Podcast: The Christmas Truce

Christmas Truce ImageThe podcasting elective class for Fall 2011 recorded the wonderful story of the Christmas Truce, as scripted by Aaron Shepard.  It is a touching real-life story and the class had fun recording it.  Be sure to listen through to the end for some entertaining bloopers.

See our other Christmas podcasts at http://olmlancers.com/blog/tag/christmas.

Happy Christmas to all!!

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Podcast: ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas

Santa and ReindeerOur third graders recorded “‘Twas the Night Before Christmas”, the classic poem by Clement Clarke Moore.  We hope you enjoy it.

May God bless you this Christmas season.

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Podcast: Christmas Jokes

Chrstamas Tree BranchThe Computer Club recorded some Christmas jokes for you.  Enjoy!!

Two more great holiday-themed podcasts are in the works and nearly finished. They will be posted within the next week. Stay tuned.

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BAND BOOSTER MEETING

music program

November 30th This Wednesday, in the Band Room (we will end at 8:00 whether we’re done or not) from 6:30-8:00 pm proposed agenda:

Prayer,  projections/changes for band schedule, upcoming  performances, new Fundraisers, Reports from each officer

If you have any questions, please call Kevin at: 404-2035, Vera at: 722-7121 or Bj at: 723-3833

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BAND PERFORMANCE IN CHRISTMAS PARADE

Our Lady of Mercy School
Band Program

Christmas Parade Performance!!   December 3rd!!

Main Street Merced

At 3:00 pm

Students  please show up at East Campus (18th street by “F” street) at 2:25 pm to get ready. Performance attire is Christmas colors and decorations.  Please be certain decorations do not hinder performance or cause damage (no damaging tape or exposed sharp wire).  Please consider wearing warm undergarments for the seasonal weather.  Students will be responsible for their instrument/equipment and rides to and from the event.  Family and friends are welcome and encouraged to attend.

If you have any questions, please call Bj at: 723-3833 or Kevin at:  404-2035

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OLM Girl Scout Troop Volunteering

For those of you who are not aware – OLM has a troop of Girl Scouts that meet on campus every week after school.  Along with the OLM standards we try to have our Girl Scouts volunteer for the community whenever possible.  Just a quick note of some of the things we have done in the past month or two.  For Red Ribbon week our girls tied red ribbons around every tree on campus – we are commited to being drug free.  Also we have made and are donating 6 blankets to the Blanket Drive hosted by OLM’s own Maddison Foss.  We mareched in the Veterans Day Parade and are planning on marching in the Christmas Parade in a couple of weeks.  We hope to do much more for our school and our community.

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OLM Band

PLEASE COME JOIN THE OLM BAND – For those of you who thought about it but aren’t sure come check us out.  Think long term – Band is a great item to be able to list on your college application.  It has been stated that children who play in a band do better on tests and with learning a foreign language.  In high school the bands are awesome.  Being a memeber of a band also promotes great teamwork skills and teaches your child responsiblity.  Please consider checking out our school band.
11/13/11 – Update
Our next booster meeting for the band is Wednesday Nov 30th at 6:30 please attend – it counts toward service hours.
On Saturday Nov. 12th we had a band review that was hosted by Golden Valley High School.  Our wonderful little band competed against other Junior High Schools.   We did not win any trophies but they did their best and we are proud of them.  Thank you to all the parents who showed up to cheer on our band memebers. 
We marched in the Veterans Day parade on Friday Nov. 11th.  They did so well.  They were little troopers marching in the rain without even complaining.  Go OLM Band – you are doing so well.
Thursday we played for the Veterans – we missed our 4th graders but did a great job with who we had.

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OLM School Celebrates Veterans

The Podcasting elective class of Fall 2011 produced this video as part of today’s Veteran’s Day program.  The poem is from Joanna Fuchs and is titled “They Did Their Share”.  We used “God Bless America” (from archive.org) as our background music.  The students did a great job and the veteran’s very much appreciated it.

May God Bless our veterans!


They Did Their Share – God Bless America from George Somers on Vimeo

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Band Booster Meeting

Greetings all,
   The band did a great job at the parade on Friday. 
   We have more coming up this month.
   This Thursday, November 3rd 6:30-8 pm, will be our next band booster meeting. 
   One adult representative for every band student is requested. 
   Let’s work together to help make the music education program at our school the best it can be.
    ***Don’t forget, this meeting will count for volunteer hours for the school.***
 
       God Bless,
          Bj Humpal – Band Director

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OLM Band to Perform in The Big Fresno Fair Parade

Come watch and cheer on our OLM Band as they perform in the Big Fresno Fair Parade on Wednesday, Oct. 12th.  Click on link for all the details.

Fresno Fair Band Review

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