🎃 Montessori friends are having a gourd-geous time learning about pumpkins! They carved their class pumpkin this week using the shapes they voted for. Everyone had the chance to touch the inside of the pumpkin & feel the seeds if they wanted to - so much fun! Additional work is available to students in the Montessori classroom this month that involves hammering tees into a pumpkin. This activity helps develop fine motor skills, hand eye coordination and sensory exploration!

#pumpkins #pumpkincarving #montessorilearning
about 1 month ago, St. Mary Swormville
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These smiling sculptors had a wonderful time with Mrs. Genovese during their first meeting of the 4th grade Art Club! The girls worked with clay and studied "Little Dancer", the famous sculpture by Edgar Degas.

Art Club is available to grades 4-8 at SMS, and students love the extra time after school to explore different media, work on longer form projects, and learn more about art history!

#artclub #grade4 #littledancer #funwithclay
about 1 month ago, St. Mary Swormville
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It's that time of year again... Halloween week, you ask? Yes, but also time to review the order of operations! 6th grade math students worked at solving this brain teaser yesterday which was also featured on Mrs. Whipple's t-shirt! Comment below if you know the answer... 🎃👻

#orderofoperations #PEMDAS #halloween2025 #middleschoolmath
about 1 month ago, St. Mary Swormville
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Our Meat Raffle is less than 2 weeks away, and a limited number of tickets are still available! Gather up your friends & neighbors for a table, or purchase individual tickets. Ticket price includes open bar of unlimited soda, draft beer & wine. Pesci’s pizza & craft beer will be available for purchase, snacks welcome. First spin at 7 pm. No outside alcohol permitted, this event is strictly 21 & older.

Visit stmaryschoolswormville/org/meat for tickets!

#meatraffle #SMStheplacetoBEE #chuckroast
about 1 month ago, St. Mary Swormville
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Grade 2 has been learning about erosion and weathering in science. Students discovered what happens to the sides of hills & mountains that don’t have grass or vegetation to protect them.

#erosion #weathering #science #grade2
about 1 month ago, St. Mary Swormville
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🧦 SMS families - help our National Junior Honor Society with their Sock Drive and help the needy stay warm this winter! Bring in a warm pair of adult size socks for the homeless by this Friday, October 31st.

#SERVICE #nationaljuniorhonorsociety #NJHS #sockdrive #warmandtoasty
about 1 month ago, St. Mary Swormville
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"The heavens declare the glory of God; the firmament proclaims the works of his hands."
Psalms 19:2

We are blessed with some wonderful trees that are shedding their leaves of beautiful colors around our campus this fall!

#FAITH #naturesbeauty #fallmorning #SMStheplacetoBEE #stmarys #swormville

about 1 month ago, St. Mary Swormville
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⚾️ This may be game 3 of the World Series... but there's just 4 MORE HOURS to get pre-sale tickets for the St. Mary School Meat Raffle on 11/8/25!

Just $15/ticket or $100/table of 8 friends gets you:
-4 hours of unlimited beer, wine & soda
-Opportunities to buy tickets and WIN in our Meat Raffle, 50/50 Split & Basket & Gift Card Raffles
- The MOST FUN you've ever had at a Meat Raffle!

Don't delay, click the link before midnight tonight!
https://www.stmaryschoolswormville.org/meat
about 1 month ago, St. Mary Swormville
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Mrs. Baker's 4th graders have been working hard on identifying parts of historical/technical texts, & comparing point of view to their novel main character "Judson Moon". They also began research for their Pet Election.... more news on which new class pet will be coming to grade 4 in the weeks ahead!

#electionday #petelection #thekidwhoranforpresident #novelstudy #classpet #grade4
about 1 month ago, St. Mary Swormville
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Check out the creatively decorated trunks & cute costumes from students at our 2025 Trunk or Treat event! Have photos of your own to share from last Friday? Post them in the comments!

#SMStheplacetoBEE #trunkortreat #happyhalloween #Halloween2025 #IwantCandy #FAMILY #TRADITION

about 1 month ago, St. Mary Swormville
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We are excited to announce that our 100 trout eggs arrived last week! Some of the eggs have already hatched, and we have several alevin! We are so blessed to once again have the unique opportunity to observe this beautiful life cycle right in our classrooms. Stay tuned for more trout updates!

Click here to learn more about our trout hatching project, and the results of our 2024 hatch: https://tinyurl.com/mrxx2ccy

#trout #lifecycles #troutunlimited #watersheds #browntrout #troutintheclassroom #science #grade3 #grade4 #grade5

about 1 month ago, St. Mary Swormville
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Our Meat Raffle is just 2 weeks from today, and pre-sale tickets are only available until THIS MONDAY! Gather up your friends & neighbors for a table of 8 for $100, or purchase single tickets for $15 each. Ticket price includes open bar of unlimited soda, draft beer & wine. Pesci’s pizza & craft beer will be available for purchase, snacks welcome. First spin at 7 pm. No outside alcohol permitted, this event is strictly 21 & older.

Visit stmaryschoolswormville/org/meat for tickets!

#meatraffle #SMStheplacetoBEE #chuckroast
about 1 month ago, St. Mary Swormville
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Our students were looking picture perfect yesterday for their Fall school photos!

Parents, if you didn’t get your photo order placed yet, that’s okay, there’s still time! All orders should be placed online, and you may pay online with debit card, credit card, PayPal, Apple Pay or Google Pay. All students were photographed regardless of if you ordered photos, for the yearbook. If you missed photo day this week or may want to have a retake done, photo retake day will be Thurs., Dec. 4th. Spring photos will be Tuesday, March 31st.

Thank you to our parent volunteers who came in to help all of our students look picture perfect - we appreciate you!

Order School Photos Here: https://inter-state.com/ORDER
Use Order Code 0165JWB

#pictureperfect #schoolpictureday #saycheese
about 1 month ago, St. Mary Swormville
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Check out our 1st graders using their whisper phones! Whisper phones are useful for younger children to help hear the difference between similar sounds, like /f/ and /v/. Whisper phones can also help students become more fluent readers, as they practice a sentence several times until it sounds natural. Practicing with a whisper phone can also help build confidence in reading aloud in class.

#grade1 #whisperphone #fluentreaders #confidence #learntoread #readtolearn
about 1 month ago, St. Mary Swormville
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Aruba, Jamaica, ooh, I wanna take you to.... Brazil, Hawaii, Cape Cod, Cuba, Canada, Costa Rica, New York City, & Maine! Students in grade 5 enjoyed researching locations in the Western Hemisphere for Social Studies recently, then they created travel brochures for their destination. This project sure has us itching to pack a bag and get away for awhile!

#hemispheres #socialstudies #grade5 #geography #mapskills #worldtravelers

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October is the month of the Holy Rosary! Throughout the month, students have been learning about, practicing, & praying the Rosary. Some of our younger classes got to follow along with crayons- coloring a bead with each prayer.

#October #monthoftheRosary #OurLadyoftheRosary #HailMary #grade2 #FAITH

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Our 8th grade class received this wonderful thank you note for the service project they completed last week. Learn more about 8th grade service projects at SMS by clicking here: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/16PscRT1Ee/

#classof2026 #grade8 #SERVICE #SMStheplacetoBEE #CatholicValues #TomorrowsLeaders
about 1 month ago, St. Mary Swormville
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🥩🍔 There's just ONE WEEK left to purchase Meat Raffle tickets at the PRE-SALE PRICE! Be sure to get your seat at the table for the most fun you've ever had at a meat raffle. "Chuck Roast" returns as your zany, fun loving host - come on out, bring your friends and those singles!

🥓🍗All proceeds benefit St. Mary School Swormville HSA, have a fun night out to benefit a good cause. The evening includes an open bar of beer & wine, chances to win fabulous prizes, and tons of delicious MEAT! Stock that freezer, winter is coming!

🍤🍖Get your tickets here: https://www.stmaryschoolswormville.org/meat
See all the fun we had last year: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KM6G8xhVfSc

#MeatRaffle #MeetMeAtTheMeatRaffle #ChuckRoast #HaveSomeFun #OpenBar #presaletix #StMarySchoolSwormville #wheresthebeef

about 1 month ago, St. Mary Swormville
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📸 School picture day is THIS WEDS., 10/22! Be sure to have your students dress in their picture day best so those photos come out looking sharp.

Please note, we are using a new photographer this year, Inter-State Studio. Picture Day flyers have already come home in backpacks, if your student’s flyer didn’t make it home, visit the "Hive" on our website to access it: https://www.stmaryschoolswormville.org/hive

All orders should be placed online, and you may pay online with debit card, credit card, PayPal, Apple Pay or Google Pay. All students will be photographed regardless of if you wish to order photos, for the yearbook.

Order School Photos Here: https://inter-state.com/ORDER
Use Order Code 0165JWT if ordering photos BEFORE 10/21/25
Use Order Code 0165JWB if ordering photos ON OR AFTER 10/21/25

If you’d like to volunteer on 10/22, we are in need of a few parents to assist the photographer, call classes down to be photographed and help students straighten their ties and fix their hair! Find the link to volunteer in the "Hive" as well: https://www.stmaryschoolswormville.org/hive

about 1 month ago, St. Mary Swormville
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Grade 5 did a wonderful job in Science last week! They explored patterns of daily change in length and direction of shadows, and the seasonal appearance of some stars in the night sky.

#grade5 #science #shadows #stars #patterns
about 1 month ago, St. Mary Swormville
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