10/09/2024

Good afternoon, SMG Families!

With Fall Break on the horizon, I wanted to simply extend well wishes for a safe, relaxing and happy break next week! I pray that the opportunity to slow down for a week brings a welcomed sense of peace to each of your families. Enjoy your break and we will look forward to seeing everyone back on Monday, October 21.

Blessings,

Mrs. Kissel

Thursday 10/10

• Charity Day - Benefitting Miracle Place - For minimum donation of $1, student may dress out of uniform in school appropriate attire. No holes, tears, spaghetti straps, tank tops, Crocs or sandals, etc.
• Vision Screenings for grades 1, 3, 5, 8, and any transfer students. Please remind students to bring glasses or wear contacts if applicable.
• PTO Meeting at 8am in Parish Narthex. All are welcome

Friday 10/11

• End of Quarter 1
• St. Maria Goretti's Birthday - Please read nurse's note about snack

10/14 - 10/18 - FALL BREAK - School Offices will be closed. Angel News will be next updated on 10/23.

• 10/21 - Boot Season Begins - Students have option to wear all black, brown, gray or navy boots to school. No emblements please. Please reference Family Policy Guide for more details.
• 10/31 - Fall Class Parties
• 11/1 - All Saints Day Mass / 4th Grade Saint Recital
• 11/7 - Pantry Collection on Spirit Day - Boxed potatoes (mashed, scalloped etc)

Testing Windows - Please avoid appointments during these weeks

• NWEA Winter - 1/13 - 1/17 (Grades K - 8)
• IREAD - 3/3/25 thru 3/14/25 (Grade 3 & Grade 2)
• ILEARN - 4/14/25 thru 4/25/25 (Grade 3 thru Grade 8)

The current month Lunch Menu is attached below. The monthly lunch calendar will be communicated through the Angel News, but will also be posted on the school website at https://www.smgonline.org/monthly-school-lunch-calendar.

To volunteer in lunchroom use the following sign up link: Lunch Room Volunteer Sign-Up

Can you believe we are already more than one month into the school year? It's been great to see so many families participating in events, from the Fun Run to coaching sports and working the lunchroom. Don't forget to log in to Mobile Serve and add your FISH hours!

If you need assistance with logging into Mobile Serve, please reach out to Emily Vizard at ym.admin@smgonline.org

PTO would like to Thank Everyone that made Fall Festival such a fun evening; especially our Fall Fest Chairs, Morgan Myers & Julia Roberts.

The SMG PTO will be hosting the next used uniform sale at the end of October! The sale will start after the conclusion of the 10/27 10am mass and will be up until 3pm on November 1st. Used uniform donations can be dropped off in front of school in the labeled bin starting 10/10 through 10/26.

We hope you enjoyed the car tags that were sent home a couple weeks ago to kick off our Prayerful Home resources for this school year. Visit smgonline.org/prayerfulhome each month and discover how you can live and celebrate liturgical seasons and holy days.

Mark your calendars for our parish's Trunk 'R Treat event on Friday, Oct. 25, 6:30-7:30p, presented by our Holy Name Society. Festivities will take place in the south lot, near the storage garage, across from School Door #4. "Best Costume" prizes will be awarded for ages 0-3, 4-7, and 8+, as well as "Best Religious Costume." Participating families are asked to bring treats. Happy All Hallow's Eve -- the Vigil of All Saints Day!

Adults age 21 and over are invited to join us on November 2 from 6:30-10:30pm for a fun evening of fellowship, brain power, table prizes, and beverages! Registration includes 10 rounds of trivia, beer, wine, & soda. Register at smgonline.org/trivia. We hope to see you there!

We have had over 15 students in SMG classes throughout the school diagnosed and treated for pneumonia. If your student has worrisome pneumonia symptoms, we strongly recommend taking your student to your health care provider.

Pneumonia is an inflammatory condition of the lungs that causes the lungs to fill with fluid. Pneumonia may be caused by a virus or bacteria. Symptoms may include a cough, fever and fatigue. If symptoms are prolonged and/or progress to shortness of breath, working hard to breath, chest pain, loss of taste and/or smell, blue tinged lips, unable to sleep due to coughing through the night, please seek medical attention.

Thursday morning, Oct. 10 we will have vision screens through the Lions Club for 1st, 3rd, 5th 8th grade and transfer students. An eye doctor will “reexamine” students with questionable results on a later date. Please remind your student to bring their glasses to school for testing. If you suspect your student is struggling with close or far vision and they are NOT in 1 of these classes, please email the nurses and we will add your student to our testing list. After testing 200+ students, parents will ONLY be notified, if further testing or vision correction is recommended. Questions?? nurse@smgonline.org

On Friday, October 11 all students will be offered a decorated, nut free sugar cookie at lunch time to celebrate St. Maria Goretti’s birthday. The ingredients are listed below. If your student cannot or chooses not to eat the cookie treat, please send in a different special treat for your student. The nurse office will have popsicles available for lactose intolerant students who forget to bring their treat.

Frosted sugar Cookie ingredients: Sugar, Enriched Bleached Flour (Wheat Flour, Niacin, Reduced Iron, Thiamin Mononitrate, Riboflavin, Folic Acid), Margarine (Palm Oil, Water, Soybean Oil, Salt, Contains 2% Or Less Of: Mono- And Diglycerides, Calcium Disodium EDTA [Preservative], natural and Artificial Flavor, Annatto [Color], Vitamin A Palmitate), Eggs, corn starch, palm kernel oil, palm oil, leavening (baking soda, sodium aluminum sulfate, monocalcium sulfate) nonfat milk, soy lecithin, dextrin, polysorbate 60, sunflower lecithin, colors red 3, red 40 lake, blue 1 Lake,yellow 5 lake, yellow 6 Lake, carmine, confectioner’s glaze, sodium propionate, (preservative), carnauba wax

CONTAINS: egg, milk, soy, wheat. Manufactured in a peanut and tree-nut free facility.

If a student tests positive for covid...

The student must stay home 48 hours even if they are symptom free.

The student may then return to school if symptoms are resolving and the student is fever free without using fever-reducing medications for 24 hours.

If symptoms persist, the student must stay home 5 days and may return to school if symptoms are resolving and the student is fever free without fever-reducing medication for 24 hours.

Head Lice has been reported in the school.

Pediculosis or head lice are tiny, wingless bugs about the size of a sesame seed or smaller. They live only on human scalps. While annoying, head lice do not spread disease and are not a health issue. Children, particularly those of elementary school age, are most likely to get head lice because of their close contact with each other. The main symptom is itching of the head. Lice can easily spread within families. If 1 family member has lice, please check all other family members.

If you suspect your child may have head lice, please examine your child’s scalp. Treatment consists of using a 1 step lice medication which kills both the lice and nits and is available by prescription only (call your doctor for Natroba/ generic Spinosad) or using an over the counter treatment and a 3 step process which requires meticulously combing out the nits each day. Follow the steps as needed. Please teach your children it is best not to share hats and grooming items (combs, hairbrushes, etc ) and to avoid direct head to head contact.

For further information as needed, please contact your health care provider or call the nurse office.

Please contact the parish's Athletic Director, Sean Bird, for questions about the SMG Sports Ministry.

HIGH SCHOOL PLACEMENT TEST - October 26 and November 16

Guerin Catholic HS Hispanic Family Application Night

The Guerin Catholic Hispanic Resource Committee is hosting its annual Hispanic Family Application Night. Join us on Thursday, October 24th, from 6-8 p.m. to receive assistance with completing the application process. For questions, please contact Miriam Bovkis, our Hispanic Family Liaison, at 317.582.0120 ext 255. See you soon!

El Comité de Recursos Hispanos de Guerin Catholic está organizando su Noche Anual de Solicitudes para Familias Hispanas. Acompáñenos el jueves, 24 de octubre, de 6-8 p.m. para recibir ayuda para completar el proceso de solicitud. Si tiene alguna pregunta, póngase en contacto con Miriam Bovkis, nuestra Enlace de Familia Hispana, al 317.582.0120 ext 255. ¡Nos vemos pronto!

All parents who wish to volunteer within the school (classroom parties, field trips, etc.) must be Safe & Sacred certified. This program includes both an online training and a background check. If your Safe 7 Sacred has lapsed or if you are new to SMG and hoping to volunteer, please use the button below to complete your Safe & Sacred certification.