Time for Spring cleaning? When cleaning out your cabinets, don’t throw out those reusable water bottles! The students at Our Lady of Miracles in Haiti can use them! The students now have access to clean water and would love to have new or gently used water bottles so they can carry clean drinking water with them. What a great way to give new purpose to the bottles you no longer need! The water bottle collection will take place after all the Masses the weekend of May 19-20. You can drop them off in the boxes in the narthex.

Thanks to everyone who participated in the annual First Grade Bake Sale!  They raised $491.62 for the Room In The Inn ministry at St. Matthew Church.

The SMS Spirit Store will be open Wednesday, May 16^th 7:30-3:30.  Come shop the Summer Clearance!  Now is your last chance to pick up something for Dad before Fathers’ Day too!

Start rounding up items for the HSA Used Uniform Sale.  It will be on Thursday, May 24^th.  Click here for detailed information. http://www.sms.churchofstmatthew.org/Support/HomeandSchoolAssociation/SpringUsedUniformSale.aspx 

A reminder to those who chose to pay 2012-13 tuition in one or two payments – the first payment is due by June 1^st.  Please contact Vince Winterland at vwinterland@churchofstmatthew.org if you have questions.

The Lost and Found box is overflowing.  Cool mornings and warm afternoons lead to many lost jackets, so take a look to see if your child made it home with theirs. 

Take part in a fun and healthy way to raise money for St. Matthew School – register for the Nashville Kids Triathalon.  Pick up a registration form at school or visit www.NashvilleKidsTriathlon.org.  

4 x 8 bricks ($75) along the Path of Remembrance are still available—they make wonderful gifts for teachers or to commemorate First Communion, Confirmation, Mother's & Father's Day! The deadline for orders to be inscribed this summer is May 25. For information, contact Anne Tarwater at 550-5109 or atarwater@churchofstmatthew.org.

St. Matthew Church Mothers Group - Please join us on May 14th at 10:30 a.m. for a craft time and story hour at Brilliant Sky Toys in Cool Springs.  Miss Diana does a great job of providing a wonderful craft and story time to tie it all together.  The store has a wonderful craft room with more supplies than your little one will know what to do with!  It is a great way to spend some time with other moms from our parish.  Brilliant Sky Toys is located at 1705 Mallory Lane in Brentwood.  For more information and to RSVP, please contact Jamie Vallecorsa at adacorsa@bellsouth.net or 662-0617. 

If your child has medication in the school clinic, don’t forget to stop by and pick it up sometime this month.  Medications not picked up will be disposed of at the end of the school year.

As the end of the year approaches, please review the policy on lunch accounts in the Student Handbook on page 14.  Unused lunch card balances will be:

a)   rolled over to the next year if there is a family member attending the next school year.

b)   refunded if the balance is more than $10 AND there is no family member attending SMS the next school year.

c)   forfeited if the balance is less than $10 AND there is no family member attending SMS the next school year.

Check out the summer camp options available at St. Matthew School.  Look for “Camp SMS 2012” under the parent tab on our website!

Learning in the summer can be fun at Camp St. Cecilia

Who says learning during the summer can’t be fun? At Camp St. Cecilia this summer, SCA teachers are turning geometry lessons into activities with origami and construction. They are also bringing the poems we all loved as children from Dr. Seuss and Shel Silverstein to life in a new poetry camp. Fun with Geometry is the week of June 25 from 1-4 p.m. each day for girls rising into grades 4-6. Longtime SCA geometry teacher Susie Schultheiss will lead the camp with her more than 20 years of experience in teaching geometry. So come have fun with polygons and explore trigonometry. The cost is $120. Dr. Robert Collins, SCA’s English department co-chair, will lead campers in reading, performing and discussing poems in his camp The Poetry of Suess & Silverstein. Girls will write poems of their own and create their own book of poetry with Dr. Collins, who is famous at SCA for his own poetry writing. The camp is the week of July 9 from 9 a.m. –noon and cost $100 for girls rising into grades 5-8. To register for these camps and to see a full listing of camps offered at Camp St. Cecilia, visit www.stcecilia.edu. Contact Camp Director Amie Pike with any questions at pikea@stcecilia.edu or (615) 298-4525.