| | | | Dear Friends,
There is no greater gift to pass on to a child than the gift of faith. As parents of children who attend a Catholic school, you have a desire for your children to understand how wonderful God is in their lives. Their teachers, with you, ignite their awareness of God's life in them and God's love for all of us. St. Thomas More supports you as you create in your home the sacred space children need to grow in their appreciation for God's love. | | | This Friday, we will celebrate the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, a Holy Day of Obligation. Please consider joining the student body at the 8:30am mass.
ADVENT PRAYER SERVICE
As we continue through this Advent season, please consider joining us next Tuesday, December 12, for a prayer service presented by 7th grade in the gym at 8:10am. The final Advent prayer service will be presented on Tuesday, December 19. | |  | | For Santa's Secret Shop
Rose de Dios
Alaina Guillermo
For the First Communion and Confirmation candidates presentation mass
Mrs. Byrne
Mr. Kavanagh
For the Holiday Faire and Pancake Breakfast
Jessica Ramirez
Raquel Trigueros
The Ragasa Family
Vilaska Nguyen
Howard Hines
A special thank you to the 6th and 8th grade dads and moms who showed up to cook/serve breakfast. | |  | PHOTOS, VIDEOS AND MORE!
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Please send a jar (or two!), any kind, any size with your child by Friday, December 8. If we reach our goal of 500 jars of peanut butter by next Friday, December 8, the student body will enjoy free dress on Wednesday, December 20.
CURRENT COUNT: 313 | | | TOY DRIVE
The SF Firefighters toy barrel is now in the office and is awaiting your donations! Please consider donating new, unwrapped toy(s) for kids ages infant to 12 years old. Let's continue to help less fortunate kids in our community, especially at this time of the year. We will continue collecting the toys until December 15. | | | CHRISTMAS PROGRAM Next Thursday, December 14, our students will present their Christmas Program and will sing a selection of non-traditional Christmas Carols. All students will be involved in this production. Again this year we will be presenting the program at the Shah Center for The Performing Arts. The music teacher has requested that your child wear the following clothing for each grade. No t-shirts, sweats, Uggs or sneakers please. Pants/dressy jeans should be fitted and not baggy. Preschool - Christmas clothes
Kinder - Red colored shirts
1st Grade - "Shiny" shirts - think silver, gold, sequins
2nd Grade - Christmas nice fancy dress
3rd Grade - Fun Christmas shirts or sweaters
4th Grade - Christmas nice fancy dress - girls should wear dresses or skirts
5th Grade - Christmas nice fancy dress
6th Grade - Hawaiian attire - shorts, shirts, flip flops, NO HATS
7th Grade - Dress up in predominately GREEN colored clothes
8th Grade - Christmas nice fancy dress The yard will be open for parking at 6:00pm. The gym doors will open at 6:15pm to allow students to enter their classrooms and for parents to enter the gym. Everyone is asked to line up in an orderly manner until the gym doors open. All students need to arrive by 6:30pm at the latest. We will begin the program promptly at 7:00 pm. We are asking that everyone attending this fun event considers bringing one or two new, unwrapped toys as part of our toy drive for needy children. We look forward to your attendance for this faith-filled and fun-filled production. Everyone is welcome! | | | CHILDREN'S CHRISTMAS EVE LITURGY
Calling all Angels, Shepherds, Wise Men and readers! Please consider having your child participate in the Christmas Eve Children's Liturgy. Please see this flyer for more information. | | AMAZON SMILE
Shop for everyone on your gift list this holiday at smile.amazon.com/ch/94-1665274 and Amazon donates to St. Thomas More School. To register, visit smile.amazon.com, log in with your regular Amazon user and password, and select "St. Thomas More School" as the organization you'd like to support. Remember that purchases must originate from smile.amazon.com to be counted. | | | U-TURNS and DOUBLE PARKING
SCRIP REQUIREMENT
Families who have accrued funds towards their scrip requirement will receive notification today with those amounts. Please keep in mind that if you do not meet the $100 requirement, you will be charged the $150 buy out fee (minus your accrued amount). If you have questions, or would like information on how to get on board with one or more of our rebate options, ShopwithScrip, eScrip or the Benefit Mobile App, please email Judy at jsilva@stmsf.org. | | Does your child have a December or January Birthday? Please click HERE to schedule a birthday party for your child and complete a birthday book request.
Just a reminder that Christmas vacation starts at 12:15/12:30pm on Wednesday, December 20. There is no extended care that day, so plan ahead!
Marie Fitzpatrick
Principal | | | | | | | |
