Virtue of the Month. Our Virtue of the month for November is Stewardship.

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1 November 16, 2018 Mark Your Calendar 11/21 No School Thanksgiving Holiday 11/22 Happy Thanksgiving St. Pius X Catholic School Building Leaders for Christ 7734 Robin Rest, San Antonio, TX (210) ,(210) FAX Virtue of the Month Our Virtue of the month for November is Stewardship. Stewardship means returning to God the first fruits of your time, talent, and treasure. 11/23 No School Thanksgiving Holiday 11/28 School Mass 8:15am 11/30 Ice Cream Day & Spirit shirt & jeans 12/5 Middle School Mass 8:15am 12/7 First Friday Mass And Adoration 8:15am 12/12 School Mass 8:15am Our Lady of Guadalupe Play performed by the 8th grade class 2:30pm SPX Church 12/13 8th Grade delivers Donations to DePaul Family Center 12/14 Ice Cream Day and Spirit shirt & jeans Winter Pep Rally 2:30pm SPX Gym Click for School Calendar Stewardship looks like: picking up trash on campus, turning out the lights when leaving a room, taking care of your things and the things of others, welcoming others into our community. Who can we look to for examples of stewardship? St. Elizabeth of Hungary or YOU! Our staff has received tickets, and when they witness a student displaying the virtue of Stewardship they will give that student a ticket recognizing them for their virtuous actions. Students will turn in their tickets to their classroom jar. At the end of every week, teachers will count their class tickets and place tally marks under their class name on the Virtue Board. We cannot wait to watch our Virtue Board fill up with virtuous acts! Congratulations! Congratulations to our 8th grade students who donated the most socks and underwear for the Catholic Daughters of America drive. Thank you to everyone who donated and helped support this worthy cause, we demonstrated both October s and November s virtues! Our next service project for December will be adopting senior citizens for Christmas from the DePaul Family Center.

2 SA Met Ballet children s series Our 1st 4th grade students attended the SA Met Ballet Children's series performance of Hansel & Gretel last week. Our very own Emma D. performed. Our students were excited to see a friend in the performance!

3 Nine is fine in PreK-4 Our PreK-4 students are working hard this week. They are learning about the number 9. Did you know that nine is fine? Curious about our PreK program? See our website for more details: We will begin accepting applications in February for the school year Veterans Day celebrations Thank you to our NJHS students who sponsored our Veteran s Day reception. We also hosted a poster contest with our veterans as the judges! 1st place: 7th grade 2nd place: 5th grade 3rd place: 6th grade

4 Music Notes What: SPX Elementary Christmas Concert Who: Grades 1-4 PLUS Middle School Percussion and Ukulele Ensembles When: Friday, December 6:30 PM Where: St. Pius X Catholic Church Attire: Dressy (purples, pinks, whites, golds, blacks) (More information to come on this!) AND What: SPX ELC Christmas Program Who: Mrs. Well's 3K, Mrs. Thompson's 4K, and Ms. Romero's 5K When: Thursday, December 10:00 AM Where: St. Pius X Catholic Church Attire: Dressy Christmas (More information to come on this!) PE Class Our PreK-3 students enjoyed a morning of dribbling and shooting baskets in our SPX Gym. We may have a few basketball stars on our Middle School teams during the school year!

5 Principal for the Day Our Principal for the Day called teacher meetings, announced an extra Spirit Dress Day next Tuesday for our teachers and students, supervised lunch in the cafeteria, allowed an extra 10 minutes of recess on Monday, and TRIED to cancel homework for the weekend! Do you want your child to be Principal for the Day? Do you want to be Principal for the Day? Bid during the Live Auction at our 2019 Gala! Third Grade Grammar Class Mrs. Meurin s third grade students are busy working on their sentence structures. Proper editing is key! Gratefulness brings joy to my life. How could I find joy in what I take for granted? So I stop taking for granted, and there is no end to the surprises I find. A grateful attitude is a creative one, because, in the final analysis, opportunity is the gift within the gift of every given moment. Mostly this means opportunities to see and hear and smell and touch and taste with pleasure. But once I am in the habit of availing myself of opportunities, I will do so even in unpleasant situations creatively. -from the book The Way of Silence: Engaging the Sacred in Daily Life Our Kindergarten students are enjoying recess on this beautiful day.

6 November 12, 2018 Dear SPX Families, We are pleased to announce that St. Pius X Catholic School is participating in the 2019 Catholic Schools Sweepstakes sponsored by Catholic Life Insurance. This tried and true program has helped Catholic schools raise more than $8 million. How does the program work? Catholic Life provides all prizes and all marketing materials. The grand raffle prize is the choice of a 2019 Ford F-150 truck; 2019 Ford Focus sedan or $20,000 prepaid VISA card. Additionally, someone from our school will have the chance to win a $1,000 Prepaid VISA Card. Catholic Life provides customized tickets and marketing materials at no cost to our school. Students sell the tickets for $5.00 each. All monies from the sale of any ticket go directly and immediately to St. Pius X Catholic School. The top selling school in 2018 raised $76,250. The ticket stubs are turned into Catholic Life every two weeks until January 31. The winning tickets will be drawn on February 14, We have set a fundraising goal of $20,000 and will use these funds to be divided between scholarships and the general fund. Each family is asked to sell at least 20 tickets. It s easy to sell these tickets, all students are allowed to sell tickets after the St. Pius X weekend masses. Each student has received 20 tickets. Tickets must be turned in by January 31, If you need additional tickets, please see Mindy Hughes in the school office. Sincerely, Jane and Cathy News from the Cafeteria Beginning in December, A Matter of Taste will be serving lunch in the cafeteria with more menu options than are currently being offered. In January, A Matter of Taste will also be offering snack options on a cash & carry basis for our students. A Matter of Taste is looking to hire a part time employee 4 days a week to help prepare/serve lunches at St. Pius X. If you are interested, please contact Laura Barowski at: mbarowski@aol.com

7 Bike Rodeo Thank you to Officer Keogh, Coach Salazar, Coach Christina, and our 8th grade volunteers for helping with our Bike Rodeo. We had a great time this morning! Can t wait for next year!