Clink the link to check out the SWEET time we had today thanks to Catholic Charities Buffalo! Our students were proud to celebrate being crowned the WINNERS of the inaugural Catholic Charities Cup - Elementary Division - for raising $2,886 for Appeal 2024! 🏆🍦
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The funds donated to Catholic Charities were raised through our annual Pray & Play event held during Lent, in which grade 5 puts on the Living Stations of the Cross for the "Pray" portion, and Grade 7 creates homemade carnival games for all of our students to pay to participate in for the "Play" portion of the evening.
#prayandplay #CatholicCharitiesBuffalo #HOPEforAllSeasons
Click the link to check out the video of our students being "sorted" into their new Faith Families! ✝️ Can you spot your student? https://youtu.be/kEkwfGP1O20?feature=shared
We introduced our new Faith Families today! Our entire student body was sorted out into groups, each represented by a Saint and led by one of our teachers. These mixed-grade-level Faith Families will sit together at Friday school Mass, take turns leading the liturgy, and work together for special projects and events like Catholic Schools Week, Spirit Week & our end of year HSA Picnic. Who knows, they may even get into a little friendly competition... 😉
#brotherhood #sainthood #sisterhood #faith #family #catholicschool #SMStheplacetoBEE
Happy Birthday to Father Joe, our school chaplain! SMS students sang "Happy Birthday" at the end of Mass for Father today, and we are always grateful for his presence at St. Mary's! Learn more about Father Joe here: https://www.stmaryschoolswormville.org/o/school/article/1441396
SMS families, watch your email for "The Buzz" e-newsletter tonight & social media tomorrow for some exciting news on our NEW Faith Families! #brotherhood #sisterhood #sainthood #family
Catholic saints image from "Picture Book of Saints", Rev. Lawrence G. Lovasik, S.V.D.
⏰💙🐝🤍 TODAY is the last day to order SMS Spirit Wear! Click the link to order before midnight tonight, or you'll have to wait until Spring for the online store to open again. https://www.promoplace.com/stmaryswormville #schoolspirit #spiritwear #gobees
Mrs. Hammond's 6th & 7th grade Spanish students learned about cognates (words that are similar in Spanish and English). After reading a few stories in Spanish, they wrote and shared their own Spanish stories using cognates and a list of 7 "magic verbs." #spanish #foreignlanguage
Montessori friends were hard at work with a variety of hands-on subject areas and skills this morning when we peeked into their classroom! #montessorilearning #preschool #sensoryplay #kindergarten
Mrs. Bishops 2nd graders were learning about the things they see at church, and what they are used for. Magnetic "My Little Church" play sets made this lesson all the more fun! ✝️ #catholiceducation #religion #takemetomass
Thank you to Mischler's Florists for the beautiful bouquet delivered to our school office this morning! #BacktoSchool2024 #fallcolors
We're celebrating yesterday's Bills win in style! 💙🦬❤️ #dressdown ##heyeyeyey #letsgobuffalo
💙🦬❤️ Don't forget, tomorrow is a Bills Dress Down Day! Students may dress in Bills gear or red, white & blue clothing instead of uniforms. Just bring in $2 or purchase the HSA Dress Down Pass to cover all the Bills Dress Down Days this school year. #LetsGoBuffalo #BillsWin
Today we celebrate the feast of the Nativity of Mary - Happy Birthday Blessed Mother! 💙🌹
Happy Grandparents' Day! Our students were blessed to celebrate the 1st school Mass of the year with their grandparents & "grand persons" this week, click here for more photos: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.888951249924501&type=3
Mrs. Witkowski's grade 3, 4 & 5 science students got the year started with a bounce!🥚They performed "bouncy egg experiments" to study #chemicalreactions, & the parts of an egg. By soaking an egg in vinegar the eggshell dissolves, leaving just the membrane. #scienceisfun
Students got a surprise with their lunch today when it was none other than Father Tom passing them their pizza! 🍕 #PizzaFridays #whatsforlunch #priestlife
Mrs. Baker's 4th grade filled out Classroom Job Applications today! They are practicing their writing & life skills as they begin forming their class community. #SMSfamily #community #classjobs #lifeskills #grade4
These SMS girls were thrilled that today's rain didn't get in the way of their recess time! #recess #middleschool #playground
Our 3rd graders had fun yesterday with Miss Kirwan reading the book “Our class is a family”. Afterwards they shared ideas and worked together to develop a classroom contract that included their expectations for each other as a class. #backtoschool #SMSfamily
Our Kindergarten class made their first visit to the Makerspace Lab today! They experimented with LEGO blocks to improve hand/eye coordination and develop their spatial , problem solving & fine motor skills. #makerspace #Kindergarten #futureengineers
Prayer is key to a living faith, nourishing the soul & orienting each person to God. We make time to pray daily, keeping the presence of God at the forefront of each school day & connecting it to the church community & the wider world: facebook.com/share/r/425oNL3qUs8hthh8/
