Principal's Weekly Update

Dear Families,

It was a great first week of specials! Students participated in physical education, art, library, music, world language (French or Spanish), and drama!

We have exciting news! We sold out of Red Sox tickets. I asked our Red Sox representative to add some more tickets for our St. Mary's families. If you are interested in attending the game on Monday, October 3rd at 7pm, please click on the link below:

Tickets are available here: https://fevo.me/stmary22

Lastly, I hope you have a safe and restful weekend. If you are around on Sunday, please stop by and visit our St. Mary's table at Brookline Day!

We are looking forward to seeing many of you next week at our Back to School Night! We recognize that many of you have children in both the younger and older grades. To accomodate you as much as possible, we will divide our back to School Night into two sessions, PreK-Grade 2 and Grade 3-Grade 8.

First session PreK-Grade 2:

Wine and Cheese will be served starting at 5:30 pm. PreK-Grade 2 teachers will be ready to welcome you into their classrooms starting at 6 pm.

Second session Grade 3-Grade 8:

Wine and cheese will be served starting at 6pm.

Grades 3-8 teachers will be ready to welcome you into their classrooms starting at 6:30 pm.

Wine and cheese will be served in the parking lot weather permitting.

In case you missed it, club registrations went out today at noon. Please look for an email that went out at noon today.

September 18th: Brookline Day (come find our table!)

September 21st: Back to School Mass 8 a.m.

Back to School Night-Wine and Cheese Night (Parents only please see schedule above)

September 22nd: MAPS Rally at 2:15 p.m

September 23rd: Band Demo 10 a.m. (students only)

September 26th: MAPS testing begins

lunch from home

September 27th: First Coffee with the Principal at 8 a.m. school cafeteria

September 30th: Movie Night

October 1st: Alumni BBQ

October 3rd: Red Sox Game at 7 p.m.

October 12th: First Parent Volunteer Council meeting 3 p.m. (lower hall of church)

MAPS testing at St. Mary's will begin the week of September 26th. We will hold a MAPS rally to energize and motivate our students on Thursday, September 22nd!

Students had a blast in their first Spanish class learning the word hola!

Thank you Father Bobby for teaching our First graders all about Mass! Grade 1 is ready to celebrate their first school Mass of the year next Wednesday at 8 a.m.

Glyphs are a way to communicate non-verbally. Bridges math curriculum says "A glyph is a simple picture or figure whose features represent information about a given subject. Glyphs are used by doctors, astronomers, meteorologists, geologists, and other scientists as an alternative to charts or tables. Glyphs have also become increasingly popular with mathematicians of all ages because they are fun to make and interpret, and because they can represent so much data at once." Collecting data is something that we are at the moment focusing on in math class.

I was so impressed as I sat in and observed our students presenting their glyphs to one another!

4th Graders chose a word for the year then they made bracelets and signs representing their word and what it means to them. They also made maps of their hearts, Great job!

Grade 6 students are starting to read The Giver in ELA today and they began by discussing dystopias in society. The themes students previewed are: freedom to choose, government, power, knowledge, history, and diversity. They brainstormed how these topics would reveal themselves in the literature and found connections to our own society.

Grade 6 practiced using the scientific method by exploring various science experiments. Students were tasked to conduct their own experiment and create a hypothesis, method, measures, procedures, and record data. Some of the experiments included measuring soda carbonation, placing mentos in soda, and measuring how high different sized balls bounce.

Grade 7 is learning about ancient China, Shang Dynasty, and early Chinese pictographs and ideographs. They were tasked with writing their own story combining both English and Chinese pictographs.

Thank you to the many parents who signed up to be a part of our Parent Volunteer Council! The purpose of the volunteer council is to facilitate, encourage, and ensure ongoing community building by creating a centralized group of committed parent volunteers to assist with events, community building, fundraising, and marketing. The Volunteer Council is open to all parents/legal guardians at St. Mary of the Assumption School. We especially encourage parents of younger students to be involved in order to meet other parents and join the community.

If interested in joining the Parent Volunteer Council, please complete the form below:

Parent Volunteer Council Registration

Volunteer service at St. Mary's is no longer mandatory, however, it is strongly encouraged to build community and set an example of servant leadership for our students.

Our first Parent Volunteer Council meeting will take place on Wednesday, October 12th at 3 p.m. in the lower hall of the church.

Parents, we need your help! This year, we would like to leverage your experience and perspective to assist with our marketing initiatives. If you could take a moment and complete the form found here: Parent Testimonial Form. We hope to share your testimonials on social media and other marketing channels to assist in telling the St. Mary's School story to our community.

Spread the word! We are excited to host several options for families to learn more about St. Mary's. To learn more or register to attend an event visit our Admissions Events page: https://stmarys-brookline.org/admissions-events/

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