ST. MARY CATHOLIC SCHOOL!ROCKET REVIEW / FEBRUARY 19, 2014 / VOLUME 1, NO.

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Scrip Change! Scrip will be sold at the Parish office each week on Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday from 9am-4pm. If you place your order online or send in an order form to school with payment, available Scrip will be sent home and out of stock items will be ordered (orders are placed each Monday before noon) and sent home when received.

You can sign up with PrestoPay online, which allows for you to purchase ScripNow and print it off instantly. It only takes a few minutes to set up and will save you so much time later. Remember that family members (even those out of state) can sign up under your family account to help you toward your Scrip requirement and help you earn your rebate.

As soon as you hit your $1000 in sales, you earn back 50% of your rebate as a tuition credit! Please contact Kim Amos at 734-279-9248 with any Scrip questions. PTO ! Dad-Daughter Dance - Thank You:

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On behalf of the St. Mary PTO, we would like to thank all of the Dads, Uncles, Godfathers or Grandfathers who put on their dancing shoes and brought their special gal to our Valentines Dad-Daughter Dance. A huge thank you also goes out to our awesome volunteers who organized and planned the event, and even helped out the night of: Nancy Tarquinto, Kathy Rasmussen (and her mother for making a delicious cake and beautiful centerpieces), Gina Cinglie, Marcelli Macabebe, Mrs. Furtah and Maureen Brinker.

IMPORTANT DATES

February 21: Last day to return Box Tops for the contest February 21: 7/8 Field Trip to SMCC - MUST BE AT SCHOOL BY 8AM

POT OF GOLD RAFFLE REMINDER

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The Pot of Gold Rafe is just weeks away! Have you sold your tickets yet? This is our 2nd biggest fundraiser of the year. All winners receive cash prizes - with our top winner claiming $5000.00! Each family is required to sell/purchase $200.00 worth, but why stop there? Feel free to sell or purchase more. Additional tickets are available in the school ofce. Thank you to everyone that has already turned in their required amount and to those who have asked to sell more. We appreciate everyones efforts in supporting St. Mary School! All tickets should be turned into the ofce by Friday February 28. The drawing will take place on the evening of March 1st in the school hall. Winners receive cash prizes - with our top winner claiming $5000.00! ! What will you spend your winnings on?

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Vote for our videos!

collaboration

" St. Mary 7th and 8th graders are concluding an awesome video

project in their math classes! "The teams had to work together to solve challenging math problems,
thoroughly explain their steps, and work collaboratively to write, lm, edit, and upload their videos. "! Anyone can go to videochallenge.mathcounts.org to view all submitted videos on the Math Counts Video Challenge. "Currently, we have 4 uploaded to the site with two more to be added later this week. "Each computer can vote for each video once a day. "The more votes a video gets, the better chance we have at winning. "Please help us by voting every day! ":) !

! St. Mary student videos currently eligible for voting are: ! ! ! !

7th = Cooking with Gustavo ! 8th = Gregory's Night, Book Lovers, and Channel 49 News. "! Participants have the chance to win a $25 Amazon card in a weekly drawing. The top 4 groups win an all expense paid trip to Orlando, Florida in May to attend the Math Counts National Championship where the winning video will be announced. "The team members of the winning videos each win a $1,000 scholarship. "! Mrs. Furtah

Ideas to give up or take up for Lent in beginning, intermediate and advanced order.!

1. Get up at a specic time each morning 2. Go to bed at a specic time each night 3. Be in bed for a set amount of time each night

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From http://www.catholicallyear.com/2014/02/outsidebox-66-things-to-give-up-or.html

1. Get dressed before 8am 2. No stretchy pants 3. Take up Jenna's Rule of Three for Dressing for Staying at Home 1. Have dinner as a family 2. Have a family game night 3. Read a book aloud as a family 1. If you like email, make phone calls 2. If you like talking on the phone, write letters 3. Go visit someone in person 1. Know what you're going to make for dinner by 10am 2. Start a meal-planning system 3. Teach your kids to meal plan and cook 1. Clean the house each week 2. Clean the house before bed each night 3. Clean the house before dinner each evening 1. Eat more simply 2. Eat up the food that's in the back of the pantry and freezer 3. Eat only soup 1. Give up one particular type of treat 2. Give up all sweets 3. I'm pretty sure there's nothing harder than that 1. Switch from coffee to tea or vice versa 2. Limit yourself to one cup of coffee or tea per day 3. Give up caffeine 1. Turn the lights off in empty rooms 2. Have lights turned on in only one room at a time 3. Don't use electricity 1. Say the Morning Offering when you wake up 2. And the Angelus at noon 3. And do an Examination of Conscience and say the Act of Contrition at night 1. Read the Sunday readings before Mass 2. Read the Bible for 10 minutes each day 3. And read the Catechism for 10 minutes each day 1. If you like TV, read a novel instead 2. If you like novels, read a classic 3. If you like the classics, read great Catholic nonction

1. Don't take the best spot available in the parking lot 2. Take the worst parking spot you can nd 3. Don't drive: walk or take public transportation 1. Make the bed everyday 2. Make the bed everyday before you leave the bedroom 3. Put the throw pillows on and everything 1. Go to daily Mass once per week in addition to Sunday Mass 2. Go to daily Mass 2-3 times per week 3. Go to daily Mass every day 1. Don't leave dishes in the sink overnight 2. Do the cooking dishes before dinner and the dinner dishes dishes immediately after dinner 3. Don't use the dishwasher 1. Don't use credit cards, spend only cash 2. Keep a list of things to buy and only shop one day per week 3. Don't buy anything (except maybe food) 1. Don't eat out at restaurants 2. Make all your food from scratch 3. Grow/raise all your own food 1. Watch only specic, preselected movies or TV shows, not just whatever is on 2. Watch TV and movies only as a planned family event, not spur of the moment, not alone 3. Don't watch TV or movies 1. Say a family Rosary once a week 2. Say one decade of the Rosary as a family each day 3. Say a family Rosary every day 1. Only listen to audio books or Classical music in the car 2. Turn off the radio in the car 3. Say a Rosary in the car or listen to a spiritual audio book