Greetings from the staff and students of the William Home (4th-5th grade girls)!
It is amazing how fast this school year has gone at St. Joseph’s. We have been able to accomplish so many things and are working hard to finish up the school year with many positive memories. The Lakota (Sioux) girls in our home have been so busy this year with basketball, Dancing Dolls, cheerleading and gymnastics as their extracurricular activities.
We have completed our walking program for the year and it is safe to say that we far exceeded our goal! We put up a map to track our walk with a goal of walking to the hometowns of each girl in our home, which would have been just over 15,000 laps in the gym (750 miles). We are happy to say that our final total is over 20,000 laps, or 1000 miles!
Recently, we were able to travel to the Lower Brule Indian Reservation to attend mass and then serve treats afterwards. The girls have always enjoyed doing this and, of course, love to show off their cooking abilities. We still have the circus coming up, as well as our home trip that will take us to Rapid City, South Dakota, to the water park.
One of our big highlights of the year will come soon when we start moving back in to the newly renovated William Home. All of us are excited to see the new home, although the fifth graders are a little bummed they will only be in the new home for a short time.
As always, with a school year winding down, you think about all the memories you have made with those fifth graders and will miss them when they move up. Thank you to everyone for helping to make this a wonderful and memorable year in the William Home!
