Monday, October 14, 2019
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This Week at a Glance
- Tuesday, October 15 - All School Mass, 9:00 AM
- Tuesday, October 15 - Parents in Prayer - In front of the school, 2:30 PM
- Tuesday, October 15 - Dining for Dollars @ Chick-Fil-A (See Below)
- Tuesday, October 15 - November Hot Lunch Ordering Closes
- Wednesday, October 16 - LifeTouch Picture retake day (Only students having re-takes may DRESS UP)
- Thursday, October 17 - BETA Harvest Day! Free dress for non-perishable food items (See below)
- Thursday, October 17 - Middle School Author Visit (See below)
- Friday, October 18 - STM Spirit Dress, any STM shirt with jeans or uniform bottom
- Tuesday, October 22 - Parents in Prayer - In front of the school, 2:30 PM
- Thursday, October 24 - 7th/8th Grade Teacher Appreciation Luncheon (Teachers ONLY may dress down)
- Thursday, October 24 - Coffee with the Principal for grades 6-8 immediately following morning car line in St. Francis Hall
- Thursday, October 24 - Sip & Spend Event at Swoozie’s
- Friday, October 25 - STM Spirit Dress, any STM shirt with jeans of uniform bottom
KING SOOPERS CARDS - GROCERY REBATE PROGRAM
STM Families...PLEASE Link Your Loyalty Card to STM!! King Soopers Community Rewards Program has replaced the reloadable gift cards effective 4/1/19. As of 4/1/19 King Soopers will issue a rebate quarterly based on King Soopers Loyalty Card transactions. All families with a King Soopers Loyalty Card (this is the card you use to load coupons and use fuel points) need to link their card to STM. We have only 117 households thus far that have linked their loyalty card to STM and it is affecting us tremendously! As of today, we have only earned 1/3 of the funds we have in the past! The funds earned from this program help with the everyday operation expenses of the school. Please take a few moments to link your card and invite family members (grandparents, aunts, uncles, etc.) to link their cards as well! For instructions on how to make the necessary changes, please see the attachment below.
STM Families...PLEASE Link Your Loyalty Card to STM!! King Soopers Community Rewards Program has replaced the reloadable gift cards effective 4/1/19. As of 4/1/19 King Soopers will issue a rebate quarterly based on King Soopers Loyalty Card transactions. All families with a King Soopers Loyalty Card (this is the card you use to load coupons and use fuel points) need to link their card to STM. We have only 117 households thus far that have linked their loyalty card to STM and it is affecting us tremendously! As of today, we have only earned 1/3 of the funds we have in the past! The funds earned from this program help with the everyday operation expenses of the school. Please take a few moments to link your card and invite family members (grandparents, aunts, uncles, etc.) to link their cards as well! For instructions on how to make the necessary changes, please see the attachment below.
Parents In Prayer
Parents/guardians, please join us on Tuesday, October 16, at 2:30 PM in front of the school to pray for our community and specifically for Mrs. Wolf's 5th grade homebase. You may park in the church or padre lot, or leave your car in the carline
What better gift can we give to our community?
“Where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.” Mt. 18:20
Parents/guardians, please join us on Tuesday, October 16, at 2:30 PM in front of the school to pray for our community and specifically for Mrs. Wolf's 5th grade homebase. You may park in the church or padre lot, or leave your car in the carline
What better gift can we give to our community?
“Where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.” Mt. 18:20
Hot Lunch Volunteers Needed
Volunteers are needed on a daily basis from 10:40 AM to 12:30 PM to help serve hot lunch. We appreciate everyone's help! Please access the October Sign-Up directly at:
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/4090F48ADAD28A5F94-stmhot28
If you would like to be added to the distribution list, please contact Betsy Reagan (mother of Mary Kate Wilson, 5th grade and Molly Wilson, 1st grade) at ereagan@hotmail.com. Thank you in advance for your help serving hot lunch!
Volunteers are needed on a daily basis from 10:40 AM to 12:30 PM to help serve hot lunch. We appreciate everyone's help! Please access the October Sign-Up directly at:
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/4090F48ADAD28A5F94-stmhot28
If you would like to be added to the distribution list, please contact Betsy Reagan (mother of Mary Kate Wilson, 5th grade and Molly Wilson, 1st grade) at ereagan@hotmail.com. Thank you in advance for your help serving hot lunch!
Prayer Walk
Come join us as we pray a walking rosary around the perimeter of Arapahoe H.S. on Sunday, October 20th at 2:00 PM. Prayer Warriors come together to pray for the Arapahoe Warrior community in honor of Mental Health Awareness month and for continued healing of the school community. We will gather at the front school parking lot. 2201 East Dry Creek Road, Centennial 80122
Come join us as we pray a walking rosary around the perimeter of Arapahoe H.S. on Sunday, October 20th at 2:00 PM. Prayer Warriors come together to pray for the Arapahoe Warrior community in honor of Mental Health Awareness month and for continued healing of the school community. We will gather at the front school parking lot. 2201 East Dry Creek Road, Centennial 80122
Important Links
Mane Event
- The invitations to a Starry Night have gone out! Please RSVP for the Mane Event: https://aesbid.org/ELP/STM19/Tickets
- We are still looking for volunteers. This is a team effort, so please sign up to help! https://www.signupgenius.com/index.cfm?go=c.SignUpSearch&eid=01CBC8DCFECFFD&cs=09C2BAAD8FC58B167B7A64715BB2&sortby=l.title
- Take a night off from dinner duty and join us at your local Chick-Fil-A for another STM spirit night THIS TUESDAY, October 15th! Please mention STM when you pay. Here are the details:
Park Meadows County Line location
- 9091 Westview Rd., Lone Tree, CO 80124
- 20% donation
- 3pm to 8pm
University & Highlands Ranch Parkway location
- 3700 E Highlands Ranch Pkwy, Highlands Ranch, CO 80126
- 20% donation
- 5pm to 8pm
Highlands Ranch Town Center location
- location: 950 Cpl Max Donahue Lane, Highlands Ranch, CO
- donation: 20%
- 3pm to 8pm
Greenwood Village location
- 9331 E. Arapahoe Rd, Greenwood Village, CO 80112
- 15% donation
- 3 pm to 8 pm
If you haven’t sold and turned in your Calendar Raffle tickets, please dig them out of the pile of paperwork you received at the start of the school year and sell them! Your child can ask grandparents, neighbors, colleagues - most people can’t say no to a child in an STM uniform. So far, only around a quarter of our STM families have returned sold raffle tickets - surely, we can do better than that! And please don’t leave it to the last minute . . . Our raffle ticket coordinators, Angie Lombardi and Angie Rittman, would love to not be inundated with tickets, checks, and cash the last week before drawings begin.
- The invitations to a Starry Night have gone out! Please RSVP for the Mane Event: https://aesbid.org/ELP/STM19/Tickets
- We are still looking for volunteers. This is a team effort, so please sign up to help! https://www.signupgenius.com/index.cfm?go=c.SignUpSearch&eid=01CBC8DCFECFFD&cs=09C2BAAD8FC58B167B7A64715BB2&sortby=l.title
- Take a night off from dinner duty and join us at your local Chick-Fil-A for another STM spirit night THIS TUESDAY, October 15th! Please mention STM when you pay. Here are the details:
Park Meadows County Line location
- 9091 Westview Rd., Lone Tree, CO 80124
- 20% donation
- 3pm to 8pm
University & Highlands Ranch Parkway location
- 3700 E Highlands Ranch Pkwy, Highlands Ranch, CO 80126
- 20% donation
- 5pm to 8pm
Highlands Ranch Town Center location
- location: 950 Cpl Max Donahue Lane, Highlands Ranch, CO
- donation: 20%
- 3pm to 8pm
Greenwood Village location
- 9331 E. Arapahoe Rd, Greenwood Village, CO 80112
- 15% donation
- 3 pm to 8 pm
If you haven’t sold and turned in your Calendar Raffle tickets, please dig them out of the pile of paperwork you received at the start of the school year and sell them! Your child can ask grandparents, neighbors, colleagues - most people can’t say no to a child in an STM uniform. So far, only around a quarter of our STM families have returned sold raffle tickets - surely, we can do better than that! And please don’t leave it to the last minute . . . Our raffle ticket coordinators, Angie Lombardi and Angie Rittman, would love to not be inundated with tickets, checks, and cash the last week before drawings begin.
Middle School Author Visit
C.R. Stewart, author, and screenwriter will be at STM on Thursday, October 17th to talk with 5th Grade and Middle School about creativity and the writing process. Mr. Stewart will have his award-winning book Britfield and the Lost Crown for optional purchase and signing. Your student will bring home a flyer detailing how to purchase the book online. Books will also be available for purchase the day of the event. ($15.00 for softcover and $20.00 for hardcover) The presentation is at 1:00 pm in McCallin Hall. Parents are welcome to attend. Please contact Rachel Espinosa with any questions, rachele@stthomasmore.org.
C.R. Stewart, author, and screenwriter will be at STM on Thursday, October 17th to talk with 5th Grade and Middle School about creativity and the writing process. Mr. Stewart will have his award-winning book Britfield and the Lost Crown for optional purchase and signing. Your student will bring home a flyer detailing how to purchase the book online. Books will also be available for purchase the day of the event. ($15.00 for softcover and $20.00 for hardcover) The presentation is at 1:00 pm in McCallin Hall. Parents are welcome to attend. Please contact Rachel Espinosa with any questions, rachele@stthomasmore.org.
STM Speech
Congratulations to our 8th Grade Speech Team who competed at Mullen High School on Saturday. Our team brought home 15 blue ribbons for their superior performances in both speechmaking and impromptu speaking. Please pray for them as they prepare to compete at the trophy meet at Machebeuf High School on November 16.
Congratulations to our 8th Grade Speech Team who competed at Mullen High School on Saturday. Our team brought home 15 blue ribbons for their superior performances in both speechmaking and impromptu speaking. Please pray for them as they prepare to compete at the trophy meet at Machebeuf High School on November 16.
BETA Harvest Days
STM Beta club will be hosting two “Harvest Days” this autumn. If a student brings in one or more non-perishable food item(s), they earn free dress for the day. Our two Harvest Days are Thursday, October 17, 2019, & Thursday, November 7, 2019. The food collected will go to the Food Bank of the Rockies. Please have your child take their nonperishable food item(s) to their classroom teacher the morning of the Harvest Day. Beta will collect the items later in the school day
STM Beta club will be hosting two “Harvest Days” this autumn. If a student brings in one or more non-perishable food item(s), they earn free dress for the day. Our two Harvest Days are Thursday, October 17, 2019, & Thursday, November 7, 2019. The food collected will go to the Food Bank of the Rockies. Please have your child take their nonperishable food item(s) to their classroom teacher the morning of the Harvest Day. Beta will collect the items later in the school day
Advent by Candlelight
Advent by Candlelight will be Monday, November 18th. To host a table or to register please go to the following link:
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/70A0C4BADAA2AA1FF2-cordially
Advent by Candlelight will be Monday, November 18th. To host a table or to register please go to the following link:
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/70A0C4BADAA2AA1FF2-cordially
