February 18, 2019

Kindergarten Informational Sessions and Round-Up for 2019-20 on Tuesday, Feb 19th

Kindergarten Informational Sessions and Round-Up are on February 19th.  Two sessions are available:  8:00 – 9:30 a.m. in the parish center and 6:00 – 7:30 p.m. in the cafeteria.  Please call ahead so we can have a special package ready for your child.

New JFK Video

Our first draft of a new video highlighting the JFK Difference is available:  JFK Difference.  The video is available through multiple routes on our website.  The easiest one is under the “JFK Difference” tab.

Tuition Tax Credit

Don’t forget to take advantage of the Iowa “tuition tax credit.”  For the first $1,000 spent on each dependent’s education, $250 in tax credits are available on your Iowa taxes.  No special forms are required any more.  Please remember when doing the calculations, however, that the tax/calendar year actually splits two different school years with different tuition rates.

Out of Uniform Dress Day Guidelines:  Last Week’s Observations

As I previewed last week, I was able to get through a number of homerooms on last week’s out of uniform day on Thursday to help to see how well we are doing with the policy for out of uniform days.  I was able to try to look inconspicuously at dress code in grades 4-8.  Overall, students were well dressed and within the out of uniform day guidelines.  In fact, 7th and 8th graders, on the whole, were particularly well within the guidelines.  (I almost gave a shout out to 6th graders that day too until I realized that the reason there were no questions about 6th graders’ attire was that they were all in uniform to go to Ridgecrest and didn’t have their out of uniform day until Friday!  That tells you something about my real awareness of attire!)  After I had a list of thirteen students whose attire about which I had questions, I asked Mrs. Temming to look them during lunch time.

My greatest struggle was in trying to make a split second determination of “loose fitting” vs. “tightly fitted.”  Sometimes it’s tough to do with the lighting of the room, the movement/sitting of students, etc.  Once that determination is made, however, then one looks at the length of the top — is it mid-thigh?  I would say that there were a few 4th/5th graders whose tops (often t-shirts) were too short.  “Everything” was covered, but the t-shirts/tops were probably not mid-thigh.

Assumption Musical:  March 1-3

Join the Assumption Knight Players March 1 and 2 at 7:00 p.m. and March 3 at 2:00 p.m. for The Drowsy Chaperone! With the houselights down, a man in a chair appears on stage, puts on his favorite record: the cast recording of the fictitious 1928 musical The Drowsy Chaperone, and watches as the recording comes to life in his apartment. The Drowsy Chaperone is a masterful meta-musical, featuring one show-stopping song and dance number after another!