Yesterday evening several SMS students & their families attended the Diocese of Buffalo's Character Award Mass held at St. Amelia Church in Tonawanda. Students who received Diocesan Character Awards throughout this school year were honored. Bishop Michael W. Fisher celebrated Mass, and refreshments were available afterwards. Congratulations to all of our award winning students!
#characterED #WNYCatholicSchools #catholicschool #SMStheplacetoBEE #welcoming #sportsmanship #service #appreciation #determination #inclusion #sacrifice #problemsolving #optimism
🥚 🐣 🐥 It's happening! Yesterday morning our Montessori class could hear chirping from inside the eggs in their incubator... yesterday afternoon they noticed the first crack, & this morning they have their first chick! Stay tuned for more chick hatching news today!
#Montessori #PreK #HappyHatchDay #Kindergarten #MontessoriLearning #Science #chicks
Miss Kirwan's 3rd grade class has been keeping it REAL with autobiographies! Each student read the autobiography of a famous or historical person or group, then summarized what they learned and drew a picture. Great job!
#grade3 #ELA #autobiography #famous #historicalfigures #knowledge
🇺🇸 Don't forget - bring in $2 tomorrow to dress down in red, white & blue!The funds raised will go to support K9s for Warriors, an organization that helps provide trained Service Dogs to Military Veterans suffering from PTSD, traumatic brain injury and/or military trauma. Learn more about the cause here: https://k9sforwarriors.org/
#MemorialDay #SomeGaveAll #AllGaveSome #HonorVeterans #K9sforWarriors #redwhiteblue #DressDown
Second graders in Mrs. Wojtaszek's classroom have been learning about Memorial Day, its origins, and the importance of honoring those who have made the ultimate sacrifice for our freedom.
God of power and mercy, you destroy war and put down earthly pride.
Banish violence from our midst and wipe away our tears, that we may all deserve to be called your sons and daughters.
Keep in your mercy those men and women who have died in the cause of freedom and bring them safely into your kingdom of justice and peace.
We ask this though Jesus Christ our Lord.
R/. Amen
Prayer for Memorial Day from the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
#grade2 #MemorialDay #honor #remember #freedom #DecorationDay
Students in grades 3-7 experienced history where it happened this week! They didn't let the rain stop them from having fun and learning a lot on their field trip to Old Fort Niagara . More photos: https://tinyurl.com/mry6chxc
#oldfortniagara #newFrance #FrenchandIndianWar #RevolutionaryWar #Warof1812 #livinghistory
Mrs. Baker's 4th graders are poets, and they didn't even know it! Each student was given a colored paint chip to write a poem about and create a picture with, then these were incorporated into their very own bound book!
#poetry #grade4 #littlepoets #poetrybook #ELA #Knowledge #selfpublished
Our students in grades Montessori Kindergarten, K, 1 & 2 had so much fun at Explore & More this week! Check out all the photos here: https://tinyurl.com/bdeuhw6z
#fieldtrip #handsonlearning #montessori #kindergarten #grade1 #grade2 #learningthroughplay #endofyearfun
Our Grade 3/4 Bees played their best game yet tonight! Everyone hustled & played their heart out through the wet, mud, & cold to bring the game to a 2-2 tie against St. Ben's. Now it's time to start those washing machines!
#soccer #grade3 #grade4 #muddyfun #jumpinpuddles
📘 LAST CHANCE FOR YEARBOOKS!
Commemorate a great year, and order this special keepsake for your student! Everyone loves to sign each other’s yearbooks at the end of the year and you don’t want your child to miss out! Yearbooks featuring Montessori - Grade 8 are $21.00 each. Yearbooks will be distributed in June! Any questions, please email jleong@stmaryschoolswormville.org
Click the link below UNTIL 12 MIDNIGHT TOMORROW NIGHT TO ORDER!
https://www.stmaryschoolswormville.org/yearbook
Happy Birthday to Mrs. Laderer (Grade 5) & all SMS students celebrating May birthdays! #happybirthday #SMStheplacetoBEE #May
The #ClassOf2025 completed their last service project of the year before leaving on their trip to Philadelphia this week!
8th graders organized a project to collect snacks & individual drinks as a thank you to the members of the Amherst Police Department who do such a wonderful job keeping our community safe. When they dropped off the goodies, the students were even treated to a tour of the police station!
#SERVICE #police #safe #serviceproject #grade8 #snacksforeveryone
🎓🐝 Don't forget to order 2024-5 yearbooks by this Thursday, May 22 - click the link to order & commemorate a great year! https://www.stmaryschoolswormville.org/yearbook
🐝 In honor of #WorldBeeDay we thought we’d play a little game and see if you can guess where these bees are living around our campus. The first person to guess all their locations correctly will win a prize!
In the meantime, a little history on our 'bee-loved” mascot…
Why is the BEE our school mascot?
Is it because we’re located in Swormville? No - it was a nickname adopted by Sister Sheila when she was principal because of the bee’s many symbolic Christian meanings, including:
• Community - the hive represents a perfect community where each bee has a role and they work together to achieve goals.
• Perseverance - bees are hardworking and can survive environmental pressures, making them a symbol of overcoming obstacles
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• Nature - bees represent the power and mystery of nature, and are sometimes considered guardians of the natural world.
•Other meanings - bees can also symbolize focus, teamwork, generosity, fertility, prosperity, friendship, brightness, joy, beauty, celebration, wisdom, birth and rebirth.
•Many Catholic Saints have bees as a symbol, due to their sweet eloquence in preaching, St. Ambrose is the patron saint of bees, beekeepers and even candle makers. He is often depicted with bees or a beehive – symbols that also indicate wisdom.
• Honey is viewed as a blessing of abundance and is used within the context of goodness. There are frequent references to "a land flowing with milk and honey" throughout the Bible.
... and now you know!
#SMStheplacetoBEE #goBEES #schoolmascot #schoolspirit
🥚 🐣 🐥 There's just 9 more days until the chicks hatch in our Montessori classroom!
Today students used an egg model to see what the chick looks like at this stage of it's growth. Students also learned about candling. Candling is a technique that uses a bright light to examine the development of an embryo inside a chicken egg by shining it through the shell.
#science #hatching #chicks #montessorilearning #montessori #knowledge
🐝⚽️ The JV Bees brought the nectar back to the hive, beating St. Christopher's Cougars 9-2 this past Sunday. The game featured fewer Bees than normal, with many on the field almost a full 60 minutes!
Braden placed a top bin penalty kick early in the first half. Grayson had his first goal of the season after being moved into an offensive position after halftime. Gabe, Luca, Jackson, Dawit, and Nico had seven goals combined. A big thank you to Ryan Parisi for filling in as referee!
This Thursday the Bees will face the St. Greg's Cougars at home for a highly anticipated match-up.
🏒 🐝💙 SMS Middle School students were excited to participate in the Buffalo Sabres intramural ball hockey program: Ball Hockey Battle! 5th, 6th, 7th & 8th graders competed during their "recess regular season” for several weeks to choose a winning team that would participate in the championship tournament, held over the weekend at Key Bank Center! SMS was the only Catholic School that participated.
The SMS Bees won their first game against Pembroke Intermediate with a score of 8-4, but lost their second game to Frontier Middle. After the two games they were seeded 7th out of 13, making it to the quarter finals, where they lost to Casey Middle.
Thank you Mr. Dolan, Mr. Kelly & Mr. Reeds for organizing this amazing experience for our students! Click the link below for more photos of the fun: https://tinyurl.com/uw6rcts9
⚽️ Grade 3/4 Soccer (Team Rivera) extended their record to 3-1 with a win over St. John the Baptist this weekend with a final score of 10-1.
Jack, Xavier, Weston, Elyse, Julia , Logan, and Emma all registered goals for SMS. The rest of the team contributed on offense and defense, led by Luke, Cora, Hudson, Hannah, and Sloane who all played well to help their team to victory.
🌸🌼🌺 Get your yard looking great with hanging baskets & flats from the HSA flower sale! Tomorrow is the LAST DAY to order vouchers from Weeks Nursery, click the link to support SMS & beautify your yard at the same time! stmaryschoolswormville.org/flowers
🧪 It was cold as ice in Mrs. Witkowski's Science Lab this week... dry ice that is! Thank you to the Papke family who bid on and won this thrilling after school party in our recent #SpringforSuccess Silent Auction. Students had a blast doing various experiments in the lab, then parading through the school with their "dry ice torches"! Thank you Mrs. Witkowski for donating this chilling experience!
#science #sciencelab #dryice #carbondioxide #sublimation #partytime
