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Events
Mancini's Dinner
Sun. Nov 18th
Join us for fundraising dinner at Mancini's! Find more information online!
Thanksgiving Break
Nov. 21-23rd
Have a Blessed Thanksgiving with your family and friends!
Speaker Series - Peace Builders
Tues. Nov. 27th
7-8pm in Pates Hall
Early Learning Program Christmas Concert
Wed, Dec. 11th 10am
The preschool and prekindergarten classes will be performing some of their favorite hits for family and friends!
Lessons & Carols
Thur. Dec. 12th 6:30pm
The students will be performing their annual christmas concert in the church - with reception to follow afterwards! Come join in the merryment!
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Remember remember the turkey ... and the stuffing ... and the cranberry sauce!
It's Thanksgiving next week, and
school shall be closed Wed - Fri.
Thank you to all those that have completed the school survey, if you haven't done so, please follow the link - it takes 10 minutes!
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Morning Drop Off in front of the school is becoming quite dangerous Parents, please have your child/ren cross at the corners with the patrols and not in the middle of the street when you are not dropping off on the school side of the street. Walking your child/ren across the middle of the street is not safe either and is not teaching students correct ways of safety in crossing. The teachers and I are very serious about keeping everyone safe and need your cooperation in this. |
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Thanksgiving Food Drive
The 7th Grade students organized the Thanksgiving food drive this year. And what a service project! During all-school-mass students, parishioners and families brought in non-perishable foods for the Franciscan Brotherhood.
The drive began with an idea in 7th grade to make this food-drive bigger than ever. They delivered grocery bags to neighborhood houses asking community members to help fill the bags and be ready for collection this weeks. Parents and students collected the filled bags this week and got all 350 bags ready to donate.
It was a phenomenal job - well done 7th Grade! |
| Fundraisers | |
Barnes and Noble Day
Give the gift of reading.
Saturday, December 8, 2012; 9am-10pm
Barnes & Noble
2080 Ford Parkway, St. Paul
(Corner of Ford Parkway and Cleveland Avenue)
Join us for crafts& storytelling from 11 to 2 pm.
Enter to win fabulous prizes from 9 am to 6 pm!
Please tell your family and friends. OLP receives a percentage of each sale and uses that money to purchase books for the library. See the school website of the bottom of the Peace Post for the Voucher!
Stuff the Stocking
During the season of Advent, we are again partnering with Nuestros Pequenos Heromanos, who care for abandoned and orphaned children in Central and South America (www.nph.org), to provide each child there with a Christmas stocking full of treats.
Here's how you can help:
1. On November 29th, each family will be given a stocking shaped flyer describing the project.
2. Purchase, make, or reuse a stocking about the size of the flyer. (For ease of packaging - the thinner - the better. Please no thick fur or embellishments. The stocking should lie flat).
3. Place your monetary contribution in an envelope and put it in the stocking.
- $1 buys a toothbrush
- $2 buys a toothbrush and a pair of socks
- $3 buys a toothbrush, pair of socks, and a toy
- $5 buys a toothbrush, pair of socks, a toy, and cookies & candy
4. Return the stocking to OLP by Dec. 7th with the flyer attached.
Thank you in advance for your support!
Give to the Max - Update
Thank you to everyone who participated in Give to the Max Day yesterday. This one day fundraising push generated $2,210 for the arts and music at Our Lady of Peace!
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NaNoWriMo
8th Grade Meets Goal!
The 6th, 7th and 8th grade classes just finished the third week National Novel Writing Month - NaNoWriMo for short. Each day in November students begin Language Arts class by writing for 10 minutes straight. The goal is for each class to write 100,000 words (a 300 page novel) by midnight, November 30, a goal which one class has already met! Students also vie for the title of "Word Wizard" - the person who can write the most words in one day! The race is on now for the class that can write the most words! It is anyone's game!!
Current Class Word Totals:
6th Grade: 61,695 words *** OVER HALFWAY THERE ***
7th Grade: 60,453 words *** GETTING CLOSE ***
8th Grade: 156,275 words *** GOAL MET! Now working to set an OLP record for Highest Class Total by getting over 200,000 words! ***
This week's Word Wizards were:
Monday: Chloe - 8th Grade (16,436 words) *
* OLP Record for Most Words in One Day
Tuesday: Siri - 8th Grade (2,108 words)
Wednesday: Siri - 8th Grade (4,330 words)
Thursday: Chloe - 8th Grade (4,850 words)
Friday: Siri - 8th Grade (3,141 words)
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 Button Day!
Button button, who's got a button?
Red one, a black one?
A round one, a flat one?
Button button, the goat ate my button!
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| Ahtletics Update | |
 AHA Boys & Girls Basketball Tournament
TOURNAMENT DATES December 27, 28 & 29, 2012
Games on Dec 27 and 28, mid/late afternoon - early evening
Games on December 29, 8am
WHERE Academy of Holy Angels Convocation Center Main Gym
6600 Nicollet Ave S. Richfield, 55423
WHO Boys and Girls Catholic Grade School Teams
ENTRY FEE $75 per team. Registration form and fee by December 14, 2012. First Come, First Serve! All teams are guaranteed two games, most teams will play three.
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Our Lady of Peace School
5435 11st South
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55417
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Whate'er I do, things great or small
Whate'er I do, things great or small
Whate'er I speak or frame.
Thy glory may I seek in all,
Do all in Jesus' name.
My Father, for His sake I pray.
Thy child accept and bless
And lead me by Thy grace to-day
In paths of righteousness. Amen.
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