St. Luke Light

December 11, 2021

From Mrs. Buhrman

Dear St. Luke Community,

I wanted to take this opportunity to make you aware of some upcoming events and changes.

As stated in a previous letter, we will be switching to Dennis Uniforms, located on Isom Road. School Yard still has uniforms in stock for this year. We will be switching to green polo options for the girls in grades 2-8th. White midi blouses will only be required on mass days.

We are also excited about having Christmas parties this year! PTC and room parents are working hard to make our Christmas parties safe and fun this year. Thank you all so much for making this happen for our children. Santa Claus will be here to see the children on Friday, Dec. 17. We will do our best to take lots of pictures and post them on Facebook. Please reach out to your room parent if there are any questions, or concerns about the party.

We are in the process of making modifications to our Covid Safety Plan, to ease into some changes. We are currently working together to have both classes, grades 1st-8th, eat lunch together, while still having the students socially distanced. We are working with the teachers to ensure that students have friend groups to eat with, space to spread out, and a safe place to have a more inclusive lunch. We will continue to monitor the safest practices for our students.

Please continue to sell raffle tickets. 100% of all proceeds comes directly back to our school. We are trying to earn money to improve our facilities for our students. Thank you for your participation!

We are also excited about our upcoming Gala on April 22, 2022. Mark your calendars! This year’s Gala will be held at the Witte and the theme is Havana Nights. We will have more information in January. The Tamez family is chairing this event, and we appreciate their hard work to make this event spectacular! Thank you for supporting our Gala.

Thank you for all you do for our school! We appreciate the generosity of our community with their time, talents, and treasure. Together, we can accomplish anything!

Nadine Buhrman

It's time for our annual Diaper Drive!

This year, we're offering prizes to the grade level that brings in the most diapers (not packages of diapers). The final count day, is Wednesday, December 15.

Diapers will be donated to the Guadalupe Community Center and the Healy Murphy Center. Thank you for your continued generosity!

Thank you, 3rd grade, for leading a beautiful Mass celebrating the Feast of the Immaculate Conception.

St. Luke Mighty Math Team Results !

On Saturday, December 11, the math team competed at Alamo Heights Junior School. Even though we were minus 2 students, our 7-member Team placed 3^rd overall. The math team competed against students from Alamo Heights, Basis and other academic teams. Here are the results.

4^th grader Makylee Bruce competing as a 6^th grader won
9^th place in Calculator, 9^th Dictionary, 10^th Maps & Graphs
6^th grader Rodrigo Perez–Vasquez won
8^th place in Number Sense, 7^th Calculator, 6^th Dictionary, 4^th Maps & Graphs, 5^th History
6^th Grader Ayden Pena won
8^th place in Spelling, 6^th Number Sense, 8^th Calculator, 3^rd Math, 4^th Dictionary, 3^rd Maps & Graphs, 10^th History
6^th Grader Andrew Sandoval won
2^nd in Spelling, 2^nd Number Sense, 1^st Calculator, 6^th Science, 6^th Math, 1^st Dictionary, 8^th Maps & Graphs, 7^th History
7^th Grader Solomon Grenardo won
4^th Place in Spelling, 6^th Number Sense, 3^rd Calculator, 5^th Maps & Graphs, 5^th Dictionary, 5^th History
7^th Grader Andrea Abejuela won
1^st place in Spelling, 6^th Calculator, 10^th Science, 3^rd Dictionary, 4^th Maps & Graphs
7^th Grader Therese Cunanan won
2^nd place in Spelling, 7^th Number Sense, 4^th Calculator, 1^st Dictionary, 3^rd Maps & Graphs Thanks to Ms. Garcia for hosting our team in her Science Lab after school.
Congratulations! Way to Represent St Luke !
A huge thank you to Coach Ms. Laura Herold, for your dedication to our Math Team!

From Nurse Alana

Attention Parents:

If your child has allergies, please reach out to their teacher, and provide your desired snack and/or food option. As you know, students may sometimes be given treats to take home. Please monitor what your child is eating or make arrangements with your child’s teacher if your child is not allowed to have certain food items.

Thank you.

The Mother Teresa Society helped at the Senior Ministry’s Christmas drive through by loading Christmas trees into cars and collecting donated toys for Inner City Development.

Mother Teresa Society members held a free car wash on Friday, December 3, for seniors in our parish community. The seniors were most grateful, “Thank you so much for the car washes. That was an amazing Act of Kindness. Kindness changes everything.”

Follow the Science!

Kinder students combined art and science to learn about the color wheel.

A look ahead…

Fri., Dec. 17 – End of 2nd quarter
Fri., Dec. 17 – Noon Dismissal, No After-school Care
Dec. 20 – Jan. 3: Christmas Break
Tues., Jan. 4 – Classes resume
Tues., Jan. 4 - Catholic Life Raffle, ALL tickets and monies due