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Fables, folklore, and fairy tales! 👑🦄👸🏼🤴🏻🐉🎼

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The SNCS Walk-A-Thon 2017!

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6th Grade students read either Black Beauty or The Jungle Book and had options for their book reports. Maksym chose to make a board game and the whole class throughly enjoyed playing a couple of rounds together

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The 8th graders played a review game on Kahoot to prepare for the assessment in economics.

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To get into the right mindset for writing a how-to essay, 6th Grade students wrote directions for how to make a peanutbutter  and jelly (or Nutella) sandwich. Each student read their instructions as I made the sandwich. We all enjoyed a tasty treat this morning!

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5th Grade students put their research on display so that their peers could learn about different animals from around the world.

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6th graders type their final draft of their nonfiction narratives about a challenge they overcame in their life.

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Students chose one of the first 10 amendments and wrote a personal narrative about what their life would be like without it.

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The 6th graders in Language Arts read a series of stories all related to the topic of childhood and the challenges and triumphs kids face when growing up. The class chose to do a retelling on Michaela DePrince: The War Orphan Who Became a Ballerina.

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The 5th graders put together an informative presentation about Daylight Savings time and it's use around the world.

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Fifty-50 was generous to sponsor the girls volleyball team this year and donated shirts. Thank you, Fifty-50! 😁 🏐

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7th Grade students learned about the Constitution by taking on the role of law students studying for their Constitutional law exam. At the end, each student passed the "test" and graduated from law school, receiving a diploma.

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5th Grade students invited their parents to our book report gallery walk to show off their creativity and hard work.

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Students take on the role of a delegate that was at the Constitutional Convention in 1787 and spend some time walking around to mingle with other delegates.

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Holodomor: The Secret Holocaust in Ukraine

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Holodomor: The Secret Holocaust in Ukraine

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We had a special visitor, Nicholas Kotcherha, form the Ukrainian Genocide Famine Foundation come in and speak to the middle school students about Ukraine's history form 1932-1933. He also brought artwork made by 4th-12th Grade students in Ukraine.

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5th graders had the opportunity to touch a living lake sturgeon!

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Middle school students enjoyed exploring the different aspects and environments of aquatic life!

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7th Grade students took on the role of delegates who attended the second Constitutional Convention (1787) and recreated key debates that occurred that summer. At the end, they reached an agreement and signed the Constitution.

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5th Grade were motivated to show off their creativity!

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We celebrated our final day of Catholic Schools Week by inviting our grandparents (or special relative) into our classroom. Fifth-graders read their narratives to their "special person" and then competed in a cooperative challenge. Using 20 sticks of spaghetti, 1 foot of tape, and 3 marshmallows, they had to build the tallest freestanding structure that held 1 whole marshmallow on the top. Everyone enjoyed working together!

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Students in grades 3-8 competed in a STEAM challenge. They had to build a 12-inch structure using only newspaper and tape. The structure that could hold the most notebooks, won.

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5th graders ready to begin the all-school STEAM Challenge, decked out in their favorite sports team jersey!

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Students in grades 4-8 competed in the SNCS 5th Annual Spelling Bee as a part of Catholic Schools Week. Anna Chaban, seventh grade, took 1st place followed by Larissa, fourth grade, and Viktoriya Kuchina, eighth grade.

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Students in Kindergarten to Eighth grade gathered in the cafeteria to decorate pendants to promote our school community.

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5th graders got creative with the door decorating contest for Catholic Schools Week! This is the beginning of our paper mache eagle.

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A.K.A. Simple and Compound Sentences
6th Grade students made cookie sandwiches, which represent compound sentences: the cookie represents 2 different simple sentences joined together with frosting (a comma + conjunction OR a semicolon)

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7th Grade students review what they learned about the American Revolution by playing an interactive game: Kahoot in which students use a device to answer multiple-choice questions.

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8th Grade students work in pairs to identify the different characteristics of a particular industry and prepare for a class gallery walk.

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Students watch history being made as they watch the inauguration of President Elect, Donald Trump.

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5th Grade students share the narratives they wrote in Language Arts with their peers.

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5th Grade students make lists of all of the things they are thankful for in preparation for writing a 5-paragraph essay.

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Students in language arts class use the ActivBoard to write and highlight.

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SNCS students honor our veterans.

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Students watch the results from the presidential election and listen to speeches from Paul Ryan, Hillary Clinton, and Barack Obama.

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Middle school students gathered in the library to listen to speeches of those running for office in the SNCS student council.

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Students work together to examine primary and secondary sources in order to come to their own conclusions about what colonial life was really like.

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Students planted tulips outside the school.

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November 2: All Souls Day a.k.a. The Day of the Dead

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November 2: All Souls Day a.k.a. The Day of the Dead

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Students enrolled in Spanish class had a wonderful Monday Morning Assembly highlighting the Day of the Dead in memory or Mr. Gene Swytnyk.

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Our friends Stock Market program taught a lesson to the 8th Grade students on how to research companies.

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Middle School students showed off their costumes during Monday's Halloween Party.

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On Tuesday, October 25, 2016 students sang "Happy Birthday" after lunch and enjoyed some birthday cake.

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7th Grade students spend time learning about the English colonies of North America.

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7th Grade students work in small groups to create a poster that highlights a particular colony's best features

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6th Grade takes notes about the writing process in their interactive writing notebook. They are gearing up to write a nonfiction personal narrative.

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Students in Creative Writing watch short films by Pixar to determine the elements of plot.

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8th Grade students work in small groups to discuss how the activity they participated in connects to different parts of the reading in the textbook.

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Ambassador Chaly presents a gift for the school to Ms. Cirilli.

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Students present bread to the Ambassador

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After reading, students revisit the chapter(s) in order to accompany their answers with text evidence.

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5th Grade students work together in their small groups to determine the 3 main events in Night of the Spadefoot Toads so far.

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5th graders practice their oral fluency as they take turns reading passages in their small groups.

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6th Grade students conducted a short research project about Calvin and Hobbes comics to try to answer the question: What made this comic strip so popular?

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8th graders participated in an activity where they were either part of a market economy or a command economy. Students were given a set of directions on how to make bracelets out of paper.

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Students interview Mrs. Anderson, first grade teacher.

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Students spend the first 15 minutes of each class completing a free write to a prompt.

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The 8th Grade students working with the stock market guys. They will be coming in once a month to guide students in choosing stocks that will be entered into a stock market competition.

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The 5th graders work on an interactive writing activity

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Daniel and Christian work together to examine an image to find different factors of production (land, labor, or capital).

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Students work in pairs to compete in identifying goods and services in different images.

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Students enjoy reading along with our interactive text: Night of the Spadefoot Toads

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During the first week of school, middle school students participated in different team-building activities to promote a positive social community in our school.