We're using SignUp.com (the leading online SignUp and reminder tool) to organize our upcoming SignUps. Here's how it works in 3 easy steps: 1) Click this link to see our SignUp on SignUp.com: https://signup.com/go/ZtLkAoz 2) Review the options listed and choose the spot(s) you like. 3) Sign up! It's Easy - you will NOT need to register an account or keep a password on SignUp.com. Note: SignUp.com does not share your email address with anyone. If you prefer not to use your email address, please contact me and I can sign you up manually. Jenna Beaty, Frosty5k@saintmaryschool.net or 243-8913

For our Frosty Color Run this year, we're using an awesome web based fundraising system that makes it much easier for you to request pledges from your family and friends, and for them to make secure credit card donations online. It's fun, it's easy, and people who use it typically raise twice as much as those who don't! Remember, our Frosty Color Run is January 24, so please register now to help our school raise as much as we can for playground equipment, athletic gear, Accelerated Reader prizes and awards for our Summer Math Competition: Go to http://pledgestar.com/saintmary • Click “Not Registered For This Year’s Event” • Enter your name and email address, then click “Submit” • Follow the instructions on-screen to register students When you finish, the system emails pledge requests to your family and friends, and allows them to make secure credit card donations online. You get notified each time a pledge is made, and you can track your pledge progress online. Please contact Jenna Beaty at Frosty5k@saintmaryschool.net or call 243-8913 with any questions!

See information below. I would love for our class to have 100% Participation! For our Frosty Color Run this year, we're using an awesome web based fundraising system that makes it much easier for you to request pledges from your family and friends, and for them to make secure credit card donations online. It's fun, it's easy, and people who use it typically raise twice as much as those who don't! Remember, our Frosty Color Run is January 24, so please register now to help our school raise as much as we can for playground equipment, athletic gear, Accelerated Reader prizes and awards for our Summer Math Competition: Go to http://pledgestar.com/saintmary • Click “Not Registered For This Year’s Event” • Enter your name and email address, then click “Submit” • Follow the instructions on-screen to register students When you finish, the system emails pledge requests to your family and friends, and allows them to make secure credit card donations online. You get notified each time a pledge is made, and you can track your pledge progress online. Please contact Jenna Beaty at Frosty5k@saintmaryschool.net or call 243-8913 with any questions! Thank you for your support again this year!

Welcome back everyone! We are going to start the year off working our minds to their full capacity! FYI Spelling will now have 12 words and two sentences to write on the test. Practice adding, we are going to be working on double digit adding. PLEASE do not teach your child how to add with regrouping (carry the 1). They need to learn the basic addition facts first. Events coming up this month... Report Cards go on on the 10th 17th 11:30 Dismissal No school on the 20th- Martin Luther King Day 100th day is the 24th- Students may bring in 100 of something also the Frosty Run is this day @ 2:00 Catholic Schools week begins on the 26th, more info to follow.

First grade will be having Polar Express Day on Tuesday, December 17. Your child may wear pajamas (only ... no gowns) to school on this day. They must be able to use the restroom by themselves. :-)