Preschool and 7th grade buddies had a chance to read together this week too! After the 7th graders helped the preschool decorate their bikes/trikes for the Trike-A-Thon, they cuddled up and read some great books!
There is loads of building happening at SMS! The fifth grade made bridges in the STREAM lab using cup supports and the smaller ones were self supporting bridges based on Leonardo da Vinci’s design! And in preschool, the students made bridges with tape and wooden sticks!
Read Across America Week meant spending time reading with our buddies. Kindergarten and Fifth grade students always love a chance to spend time together and their friendship is precious.
The fourth graders had a blast reading in their blanket forts for Read Across America Week! I know I'm jealous of having a day to get cozy and read books with friends! Sounds like a dream to me!
Next week is our big kickoff for the SMS Auction and we need your help! Check your email for all the details to our Auction Madness Basket Drive!
Our Preschool students have been raising money for the children of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and this week was their Trike-A-Thon. We had such a huge amount of support from the school and our community and we are so proud of the student riders.
We loved dressing up all week! Today, we imagined our futures and the students have great, big dreams and goals! We had athletes, teachers, lawyers, fighter pilots, police, doctors, nurses, and college graduates. The world is theirs for the taking!
From Pokémon to Stella the Unicorn, Pinkalicious to Red fish, Blue fish, we love book characters!
Bibbity bobbity boo! Reading is magic!
Some special friends from Bradley University came by to read during Read Across America Week! The students loved listening to them read!
Drop everything and read for Read Across America Week!
SMS 7th grade girls won three matches in a row on Feb. 18 to get 3rd place in the 2023 7th Grade Volleyball Catholic Schools Tournament (hosted by St. Mark’s, held at SVDP.) A HUGE thank you to all the volunteers who helped pull off this tourney!
Fat Tuesday Bingo was back and better than ever! Thanks to the PSA for making this night happen!
Junior high held a science fair this week. The students worked in groups on their project and then presented their findings at the fair. The younger students loved walking through, learning and listening.
Some fun photos of the 3rd grade students celebrating Fat Tuesday this week!
Let us join in prayer as we begin the 40 day journey through Lent, a time of waiting & preparation. Lord of joyful noise and of solemn silence, give us a good and holy Lent. In peace, bring us back forty days, our hearts made new. O Lord, show me your path. (Psalm 25)
Our 1st and 4th grade students had a great Fat Tuesday celebration today. They enjoyed King's cake and made masks and crowns!
Don't forget to join us tonight for Fat Tuesday Bingo!
Please keep Msgr. Brownsey and his family in your prayers on the passing of his mother.
Information on the services can be found here:
https://www.solontelford.com/obituary/Marilyn-Brownsey
SMS Alums, we need your help! We are looking for stories and memories of the SMS Gym and we are hoping you can take a drive down memory lane for us. If you have a happy, funny, outrageous, memorable or joyful memory that happened in the SMS gym, would you please share it with us? We are asking you to take a quick video on your phone or tablet of you telling the story or memory. We aren't looking for professional here, just you talking to us like we are sitting at your kitchen table. We'd also love if you could share this post to anyone you know who might have a good yarn to spin! If you have any photos from events or activities in the SMS gym, we would love a copy of those too! All videos and photos can be sent to us through Facebook Messenger or email us at SMSMedia@saint-mark.net. Please send them to us by March 10th and keep your eyes open for more information about our plans for the little gym that could!
