St. Mary School Swormville -

🐝💙 "Thank you for being a friend" was the theme of our end of year Montessori Children's House Picnic! Students did a great job singing, then enjoyed a lovely picnic and time on the playground with their families. Thank you to Ashley Latona for setting up the impressive spread! Click here for more photos: https://tinyurl.com/33xpxu23 #montessori #thankyouforbeingafriend #montessorifriends #SMStheplacetoBEE #preK3 #preK4 #Kindergarten #family

Tomorrow our chicks go back to the farm. Montessori enjoyed watching the chicks grow and their little "chirps" will be missed! We will especially miss our yellow chick who was our only egg to hatch! 🐣 #Montessori #chicks #egghatching #chirp #backtothefarm #MontessoriLearning #PreK #Kindergarten

🍩 We celebrated our Dads, Grandpas, Uncles & other special someones a bit early with our Montessori & Kindergarten students yesterday! Having "Donuts with Dad" was a sweet start to the day for our youngest students. Thank you to the Latona family for setting up the event, it was a-glaze-ing! Click here for more photos: https://tinyurl.com/44rf38kj #fathersday #donutswithdad #iloveyoudad #FAMILY #Montessori #Kindergarten #PreK #SMStheplacetoBEE

These new feathered friends are getting along fabulously! Thank you to Nature's Prize for loaning (and the DeGolier family for delivering) our Montessori classroom some "foster chicks" to pal around with the lone chick that hatched from the Montessori incubator. The students are having so much fun learning about the growing birds, and their peeps can be heard even out in the hallway! #Montessori #chicks #chickhatching #featheredfriends #science #nature

🥚 🐣 🐥 There's just 9 more days until the chicks hatch in our Montessori classroom! Today students used an egg model to see what the chick looks like at this stage of it's growth. Students also learned about candling. Candling is a technique that uses a bright light to examine the development of an embryo inside a chicken egg by shining it through the shell. #science #hatching #chicks #montessorilearning #montessori #knowledge

Thank you to the Moleski family for bidding on & winning the Montessori "Disney & Ice Cream Day" in our recent #SpringforSuccess Silent Auction! Students watched "Tangled", made a craft, dressed up Disney, & enjoyed ice cream! #silentauction #Tangled #DisneyDay #Montessori

🦋💐💜 What a beautiful morning for our SMS Kindergarten & Montessori Moms - thank you to everyone who organized this lovely event! https://www.facebook.com/share/166vPzDimY/? #mothersday #tradition #mothersdaytea #prek #kindergarten #Montessori #family

🥚 🐣 🐥 It's Day 1 of 21 for Montessori Chick Hatching! Students are learning all about the life cycle of a chicken, & today put 12 eggs into an incubator where they will stay until they hatch in 21 days. The children (& teachers!) are so excited for our eggs to hatch!

Our Montessori students are enjoying new work this week. Washing babies teaches children empathy, sympathy, and practices gentle hands! 💞 #Montessori #MontessoriLearning #SMStheplacetoBEE

🌎 💚🪱🌱 Montessori friends came in to a yummy surprise this morning! Thank you to the Latona Family for making delicious "worms in dirt" for the students to eat in celebration of Earth Day! #EarthDay #wormsindirt #yummy #snacktime

Before Easter break, Montessori students began learning about the Last Supper. When they do this work, they pass the bread and say the words that Jesus spoke: "Take, this is my body." #HolyThursday #LastSupper #Montessori #Triduum #HolyEucharist

Come on, you know you want to bid ... & the kids want you to too! Check out all of the unique experiences available to win in the Spring for Success Online Silent Auction from SMS teachers & staff, ®ister to bid on them at the link below: https://auctiongala2025.ggo.bid/ #springforsuccess #silentauction #stmarysswormville #CatholicEducation #bidearlybidoften

Montessori full days friends had some fun with shaving cream this afternoon. They practiced writing letters and numbers on the table! #montessori #preK4 #writingpractice #montessorilearning

🌍 🗺️ Montessori loves geography! Our students work very hard completing different types of work with maps. It's so fun to watch them challenge themselves & see the excitement on their faces when they complete their work! #Montessori #preK #geography #maps #MontessoriLearning

Yesterday Miss Krista brought in her golden retriever "Benny" for a surprise visit! Our students and staff all love to see Benny! 🐶💙

Our Montessori full day friends had so much fun this afternoon with story cubes! After rolling the dice, students worked together to create a fun & creative story. Here's what they came up with: On a sunny day(☀️), I went to my house(🏠), my house was on fire (👩🏼‍🚒), I ran out, I saw a bat(🦇), I was sad. (😔) I went to a neighbors house(🚗), met a new friend (👫), and we cut our hair. (✂️) We can’t wait to create more stories! #montessori #montessorilearning #storycubes #creativity #sunnyday

☘️✝️ Our Montessori students enjoyed some delicious treats yesterday in celebration of St. Patrick's Day! Celebrating holidays, seasons, & special occasions like birthdays, feast days, graduations, & more takes on special meaning in a Catholic school. Our values inform the way in which students and teachers celebrate these events - we are all God's people and meant to celebrate and enjoy special days, even in this season of Lent! "...I came so that they might have life and have it more abundantly. " John 10:10 If you're looking for a Pre-K program that reinforces your Catholic values, and helps shape your child into a leader for tomorrow, join us this March and see what it's like to "Be a Bee" at St. Mary's! Choose from a Monday or Friday am this month to tour our Montessori Pre-K or Kindergarten Classrooms, or shadow a current student in grades 1-8. Learn more & sign up to "Be a Bee" here: stmaryschoolswormville.org/be-a-bee Learn more about our Montessori Children's House here: https://www.stmaryschoolswormville.org/o/school/page/montessori-childrens-house #SMStheplacetoBEE #Montessori #PreK #Kindergarten #CatholicValues #TomorrowsLeaders #stPatricksDay #celebrations #Lent2025

We had so much fun yesterday on the 100th Day of School, that we couldn't fit it all into one post! Enjoy more photos in our Facebook album here: https://tinyurl.com/wz7ebve9 #100days #100thdayofschool

🐠 🌊 Montessori students are keeping things fresh and switched to ocean themed work today! Friends learned how to use this aquarium work by using a small net to scoop out "sea creatures". It looks like they had a sand-sational time! #mointessorilearning #preK #marinelife

Some of our #Montessori families had snow much fun today at the "Break it Up" play-date hosted in the SMS gym! Montessori students and their siblings were invited to come, run around a bit, paint and play in the snow, all while their grownups enjoyed some coffee and a chat. Click here to learn more about our Montessori Pre-K program, we are now accepting applicants for Fall 2025: https://www.stmaryschoolswormville.org/o/school/page/montessori-childrens-house