Seventh grade students also got time to problem solve in the STREAM Lab. They created load bearing (🐻) roads and bridges and testing the different weights and strengths of each design.
Fifth grade students enjoying their time in the STREAM lab.
🧭 🗺️ Kindergarten is learning about Maps! We took advantage of the sunny day and went outside for our lesson about compasses. We looked north, east, south, and west and drew a picture of something we saw in each direction! 🧭 🗺️
Up for bid on Saturday at our Auction is this handmade keepsake. The second grade students created this decorative plate as a way to commemorate their upcoming First Holy Communion. What a special item to celebrate this day in their life!
Up for bid at our Auction on Saturday is this original watercolor of St. Mark School painted by Nora Drew, a 2012 SMS graduate. She went on to Peoria Notre Dame where her senior art focus was watercolor landscapes. Her art has been sold throughout Peoria and Chicago.
Our students participated in declamations last night at St. Vincent DePaul. They all did a fantastic job, full of emotion. What a wonderful culmination of months of hard work!
Bid on 2 tickets to cheer on America’s Catholic football team, the University of Notre Dame Fighting Irish, as they take on the University of Southern California (both pre-season top 10 in polls for 2023), on Saturday, October 14, 2023, on the beautiful campus in South Bend.
Tickets for our auction on April 1 were SOLD OUT (350 sold), but we now have additional seating (tables for 2) available in the balcony overlooking the main floor. Guests can dine on the upper level and mingle on the main floor as much as you'd like. These won't last long!
Who wouldn't love to head to paradise? Come to the auction and bid on this 2-bedroom, 2-bath fully furnished condo for up to six guests on Okaloosa Island, Ft. Walton Beach, on the Emerald Coast of Florida. Gulf views, 2 pools, tennis/pickleball courts, & fitness center on site.
Seventh Grade students made board games in Religion. This is such a fun way to allow the students a more in-depth learning experience. They loved sharing their board games and playing them with friends.
Save the date for our Early Childhood Ice Cream Social and Open House! Come meet our teachers in preschool, kindergarten and first grade, have a peek inside the classrooms, meet new and old friends alike and get a taste for what St. Mark School has to offer you and your child!
Enjoy a relaxing weekend at this house on a 4-acre lot directly on Lake Michigan! This large home has 5 bedrooms and 3 full/2half bathrooms and sleeps 11. Relax on the 30x15 deck overlooking the lake as you watch the sunset! Available to bid on at the SMS Auction on April 1st!
Our third graders had a Heroes Museum filled with some very interesting characters! I saw Amelia Earhart, Neil Armstrong, Abe Lincoln, George Washington, Albert Einstein, and lots more. We loved welcoming in guests to tour the museum and hear about their lives. Great job!
SMS is proud to have a beginning Band program, a Children's Choir and a School Musical as opportunities for our students. All of these students have spent countless hours practicing and we love getting to watch them as they share their gifts with the world!
Our Fine Art Fair was a huge success, with over 200 students and families coming out to appreciate all the hard work and creativity on display!
Our preschool students wish you a Happy St. Patrick's Day!
First grade students also built leprechaun traps in the STREAM lab in hopes of getting lucky on St. Patrick's Day!
Happy St. Patrick's Day from these young engineers trying to catch a leprechaun! Let's hope their traps lead to success and a pot of gold!
One day more until our St. Mark School Fine Art Fair! We have hung up all the art, practiced our songs, and are ready to share with all of you! Please come celebrate your children and their creativity and hard work on Saturday from 5:30-7!
Our junior high students enjoyed some special Pi Day activities yesterday (3/14). From 2 truths and a pi to investigating the ratio between circumference and diameter, it was a great day'
