Newsletter for March 17-23 2292.93 KB

INCARNATION CATHOLIC SCHOOL
Newsletter March 16-23
UPCOMING EVENTS
FRIDAY FOLDERS
Mar 17 - Add green or St. Patrick’s item
to uniform (Students must wear uniform
bottoms; can wear green or St. Patrick’s
shirt); 10:45a VPK Presentation for Parents; 7:00p ICS Fundraiser at McCurdy’s
Please check your Friday folders this week. You will find
these important items:

If you purchased tickets for Carrabba’s Fundraiser for
Saturday, your tickets are in the Friday Folder.
DUE DATES:
Mar 18 - Tag Day $1.00 - Sport Team;
5:00p - 8:00p Fish Fry (last one)
Mar. 18 - Grs. 7 & 8 Field Trip Form
Mar. 22 - By March 22, please return your Rice Bowl for Catholic Relief Services
Mar 19 - 11:00a - 12:30p ICS Fundraiser
at Carrabba’s (Stickney Point)
ICS STUDENTS LIVE OUT
Mar 22 - 9:15a Field Trip Grs. 2 & 3 South FL Museum; 9:15a 8th Gr to
attend Chrism Mass at Epiphany Cathedral; 9:15a 7th Gr - Service Project at Our
Mother’s House (Venice); 4:00p Tennis
Students of all grades have taken time from
Match @Sarasota Sports Club - Venice
their studies to reach out to the community
Christian vs. ICS
of Sarasota.
WORKS OF MERCY
Mar 23 - End of 3rd Quarter; 8:00a Living Stations led by the 7th Grade
(Church); 12:00p Dismissal
Mar 24 - Holy Thursday - 7:00p Services
at Incarnation Church
On Tuesday, March 8, our younger students
in Grades K-2 visited at Savannah Grande.
The students entertained the residents with
songs and gave holiday cards. The residents
enjoyed the entertainment and visiting with
the younger students.
Mar 25 - Good Friday - 3:00p Services at
Incarnation Church
Mar 26 - 8:15p Easter Vigil at Incarnation Church
Mar 27 - Easter Sunday Masses 7:00a,
9:00a and 11:00a
Our students in Grs. 6 and 8 went to Bethesda House. The students did not have direct
contact with the people served at Bethesda
House. However, there was a request for
the students to help the staff get the facility
ready for an inspection. Students spent
time cleaning out the garage, organizing the
pantry, cleaning the kitchen and sprucing up
the grounds.
The
students did a
great
job
and the staff
was
most
appreciative
of the time
ICS students spent at Bethesda House.
On March 15th , the students in Grades
3-5 visited The Springs to entertain the
residents. The students sang songs and
gave holiday cards to the residents.
The people at The Springs enjoyed visiting with the students. An e-mail was
sent to the teachers and students. This
sums up how great our students were.
“On behalf of all the staff and residents,
I want to thank you, Mrs. Givens, the
teachers and students in Grades 3, 4
and 5 for sharing their time and talents
with us. Their performance was spectacular and behavior outstanding!
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INCARNATION REGISTRATION
FOR 2016-2017
Works of Mercy
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Registration forms for the 2016-2017 were sent home a
Our residents greatly appreciated the songs shared by the stufew weeks ago. We ask that you return your forms by Fridents. The cards were beautiful too. So many residents shared
day, March 18.
their comments with me and the smiles on their faces said
It is necessary to have an accurate account of enrollment more to me than I can tell you. Children, pets and beauty shop
for planning purposes. Thank you for taking care of this in appointments are the three most requested items by my residents, but children are always at the top of the list!”
a timely manner.
Teresa Martin
Administrator
The Springs at Lake Point Woods
STEP UP FOR STUDENTS SCHOLARSHIPS and AAA
SCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE
Step Up for Students and AAA are
accepting applications for the 20162017 school year. These are need
based scholarships. You can apply
for both, but only one scholarship is
available, if accepted. For more
information, contact the school office. All scholarships are on a
first come basis. Apply early. Click the link below to apply:
For Step Up: https://www.stepupforstudents.org/logins/income
-based-scholarship-login/
For AAA: http://www.aaascholarships.org/schools/florida/
FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE FROM ICS
Families applying for financial assistance from ICS for the 20162017 need to complete a financial aid application. This can be
found at
https://online.factsmgt.com/signin/3C9SB
Financial assistance is available for those with students in Grades
K-8.
VPK REGISTRATION
Families who have children attending VPK can go to this link to
complete the application for the Free-VPK program. Please note
that children entering VPK must be 4 by September 4th. The application process begins on March 24th . Click the link below:
http://www.earlylearningcoalitionsarasota.org/vpk/
vpk_parents.htm
Our Mother’s House is another outreach center that ICS students will visit. Our 7th graders will spend a few hours at Our
Mother’s House on Tuesday, March 22 helping with the younger children. When we called about coming, the staff was so
excited to have ICS volunteer their time to help at the center.
For the 2016-17 school year, we plan to organize quarterly
events to help organization in the area. The experience that
the students have is something they will never forget!
ICS 2016 TENNIS TEAM
Congratulations to
the members of our
ICS Tennis Team!
The members this
year are Gr. 4 - Francis H and William B.;
Gr. 5 - Garrett T; Gr. 6 - Millington V.; Gr. 8 Laura D. and Andrea S.
Most of the matches this year will be held
at the Sarasota Sports Club at Beneva and
Torrey Pines. Please check out the weekly
newsletter for the schedule. Matches are
also posted on the school calendar.
and 8th graders had the advantage on
ICS’s team.
As the season progresses our team
will build their confidence. For some
of our players, this was their first year
for competition.
Thank you to Coach Hurl for coordinating our Tennis Team again this year.
The team had their first match was against
Tabernacle Christian. Our team members
had great serves and wonderful returns in
both the single and doubles. However,
Tabernacle’s team consisting mostly of 7th
SAVE THE DATES
ICS has some wonderful and fun-filled
events coming up. Please mark your calendars:
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April 8 - Family Movie Night @ ICS Parish Center
These are great ways to support the school
and socialize with members of our parish/
school community.
Words cannot express our
deepest appreciation to the
families, ICS students and
CMHS students, ICS students
who helped at our Fish Fry these past few weeks. Your
smiles while serving our guests, keeping our desserts organized, cleaning up at the end and so much more made our
first FISH FRY a great success.
From our guests, we heard many compliments about how
friendly the students were, how they visited with the
guests and were very helpful.
Thank you to all those who donated desserts to make our
Fish Fry successful!
It Was a Seussical Day on March 10th!
Thank you to our special Librarian for the Day, Zach R., for proclaiming March 10th at
Seussical Day at ICS. The students and teachers enjoyed dressing as their favorite Dr.
Seuss character. At ICS you could find many Thing 1 and Thing 2, the Lorax, Horton,
and Cat in the Hat. Others donned strips, polka-dots and more to be in the Seussical
Spirit!
π Day and Other Math Activities at ICS
Students in 2nd Grade used
their creative skills to develop
mazes with Unifix cubes. The
challenge of the maze was to
develop pattern that a marble
could be moved by blowing
through a straw -forces of wind.
The teams were timed on moving the marble from start to finish. After a few trials, the students found that they needed to
redesign the maze.
Our 5th-8th graders spent math
class on 3.14 doing Pi activities
for Pi Day. There were a variety
of activities working with circles,
circumference, diameter and
more. Oh, it would not be Pi
Day without having some PIE cherry, blueberry, etc!
ICS MOVIE NIGHT
Featuring: Monsters University
Join us for a night of fun for the whole family! Students can sit
with their buddies while they watch Monsters University!
When: Friday April 8 *Doors open 6PM*
*Movie Starts at 6:30*
Where: Parish Center
Popcorn and Drinks will be provided
Look out for EVITE on March 18