Grade 5 students recently completed these beautiful self-portraits after reading the novel "Wonder", by R. J. Palacio. Wonder tells the story of 10 year old Augie's first year going to school. Born with a rare craniofacial condition that necessitated multiple major surgeries, Augie was homeschooled for much of his childhood. The book explores the themes of the difficulty of kindness, independence & growing up, status & bullying, & developing one's identity.
Thank you Mrs. Genovese (Art) & Mrs. Laderer (grade 5) for facilitating this wonderful cross-curricular project!
#wonder #novelstudy #selfportrait #grade5 #ELA #art
Congratulations to SMS alumni Anabelle Lewis ('22) and Gavin Scholl ('24) on making the Dean's List for the first quarter marking period at St. Mary's High School! #alumni #deanslist
And the Oscar goes to...
..."The Great Turkey Race" by Mrs. Picone's first grade class!
The class performed their first reader's theater and did an outstanding job!
Congratulations to our middle school students who participated in the Diocesan Math Competition today! Grade 8 student Lilly B. was the Knock Out Champion! #math #middleschool #KNOWLEDGE
Mrs. Bakers 4th graders celebrated the end of another Novel Study with a Lemonade Party! They even made patriotic party hats with their favorite quotes from the book, "The Kid who Ran for President", by Dan Gutman.
#novelstudy #grade4 #ELA #readingisfun
Join us for BREAKFAST WITH SANTA on Sunday, December 8th in the St. Mary School Gym!
Breakfast will be served from 8:15 - 11:15 am, & Santa will be present from 10:30 - 11:30 am.
Enjoy a delicious stack of pancakes, homemade juicy sausages, scrambled eggs, hot chocolate, coffee, juice & water. Visit with Santa, take a family photo with the jolly old fellow, & design Christmas crafts & cards in Santa's Workshop!
Adults: $10 each | Children (grade K-8): $8 each | Children 5 & under: FREE!
Second helpings are welcome at no charge! No reservations needed, pay on site only with cash, credit card, check or Venmo.
For more information call Carl Galante, 716-689-8060. Sponsored by the Knights of Columbus & eggs provided by Kreher Family Farms.
Mrs. Baker's 4th graders went into "feast mode" to create these turkey puzzles & color turkeys using multiplication & division. What a great way to practice math and keep learning fun! #Math #turkeys #multiply #divide #grade4
Mrs. Genovese has been weaving Native American Heritage Month into her Art classes this November! Native American weaving is a centuries-old art form that represents tribal histories & is a fundamental way for Native American tribes to express strength & courage. Weavings often include symbols that represent war, struggle, & strength. Colors can indicate parts of the country where the weaving came from and if it was woven by a man or woman.
#artclass #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth #weaving
🐼🍪🧁Grade 2's bake sale was a #giant success! They raised over $200 to adopt a Giant Panda one snack at a time today. There are still some snacks leftover, if students want to bring in their dollar bills tomorrow they can still visit the grade 2 classroom to purchase a treat!
Miss Kirwan's 3rd graders have been working hard in #math class to show the relationship between #multiplication & #division using fact families! They're mastering using manipulative strategies to represent the communicative property & representing multiplication with arrays.
Mrs. Wojtaszek's 2nd graders have been learning about maps, and created "edible maps" of the St. Mary's campus that they of course gobbled right up!
#socialstudies #maps #geography #grade2
We may all be different fish, but in this school we swim together! Check out this beautiful display created by Mrs. Maria Anderson, our Catholic Charities of WNY Social Worker here at SMS! Students were invited to each color a fish to add to the display. #unity #swimtogether
Miss Kirwan's third graders have been learning about turkeys, & thinking about all the things they're #thankful for this #November - even things they're thankful for in each other! Our small class sizes at SMS allow for individualized attention, and a true #family atmosphere.
Mrs. Wojtaszek's 2nd grade will be holding a bake sale tomorrow during all lunch periods! Pre-packaged sweet treats will be available for $1 each. All proceeds will go toward conservation efforts aiding the threatened giant panda, which is the grade's theme animal for the year!
There are #TURKEYS hiding in our hallways! Miss Gon's Kindergarten class is helping turkeys evade the oven this Thanksgiving by dressing them up in disguises! Each student chose how to disguise their turkey, gave it a name, & wrote a description of their disguise. Their creative ideas included a hockey player, ballerina, bee, princess, Harry Potter, unicorn, Barbie, policeman, fox, mummy & bag of popcorn! We think these clever costumes are going to help the turkeys continue to "gobble gobble" well past next week! Which one is your favorite?
#Thanksgiving #Kindergarten #writing #creativity #gobblegobble
Mrs. Bishop's grade 2 Religion class enjoyed a "sweet" activity this week - practicing the different types of prayer using M&Ms! #prayer #grade2 #religion #FAITH #sweet
Congratulations to the following SMS graduates on making the honor roll this marking period!
Canisius High School:
Senior- Dylan Leong
Juniors - Matthew Carver, Evan Dahl, Tyler Kubiak, Anthony Pepe
Sophomore- Stanislav Ryskin
Freshmen - Aiden Charland, Solin Cruz, Ryan Kubiak, Patrick MacDiarmid, Lucas Pepe, Evan Wilkes
Mount St. Mary Academy:
Sophomore - Amelia Bocketti
#alumni #SMStheplacetoBEE #honorroll #KNOWLEDGE
🍩 Don't forget the after Mass Donut Sale today! Grade 8 students will be selling delicious "Famous Donuts” ($22/dozen, $12/half-dozen, or $6 for 3 donuts) after all Sunday Masses at St. Mary’s today. Proceeds from the sale go towards their class trip!
🍩 AFTER MASS DONUT SALE- Satisfy your sweet tooth THIS WEEKEND when Grade 8 students will be selling delicious "Famous Donuts” ($22/dozen, $12/half-dozen, or $6 for 3 donuts) after all weekend Masses at St. Mary’s. Proceeds from the sale go towards their class trip!
Let's play some BINGO! The cast of "Holy Mother of Bingo" put on a preview performance this afternoon for our students, which they thoroughly enjoyed! The show starts at 7pm, hope to see you there! See more photos: https://tinyurl.com/yc3x8apm
#BingoNight #DramaClub #BreakALeg
