Snow Day Information
Student of the Month Awards for 2024-2025
Thank you to the Knights of Columbus, Council 12195, for sponsoring our Student of the Month Awards for the second year. This year, each month they will sponsor a boy student. We would also like to thank the K of C Ladies Auxiliary for offering to sponsor a girl for Student of the Month this year! We are so blessed to have such wonderful parishioners!
Brody Weaver September 2024
Samantha Hudson September 2024
Joey Pyles October 2024
Madelyn Hunnell October 2024
Steven Hilliard November 2024
Aquinas Medal Winner
The Aquinas Medal is awarded to one student from each school in the Diocese who embodies the qualities we seek to instill in our students. Saint Thomas Aquinas, patron saint of scholars, combined his powerful intellect with an all-embracing love of God. Saint Thomas labored, as do our schools, to impart knowledge infused with an awareness of God to those who learned from him. The Medal is not intended as strictly an academic recognition but to make visible those young people in our schools who enflesh the spirit of the school’s mission and the philosophy of Catholic school education.
2024-25 Aquinas Award Recipient
Melah Paulas
Covenant Night Tradition is a Great Start to our School Year
Our Lady of Peace School starts off each school year with our Covenant Night Celebration. This is an opportunity for students and their families to join together in celebration of the covenant commitment it takes to educate our young people. The covenant calls family, parish and school community to a cooperative partnership to meet the spiritual, intellectual, emotional and physical needs of our children. In this covenant, all are united in love, sharing a hope-filled vision of God’s kingdom on earth.
- Parents are called to communicate God’s love and presence among us as the primary educator of their children.
- The Parish, gathered as God’s people in worship, is called to renew and celebrate Jesus’ New Covenant in Word and Sacrament.
- The Catholic School community is called to be a unique expression of the Church’s educational mission.
What Happens on Covenant Night?
Mrs. Kerr, our principal, greets the new students and families as they enter the school. We ask them to arrive first so they aren’t overwhelmed with the crowd of returning families. It also gives them more time to talk with the teachers.
Then, all our school families, new and returning, gather as a community to celebrate our Covenant Liturgy celebrated by our new pastor, Fr. Joseph. This year our school theme is Build Peace! Our Faith Focus will be the Virtues. Through the Virtues we hope to capture the incredible LOVE, GOODNESS, and Peace found in following our FAITH.
- 5p.m. New Families are welcomed to the school. Please drop off classroom supplies before mass.
- 5:30 p.m. MASS – all OLP families are asked to attend
- After mass, Returning Families will go to the classrooms to drop off classroom supplies.
Families gather in the Peace Family Center where parents have the opportunity to write a message to their children. This banner is displayed in the main school hallway all year. They also enjoy refreshments and catching up with friends after the summer break.
K Glimpse
Kindergarten Images
Kindergarten helped to celebrate All Saints day with a presentation of patron saints at mass.
Teacher Biography
Jessica Glenn, Kindergarten Teacher
Hello, my name is Jessica Glenn. This is my 14th year at Our Lady of Peace School. I am a product of Catholic education from grade school through college. I am a graduate of Our Lady of Peace, Bishop Donahue High School and Wheeling Jesuit University. While attending Wheeling Jesuit University I chose the major of Elementary Education. After graduation, I committed myself to a year of service with AmeriCorps. As the year came to an end I was hired at Wheeling Catholic Elementary School as the Kindergarten teacher. This year will mark my eighteenth year of teaching kindergarten.
I currently live in Elm Grove with my husband and three children. I love being a mother and a teacher.
My heart is in Catholic education. I truly believe that my Catholic education has given me the foundation on which I am able to teach from and I am so happy to share that with the children at Our Lady of Peace School.
Nancy DeFazio, Kindergarten Aide
I have four adult children.
This is my 15th year as kindergarten aide here at OLP. I am blessed to work with Mrs. Jessica Glenn. She is all that a parent would want for their child’s kindergarten teacher. I enjoy my time here with the kids and the OLP Community.
My philosophy is… You are unique, and if that is not fulfilled then something has been lost.
I am from Charleston, W.V., but have lived in Wheeling all my married life.
I graduated from WVU with a bachelors degree in secondary education.
“We see God everyday, we just don’t always recognize Him.”
Subjects
McGraw-Hill Reading Wonders
RCL Benzinger Faith First Religion series
McGraw-Hill My Math series
McGraw- Hill Inspire Science
Many supplemental worksheets
Our religion series www.faithfirst.com
Parents may also want to check out ABCya.com or type in “Kindergarten activities” or “Kindergarten games” in the Google search engine for additional educational games and activities you can do together at home.
Enjoy!
Summer Reading List
Please pick at least 4 books to read to your child (or they may read them) for a Summer Reading Treat when school starts in the fall. Your choices do not have to be from this list. These are some great books to help you with your choices. Pick three books you read and draw a picture about them on the attached paper. One picture per sheet.
Kindergarten Suggested Summer Reading List
Research has shown that the single greatest factor in predicting reading success is whether a child is read to when young. Here are some titles to get you started!
Note: The following books are only suggestions. Please feel free to add any books that are appropriate for your reader.
Books About Me
• I Like Me! by Nancy L. Carlson
• I Like to Be Little by Charlotte Zolotow
• The Mixed-Up Chameleon by Eric Carle
• My Five Senses by Aliki
• Owen by Kevin Henkes
• When I Get Bigger by Mercer Mayer
Family Stories
• Just Me Books by Mercer Mayer
• Mama Do You Love Me? by Barbara M. Joosse
Predictable Books (Stories with a pattern using rhyme or rhythm.)
• Curious George by H. A. Rey
• Each Peach Pear Plum by Janet and Allan Ahlberg
• The Gingerbread Boy by Paul Galdone
• Gregory the Terrible Eater by Mitchell Sharmat
• Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown
• Millions of Cats by Wanda Gág
• What’s in Fox’s Sack? by Paul Galdone
Beginning, Middle, and End Concept
• Bony-Legs by Joanna Cole
• A Camping Spree with Mr. Magee by Chris Van Dusen
• Love You Forever by Robert Munsch
• Rosie’s Walk by Pat Hutchins
• The Runaway Bunny by Margaret Wise Brown
Color and Counting Books
• Each Orange Had Eight Slices: A Counting Book by Paul Giganti Jr.
• Fish Eyes: A Book You Can Count On by Lois Ehlert
• Frog Counts to Ten by John Liebler
• Inch by Inch by Leo Lionni
• Is it Red? Is it Yellow? Is it Blue? by Tana Hoban
• Planting a Rainbow by Lois Ehlert
• Ten Bears in My Bed: A Goodnight Countdown by Stanley Mack
• Ten Little Fish by Audrey Wood
• 26 Letters and 99 Cents by Tana Hoban
Caldecott Winners and Honor Books
• Color Zoo by Lois Ehlert
• Madeline by Ludwig Bemelmans
• More, More, More Said the Baby by Vera B. Williams
• Officer Buckle and Gloria by Peggy Rathman
• Swimmy by Leo Lionni
• Tops and Bottoms by Janet Stevens
Mother Goose and Nursery Rhymes
• James Marshall’s Mother Goose by James Marshall
• My Very First Mother Goose by Iona Opie and Rosemary Wells
• Tomie dePaola’s Mother Goose by Tomie dePaola
Folktales and Fairy Tales
• Chicken Little by Steven Kellogg
• Cinderella by Marcia Brown
• The Hare and the Tortoise by Brian Wildsmith
• Henny Penny by H. Werner Zimmermann
• The Little Red Hen by Margot Zemach
• The Three Bears by Paul Galdone
• The Three Billy Goats Gruff by Peter Christen Asbjornsen
• Three Little Pigs by James Marshall
• The Three Little Pigs by Rodney Peppé
• The Ugly Duckling by Hans Christian Andersen
Stories in Rhyme
• All the Colors of the Earth by Sheila Hamanaka
• Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain by Verna Aardema
• Miss Spider’s Tea Party by David Kirk
Friends
• Benjamin and Tulip by Rosemary Wells
• We Are Best Friends by Aliki
• Who Will Be My Friends? by Syd Hoff
Fabulous Science Books
• Cars and How they Go by Joanna Cole
• Eyewitness Juniors Amazing Frogs and Toads by Barry Clarke
• Magic School Bus On the Ocean Floor by Joanna Cole
ENJOY !