Today, the sixth grade class experienced a slow motion Mass conducted by Father Bill. The students were invited into the sacristy to learn about the vestments worn by the priest as well as the names for the different dishes used in Mass. Once Mass started the students stood up at the altar for many parts […]
The middle school classes are preparing for the season of Lent. The students will be participating in a retreat to better understand the meaning of Lent. The youth ministers from the parish and the middle school teachers are preparing for this retreat. In addition each class is reviewing the Catholic Church requirements for Lent. The […]
Everyone is looking forward to our annual school fair next Wednesday evening, and students in the sixth and eighth grades are especially excited to be close to finishing their science experiments. All science projects are due in the parish center next Wednesday morning by 8 a.m. This includes the display board, binder, and any raw […]
Tomorrow the middle school will be going to see the play “Most Valuable Player”. It is a flashback of the life of Jackie Robinson and all the hardships he faced to become the first black major league baseball player. What a perfect way for the middle school to celebrate Black History Month! Submitted by the […]
The middle school is in the process of finishing our Apostles’ Creed religion book. The students have learned many details about this beautiful prayer over the past several months. We examined how the prayer is a map of our faith and how the different sections of the prayer express our Christian faith. The last chapters […]
Students in grade 8 have finished their research papers and have moved on to the experimental portion of their science fair project, with log checks every other week. Sixth graders have just completed the planning stage (writing their QHP–question, hypothesis and detailed procedure) and will be ready to start experimenting this week. They will also […]
The middle school continues to work on their Advent calendars each day. They must choose a Corporal or Spiritual Work of Mercy and complete a good deed for the Work of Mercy. As a promise to do these “good works” they place a sticker on each entry. The goal of the calendars is to help […]
Due to the holiday and the end of the trimester, there will be no work packet tomorrow. The middle school teachers will send the next work packet home on the 30th of this month. It should include all of the rest of the graded work for trimester one. We are most grateful for all of […]
A reminder to all sixth and seventh graders: We have finished work on our lemonade stand spreadsheets and one person from each “partnership” should have sent me the file via email by now.
Starting now, the second half of the first trimester, grades 6, 7, and 8 will receive a work packet every Tuesday instead of every other week. We will ask for your input on this new system when we meet for parent conferences.