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Principal's Thanksgiving Edition

Principal'sThanksgiving Edition

A Message from Dr. Nadjarian

Dear Families,


On behalf of the St. Mary's faculty and staff, we would like to wish you and your family a Happy Thanksgiving!


We are so grateful for our students and families! Thank you to Mrs. Simovic for coordinating the Faculty and Staff Pie Drive, and thank you to all families who contributed. The students were thrilled to see their teachers being rewarded with a special treat! The spirit of giving continued throughout the school this week with donations from Table Talk Pies and Eddy Sousa's bakery, and we cannot forget our wonderful parent volunteers, and middle school students who supported our Thanksgiving Food Drive. Our parent volunteers did such an excellent job helping us prepare for our Thanksgiving celebrations and they even got a head start in helping us with our Christmas preparations! In closing, we have so much to be thankful for and the spirit of giving will continue as we prepare for the Advent Season! God bless you.

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Looking Ahead

November 24th-25th:

  • No School Thanksgiving Break

November 28th:

  • K2-8 Report cards go home

  • Parent-Teacher Conferences begin

December 5th:

  • Christmas Tree Lighting-Scholastic Book Fair Launch at 4 p.m.

December 7th

  • Coffee with the Principal at 8 a.m.
December 8th:
  • Immaculate Conception Mass (PreK-8) 12:10 p.m.

December 9th:

  • Admissions Open House/ Discovery Day

December 13th:

  • School-wide Christmas Concert and Pageant at 8:45 a.m.

December 16th:

  • Last Day of school before Christmas break
  • EDP closes at 4:30 p.m.

December 17th-January 2nd

  • Christmas Break

January 3rd:

  • Welcome Back!

A Message from our Director of Advancement, Dan Griffin

Thank you to all families that participated in yesterday's St. Mary's Giving Day. The Fund for St. Mary's raised $2,080 in one day! To this date, The Fund for St. Mary's has nearly tripled the amount of what we raised at this time last year. I encourage you to participate today, visit st-marys-brookline.org/giving to give.

A Message from our Librarian, Ms. Broley

Hello to All,


The holiday season is racing towards us, so it must be time for our annual Book Fair!


The scholastic Book Fair will be open the 5th , 6th and 7th of December (M, T, W) with our Family Night happening on the afternoon of the 5th , right after the Tree Lighting! We could not hold this event without you! Attached is a link to sign up for setup, cleanup, and working at the actual fair (helping children make difficult decisions and checking them out). I know that parents

would most like to work the fair when their child’s class is attending. Over the next week, the teachers whose students do not attend Library during the Book Fair days (1C, 2nd , 3rd , 6th ,7th and 8th ) will sign up for a time to bring their class. If you would like to volunteer during the time your child’s class visits keep an eye out for the teachers to sign up. Otherwise, students will attend with Ms. B during their regular Library class time - which is already noted on the sign up.


Our Book Fair homepage, full of instructions and links to the scholastic catalog, as well as a link to the volunteer signup is https://www.scholastic.com/bf/stmaryoftheassumptionsch1

Pk and K1 will not visit during their regular class time, but if their teachers may chose to take them during the day, or they can attend with a parent before or after school or during Family Night.


Happy reading!

Faculty and Staff Friendsgiving

Our faculty and staff enjoyed a delicious Friendsgiving breakfast all together this morning! It was so special to take a break from our busy schedules and spend quality time all together.
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Middle School Leadership

Middle School participated in two service projects this week. The first was helping the parish staff transporting and assembling all the donated food for the Thanksgiving Food Drive. The second project was to help the parish staff distribute St. Mary's new hymnals in each of the pews. Middle School impressed us all and we are so proud of them!
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Thanksgiving Liturgy of the Word and Cider and Pie Dismissal

The St. Mary's community celebrated with a special Liturgy of the Word service where each grade gave thanks for different gifts in their lives and then Fr. Bobby blessed loaves of bread for each student to take home and enjoy with their family. At the end of the school day, we enjoyed a pie and cider party at dismissal! Thank you too our parent volunteers for preparing the cider and pies.


Thank you to Eddy Sousa for their second year of donating over 250 loaves of bread for our Thanksgiving Liturgy of the word. My hope is that students bring the bread home, read the prayer out loud with their families, and break bread together reflecting on the virtue of charity.


Also, thank you to Table Talk Pies for donating 250 individual delicious pies. It was a delicious treat for our students!

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Grade 2

Ms. Connors Grade 2 class spent the month of November making and delivering Thanksgiving cards for all our faculty and staff. Their thoughtfulness is so heartwarming!
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PreK Thanksgiving Celebrations

Ms. Porcello's class indulged in a Thanksgiving Feast!
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St. Cecilia Feast Day

Ms. Chambrelli's class celebrated St. Cecilia's Feast Day by visiting the choir loft and listening to Father Jonathan play the organ. They also made their very own pizzas in honor of St. Cecilia's Italian heritage!
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Grade 4 and PreK

Fourth grade and PreK buddies met for the first time this week!
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K2 and Middle School

In the spirit of Thanksgiving, K2 and their Middle School buddies spent time together making thankful bracelets. They chose seven beads to string on a pipe cleaner. Each bead represented seven things that they were thankful for. We are thankful for each and everyone of you!
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Follow Us on Social Media

Please find the links below to our social media pages. We have been constantly uploading posts and stories so if you are interested in seeing more of our day-to-day happenings, please follow us!


LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/st-mary-of-the-assumption-school


Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/stmaryschoolbrooklinema


Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stmaryschoolbrookline/


Twitter: https://twitter.com/stmarybrookline

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