T h e L i g h t St. Luke Catholic School

December 19, 2018

“Do not be afraid; for behold, I proclaim to you good news of great joy that will be for all the people. For today in the city of David a savior has been born to you who is Christ the Lord.”

Luke 2:10-11

St. Luke Catholic School www.stlukecatholic.org

19 Christmas Mass led by 4th gr. Santa Shop open until 6pm

20 Santa Shop, last day

21 Modified “Civvies

Noon Dismissal No After-school Care

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January 6 The Epiphany of

the Lord

January 7 Faculty Retreat

No school for students

January 8

Classes Resume

Basketball vs. Holy Cross

9 Mass led by Facul-ty Group

10 Spelling Bee, 8:05am

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NOON DISMISSAL,

Friday, December 21

After-school Care will NOT be available.

Congratulations to Diego Driskill, 6th grade. Diego’s beautiful chalk and pastel drawing was selected by the Archdiocese of San Antonio Catholic Schools Office to be on the front of their Christmas card this year.

St. Luke B-team Basketball Tournament

We would like to “Congratulate” our Kindergarten Students, Teachers Mrs. Driskill and Mrs. Elizondo and Instructional Assistants, Mrs. Pena,

Mrs. Carrillo and Volunteers for the beautiful performance on December 14th . They received a lot of compliments and a standing ovation –the

singing of “Behold” with the wonderful David Kauffman.

“I will sing to the Lord because He has blessed me so richly.” PSALM 13:6

What a great performance by our own St Luke Choir under the direction of Mr. McAdams and the Hosts for our event and all of the entities that

helped –Thank you Fr. Ritter for bringing this Wonderful Concert to St Luke!

● We would like to thank all of our Beta Club students for their December “Civvies Day” collection which will go to the Healy Murphy Center.

● We would also like to Thank our CAAC Teacher Volunteers and students who are working so diligently to prepare for CAAC -Thanks Mr.

Meyer and Mrs. Buhrman

Thank you for supporting the Catholic Life Insurance St Luke Raffle –Thanks to Mrs. Neff and Mrs. Fuentez

Fox News S.A. surprised one of our teachers with the Teacher Taco Tuesday Award – nominated by one of her parents-Thank you, Mrs.

Rollins for all that you do- keeping the spirit alive with caring, giving, and teaching!

As we enter the classrooms and view such beautiful works of art, poems, literature, readings, mathematical problem solving, writings, rubrics,

differentiated instruction at work- we are reminded how Blessed we are to have such a caring and giving staff. Thank you for allowing us to take

care of your children each and every day – the traditions live on – especially learning about Jesus and the difference he makes in our lives each

and every day!

We are very Thankful for our church and school in all endeavors –we work hand in hand to make sure that our students have a faith filled reli-

gious anchor/atmosphere-thinking and giving to others and serving our community in enriched and engaging classroom.

On behalf of our St Luke School Teachers, Counselor, Assistants, Substitutes, Staff we wish you a Very Merry Christmas and Healthy Happy

New Year 2019!

Peace, Love and Joy,

Mrs. Cover

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It was an amazing evening with Mr. David Kauffman at the Parish Advent Mission held this past Friday evening. Our Kindergarten students joined Mr. Kauffman in singing “Behold” (Magnificat). The children’s signing was beautiful and they made an already powerful song even more meaningful. As of this morning, the video of the students sing-ing posted on our Facebook page has received over 11K views! Kudos to Kinder teachers, Mrs. Driskill and Mrs. Elizondo, and their assistants Mrs. Carrillo and Mrs. Peña for their outstanding preparation of the students for this very special moment. You can also view a video of their performance on the school website.

Fourth grade students did a beautiful job of leading the school in this morning’s liturgy and Christmas pageant presentation.

Congratulations Mrs. Rollins!

Mrs. Rollins was nominated by a parent and honored by KABB Fox 29 during this week’s “Teacher Taco Tues-day” You can watch a video of the Facebook Life broad-cast by following this link.

Virtue of the Month for December

Congratulations to the following students for consistently demonstrating the virtue of Joy during the month of December.

PKA: Xavier Villalón PKB: Valencia Bass KA: Isabella Lopez KB: Marco Acosta 1A: Janessa Lew 1B: Careigh Barker 2A: Danielle Resendez 2B: Paloma Valdez Paredes

3A: Kassie Samaniego 3B: Luciano Ramirez

4A: Moira Whelan 4B: Andrea Abejuela 5A: Rylee De La Garza 5B: Callie Rodriguez 6A: Daniel Perez 6B: Diego Driskill 7A: Alejandro Fernandez

7B: Jathyn Cantu 8A: Jacob Garcia 8B: Christina Montez

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Rebel Athletics... Catholic Life Insurance Sweepstakes Raffle

Grand Prize Choice of 2019 Ford F-150 Pick up Truck or

2019 Ford Focus or $20,000 Prepaid Visa Card Each school will have a $1000

Prepaid Visa Card Winner

On December 29-30 and January 5-6, families will have the opportunity to sell their Catholic Life Sweepstakes Raffle tickets after Mass. 100% of monies raised goes back to the school and will support the renovation of recess areas. Please sign up by following this link.

We are striving for 100% participation to help fund ren-ovation of play areas that students use during recess. Ticket stubs must have child’s name to be counted and should be turned in to teacher. More tickets can be ac-quired in the front office. All tickets and monies are due by Friday, January 18, 2019.

School Incentives-Per Student 1st Place: iPad OR Apple Watch (must sell min. of 50 tickets) 2nd Place: Zoo pass for family of 4 OR $150 to Andretti OR Top Golf (must sell min. of 35 tickets) 3rd Place: $50 to Build-A-Bear OR $50 to Best Buy (must sell min of 20) tickets

(In case of a tie, there will be a drawing)

100% School Wide Participation = Pizza Party & Paletas (If goal not met, individual classes with 100% participation will receive paletas.)

For every $200 in tickets that a family sells, their name

will go into a drawing for $500 off tuition for the 2019-2020 school year.

The girls A and B teams and the boys B team all scored wins in their games against St. Mary’s Freder-icksburg last week. The A-boys team played a great game with the lead changing several times! The A-girls basketball team continue to have a fantas-tic season! The A-girls finished in first place at the An-tonian tournament held this past weekend. Well done!

Support your St. Luke Rebels and come out to a game! Follow this link for team schedules.

Amazon Smile All of the same products at all of the same prices are available. Amazon Smile will donate a percentage of your purchase to St. Luke School.

Thank you for your continued support of our security measures! Please note that our security gates do not close automatically. Kindly close the gates behind you when entering and exiting the building.

Registration 2019-2020

School Year More information soon!

PTC’s Santa Shop

The shop will be open after school on Wednesday, December 19, until 6:00

pm. Last day--Thursday, December 20.

Modified Christmas “Civvies” Day Friday, December 21

Administration has granted a modified “Civvies” Day for students on Friday, December 21. Students may wear a Christmas shirt, Christmas socks, with their uniform bottom. Girls may wear Christmas bows.

Box Tops 4 Education Update

Currently in the running for the spring semester Box Tops homeroom party:

1st place: 6B, Mrs. Talley

2nd place: PKB, Mrs. Casillas

3rd place: 5A, Mr. Garcia Please continue to clip Box Tops over the holidays. The next pick up will be January 25, 2019. Thank you!

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Mrs. Cover and Mrs. Buhrman (pictured above) visited Pre-K and Kinder classrooms this week and read to the students.

Help us Keep our Database Up-to-Date

Please email Debbie Rodriguez in the school office with any address, phone number, email, or any other pertinent contact information changes. Thank you!

A look ahead...

Tues., Jan. 8, Classes resume Mon., Jan. 21, No School, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday