No money until after you get the pictures back.

Another flyer will be coming home on April 8

CANDY, MAGAZINES AND SHOPPING CARDS

ALL MONIES SHOULD BE TURNED IN.

SAVE THE DATE:

Our next big Fundraiser: May 2, after both the 8:00 and 10:30 Mass Forester's Egg Bake Breakfast.

Don't forget to bring in your BOX TOPS tomorrow for our monthly Cut and Collect contest! Remember Middle School Students this is the third and last month to win a pizza party! The 7th and 8th graders have already won will the 6th grade win this month??? Parents if you do not cut, your children can bring spare change. Every little bit makes a difference!

April will be KEMPS collection.

Opportunity for Volunteer hours. For those parents that have time to help cut and count Box Tops, we will be meeting in the school cafeteria after the bell rings. It is a great time to get in your two hours! Thank you for those that always help!  Hopefully we can see a few new faces.

VOLUNTEERS:

We have eleven (11) lawn signs left over. Do you live in a location that would be ideal for one of them? Stop by the office and pick one up. One family said they put the flyer at their place of business. What have you done to help support our school by spreading the news about Information Night on April 13 at 6:30 PM.

HAPPY EASTER! See you on Thursday, April 8!

April Calendar

April/May Lunch Menu

Spring Picture Flyer

St. Thomas Academy – Community Auction

SCHOOL PROMOTION WISH LIST

The school Board of Ed and the Finance Committee just approved tuition for new students of $2000 beginning next school year.

This is being done to try to fill the vacant seats in the school. We are beginning to communicate this new tuition level and would like to ask for your help with the ad costs. Below are ads we will be taking out:

Clipper ad - $199

St. Paul Voice ad - $273

So. St. Paul Voice ad - $160

Pioneer Press Special Ed section ad - $800

MTC bus shelter ad - $100 ea. Have you seen the 3 shelters along S. Robert St.? The one on Wabasha & Plato will be up in April.

Thank you to the families that have already donated $599.00. If you can donate even a portion of the cost that would make our ad dollars go farther. Please make checks payable to St. Michael School. Thank you for whatever help you can provide.

Mike Koenigsberger - Marketing Volunteer

FIRST COMMUNION RETREAT
Mark your calendars All school and CCD students making their first Holy Communion this spring are expected to attend a retreat on Saturday April 17 from 9 am to 12:30 pm. The retreat will be held at school. Mark your calendars and watch for further announcements.

Mary Koenigsberger and Cheryl McNellis

FATHER'S GIFT

In celebration of the Year of the Priest we gave Father a Spiritual Bouquet filled with many Masses, prayers, and sacrifices. Also, gift certificates to Twins Territory in the amount of $300.00. Thank you to all who contributed.

PANCAKE BREAKFAST

WHO: Boy Scout Troop 288

DATE: April 11th

TIME: 7am - 12:30 pm

WHERE: St. Michael's cafeteria.

COST: $6.00 Adults, $3.00 Seniors, $3.00 Children (12 and under), $16.00 Family (parents and children 12 and under).

The Fifth Grade Class graduated from the D.A.R.E program last Tuesday. Two students were chosen to read their essays, congratulations to all the students.

D.A.R.E.

D.A.R.E. is very important for everybody to learn. I learned a lot, from meeting good friends or learning dangers around us.

In Lesson 8, we wore the drunk goggles. It was a very good experience of how I would balance. I fell down a lot. Even when we do something fun we learned something. D.A.R.E. reminded me a lot about my relative who I was very close to but passed.

In Lesson 2, we learned about tobacco. Tobacco has 200 known poisons, maybe even more. We all got to make our own cigarette warning, too. I read it to my family, and they were very interested in it. Then we learned about alcohol and how bad it is to drink too much. Officer Mike said sometimes if you get too relaxed after drinking too much and get too comfortable and lay down, you could swallow your tongue and choke on it.

When we learned about peer pressure, I learned that peer pressure can be good or bad. There are four different kinds of peer pressure: bully, tense, positive and unsure.

When we got to learn about marijuana, I thought back to the tobacco lesson and thought . . .why is tobacco not illegal when tobacco is just as bad as marijuana?

D.A.R.E. was a very important lesson, and every kid should learn it. We should always remember that anything can happen at any time, and we should be prepared.

By Brenna

D.A.R.E.

This essay is about DARE and my experience learning about DARE. DARE stands for Drug Abuse Resistance Education. It also can stand for define assess respond evaluate. Define means to describe the problem challenge or opportunity. Assess means to look at your choices. Respond means to make a choice. Evaluate means to review your decision. You can use these tips to help you make good choices.

Making good choices is important because if you don't make good choices your life could end up being very bad. Some examples of good choices are: not doing drugs or drinking too much alcohol and not smoking tobacco or pot (marijuana).

Drinking alcohol is definitely not good for you and if you think it's cool you're wrong. In fact only sixteen percent of eighth graders have tried alcohol. Alcohol affects your brain, mouth, throat, lungs, heart, and liver.

Tobacco is not a good choice either, and it's also not cool in school because only seven percent of eighth graders have tried it. Tobacco also affects everything that alcohol affects.

Marijuana isn't cool either because guess what only seven percent of eighth graders have tried it. Marijuana affects everything alcohol and tobacco affect which if you've forgotten they are your brain mouth, throat, lungs, heart, and liver.

If you ever buy a pack of cigarettes there will be a surgeon general's warning on the box and it might say something like: warning this contains at least 200 KNOWN POISONS, and NICOTINE if you take this you have a risk of LUNG CANCER.

If you are wondering what nicotine is I'll tell you. Nicotine is a very addictive ingredient that's in all cigarettes. So if you want to just try one, nicotine will make you want more.

Remember, D.A.R.E. is a program that could set good boundaries for your life, and if you don't set good boundaries for your life you regret it.

By Sam