Monday Memo
Week 33 | April 20-24, 2020
ATTENDANCE UPDATE
'Checking in' via the attendance spreadsheets will NO LONGER be required. You do not have to check in for attendance at all. We have removed the link on the distance learning website.
We will assume that every student is present unless they are unable to work. If your student is sick/unable to work please let us know by replying to the morning announcement email we send each morning. Mr. Henderson will make sure the people that need to know are notified. If this becomes too much we will create an absentee form to be completed if need be.
Hopefully that takes some stress off of families.
--- From The Office ---
Distance Learning Week #5
Here we are, week #5 of distance learning! I feel like everyone is “hanging in there”. I know it is still very difficult for a lot of us. I am so happy that our community has come together to help one another. Parents are doing such a great job holding it together at home. Teachers and staff are adapting to their new circumstances and making their lessons meaningful and beneficial from afar. Please let us know if there is anything at all that we can do to help you through these times. We are here to help, give guidance and support, and answer questions through it all. We’re doing this!
Thank you to everyone that stopped by school on Friday for the “pick up” and “drop off” day. The day ran smoothly and was an effective way of exchanging materials.
I hope everyone enjoyed our first Flex Friday last week. I saw a lot of fun pictures of our students participating in many of the fun activities. I loved seeing the castles families were building, drawing, and painting, the games they were playing, and I especially loved hearing about all of the delicious food you were trying! I look forward to seeing all of the Earth Day activities this Friday.
I also loved seeing so many spirit day pictures and father-daughter dance pictures over the weekend. So many sweet pictures. It is fun for us to see all of the ways you are celebrating at home.
As we are progressing through our calendar day by day, I am asking that you hold our wonderful eighth grade class in your thoughts and prayers as we are three weeks away from their graduation day. Whether we are celebrating back at school, or celebrating together through distance and over the summer, we have several exciting activities that we will be sharing with them throughout the next few weeks. We are so excited for their futures, and are so thankful for the great times we have had with them at St. Albert. They are truly a fabulous class!
Ellen Martin
School Principal--- Around The School ---
Flex Fridays
To clarify, the usual full day's worth of graded assignments given for Fridays will be REPLACED with fun, themed activity options. This is in lieu of, not in addition to.
As stated in Mrs. Martin's email from a few weeks ago:
“Flex Fridays” started Friday, April 17. “Flex Fridays” will provide fun, themed activities for our students to choose. We would like for each family to choose at least one activity to participate in, and you are welcome to do as many as you would like. Each grade level will be providing one activity relating to the theme, and you will get to choose any of the activities that interest you. “Flex Friday” activities will not be graded or required to turn in.
- Friday, April 17: STREAM Day activities
- Friday, April 24: Earth Day activities
- Friday, May 1: No work: Oaks Day holiday
We hope that these fun days will provide happy and stress free time spent with your families as well as allow time for work that might not have been completed during the week.
Summer Solutions is here!
Summer learning loss puts students at a serious disadvantage. This is when skills and knowledge are lost over the summer months, causing students to move backwards instead of progressing.
By spending just minutes a day with Summer Solutions, students get the practice they need to keep moving forward. It was designed to help students return to school after summer break confident in the skills they’ve already learned and ready to master new ones.
Your child worked hard all year. Make sure that progress sticks. Give your child the advantage of Summer Solutions.
Each book is $13.00
Textbook Logins
Online Textbook logins for students can be found at the spreadsheet linked below.
--- From The ParisH ---
Stewardship Form 2020-2021
We are still collecting the Blue Stewardship Forms that went home in early March. There are several ways to turn in these forms via email (office@stalbert.org), Fax (502-394-9896), drop-off in the black Security mailbox on the wall outside of the Parish Office, or in the next schoolwork dropoff. If you need an additional copy of this Stewardship Form, it is attached here. Thank you.
TinySaints Fundraiser Up Date!
Our TinySaints Fundraiser has moved online! If you have already purchased TinySaints through one of our St. Albert Youth or the Youth Ministry Office, there is no need to redo your order. I will be placing that order at the end of the month, as originally intended.
If you haven't ordered, now is your chance. Shop through the link for St. Albert to get the credit for your purchase.
You can also share the link with your friends and family and they can order even if they don't live close. All of these orders will be shipped to the person who ordered them directly. (Orders placed with me already will come to the parish office.)
Any profit made will go into our Mission Trip Fundraising Budget. If it is not able to be utilized this year, the money raised will be used for the Summer 2021 Mission Trip.
Summer Mission Trip Opportunity
All current 7th and 8th graders are invited to join the St. Albert Youth Ministry office on our Summer 2020 Mission Trip to Catholic HEART Workcamp in Montague, MI from June 28th-July 3rd.
This summer, CHWC invites you to ask yourself the question: “Who am I?”. Join us as we discover the answer to this question by encountering the great I AM through love, service, and connection to His people.
$100 non-refundable deposit & Commitment Form due to sign up. Total Cost $300. 15 Spots Available. Flyers and Commitment Forms are located outside Ms. Ledgerwood's office.
Contact Emileigh Ledgerwood, Director of Youth Ministry & Confirmation, at eledgerwood@stalbert.org for more information
--- FROM YOUR PTO ---
A Message from YOUR PTO
We hope everyone is staying healthy and continuing to manage during these difficult times. We are moving forward the best we can and are adjusting to the changes in the school year. Our hearts go out to our eighth grade students and their families and we understand this has had a huge impact on the end of their St. Albert careers. We hope as this crisis comes to an end we can send them on to their future endeavors in a manner that they are so deserving of. As we move forward, our plans are to honor our teachers and staff for all of their dedication and hard work. To show our appreciation we will be distributing gift cards in lieu of events that we had originally planned for the end of the school year.
Sincerely,
Chris Wahl
PTO President--- FROM YOUR SPORTS MINISTRY ---
SPORTS POSTPONED
The CSAA is following the lead of the Archdiocese of Louisville and will adhere to all mandates from Archbishop Kurtz throughout this period. If CSAA sports resume activity this year, CSAA will work with each parish to ensure teams are able to participate. Manual registrations will be managed on short notice and modified uniform requirements will be made as needed to minimize unnecessary expenditures and early registration expenses.
In short, the CSAA will do anything practical and reasonable to allow student-athletes to participate in spring/summer CSAA sports IF school resumes. If at any point school is cancelled for the remainder of the 2019-2020 year all remaining 2019-2020 CSAA sports will be cancelled as well.
Below is an update on each remaining 2019-2020 CSAA sport:
Soccer – shortened season at best.
Softball – Shortened season at best.
**Track (scheduled for April 19th / school closed until at least April 20th) – Officially Canceled due to school closure and limitations on makeup dates and facilities.
Field Hockey – Pending
Baseball – Pending
Golf – Pending
Tennis - Pending