ST. BARBARA SCHOOL
THURSDAY TIDBIT
Gods Words Guide Us

October 27, 2005

PRINCIPAL NOTES:  Coming home today under separate cover is a permission slip for use by our school website coordinators.  Please be sure to fill it out and return it to school by Monday, October 31st.   Your cooperation in this matter will be greatly appreciated.   If you haven’t logged onto our school website, www.stbarbaraschool.com please do so.  If you have logged onto our website, please visit it again!  You are able to view current and past tidbits and volunteer online for Casino Nights among other things.   Feel free to contact the school via the contact form on the site too!

Speaking of volunteering for Casino Nights….We are in need of dealers!  If you haven’t ever dealt before, don’t let that stop you!  We will spend time training anyone who wants to learn!  Your volunteering for all of these big events helps to keep our tuition cost down.

ID kits will also be coming home today with each student.  We do have extras in the school office if any parent would like more for younger children at home.  I’d like to thank the Cicero Police Department for supplying these to our school.

Candy sale credit information is being sent home today under separate cover.

I hope you’re all planning on dressing up and walking with the students in our Annual Halloween Parade.  Kick-off will be at 11:00 on October 31st!   This will be a half-day of school.

Thank you to the many volunteers for once again bringing us a wonderful evening at Oktoberfest.  The music, food, fellowship were great.  Thanks for supporting St. Barbara School and Parish.

Now that the colder weather is upon us, please dress your child appropriately for recess.  Students are not allowed in the school building during recess.  

GOD’S WORDS GUIDE US:  For the weeks of October 10th through October 21st thanks to the students who have shown through their actions that God’s words have guided them.

OCTOBER IS RESPECT LIFE MONTH:  Baby Bottles for Life
All baby bottles should be returned to school by November 4.  There will also be collection boxes in church at all the masses on November 5 & 6.  Remember, WomanCare reuses the bottles for future fundraisers so it is important to return all the bottles.  Thank you in advance for your prayers and sacrificial donations.  Thank you for helping women to choose life.

“A culture which no longer has a point of reference in God loses its soul and loses its way, becoming a culture of death.”      Pope John Paul II

BAND NEWS:  CADET BAND BEGINS!  All cadet band members and 5th grade concert band members please meet at 7:30 a.m. on Wednesday, November 2nd for our first cadet band rehearsal.  See you there!

WREATH & POINSETTIA SALE  is back by popular demand.  See enclosed flyer for details.

MAGAZINE SALE:  A reminder that all orders, with payment, are due on Monday.  If you have any questions, please call the school office.

CONGRATULATIONS to the First Grade Sluggers the winning team in the World Series of Box Tops….here are the final standings:
1st Place The First Grade Sluggers  (294 box tops)
2nd Place Clark’s Team (8th Grade)  (269 box tops)
3rd Place The Second Grade Angels (206 box tops)
4th Place Millers Monkeys (7th grade) (167 box tops)
5th Place The Rockets (PS-3 & PS-4)  (160 box tops)
6th Place TheC Kids (5th grade)  (138 box tops)
7th Place 6th Grade Sox    (136 box tops)
8th Place The 3rd Grade Devils   (124 box tops)
9th Place Teddy Bears (Kdg)   (105 box tops)
10th Place The Mathletes (4th grade)  (45 box tops)

We collected 1,644 Box Tops, over 1,300 Campbell Labels, 8 Tyson Labels and 97 Whole Grain symbols.  Thank you to everyone that participated.  Please don’t send in any Box Tops/Labels this week, BUT be sure to look in next week’s Thursday Tidbit for further details on our November / December collection.

CUB SCOUT NEWS:  Pack Night and Halloween Party Friday, October 28th @7:00 p.m.  Wear your costumes and please bring one bag of candy per family to share.  Also, Webelos 1, will be collecting winter coats for Sister Margaret.  Please bring a winter coat for an adult, child or maybe a snowsuit to the Halloween Pack Night.    Thank you.

Happy Halloween!