Mission
St. Dominic, a Catholic faith-filled community, is a parish school that provides quality education which fosters the development of the whole child in a safe, caring, and academically stimulating environment.

October 26, 2010                                       www.stdominicla.us
 

Red Ribbon Week! October 25-28  Say No To Drugs!

Monday:    Say No To Drugs Rally
Tuesday:    Red Nachos Sale
Wednesday: Red hat/cap contest
Thursday: Wear jeans, red blouse or red shirt. Red hat/cap again!

Halloween Carnival
All Parents Welcome!
Friday, October 29
9:00-12:00
Noon dismissal
Students are allowed to come to school dressed in their costumes.
No guns, knives, or swords are allowed as part of the costume.
Please have students wear their athletic shoes. 

Picture Day Tuesday, Nov. 2
All students must wear green or white polo shirt and green pull over sweatshirt with P.E. shorts for picture day.
We will use sweatshirts from the uniform exchange for students that do not own a green pull over sweatshirt.


St. Dominic Fiesta
Our parish fiesta is next week-end, November 5th-7th.  Please sign up for your
mandatory 5 fiesta hours. These are the days and booths that are available:
Friday: bingo, Pilipino food, security, and clean up.
Saturday: Bingo, Pilipino, security, set-up, clean up, and Italian food.
Sunday: dessert, bingo, Hispanic, Italian, Pilipino, security, drinks and clean-up.
Please notice the grade assigned dessert donation schedule in the enclosed flyer.


Shop for School
Fresh & Easy
Parents, students, and teachers if your shop at Fresh & Easy please collect receipts from purchases made at any Fresh & Easy store between September 15 and December 31, 2010. All receipts that total $20 or more must be turned in to the school designated on the registration form. For every $20 spent per visit at one of the Fresh & Easy stores, St. Dominic will receive a $1 cash donation. For example, a single receipt totaling $39.99 is worth $1, while a single receipt for $40.00 is worth $2, but a receipt for $18.50 is not eligible. You cannot combine the total of the receipts.


Virtus & Fingerprinting
All parents that help us out with our lunch program, lunch supervision, classroom, fieldtrips and coaching need to attend a Virtus training and get fingerprinted before attending any activity.
Fingerprinting schedule for October and November are in the school office. Please
call Mrs. Oliver for locations.
Protecting God’s children, an Adult Awareness session is a three-hour training that helps parents to understand the facts and myths about child sexual abuse: how perpetrators operate; and how caring adults can take five important steps to keep children safe.
Go online to http://www.virtus.org/ to register for October 30, a three hour session that will be held in the St. Dominic Community Center.

High School Night at Holy Trinity School
Holy Trinity Prep School, located at 3716 Boyce Avenue in Los Angeles, invites our 8th grade students to a High School Night on Tuesday, November 9th from 7-9 pm. Representatives from Holy Family, Cathedral, Bellarmine Jefferson, Notre Dame High, Immaculate Heart High, Providence, St. Francis, Notre Dame Academy, Loyola, Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy, and Bishop Alemany will be there. These high schools will be available to answer questions, provide admission packets and to speak to all the wonderful qualities of their respective high schools. For information call the Holy Trinity school office at 323-663-2064.


First Friday Mass
Students are to wear complete uniform for First Friday Mass. No shorts!

PTO Mandatory Meeting
Our mandatory general PTO meeting has been moved from Nov. 17 to Nov. 10. There is a $15.00 charge if you miss a mandatory meeting.

      

Mission

St. Dominic, a Catholic faith-filled community, is a parish school that provides quality education which fosters the development of the whole child in a safe, caring, and academically stimulating environment.

October 19, 2010www.stdominicla.us


Halloween Carnival
All Parents Welcome!
Friday, October 29
9:00-12:00
Noon dismissal

Kinder to second grade students go out at 9:00-9:45 a.m.
Third to fifth grade students come out the second session at 9:45-10:30 a.m.
Sixth to eighth grade students come out at 10:30 to 11:15 a.m.

All students will participate in the parade at 11:20 a.m.

The Halloween raffle will follow the parade at 11:45 a.m.

Students are allowed to come dressed to school in their costumes.
No guns, knives, or swords are allowed as part of the costume.
Please have students wear their athletic shoes.

PANCAKE BREAKFAST: Sunday, October 24, after the 7:30, 9:00 and 10:45 Masses. The menu includes pancake, eggs, sausage, and coffee or juice for $6.00 and a children’s menu for $4.00. The Knights of Columbus will give all proceeds to St. Dominic School for tuition assistance. Please plan to come for fun, fellowship, and great meal.

Jeans Day!
Friday, October 22
Wear your favorite jeans
$1.00 to wear jeans

Wear you favorite accessories!
$1.00 extra for each favorite accessory

Proceeds go to funds for celebrating St. Dominic School 85th anniversary.


Red Ribbon Week! October 25-28
Celebrate Say No To Drugs
Monday: Pep Rally
Tuesday: Red Nachos
Wednesday: Door Contest
Thursday: Jeans, red blouse or red shirt.



Choice lunch
Sixth grade parents are our November volunteers! You earn lunch credit for serving. Set-up of hot lunch starts at 11:30a.m. By 12:30 p.m. pack up containers and supplies. If you are a sixth grade parent and interested in volunteering please call the school office ASAP.

Uniform Exchange & Purchase
The Uniform Exchange will be open this Thursday, Oct. 21st from 7:45-8:30 a.m. and after school from 3:00-3:45 p.m. It is located inside the Work Room, next to 1st Grade classroom.

Also, order forms for last year’s PTO gray hooded sweatshirts ($25-$26) and P.E. shirts ($12-$13) are still available in the school office-all sizes are in stock! Thank you for your continued support!


Center For The Arts
After School Classes
Tuesday: Dance Class, 3:00-4:00 p.m.
Wednesday: Art Class, 3:00-4:00 p.m.
Classes are held at St. Dominic School in
our resource room.
For more information please contact the Director of Education: Laura Marchetti at
323-226-1617 ext. 2525
laura@cfaer.org

Picture Day Tuesday, Nov. 2
All students must wear green or white polo shirt and green pull over sweatshirt with P.E. shorts for picture day.

We will use sweatshirts from the uniform exchange for students that do not own a green pull over sweatshirt.

Mission St. Dominic, a Catholic faith-filled community, is a parish school that provides quality education which fosters the development of the whole child in a safe, caring, and academically stimulating environment.

October 12, 2010                                                                   

                                                            http://www.stdominicla.us/

Cookie Dough

Fundraiser for cookie dough ended Friday, October 8. Please make all checks payable to St. Dominic PTO.

Halloween Carnival

All Parents Welcome!

Friday, October 29

9:00-12:00

Noon dismissal

Kinder to second grade students go out at 9:00-9:45 a.m.

Third to fifth grade students come out the second session at 9:45-10:30.

Sixth to eighth grade students come out at 10:30 to 11:15.

All students will participate in the parade at 11:20. The raffle will follow the parade at 11:40 a.m.

Students are allowed to come dressed to school in their costumes. Please have students wear their athletic shoes. 

No guns, knives, swords are allowed as part of the costume.

Jeans Day October 15

Students will be allowed to wear jeans on Friday, October 15 if they pay $1.00.

Please refer to handbook for proper attire.

No shorts for jeans day.

If you want to participate in a sport fun attire day pay $1.00 extra to wear favorite sport jersey, and $1.00 extra to wear favorite sport cap.

Proceeds go to funds for celebrating our 85^th anniversary.

Mass Day

Monday: 5^th to 8^th grade

Wednesday: 3^rd and 4^th grade

Thursday: second, first and kinder

Please walk your child if you come late on Mass day.

First Friday Mass

Students are to wear complete uniform. No shorts on First Friday Mass.

Choicelunch

We need sixth grade parent volunteers to serve during the month of November. You can earn lunch credit if you serve during the month of November. You would need to start at 11:30 to set-up the lunches and end at 12:30 after packing up the containers. If you are a sixth grade parent and interested please call the school office ASAP.

Discovering Our Faith

Join Fr. Michael Carey for the second lecture on the series of Discovering Our Faith. This series is October 12 from 7:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. in the parish hall.

The lecture covers God the Father and Creator. Bring your Catholic Catechism. Review God: One and Three, CCC 198-278,

Creator of Angels, Heaven, and Earth, CCC 325-354 and The Creation and Fall of Man, CCC 355-421.

Parents attending the lecture will earn one service hour.

Parish Fiesta

The parish fiesta is scheduled for November 5^th, 6^th, and 7^th. Please check your schedule and sign up for you mandatory 5 hours. The sign-up book is located in the school office on the front counter. Please make note of the date and time you will attend. Available time and dates are first come. Thank you for your service.

Virtus

All adults in direct contact with our students

at school must have Virtus training. Parents

that helps with lunch program, lunch

playground supervision, classroom help, fieldtrips, and coaching need this training.

Protecting God’s children Adult Awareness session is a three-hour training that helps parents to understand the facts and myths

about child sexual abuse; how perpetrators operate; and how caring adults can take five important steps to keep children safe.

Go online to http://www.virtus.org/ to register for October 30, November 27, or February 5 from 9 a.m. to noon.

Mission
St. Dominic, a Catholic faith-filled community, is a parish school that provides quality education which fosters the development of the whole child in a safe, caring, and academically stimulating environment.

 www.stdominicla.us 

October 5, 2010                       
 


PTO
Our cookie dough fundraiser ends Friday, October 8. Please write all checks payable to St. Dominic PTO. Order forms are to be given to the teacher or brought to the school office.

PTO Apparel Update
Attn: Parents! For those that have ordered Gray sweatshirts and P.E. shirts, your orders are currently being processed. The apparel items are expected to arrive Oct. 9, 2010. Thank you for your continued support!
Prepaid order forms are still available at the school office. Cash and checks accepted.

Halloween Carnival Meeting
If you signed-up for the Halloween committee or would like to join the committee, please join your PTO board on Wednesday, October 6th at 6:30 p.m. for a meeting. The meeting will be held in the school library. Come and find out how you can help!

Good-Touch Bad-Touch
Our Good-Touch Bad-Touch program will begin on Monday, October 11. Any student without permission to participate in the program will be kept in the school office during their religion period. Your parent good-touch bad-touch booklet is enclosed in the Family Envelope.

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Progress Reports
Student progress reports go out Monday, October 11. This is the perfect take time to discuss with your child and communicate with the teacher. Your child has 30 days before the end of the trimester. The first trimester ends November 24.

ITBS Testing
ITBS testing will continue until Friday, October 8. ITBS make-up testing will begin at 8:45 a.m. on Thursday and Friday.
Our priority is to have student’s make-up reading comprehension, math, and CogAt. Please help us by bringing students to school by 8:00 a.m.


Living Rosary
October is the month of Mary and the Rosary. On October 7th, our student council will lead us in praying the Living Rosary. Student council will act out scenes from the Joyful Mysteries. You are invited to join us in this beautiful tribute to our Blessed Virgin Mary. The rosary will be held in the parish hall at 2:00 p.m.

Discovering Our Faith
Join Fr. Michael Carey for the second lecture on the series of Discovering Our Faith. The series is next Tuesday, October 12 from 7:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. in the parish hall.
The lecture covers God the Father and Creator. Bring your Catholic Catechism. Review God: One and Three, CCC 198-278,
Creator of Angels, Heaven, and Earth, CCC 325-354 and The Creation and Fall of Man, CCC 355-421.


Art and Dance After School Classes
Center of the Arts will offer art and dance
classes here on Tuesday and Wednesday from 3-4 p.m. pay $25 for each 10 week session. Classes begin October 11.
We only have 2 families signed up for these classes. No one will be turned away, scholarships available!


Virtus
All adults in direct contact with our students at school must have Virtus training. Parents that help with lunch program, lunch playground supervision, classroom help, fieldtrips, and coaching need this training.  Protecting God’s Children Adult Awareness Session is a three-hour training that helps parents to understand the facts and myths about child sexual abuse; how perpetrators operate; and how caring adults can take five important steps to keep children safe.
Go online to www.virtus.org to register for October 30, November 27, or February 5 from 9 a.m. to noon. All classes will be held in the lower hall of the Community Hall.