at SJS starting on October 26, 2009.

Registration forms are due to the school office by Thursday October 22, 2009.

T-Shirts - Please Read!

As some of you may have already noticed, the 8th Grade Class T-Shirts have a typo on them. Instead of SJS 2010, it reads SJS 2009.

We have contacted the vendor and they will be reprinting new t-shirts for the class. There is no delivery date as yet.

We will be collecting the original shirts for distribution to a needy charity.

More information on the return, and the delivery date for the reprinted t-shirts will be posted at a later date.