Principal's Weekly Newsletter

Dear Families,

This is an exciting time to be part of the St. Mary's community! The outpouring of support by our parents towards Pub Trivia Night has been tremendous. We are so grateful for the donations to the Silent Auction, for those of you who will be volunteering your time in assisting with the event, and especially for those who will be joining us for the evening. Special thank you to Magoun Saloon, home of Boston's Greatest Buffalo Wings, who will be catering the event. We are excited to announce a new addition to the Silent Auction: 2 tickets for Celtics vs. Suns on February 3rd! We hope you can join us.

There is still time to RSVP! Click here:

https://www.paperlesspost.com/go/B9MVmPAH2GvNyDS12jJ1e

January 20th:

• Early Re-Enrollments Concludes
  
• Progress Reports go home

January 23rd:

• Report Cards Released (Grades PreK-K1)
  
• Winter MAPS make-up testing begins (optional)
  

January 25th:

• Coffee with the Principal

January 26th

• Pub Trivia Night

January 27th:

• Professional Development/ No School

January 29th:

• Catholic Schools Mass Kickoff

January 28th:

• Boys and Girls Basketball Game
  

January 29th-February 4th:

• Catholic Schools Week (details to follow)

February 8th:

• Parent Volunteer Council Meeting (in person and via Zoom)
  

February 9th:

• Admissions Info Session-Online
  

February 15th:

• Walk--Around-Wednesday
  

February 17th:

• Carnival Breakfast Party

February 27th:

• March Matching Challenge begins
  

February 20th-24th:

• No School- February Vacation

March 1st:

• Middle School Family Meeting (Field Trip Zoom)
  

We celebrated a very special birthday this week. Happy Birthday Ms. Gloria! Thank you for your abundance of love for our St. Mary's School Community!

Thank you to our Grade 3 students, Lola, Tripp, and Kenzie for leading the school in this morning's announcements. We are so proud of you!

Since there is no school on Friday (Professional Development Day), we will be serving pizza on Thursday. If your child does not order pizza, please send them lunch from home on Thursday.

Don't forget, Coffee with the Principal will be this Wednesday, January 25th at 8 a.m. in the school cafeteria!

Be on the lookout for an email on Monday with the final Catholic Schools Week Details!

We had 4 cases of Covid reported to us this week.

Enjoy your weekend

Nurse Wu

Sunday 1/29 - Uniforms at Sunday Mass at 11 a.m.

Monday 1/30 - Uniforms with Crazy Socks

Tuesday 1/31 - Wear Your Culture Day (wear something representing your cultural heritage)

Wednesday 2/1 - Red, White, and Blue Day

Thursday 2/2 - Uniforms for School Mass (K2-8) at 8 a.m.

Friday 2/3 - Tropical Beach Day wear something with tropical patterns

Please note, outfits must adhere to our dress-down day policy in the handbook*

In band students are learning about the musical scales and learning a new piece, “The Avengers” by Alan Silvestri while also learning about measures and rhythms.

Congratulations to our boy's basketball team on their game against St. Columbkille's. Great job guys! Good luck to our Girl's and Boy's Basketball Team on their game this weekend at St. Theresa's in West Roxbury!

Thank you to our Board Chair, Damien Leigh, for arranging the donation of our new school basketball uniforms from New Balance. We love them!

We have been learning more about the winter in Spanish class as we cover some exciting vocab terms relating to clothes and attire. As part of our vocab lesson we had a fun song to help us learn our new vocabulary.

This week in Pre-K, students continued to learn about and discuss winter weather, snow and arctic animals! They explored what snowflakes look like and even built their own! They designed their own snowmen and brainstormed ideas of how to build an ice home in the arctic to keep their penguin friends warm! They then explored different footprints made by animals in the snow and engaged in a fun movement game where we waddled like a penguin, crawled like a bear, and slid like a walrus!

Students in K1 practiced their fine motor skills using winter-themed sensory manipulatives such as crinkle paper and winter animals.

Students in K1 are also learning all about animals in the winter focusing on hibernation, adaptation, and migration.

K2 is learning all about counting from 1-100. Ms. McAuliffe practiced with her class how to count in intervals of 10, 5, and 2! She is also doing a wonderful job demonstrating various ways to count as they learn more about the numbers in their Bridges Number Corner.

On Tuesday, first grade celebrated Martin Luther King Jr. Students discussed his famous speech, how he was peaceful by using his words rather than his body to make change, and how he aided in ending segregation! Students then created paper bag puppets of the activist and attached a part of his speech to the back of the puppet so that they are able to reenact the most memorable part of his speech.

Grade 2 is reading The Wizard of Oz! As part of the daily morning message, they work on copying down the dates. They work on their fine motor skills while applying previous knowledge in the classroom and journaling about the Wizard of Oz while comparing and contrasting the movie to the book.

Grade 2 students are also preparing for their First Penance and have started to practice the Act of Contrition!

Students in Miss Cafferky's class prepared questions to ask their Swedish penpals over Zoom this week! Grade 3 students had the opportunity to have an open dialogue with students who are over 3,000 miles away. It was so much fun!

Grade 3 is doing problem strings which is part of our new Bridges Curriculum! They are learning the number line and also learning about subtraction!

Grades 4 and 5 came together to learn about the life and legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. Each student decorated one square of a poster with a word that represents his or her own dream, and they will be put together to create one unified poster!

Monsieur Raymond practiced performing introductions using skits and videos. Students also watched Le Petit Poulet and were asked to identify all french words using context clues.

In 6th grade math, Mr. Suriawinata is working with his students on reviewing their recent math unit which covered proportions, equivalence, and unit rates. They played an exciting review game that promotes healthy competition among the scholars.

In 8th grade, students are learning about the relationship between direct democracy and representative democracy. Mr. Febesh’s class split in half and practiced the art of debate. They are excited to learn more about different government systems as they cover this unit in U.S. history.

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