Parent Connection

Next HSA Meeting- Our next HSA meeting is scheduled for tonight, Wednesday, May 12th at 7pm. This meeting will be virtual, Zoom details are available below. Just for attending this month's meeting your child will earn a free dress down day and you will earn an entry into a raffle for a $50 tuition credit!

https://buffalo.zoom.us/j/94915831907?pwd=blg2bmgyZWNuVkhSbWE5QXR5YTBzdz09

Meeting ID: 949 1583 1907
Passcode: DeSales

**Don't forget to wear your favorite hat on Friday!**

Parents as Reading Partners month at DeSales!

PARP Events & Themed Dress Down Days:

Friday, May 14th: Hats Off to Reading! Students may wear a favorite hat in school all day.

Thursday, May 27th: We “Red” All Month! Everyone may wear red, white, and blue to celebrate reading and the Memorial Day holiday.

Thursday, May 27th: Reading Bingo Boards are due.

Don't forget to fill our your PARP Reading Bingo Card! Follow this link to print one now.

Thanks for your help in encouraging a love of reading for your child!

The 2021 VIRTUAL Race for Fitness in memory of Tim Chesko will be held on Saturday, June 5th. This event is sponsored by our friends at Niagara County Produce and NetPlus Alliance. While we cannot be together to celebrate this fun DeSales tradition, it is important we still celebrate together as a community!

How do we participate? We are challenging you to run or walk following safe social distancing rules on or before June 5th. Safety is top priority! So, whether you run on a treadmill, jog around the neighborhood or walk around the block - how you RACE is up to you! Will you run your first 5k? Will you take your children for a bike ride? Share your RACE with us -send us your pictures - we want to see how you chose to RACE! (knuutilak@desalescatholicschool.org)

If you would like a 2021 Race t-shirt, hoodie or performance tee follow this link: DeSales Tim Chesko Race For Fitness 2021 | D&T Graphics (itemorder.com) Shirts are sold at printer cost and are completely optional! The deadline to order is May 14th. Orders will be sent home with your student by the end of May.

In observance of Memorial Day, there will be no school from May 28th through May 31st.

What are Little Bites from Heaven? The Spiritual Life Committee knows how important faith is to our families at DeSales. However, we also know families lead busy lives and finding time to sit down to foster that faith, read the Bible together and answer the questions our children have about God sometimes takes a back seat to other things. That’s why we think Little Bites from Heaven is a great tool to do just this. Dinnertime allows an opportunity to connect over food while having fun, joyful and meaningful faith-building conversations with your children. Little Bites from Heaven provides devotional time for all family members that includes scripture, questions to discuss and a short devotional. It’s as simple as read the scripture and devotion and discuss the questions together. We believe Little Bites from Heaven will help to prioritize what is most important and at the same time, foster and grow a deeper understanding of your family’s faith rooted in Jesus Christ.

Devotional: Seeing Things that can’t be seen

Have you ever watched a movie or read a book about a character who could become invisible? We might accept it for the world of fantasy, but if someone told us to look at something invisible in the real world, we would think he or she was either a little crazy or trying to trick us. But several times in the Bible we are told to “see” something that is invisible, so it must be possible.

Paul writes that “we live by believing and not by seeing” (2 Cor. 5:7) This means that the most precious and important realities in the world are beyond our five senses. So we “look” at these realities through what we know of Christ from the Bible. These truths about him were recorded by faithful witnesses who saw him and hear his voice and wrote down his message for us.

What are the things the Bible says we should “fix our gaze on” that cannot be seen? We have never seen Jesus withour physical eyes, and yet we fix our eyes of faith on him, and we believe. We can’t see God’s invisible hand working behind the scenes of history and in our lives, and yet by faith we believe it. We have never seen a place called heaven and can’t find it on a map, and we can’t imagine what it would be like. Yet we fix our eyes of faith on God’s promises of the place he is preparing for us, and we believe.

This is faith – spiritually seeing God and recognizing him as the ultimate reality of the Universe, the most solid truth in all creation, even though He cannot be seen with the human eye.

Scripture:

You can have a Bible close to the dinner table to use during devotions. The kids can take turns reading the scripture each week out of the Bible!

“Faith is the confidence that what we hope for will actually happen; it gives us assurance about things we cannot see” Herbrews 11:1

Discussion Questions (pick a couple or all questions and allow for everyone to answer. There’s no answer key! As parents, we sometimes think we have to have all the answers, but we don’t. It’s ok to sometimes not have all the answers! But God does and it’s good to let our kids know when tough questions arise that some things only God knows, and we can’t always understand, but we can always trust Him )

1. What are some invisible things you wish you could see?

2. Is this kind of “seeing” a feeling or a decision or a gift?

3. What things do we have now to base belief on that the people of the Old Testament did not have?

Little Bites from Heaven are excerpts taken from Dinner Table Devotions written by Nancy Guthrie

The cast of The Little Mermaid, Jr. will perform next weekend on May 21st and 22nd for their families. Due to Covid restrictions, this event will not be opened to everyone. Watch our Facebook page next week, we will be including pictures of the hard-working performers.

Many thanks to our Musical Co-Directors, Mrs. Bethany Bregy and Mrs. Katie Badura and Vocal Leader, Mrs. Jackie Davis for their leadership, creativity and for giving our students this opportunity.

• May Breakfast Menu 2021
• May Lunch Menu 2021

**Update: Breakfast and Lunch will be a provided FREE to ALL DeSales students through June 2021.**

The Start of Something Great!

Email: knuutilak@desalescatholicschool.org
Website: www.DeSalesCatholicSchool.org
Location: 6914 Chestnut Ridge Road, Lockport, NY, USA
Phone: (716)433-6422

The pandemic has been tough on everyone. Join us for a day of community uplifting. Today from 9:00AM – 9:00 PM bring your family and friends to Cornerstone CFCU Arena to Paint the Rink before we take it out for the summer. For a minimum $5 donation per person, your group will receive an assortment of paints and brushes. You’ll have 20 minutes to complete your masterpiece. Once the day is over we will take a completed photo to share on social media. The Kenan Rink will be out for the summer to welcome dryland activities including box lacrosse and community events. The Heinrich Rink will remain in ice for the season. Check out our schedule for public skating, skating lessons, fitness training, hockey clinics, ice bumper cars and more!