The scholarship application can be downloaded here, and the applications are due to our school office by April 5, 2024.

It's Book Fair Week!

Mrs. Schermetzler is so excited to have the kids into the Community Room to check out this year's Book Fair. All the details are below--please read thoroughly:

• Shop the Book Fair online! You can check it out here to preview & purchase some of the titles that are available at our fair. This is also where you can also purchase digital gift cards if you would like your student to shop cashless at the in-person book fair (more details on that below).

• Sign-up to volunteer! You will help us by setting up, helping students shop, running the register, reminding customers about Literati Kids book clubs, and restocking products and displays. All volunteers will receive a 20% discount at the fair. The link to sign-up is here. If you are volunteering after mass next weekend as a cashier, there will be a short cashier training on Friday morning at 9:00am for those who can make it.

• Student Shopping Schedules:
• Students spend the first day PREVIEWING the Book Fair. They will bring home a short list of potential books they might want to purchase. You are under NO obligation to purchase these items.

• Students will be PREVIEWING the Book Fair on the following days:
• Tuesday, March 5
• 8:00am 5K
• 8:30am 5th Grade
• 9:00am 2nd Grade
• 10:00am 4K
• 10:30am 1st Grade  
• 11:00am 3rd Grade
• 1:00pm 7th Grade

• Wednesday, March 6
• 10:00am 4th Grade
• 10:30am 6th & 8th Grade
• 11:00am 3K

• On the second day they come to the Book Fair, students will be SHOPPING. Students will be SHOPPING the Book Fair on the following days:
• Wednesday, March 6
• 1:00pm 7th Grade

• Thursday, March 7
• 8:00am 5K
• 9:00am 1st Grade
• 10:00am 5th Grade
• 10:30am 2nd Grade

• Friday, March 8
• 8:00am 4th Grade
• 8:30am 3rd Grade
• 10:00am 4K
• 10:30am 6th & 8th Grade

3K will shop and preview at the same time, on Wednesday, March 6 at 11:00am. 3K Parents are invite to come shop the Book Fair with their students before the 3K school day ends. Please check in at the office and then head to your students' classroom--you will come down together as a class at 11:00am. Students who do not attend on Wednesdays are invited to come for just the shopping portion; or you may shop on the weekend at masses. 3K parents are the only parents invited to shop during the school day. If you would like to shop with your student who is not in 3K, please wait to do so until our weekend masses (unless you are volunteering!).

• Payment:
• Students can make purchases of their books in 3 ways:
• Cash
• Check
• Online Gift Card

• During the weekend, we can also take credit card. Please do NOT send credit cards with your student to purchase during the school week.

• Please note that Wisconsin state sales tax MUST BE included when figuring out how much your student needs to bring for the Book Fair. This is why we recommend using online gift cards! Check out the Gift Card Guide below. This is the easiest way to have your child shop at our Fair.

• Teacher Wishlists: Teachers will also be making wishlists this week! If you'd like to donate a book to your child's classroom, stop by the Book Fair after all weekend masses on March 9 & 10. Or, you can give your teacher a giftcard using their email address. Mrs. Schermetzler will have email addresses available at the registers.

• Book Fair Replenishment: Each Book Fair contains a limited amount of books. This means that your child might not be able to purchase everything on their wish list because books may sell out before they can do so. We will do our best to help them select an alternative book in the same price range, OR, you may use any remaining gift card funds to order books online. Books ordered during our online fair are delivered to our school and distributed to students that way.

For some of you, this will be your first Book Fair experience. It is a lot of fun and something students look forward to all year. Please ask Mrs. Schermetzler any questions--no question is silly!

Thank you for your support of this year's fair!

Girls on the Run is back for Girls in grades 3, 4, & 5. See more details below and click on the link to sign-up. For questions, please contact Head Coach Mrs. Domzil.

Last week Friday was World Compliment Day.

To fit with the Catholic Social Teachings of Participation in Community and Solidarity, Service Club wrote compliments for every single student and staff member in our school!

Those compliments were then taped on classroom doors for all students to see. Our whole school was encouraged to give at least three compliments as well!

Congrats to our 5th Grade Girls team who were Consolation Champions at the St Mary's Hales Corners tournament this past week!

With the basketball regular season officially over, Congratulations to our 5th grade boys (10-2) and 8th grade boys (10-3) teams who both finished in 2nd place in their leagues. We are still awaiting league standings for our other teams and will announce those next week. Congrats to all!

The 8th Grade Boys play their first game of the Padre Serra Tournament Sunday March 10th against St. Mary’s Visitation Elm Grove at 3:15. All games will be held at Dominican High school. Please come out and show your support!

Thank you to all our athletes, coaches, volunteers and parents for making this a successful basketball season!

As the days start to get longer and we see more nice weather that can only mean one thing, track season is approaching! Signups are now open! 

We still have the following athletic board positions open:

Treasurer

Communications Coordinator 

If you are interested in helping out with building the future of athletics at St. Alphonsus, please reach out to Nick Warrichaiet.

Lent is a time to welcome more opportunities for prayer and reflection in our lives.  In Middle School Religion class, this is not an exception. 

Students have recently begun their journey into understanding the Stations of the Cross.  In doing so, they are mindfully reading the devotionals associated with each station, interpreting each station's meaning, and applying scenes into their daily lives with questions like “How can I relate to Jesus?  What are the crosses I carry?  Who can I turn to when I need help or feel alone? “ 

Students are also creating reflective journals and prayer books to have as a reminder to turn to Jesus in times of need--He is always there to help us with the crosses we carry.  This preparation is leading us into our performance of the Living Stations of the Cross which will be held on Tuesday, March 26th at 6:00pm and Wednesday, March 27th at 2:00pm.  Please mark your calendars to pray the devotional with us as an honored tradition of St. Alphonsus students.

Home & School is Recruiting!

Home & School is recruiting some new chairs for the 2024-2025 School Year. The Home & School team makes sure our students and families have a fun-filled year with activities like dances & Trunk or Treat. Home & School also provides funding to each classroom & teachers for special extras including field trips. 

We are looking for some new event chairs for the 2024-2025 school year. All events have a current chair who could assist with training before the end of the year. Most things occur only one time during the school year & do not need year-long support. Please consider joining us! Thank you to everyone who has stepped up so far--we are only looking for a few more people to help!

The following teams are still looking for assistance for next year:

• Dine Out: Needs 1, to work with one new chair already trained
• Box Tops: Needs 1
• Fun Fair: Needs 2 more to help

Please email Home & School Secretary Holly Lewandowski if you are interested in getting involved. 

This week, Wednesday, March 6th, is Dine Out Night at Cousins Subs and we hope to see you there! Dine in or carry out from 3:00 to 8:00 p.m. at the Franklin location, 7700 S. Lovers Lane Road. 20% of the sales will go to support St. Alphonsus. Remember to get a receipt (one per child) so that your student can be out of uniform the following day.

Come support our school and let Cousins do the cooking!

Dine Out Nights - the easiest and most delicious fundraisers around.

Join St. Alphonsus and the Home & School Association at the Milwaukee Wave Game!

St. Alphonsus Catholic School is the featured organization at the Milwaukee Wave game on March 22 at 6:35pm. We hope you can attend, watch a great game and support St Alphonsus Catholic School! 

Please use this link to buy your tickets and we’ll see you at the game! St. Alphonsus School will get a percentage of the money from each ticket sold at this link, so feel free to spread the word & share this with your family and friends. MANY school families will be sitting in the 200s sections, so consider purchasing your tickets in those seats!

Use our referral code BTNX89MQ when you sign up and you’ll get 25 Bonus Box Tops when you scan your first receipt now through 05/31/2024, while supplies last! Download the Box Tops for Education app here. 

Any questions, please contact our Box Tops Coordinator Carrie Jurgens.

Updates from our SCRIP Program:

SCRIP is off to a good start. Six weeks in and parishioners and school families have have raised over $1250 so far!

...and yet, this could be so much more!

Do you spend $500 a month on groceries?

Do you spend $400 a month on gas?

Do you go to Dine Out Nights?

If every school family bought the same amount in SCRIP, that’s a $40 rebate per month just for those purchases! Imagine if every school family took advantage of this.

Of course, there are many other ways to increase that amount by using the frequent bonuses! (Kwik-Trip is offering a 9% bonus thru February 23.)

If you haven’t questions, contact Vickie Major! She is happy to help you become a regular SCRIP buyer.

Lastly, the SCRIP program could use some help on Sundays for a few hours. Please consider sitting at the SCRIP table from 8:30-11:00. It's not hard and you get a chance to say hi to all your friends at church! Sign up here!

 Please note that any outside activities are not sponsored or endorsed by St. Alphonsus Parish or School

Come see St. Thomas More High School's production of Mamma Mia!

This show features St. Al's alumni Stuart T. (class of '22) & Hailey N. (class of '23) in the cast and Sarah P. (class of '22), Abby A. (class of '23), & Amirah O. (class of '23) on stage crew.

Performance dates are 3/8, 3/9, 3/15 & 3/16 at 7pm and 3/10 & 3/17 at 2pm.



Please come support our St. Al's alumni!  Get your tickets here!

Want to ignite the faith of your family this summer? Want them to encounter Jesus, the Blessed Mother and have fun as well?

Then sign your family up for Totus Tuus! Totus Tuus has two distinct parts - one for younger kids and one for middle and high schoolers. The younger kids come during the day and have a group of Totus Tuus Missionaries lead them in an action packed vacation Bible camp! The missionaries are young adults who are on fire with their faith!

Then for the older kids, the missionaries (same ones mentioned above) engage them at night to grow in their faith as well - the older kids will do things more appropriate to middle and high schoolers.

St. Al's will be co-hosting this with St. Martin of Tours and it will be held at St. Martin of Tours parish.

This will be from July 8th through July 12th from K5-5th grade from 9 a.m. -3 p.m. And it will be from July 7th through July 11th from 7pm-9pm for 6th through 12th grades. 

Want to learn more about Totus Tuus? Check out the national website! To sign up, click here.

In Matthew 25, Jesus is very clear that we are called, no, commanded to love those in need and to serve them. Somehow, by doing so, we are able to serve Jesus. He is in disguise.

And if I could bring everyone to one place to show them what it looks like to serve as if you are serving Jesus Himself, I would bring you all to the Kinship Community Food Center! It is a food pantry unlike any other one I have ever seen. They operate more like a grocery store than a food pantry. People go to different stations to choose the food they want. It affords a real dignity to everyone.

And, it's a place where generosity reigns.

Come and check it out! Please consider joining us on April 13, 2024. It's an amazing opportunity to serve Jesus disguised in the poor. To sign up or to learn more about serving, check out the sign up genius.

--Karen Farrell, Director of Youth & Young Adult Ministry

Save the Date for the Annual Parish Auction!

On May 10, 2024, we will Roll Out the Red Carpet for the 23rd annual St. Alphonsus Parish benefit auction, and we invite you to join us!

The auction is the only parish fundraiser that benefits all of St. Alphonsus’ ministries, including our school, Christian formation programs, adult education, community outreach (food pantry, community meal programs, giving tree, etc.), support groups and more.

It is sure to be a great evening, so mark your calendars now! Raffle tickets are now available, so stop by the auction table in the gathering space after mass to grab an envelope. The Cash Raffle prizes range from $250.00 to $2,500.00 and you need not be present to win. We also have order forms for the $10,000 Winner's Circle Tickets available--only 400 tickets will be sold. 

We are also looking for donations. Stop by the gathering space in church to take a star from our Walk of Fame! Similar to a Giving Tree, the stars have easy, specific donation items the auction committee is in charge of. Items can be returned to the gathering space or to the parish office. Thank you in advance for your support of this year's auction! 

Do you have items for the newsletter? To submit them or for questions and submission guidelines, please contact Amy Schermetzler.

Please note that submissions are due by 12:00pm Fridays.