Living, Loving, and Learning Our Faith

May 1: Students may begin to wear uniform shorts to school and no leggings or tights needed
May 12: Sports Banquet for all sports
May 13: Practice LockDown Drill
May 16: STAR Assessment begins

May 22: Feast Day of St. Rita
May 26: School Celebration of St. Rita (details forthcoming)
May 27: STAR Assessment ends
May 30: Memorial Day-No School
May 31: F&P Running Records Due
June 1: Spring Musical/Talent Show (6:30pm)
June 6: Physical Education Field Day (In case of bad weather, make up day is June 7)
June 9: Half day of school 11:00AM Dismissal/End of 4th Quarter
June 9: Grade 8 Promotion-Details forthcoming

From the Desk of Dr. Sue!

Greetings,

I hope everyone had a blessed Easter and most enjoyable Spring Break. It was so beautiful to hear all of the fun activities that your child did over their break. And, it is so good to see everyone again.

This coming week we celebrate and amazing group of individuals at St. Rita's. Every staff member deserves a round of applause for their dedication, commitment and passion for what they do. May 1-6 is when we celebrate all of our hard working staff-National Staff Appreciation Week. There are many ways to celebrate and we have some fun things happening.

Feel free to surprise your child's teacher!!! Smiles and hugs are always welcomed too!

It is just so hard to believe that we are entering into one of my favorite months. The month of May! Let's pray that our April showers will now bring those many May flowers. I am excited to share that as we move into May, the learning never stops. There is still so much to do. We will be looking forward to the warmer weather, wearing of shorts (again), celebrating the Feast of St. Rita, Spring Musical, Field Day, 8th grade promotion and much much more. In addition, I would like to share that each Friday of May, we will hold OOU days for the students. More details further down in this newsletter.

Many blessings to you and your family!

Dr. Sue

St. Rita's Mission

Living Loving and Learning Our Faith: Living as members of our Catholic Faith Community; Loving God and all of His creation; Learning for our future on Earth and Heaven.

Upcoming OOU Dates

Last four Fridays of the 2021-22 school year!

May 6, 13, 20 and 27

These can be spirit wear or student choice with a gentle reminder regarding being in compliance with respect for your body and dress code.

*As a friendly reminder: jeans, leggings, jeggings, athletic pants are acceptable Jeans must be free of holes, tears or repairs. No midriffs, shirts must have sleeves etc.

Math Competition

Ms. Putra put on an awesome math competition for the Siena K-8 schools where 71 students participated. We had 3 St. Rita winners among the 9 individual winners. They were awarded 1st, 2nd, and 3rd for each of the three grade levels: 6th, 7th, and 8th.

St Rita Trophy Winners were:

6th Grade:

1st place Elias F.

2nd place Eli L.

7th Grade:

1st place tie Ella N.

Team Winners

Elias F. (1st), Alina U. (2nd), Eli L. (3rd)

Tressa W. (2), Ana M. (2nd)

Ella N. (1st) Mandy D. (1st)

Marissa F. (1st)

Father John LoCoco

St. Rita’s was very excited to host Father John LoCoco today. On a day of welcoming everyone back he gave an inspirational faith filled message about choices and vocations to our middle school students! Thank you Father John for leading us closer to God.

ART

In middle school, we're working on a classic: Shrinky Dinks! The kids are having a lot of fun picking out a shoe to trace, design, and make into their very own keychain. I'm loving how creative everyone is being and how each shoe is one of a kind! Be sure to ask your student to share their work with you once we're done with the project.

Kindergarten

Kindergarten created Crowns as part of their learning about the letter and sound K and QU.

Celebrating Ms. Maria Lopez!

It is with great pleasure that we celebrated Administrative Professional Day by honoring and recognizing Ms. Lopez for the many wonderful things she does for so many. We would not know what to do without her loving care in helping with ice packs, fixing the copier, orders, answering phones, attendance, handing out band aids and making our day brighter! Thank you Ms. Lopez for all that you do!

5th Grade: Peace Learning Circles!

We closed out the year with our 3rd-6th grade Peace Learning Circles Family. We appreciated all of the strategies to help us when we have to handle conflicts or just need a helping hand. We learned the importance of kindness and love. We also spent time sharing what we are grateful! Our 5th graders completing their last course and received their certificates.

Thursday Mass & Altar Servers

Altar Servers Javier A. and Elliot B.

We took a moment to pray and reflect on the sudden unexpected loss of Ms. Pruyn. We recognized her love for St. Rita's and pray that her soul has entered into the gates of heaven.

Summer School

Hello Siena Families!

We invite you to register today for the Center for Urban Teaching/Siena Catholic Schools of Racine Summer School program! This FREE program is great for learning AND enrichment...math, art, science, reading, phy ed, we have it all! Students will receive FREE breakfast and lunch, too.

WHO: all Siena students (incoming K5-8)
WHAT: Summer School!
WHEN: Wednesday, June 29, 2022 - Wednesday, July 27, 2022 (no school on July 4 or 5); 7:30 a.m. – 2 p.m. Mon, Tues, Thurs, and Fri; 7:30 a.m. – 1 p.m. Wednesdays (breakfast and lunch included on all days)
WHERE: St. Rita Catholic School
COST: Aside from the $5 per shirt fee (required), this program is free, free, free!

Why consider CfUT's summer school program? This is a fantastic program that helps reduce summer learning loss, something especially critical because of the COVID disruptions over the past two years. This particular summer school is a great combination of fun activities and academic enrichment. Register today!

Please note: registration is on a first-come, first-served basis. Waiting lists will be formed once classes are full. There is no before or after school care and parents are required to provide their own transportation.

Sports Banquet

Students who have participated in any Sport for St. Rita School this year will be having a banquet on Thursday, May 12th, 5:30 PM- 7:30PM.

The banquet will be held at the school gym.

Please email Mr. Tom Ferguson for more information or any questions.

tferguson@alloyweld.com

SCRIP

While we cannot have SCRIP in person like we used to, we CAN participate in SCRIP online with E-gift card delivery, which is instant and completely contact-free.

You can ONLY purchase E-gift cards (there are over 750 vendors to choose from, including Amazon, Target, Kohls, Home Depot, Walmart, Starbucks, etc.!)
A percentage of that purchase (2-17%) "gives back" as a rebate:
- 50% of the rebate goes toward your family's tuition bill, student activity fees, spirit wear or a check at the end of the school year
- 50% of the rebate directly supports St. Rita’s.

Click on the link to Learn more : https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UAVWKOFQDJwnlFhUO_3CJ3Z7OUaaGPS8/view?usp=sharing

Catholic Social Responsibility Guidebook

Please see the newly released Catholic Social Responsibility Guidebook from the Archdiocese of Milwaukee under the direction of Dr. Kathleen Cepelka. It is available at https://www.archmil.org/Education/Catholic-Social-Responsibility.htm.