Saint Juliana School

Hot ham and cheese sandwich will be substituted
with Galaxy Pizza. Please inform your child.

On February 22nd, four teachers from St. Juliana School presented “What Real Teachers Do With Classroom Technology: The Future Is Now” at Loyola Academy for the Office of Catholic Schools Professional Development Convention. The members of the Tech Team were Mrs. Madelyn Gawne, Instructional Technology Coordinator, Mrs. Denise Casey, third grade teacher, Mrs. Kristina Reyes, 4th and 5th grade science teacher, and Mrs. Amanda Oh, 6th, 7th, and 8th grade science teacher.



During the presentation the St. Juliana Tech Team provided examples of how they have used interactive whiteboards, tablets, document cameras, and handheld student response systems in their classrooms. Also included in the presentation were examples of teachers and students using Web 2.0 sites.

All band lessons for the week of 3/08 will be held on Monday 3/08. Also no after school rehearsal on Monday.
No band on Thursday 3/11.


Students, please bring your instruments on Monday.

On Monday, March 8, please be on the lookout for a letter that will be sent home with the youngest/only student in each family. It is printed on blue paper, folded and stapled closed.

The letter requests each family to verify or provide Social Security Number information for each student currently enrolled in all grades preschool through eight. This data will facilitate production of tax reporting documents for 2010 and beyond, that are in full compliance with state and federal requirements.

Additionally, we will be assigning each student a unique ID# incorporating the last four digits of the SSN, which will allow us to further develop our student information database and enhance communication and interactivity between families and school. Watch for more information to be released in the coming weeks!

Thank you for your prompt assistance with this project.

Here's the dedicated iGive.com link, for the 24-hour challenge that begins Wednesday:

iGive.com/St. Juliana School Promotion

For each person who joins iGive using that link AND visits a participating iGive store (no purchase necessary!) via iGive between noon, Wednesday February 24, 2010 and 11:59 AM Thursday, February 25, 2010, our school will earn a dollar.

So all you have to do is click the link and visit a store, but it must be during the time period specified in order for us to earn the bonus.

Ala Carte Entertainment owns both Moretti's and the new Park Place (in the old Basta Pasta location) and invites you to use your Moretti's TRIP certificates at Park Place, too. In fact, your Ala Carte TRIP certificates can be used at any of their dining establishments.

Park Place has banquet space, so this is good to know for those First Communion and graduation gatherings.

Great news! Nonno Pino TRIP certificates are now available! They are being offered in $25 denominations and Nonno Pino's is providing a VERY generous 20% discount on their certificates.

They're in stock right now!

Last month we posted a last-minute entry about a 24-hour special promotion iGive.com was running, to earn money for our school. There wasn't much time for us to publicize the program and use the promotion period to our advantage, but nine new users did join iGive.com and we earned $9 that day. Thanks to those of you who joined!

Well... iGive.com is running the promotion again and this time they're providing us with advance notice.

Beginning at 12:00 noon on Wednesday, February 24, until noon on Thursday, February 25, iGive.com will give our school $1 for every new member that signs up using a special link, which we'll provide next week. (Please wait to join iGive.com until the promotion period begins!)

iGive.com is a shopping search engine that costs nothing to join or use and for each new member that signs up during our Special Challenge window on February 24, we'll earn $1.

Once you're a member, any searches you make using iGive.com earn our school commissions of a few cents per search. Should you make a purchase using a vendor you found through an iGive.com search, that merchant will donate a percentage of your purchase to St. Juliana School, earning even more revenue for the school. There are more than 700 vendors affiliated with iGive.com's non-profit program, such as Amazon, Ulta, eBay, Expedia, TurboTax and more.

We'll email the Special Challenge link next Monday. This is a win-win fundraiser that costs families and our school nothing to administer. There is no limit to the number of iGive.com searchers we can have so feel free to share the Special Challenge link with everyone you know!

Got shoes?

Our St. Juliana Girl Scout troops are sponsoring a shoe drive to benefit Soles for Souls, a non-profit organization focused on sending much-needed footwear to the 300 million shoeless children throughout the world. The group is currently working to meet the needs of the earthquake victims in Haiti. For that purpose, our Girl Scouts will be collecting new and gently-used shoes via collection boxes in the back of church, school and parish center.

Please bring your shoe donations (flip-flops and clogs are the most useful!) to any of those locations between February 27 and March 7.


If you don't have shoes to spare, monetary donations are also needed, as it costs roughly $1.50 per pair to ship to the nearest Soles for Souls distribution center in Iowa, in preparation for shipment to Haiti. Monetary donations can be directed to school or the parish office, attention: Soles for Souls; checks should be payable to St. Juliana Parish.

You may also make an instant credit/debit or e-check donation to the Soles for Souls effort at GiveCentral.org by clicking the Soles 4 Souls image above, or the link below. The suggested donation is $10, however any amount will be gladly accepted. The parish will pass the total collected to the St. Juliana Girl Scouts on March 22, 2010.

Please support our Girl Scouts with this very worthy effort!

>> Donate to Soles for Souls

Please note the letter in today’s “backpack mail” to Governor Quinn concerning the Illinois Textbook Loan Program. The Governor is currently working on his budget recommendations for the next school year. It is our challenge to convince him to include funding for the Textbook Loan Program in his budget proposal. Please read the letter, sign it, and return to school by Friday, February 19, so we can mail the letters to Springfield. More information can be found on: www.catholicconferenceofillinois.org.