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Immaculate Heart of Mary School is closed today. Please be safe and enjoy the snow!
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2nd grade has reviewed so many math skills while having fun with math games!
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First grade is getting back into our routines by completing a rotation of our literacy stations. A favorite of the students for this week is the antonym memory match game!
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Before the break, we practiced our understanding of balancing equations by playing a class Jeopardy game. Way to go, first graders!
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First grade enjoyed Polar Express Day! We celebrated this special day with pajamas, a chocolate kiss math activity, hot chocolate, Christmas cookies, and, of course, the Polar Express movie!
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First grade loved learning about magnets and finishing our unit with a magnet hunt!
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Everyone in PreK3 was happy to return from Christmas break and we are hard at work practicing cutting skills.
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PreK3 had a special visitor come and read to us. Deacon Marty Siebold was an amazing reader!
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Pajamas, hot chocolate, cookies, and the Polar Express movie.
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2nd grade did a fantastic job at the Christmas program!
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Practicing multiplication was fun with this dice game!
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We had a fun time reviewing our vocabulary while pinning the nose on Rudolph!
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A package arrived for PK4 from the gingerbread man! Cookies were inside with a clue sending us on a fun gingerbread hunt around the school! One clue was even left on Father Ruben's porch! We eventually found him in the oven of our classroom bakery.
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Congratulations to Mrs. Abbate and her family on their new addition: Scott Joseph who was born yesterday! We wish her all the best.
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The 6th, 7th, and 8th Graders are enjoying Polar Express Day!
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8th graders are wrapping up their discussions on "To Kill a Mockingbird". We began watching the movie today!
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Congrats to our winner of the Spelling Bee - Camilla from 7th grade. Our runner-up was also from 7th grade - Colin. Congrats to all our participants from 1st-8th grade, everyone did a great job!
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First grade is so proud of our classroom winners and their participation in the school spelling bee! You made us proud!
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First grade is having a lot of fun learning about magnets. Our question guiding our latest experiment: Does size and shape matter?
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First grade is playing a Christmas game during math workstations this week to practice missing addends!
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