We need our Speaker of the Illinois House to call the bill! Over 200 hundred students have received this scholarship at St. Mark's School over the past few years. We want to be able to keep this program alive for them! Please share! #savemyscholarship
We invite all Veterans and Active Duty Service Members to join us in praying the rosary on Friday, November 10th.
It was the Fiftieth day of school this week and what better way than to celebrate it with a 50s dress up day and a root beer float!
Happy All Saints Day from our preschool Saints in training! They went on parade to the rectory for a visit with Monsignor and then stopped in to office too!
Mr. Josh, our Ag in the Classroom representative, joined 3rd grade last Friday to help us learn about soil! Here, the 3rd graders are demonstrating how easy water is able to move through different types of soil!
Don't forget our Spirit Day and Early Dismissal tomorrow as well as Picture Re-Take Day!
3rd grade has been working hard on understanding paragraph structure. They wrote five sentence “hamburger paragraphs” and celebrated by sharing their writing and having a Krabby Patty! 🍔📝
Happy Halloween from these spooky, scary, silly students! And their exhausted teachers 🤪. It was a great day. Stay safe and warm!
What a wonderful little visitor today... congratulations Mrs. Vargas and family on baby Bruno! 👶🏻
Goofy was a little bit of a baby hog! Happy Halloween! 🤪🎃
We would love to have you join us as we celebrate All Saints Day on Wednesday, November 1st at 8:00 am Mass. As a reminder, students must remain sitting with their class but parents may sit with their student's class and their student.
We will have 20 styles of easy-to-paint, ceramic ornaments from Art at the Bodega, plus all the supplies to paint them! They will be taken to get a clear-glaze and fired in the kiln. All ornaments will be available to pickup at the Santa Breakfast, just in time to hang on trees!
To celebrate Halloween, all students can wear an orange or black shirt tomorrow! Preschool students can dress in their costumes but should bring a change of clothes for the afternoon.
3rd grade students enjoyed their field trip to Tanner's Apple Orchard yesterday! They took a tour, explored the orchards and had some fun too!
The 8th and 2nd grade prayer pals spent time together making rosaries on Wednesday. We love seeing the sweet relationships form and knowing that the younger students have such great role models to look up to.
We would love to honor the memory of your loved ones on our SMS Ofrenda for Dia De Los Muertos. Bring framed photographs and special food items by Monday, October 30th and we will display them on our ofrenda.
Kindergarten, First and Second graders headed to the Pumpkin Patch for some fall fun! The rain and cool temps didn't stop them from enjoying themselves!
Just a bit of selfie fun during 8th grade lunch! 🍔📸
4th grade is having fun! They decorated pumpkins on Tuesday and had a special guest teacher for junior achievement on Wednesday. Then they celebrated World Harry Potter Book Day with some fun STEM challenges and learned the Wingardium Leviosa spell in charms class.
Earlier this month, the 8th grade had a great visit to PND! Science experiments, History Jeopardy, Math trashketball, Spanish balloon races, building a bridge, and team work lego building were some of the fun activities they enjoyed!
Make sure you get ready for our SMS Trunk or Treat this Saturday! It's sure to be lots of fun. And don't forget to send in candy for our Candy Wars! The competition is heating up!
