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November 14, 2024

The PageNovember 14, 2024

School-Wide Theme for the Year

At St. Joseph Catholic School, each and every day we are training students to be missionary disciples, and learning to recognize God in our lives and in the world around us,

with hearts full of CHARITY for our fellow man.

Our Mission and Vision Statements

Mission:

St. Joseph Catholic School provides students with a nurturing and prayerful learning environment committed to academic excellence, training missionary disciples to seek virtue, wisdom, and truth, in partnership with a community of active and faithful families.


Vision:

Catholic schools in the Diocese of Fort Worth are committed to opening the doors so that our students can reach further than the walls that would otherwise enclose them and therefore are able to recognize and cherish the eternal and transcendental goods of Truth, Beauty, and Goodness.


Motto:

Teaching the Mind...Nourishing the Soul

From the Principal

During my reading of "The Imitation of Christ" by Thomas à Kempis, humility is a common theme throughout. He writes, "Humbly, then, let us submit to God's dealings with us, when any temptation or trial comes, it is the humble soul He will set free, and lift up to greatness." Humility reminds us that we are under the watchful eye of our Lord and that we are to place our trust in Him. He knows what trials we are to encounter for our spiritual growth. He alone knows our future. This truth is something we Christians fully understand. Why is it then so hard to be humble? If we are promised to be lifted to greatness, why is it that we forget humility? Do we not see value in being humble? There are many temptations and worries in life to veer us off course and cloud our thoughts. God is asking us to remain focused on Him, to remain humble, to recognize His love for us, His plan for us, and our call to love one another, not to be clouded by arrogance.


In Christ's service,

Diane Price, Ed.L.

Principal

November Bible Verse on the Theme of Charity

Virtue of the Month on the Theme of Charity

Saintly Quote About Charity to Ponder With Your Family

“If God is love, charity should know no limit, for God cannot be confined.”

– St. Leo the Great

Reminders and Upcoming Events

Enrollment continues for the 2024-2025 Academic Year. Please let your friends know.


11/15 – Friday

  • Spelling Bee at 8:15 a.m.
  • StuCo Fun Friday – Please see image below for more information.


11/18 – Monday

  • Prayer Service 7:50 a.m. All are welcome to attend.
  • Knights in Training from 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. - Please see image below for more information.
  • NJHS Food Drive begins – Please see image below for items needed. Thank you for your generosity!
  • Early Giving for iGive Catholic - Please consider making a gift in support of our Annual Fund. Here is the link to give: https://fortworth.igivecatholic.org/organizations/sjcsarlingtontx1


11/19 – Tuesday

  • Fall Individual Picture Retakes / Make Up Pictures
  • Slime the Teachers! Come enjoy the fun from 2:30 p.m. to 2:45 p.m.


Ways you can assist St. Joseph Catholic School:

  1. Box Tops – new and improved Box Top App – Please consider participating in support of St. Joseph Catholic School. https://btfe.smart.link/c2jjdifkw?referral_code=C81Y0VAM
  2. Kroger Community Rewards – select St. Joseph Catholic School to receive the rewards from you using your Kroger card. Please click the link for more information. https://www.kroger.com/i/community/community-rewards
  3. Tom Thumb Good Neighbor Program – Please contact Good.Neighbor@TomThumb.com to link your account to the Good Neighbor for St. Joseph Catholic School 2000 2000#1506. Please click the link for more information. https://www.tomthumb.com/yourstore/good-neighbor.html



Safe Environment Awareness:

Do you need to complete Safe Environment Training? All volunteers need to complete awareness training. See the graphic below for an upcoming training. Please contact Mrs. Wingate 817-419-6800 or visit the diocesan website. https://fwdioc.org/training-sessions

Food Drive - Please Give

Save the Date and Tell Your Friends

November 18th

Home and School Association (HSA)

HSA Year at A Glance

Booster Glow Run and Color Run

Thanks to the hard work of our students, parents, HSA members, faculty, and staff, our Booster Event was a hugh success! We met and just passed our goal of $30,000! Well done, Knights! We met our goal and had a lot of fun doing it!

November HSA Calendar of Events

Service Hour Opportunities for 2024-2025

All families are asked to perform 40 service hours each school year. Here are some ideas to earn those hours, and truly help the school for next year:


  1. Volunteer to help at an HSA event!
  2. Help beautify the flower beds around campus
  3. Donate food during NJHS Food Collections at Mass
  4. We are always in need of Lysol spray.
  5. We are always in need of Clorox wipes.
  6. Liquid hand soap
  7. Disposable gloves
  8. STREAM Enrichment supplies
  9. Week of Service - help supervising groups of upper school students for one hour a day


Every $10 you spend will earn 1 service hour. Thank you! We truly need the help.

Knights in Action!

Awards for Years of Service

We are so proud of our faculty and their dedication to St. Joseph Catholic School. We recently celebrated the following faculty members for their years of service to our school. God bless them all! We are forever grateful for your contribution to our mission of Catholic education.


Ashleigh Hansen - 5 years of service

Shannon Lopez - 10 years of service

Xavier Rodriguez - 25 years of service

Judy Gavin - 30 years of service

8th Grade Student of the Month Award Recipients

Our August 8th Grade Student of the Month: Matthew Horton (son of Mrs. Horton)

Matthew is fun loving and friendly. He is not afraid of work or to laugh at himself. He is grade conscious and always comes to class ready to work. Matthew is very studious. He is also very active in classroom discussions. He volunteers to help around class also. Matthew is very gentle and caring for others, not just only students friends in class but anyone asking for help. He is always joyful with a big smile on his face. Matthew is President of the Student Council. He enjoys sports and hanging out with his family.


Our September 8th Grade Student of the Month: Alondra Gomez


Alondra is a very giving and caring person. She volunteers whenever anything needs done. She is studious and works hard to maintain excellent grades. She is a diligent student who completes assignments thoughtfully and on time. She is willing to help in the classroom and friendly to everyone.

While she excels in various sports and clubs at school, outside of school, she nurtures her

creative side through her love for art, reading, and music. Her passion for drawing and painting
allows her to express herself, and her love for books fuels her curiosity and imagination. Music
plays a special role in her life, and she finds personal meaning in how she connects with it, often
using it as a way to reflect on her experiences and emotions. Alondra is a wonderful big sister!


Congratulations to Alondra and Matthew! Thank you for being beautiful examples of what it means to be missionary disciples.

Frassati Medal Award Recipients

Congratualtions to Wen Nanyingah for this special award! At lunch, one of his classmates dropped their entire lunch. Wen stayed to help pick it up until the job was done. Thank you, Wen, for your kindness to others. You are serving as an example for all. We are extremely proud of you!
The Beatitude Wen exhibits is "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God."

Congratulations to Weston Kerschen for this special award! During P.E. class he showed a beautiful example of giving of himself. He saw a new classmate struggling with a task and offered to partner with him to help him learn the skill. He gave selfishly of himself and is a great example to others. Thank you, Weston Kerschen, for helping spread the word of God through your actions.

The Beatitude Weston exhibits is "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God."

Monday Morning Prayer Services

We are so grateful for our teachers and students taking on the role of spiritual leaders each Monday morning. Please enjoy the following pictures of our recent prayer service leaders.

Thank you, Mrs. Aguirre and our first grade Knights!

Thank you, Mr. Barton and our sixth grade Knights!

Thank you, Student Council, for leading the school community in praying the Rosary in October.

Thank you, Mrs. Waldrep and our Kindergarten Knights!

Dia de los Muertos

Our upper school students under the watchful eyes of our Spanish teachers, Mrs. Ricciardi and Mrs. Kuzma, created a beautiful ofrenda for the school community to remember our loved ones who have departed this world.

All Saints Day Procession

All you holy men and women, pray for us! What an awesome sight! We had more than one hundred Knights dress as their favorite saint in celebration of All Saints Day! We pray our saints felt honored on this Holy Day of Obligation. God is good!

Honoring Our Veterans

This past Monday, we gathered under the flag pole to honor our veterans on Veterans Day. Thank you to the students and faculty for leading us in this special moment. God bless our veterans!

Knights in the Classroom

The Story of Creation, by Mrs. Do's Preschool Class

Well done, young Knights! Keep learning about the wonders of God to evangelize to the world!

For their 8th grade History Fair research, students identified the importance of including print resources in a research project.

In Mrs. Rusnak's second grade Religion class, students participated in an Atrium presentation of the Sacrament of Baptism. Students learned the words, form, and other materials used in the Sacrament of Baptism. Beautiful!

And the Atrium presentation of the story of The Good Samaritan.

Fr. Ronaldo and Fr. Peter enjoyed the beauty from the hands of our first grade Knights for they made replicas of monstrances displaying the Holy Eucharist. How special!

5th Grade Science Investigations

Our fifth grade Knights look forward to Mrs. Seed's Science lesson exploring owl pellets and the task of dissecting them and graphing their findings.

Altar Server Ministry

Please enjoy the following images of our students giving of themselves to the school and parish community by serving at Mass. What a special way to give back to others and to serve the Lord.

Adventures in Art

Calling All Artists!

Library Life

Hamburger Plant - Our first Junior Master Gardener learning activity! In this activity, students considered how the ingredients found in hamburgers all derive from plant sources. People need plants to survive. Students enjoyed building hamburgers during Enrichment time.

Many Mystery Readers have visited us in the library these past weeks! Thank you to each one - the students greatly enjoy seeing you and hearing your stories.

Knights in the Greenhouse

Many thanks to the Ozuna Family for their generous donation of time and energy in the greenhouse this past month. Thank you also, Ozuna Family, for the herb garden donation - absolutely beautiful!

We have recently added live worms, who survived their shipment from Amazon, and we hope the worms will enrich the greenhouse soil as we prepare for the first planting of this school year. We will be scheduling student planting days soon - be on the lookout for the parent volunteer sign-up if you’d like to assist the class groups on planting days. The cooler days are coming soon, Knight gardeners!

The cooler weather is finally here! Several class groups enjoyed time in the greenhouse recently, digging for treasure and watering the herb and strawberry beds.

What a busy month in the greenhouse! Our school’s greenhouse is a beautiful example of cross curricular, hands-on learning. By utitilizing the greenhouse, students are making unique connections. They witness how plants grow, learn about human nutrition, and grow in spiritual well-being.

This is a fully immersive STREAM experience. Thank you to the volunteers who helped support our planting efforts! Ask your student what type of seeds their grade level planted in the greenhouse this past month. Enjoy all the photos! Thank you, Mrs. Lopez.

Broccoli (2nd/3rd), Spinach (Kinder), and Arugula (1st) sprouts are growing in the greenhouse! Students will have the opportunity to diagram the parts of a plant and make a nature sketch in the greenhouse in the coming weeks. We look forward to watching our greenhouse garden grow during the fall and winter months of the school year.

Lego Club

First Semester LEGO Club is off to a great start! Students built a town or city where people would want to live. Nice airports, gardens, and neighborhoods, builder Knights.

Earning Upper School Service Hours

Our Upper School students are earning service hours by giving back to their school community. Well done, Knights!

Fun in P.E.

These Knights enjoyed games of table tennis! Looks like a lot of fun was had by all, while working on hand-eye coordination.

Robotics Program

Our RoboKnights have built their base model robots! Keep up the good work, RoboKnights! We look forward to what you accomplish this academic year.

We Love Our SROs!

Officer Journey spent some time on the little soccer field with Mrs. Waldrep's Kindergarten class. Thank you, Office Journey, for being a part of our school community.

Alumni News

SJCS alumni, Jonathan Grove (son of Mrs. Grove), continues to share his faith with our community by serving at a recent diocesan Mass.

Thank you for leading by example, Jonathan.

SJCS alumni, Josh Pearson, explains the House System and LIFE Team opportunities at the NCHS Future Viking Day held for diocesan eighth grade students. Our Knights continue to lead others. Well done, Josh!

St. Joseph Parish News

Meet Our Parish Priests

Rev. Ronaldo Mercado

Our Pastor

Fr. Peter Wiafe-Akenteng

Our Parochial Vicar

Parish Notes

  • Parish website link: https://stjoe88.org/
  • Please join the parish for daily and weekend Masses at this link: https://youtu.be/LxIRBSew1yI
  • Please continue tithing to your parish. St. Joseph Parishioners may go to this link to give: https://stjoe88.org/giving
  • Be sure to look into FORMED.org. The parish has paid for your subscription to this vast library of inspiring videos and essential reads to help grow your faith. Just go straight to the "Enter Code" button and enter 4BDX9H to begin the process. You may also access this through the parish website link below. Enjoy!

Are You in Need of Prayers?

The St. Joseph School Community would be honored to pray for you. Please send all prayer requests to this email address: prayers@stjosephtx.org.

Catholic Diocese of Fort Worth link:

2015 SW Green Oaks Blvd., Arlington, TX 76017-2736

Contact us at (817) 419-6800

www.stjosephtx.org

ST. JOSEPH, PROTECTOR OF FAMILIES, PRAY FOR US.

Diane Price
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