Set your alarms for January 18th! The reservations open for Empower Illinois and the Illinois Tax Credit Scholarships.
Did you hear the news? SMS has Monday off to celebrate Martin Luther King Jr Day! Enjoy your extra day and we will see you on Tuesday!
Our girls volleyball season is underway! These girls are working hard and having fun learning and improving on their skills.
Congratulations to our awesome 8th graders on their victory Monday! We celebrated the 8th grade basketball players and cheerleaders and then had a nail biter of a game, winning 42-36 in overtime! We are proud of all our 8th graders.
Our preschool through 2nd grade students had the opportunity to adore the Eucharist today with Monsignor Brownsey. He spent time talking about how Jesus loves us and wants to spend time with us. Learning traditions of our faith is one of the ways that makes St. Mark's great.
We are proud of these young men and their teammates who took home 2nd place in the Monsignor Livingston Memorial Tournament for 5th grade boy’s basketball!
We are excited to be starting a new social emotional learning program in our school. As we look to start the new year off on a strong foot, it's important to help equip our students with the tools for success in school, friendships and life!
Come out next Monday to support our 8th grade boys basketball players and cheerleaders!
May your Christmas be full of peace and joy!
2nd grade presented a Reader's Theater for the kindergarten and 1st grade about a Gingerbread Man that leads the North Pole Crew on a very merry chase! The performers did a fantastic job full of excitement and the audience was captivated!
Preschool at St. Mark has a tradition of exchanging books with their friends. Yesterday, the students were so excited to give a gift to their friends and see what book they got and who gave it to them! Promoting the joy of literacy is a huge part of our passion in preschool.
Preschool had their Christmas party yesterday! Pajamas, painting snowflakes, cookie decorating, a snow sensory bin, snowball toss, an epic dance party, snacks and watching The Star made for a fabulous day!
First Graders enjoyed doing research on an animal of their choice, and then writing a nonfiction All About informational book. Partners read each other’s books, and then learned about each other’s animal.
Our fourth graders worked hard on writing blessings and stuffing bags full of goodies to give to families spending Christmas with their babies in the NICU. Our hearts are FULL. Thank you to everyone who donated to our service project!
Kindergarten students getting in the spirit!
Some holly, jolly junior high students in their festive holiday headwear today!
Happy Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe! Our kindergarten students made tilmas with Our Lady’s image on them and processed into Mass with red roses, which they laid at her portrait.
Today is the anniversary of Venerable Archbishop Fulton Sheen's death. Let us pray that he will soon be named a Saint and that he prays for us!
Join us in preparing our hearts for Christmas with Simbang Gabi. Maybe adding a new to you tradition is just what you need to shake things up and put everything into perspective. Look in the Marksmen Memo today for more information and additional dates for the nine masses.
Preschool is in the Christmas spirit today, building 3D structures with gum drops, searching for jingle bells in shaving cream, roll, count and draw candy canes and a washi tape Christmas stocking art invitation. Plus, I'm sure I heard some Christmas singing in there!
