Thank you to everyone who shared and supported our Lou Malnati’s dining out night on Monday! We raised over $500 – that’s amazing! Also, our Spirit Wear sale closed on Sunday. Orders will be brought to the school the week of December 7th. We wish everybody a healthy and restful Thanksgiving Break!
 
Interested in joining our group? We’d love to have more parents involved in our planning process!  Contact us at any time: ptl@stpaulaurora.org.
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11/23-27 – Fall Break
12/1-2 – Taping of the Christmas Program
12/12-13 – Virtual School Christmas Program
12/14 - Christmas Mini Sale for students  12/14
12/18 thru 1/3/21 - Christmas Break begins Noon on Friday, 12/18 thru Sunday, 1/3/21

Congratulations to Nov. & Dec. Baptism Birthday Students who we celebrated on Wed., 11/18, in chapel:

Savannah Brach              
Emmett Duran                
Morgan Hill
Matthew Erickson          
Maison Schramm           
Isabella Placek
Dixon Batchelor              
Leyton Hoffman                           
Oscar Luqueno
Nathan Voelkner            
Sara Ramirez                   
Gianna Marziani-Radomski
Kaden Neuhaus              
Alyssa Mata                     
​Angel Morales
Piper Perry

Have you ever noticed how kids' ears tend to shrink when we try to tell them something really important? Have you also noticed how these very same ears swell when we are trying to have a private conversation with another adult?
 
It's a basic fact of human nature. People just have the hardest time ignoring conversations that are happening around them. We can take advantage of this fascinating phenomenon by talking about the key things we want our kids to learn…just within their hearing distance.
 
The more our kids overhear us talking about how we are proud to act honestly, the more likely they’ll act honestly.
 
The more they overhear us talking about our own love of learning, the more interested in learning they will become.
 
The more positive comments they overhear us making about their schools and their teachers, the more respectful and motivated they will be around their schools and their teachers.
 
My father never tried to talk me into studying psychology, becoming an author, and teaching Love and Logic. Instead I overheard him time and time again talking about how much he loved doing these things.

Thursday, 11/5, the Northern IL District Athletic Directors and Principals got together to discuss the possibility of winter sports. We wanted to make a joint decision since our schools are all in-school learning. The consensus was to table the final decision until January since COVID numbers are still rising, and our schools have been functioning safely with all our precautions in place.

This year our school will be participating in a different way for St. Paul’s Food Drive.

We will, again, be partnering with Jewel. They offer $5 and $10 food bags at their register. 

We will be having a Food Drive Jeans Day on Friday, 11/13. Any donation of money or canned/boxed food can be brought in that day in order to dress down.

All the food will be boxed up and given to families we have names for. All the cash will be used to buy the $5 & $10 bags at Jewel.

That will be our serving project for Thanksgiving.  \It would be fantastic to have 100% participation.
Thank you for your support!

We will be taping all the students doing their part of the Christmas program on Dec. 1st and 2nd. Our program will shared online and in the church services the weekend of Dec. 12-13.

Students can wear their school uniform or their Christmas outfit on the day their class is getting taped. Your child’s teacher will let you know the day.

Since we have had no St. Paul Fall sports for grades 4-8, please send in a picture of your child playing in their outside school Fall sport. Send it to Mrs. Katz at dkatz@stpaulaurora.org. Please send in the name of your child’s team. We will make a Fall sports page in the school’s year book. Thank you.