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Newsletter
The mission of Christ the King School
is to provide an excellent education
in a Catholic community of love and care;
to foster respect for self and others,
and to nourish a life-long devotion to God
And the teachings of Jesus Christ
Dear Parents and Guardians,
We are in the season of Advent. Our students are engaged in
class and
school-wide prayer. Our teachers guide our students to think of
Christ
in our lives and how we treat each other. During the four weeks
of Ad-
vent we are preparing to celebrate together as a school
community and
with our family Christ’s birth.
Amid the Christmas songs on the radio, the lights in windows,
and the
anticipation of gifts from Santa Claus; we should take refuge in
the
hope Jesus brings us. This Christmas will most likely look and
feel dif-
ferent with family members not gathering as they usually do.
Many of
us will see our relatives through video chats or phone calls.
However,
we must know the message of hope and joy the birth of Christ
brings
us will transcend all of our difficulties. Let us be grateful
for our CKS
community, our friends and neighbors, and our family member’s
safety
and health.
Pope Francis encourages us in his recent Advent homily, “people
must
stay awake and remain vigilant through charity and
compassionate
service to others.”
We can all strive to help other s in need this Christmas. CKS is
spon-
soring Toys for Kids of Vermont as our community project. I hope
you
will be able to consider a donation. More information is inside
this
newsletter.
Wishing you a blessed Christmas,
Dr. Dwyer
Message from the Principal Important Dates
December 9
Dress Down Day
December 12
Barnes & Noble
Fundraiser 9am-7pm
December 17
Last Day of Cash Cal-
endar to support CKS
scholarships
December 21
Last Day to Donate
Toys for Kids VT
December 22
Noon Dismissal
Christmas Add-on
Day
December 23 –
January 1
Christmas Break
December 2020
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Classroom Snapshots
Mrs. Whitney’s Preschool class are learning about advent. Here
is Preschool's bul-letin board and a scene of St. Nicholas shoes
made for the students.
Mrs. Hango’s Bridge class have cre-ated pic-tures of them-selves
as Santa’s helpers on her bulletin board.
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Mrs. Zachary’s Pre-K class made ornaments for the trees adorning
the manger on her bulletin board. Students also light the Advent
wreath each day in their class-room.
Mrs. Culupa’s Kindergarten class makes reading comprehension
predictions.
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Mrs. Byrne’s first grade class had a great time learning about
contractions by doing some word surgery.
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Mrs. Cootey’s 3rd grade class is making landform lap books in
order to help learn about communities. How does where you live
affect how you live? Just ask a third grader!
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Mrs. Gillis and the 5th Grade Class would love to say thank you
to all of the CKS families for donating items for the Thanksgiving
baskets. The baskets brimmed with yummy goodies and were collected
by the Howard Center who then delivered them to families in need in
our community. A big thank you to Farrell Distributing for donating
the 12 turkeys. We wish all of our families a peaceful and joyful
Ad-vent season.
5th grade sewed Jesse Tree ornaments for their Advent door. Each
student select-ed a day and created a felt ornament to accompany
the daily advent reading.
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Middle School Kindness Tree The Middle School Team has
constructed a kindness tree in the hallway in order to prepare
ourselves during Advent for the birth of Christ. The tree was made
from the traced hands of our middle school students. All acts of
kindness are noted on an ornament, that students will hang on the
tree. It is our hope that the tree will be weighted down with
ornaments as we head into our Christmas break!
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Playground Blessing & Opening On Tuesday, December 1st
Monsignor McDermott gathered students in prayer to open our new
playground. Monsignor then blessed the playground structure with
holy water. Most of all, Monsignor was the first one to go down the
tallest slide!
Decorating
Monsignor’s
Christmas Tree On Monday, December 7th, the 2nd grade
participated in the annual tradition of deco-rating Monsignor
McDermott’s Christmas tree. Although stu-dents usually enter the
recto-ry’s covered porch, this year gathered students outside on
the patio to place their orna-ment on the tree. Some placed it low
and others need-ed a ladder to reach high up! A cookie reception
followed in Mr. Verdirame’s classroom.
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Dear Christ the King Families, This year for the Christmas
season we are working with Toys for Kids of Vermont to help collect
new unwrapped toys. The need is greater this year. Toys for Kids is
ex-pecting at least a 25% higher demand due the pandemic, but has
lost many of their drop sites due to business closures, or places
of business not wanting to have peo-ple enter to drop items
off.
Here at CKS we firmly believe that Vermont children should not
lose their Christmas.
We have accepted a drop site barrel and it is available in the
front door vestibule of the school for families to donate. We will
also keep it in our vestibule over the week-ends so that
parishioners attending Mass can donate.
If you would rather not bring something in person, you are
welcome to order a toy through Amazon and have it delivered
directly to the school. If you order through Amazon Smile, your
purchase can also help support CKS, choose CKS as your des-ignated
charity through: http://smile.amazon.com/ch/26-1420469. You can
have your order delivered to the CKS lobby. 136 Locust Street,
Burlington VT 05401. Care of Tracey Whitney. All donations must be
delivered/brought to the school by Monday, December 21st.
Thank you,
Dr. Dwyer
http://smile.amazon.com/ch/26-1420469
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PTO Fundraisers:
We expect Square One art to be delivered to CKS around December
17
th. If your items were shipped to school, we
will get send them home with your child as soon as they come
in.
CA$H Calendar The last day to sell your Holiday Cash Calendar
Raffle tickets is December 17
th! Please help us reach our goal of selling 2,000 raf-
fle tickets this year by returning your tickets today. All
proceeds go to the CKS Scholarship Fund.
If you need additional calendars, they are available at the
front office. Cash Calen-dars can also be purchased online (or
printed at home) at: https://cksvt.org/cash-calendars.
Fundraiser is on Saturday, December 12th 9am to 7pm
We are looking for volunteers, so look out for an email to sign
up.
We will be distributing vouchers to shoppers. Vouchers will be
sent vis email this year to distribute to family & friend to
share on social media. Vouchers cannot be used for online sales,
but are accepted
at Barnes & Noble stores nationwide.
Charleston Wrap Prize winner Announcement!
Top Selling Class: Kindergarten!!
Raffle Winners: Prizes will be sent home with each winner.
CKS Tote Cooler – Hadley Tomkowicz CKS Fleece Sweatshirt Blanket
– Charlotte Baslow CKS Fleece Lined Beanie – Ethan Whitcomb CKS
Baseball Cap – Ellis Torney CKS Beach Towel – Adeline Lawson
If you child(ren) sold between 5 – 9 Items, Add on day will be
Wednesday, December 16th. The theme for this add on day is Sports!
Any sport shirt and accessories can be worn this day with uniform
bottoms.
Homework and dress down day passes were already sent home with
you kid if they qualified. If you did not receive your pass, please
let us know. Contact Erin Baslow at: [email protected].
https://cksvt.org/cash-calendarshttps://cksvt.org/cash-calendarsmailto:[email protected]
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Email the PTO at [email protected]
to join our next Zoom meeting on
December 14th at 7:45pm
Even though we can't shop like we normally might, here are
still great ways to earn money for CKS:
Scrip Gift Card Fundraising
Watch your email for more details about the Scrip gift card
fundraising program! Year round, you can purchase gift cards
through the app and earn money for CKS and it does not cost you a
thing! We earn as you shop!
