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Messages from the heart like the one here from Ms. Doyle interacting, making connections, shaping our school culture, makes us proud to be part of the St. Mary's School family. St. Mary’s Students and Families, If I am being totally honest, this has been the hardest week of the Stay Home order for me. For some reason, all the missed opportunities and events of my first year as a school leader have seeped into my consciousness and made me sad and even angry at the circumstances we are all in.
In Gratitude, Kathleen Doyle Please invite your special grand friend to join us on Friday, May 1st for a virtual All School Mass celebration at 9:00AM. Friday Mass will be live streamed right here on our school facebook page @StMarysSL and on Fr. Dave’s YouTube channel at youtube.com/c/frdavegross #LoveMyCatholicSchool #WeAreSaintMarysCatholicSchool #SoaringWithTheSaints #GrandFriendsDay2020 St. Mary’s School, Spring Lake, Michigan  We are grateful for the love and support of our grandparents and special grand friends whose faith and values play an important role in our students' lives. Please invite your special grand friend to join us on Friday, May 1st for a virtual All School Mass celebration. Friday Mass videos can be found here on our school facebook page @StMarysSL or on Fr. Dave’s YouTube channel at youtube.com/c/frdavegross #LoveMyCatholicSchool #WeAreSaintMarysCatholicSchool #SoaringWithTheSaints #GrandFriendsDay2020 St. Mary’s School, Spring Lake, Michigan  Grand Friends’ Day is one of our school’s most favorite springtime celebrations! We are grateful for the love and support of our grandparents and special grand friends whose faith and values play an important role in our students' lives. Please invite your grand friend to join us on Friday, May 1st for a special “Giving Grand Thanks” virtual All School Mass celebration. The celebration will continue throughout the day with many fun surprises! Friday Mass videos can be found on our school facebook page @StMarysSL or on Fr. Dave’s YouTube channel at youtube.com/c/frdavegross #LoveMyCatholicSchool #WeAreSaintMarysCatholicSchool #SoaringWithTheSaints #GrandFriendsDay St. Mary’s School, Spring Lake, Michigan  Lands’ End hopes to lighten the burden for families by honoring this 40% offer for uniform apparel. Lands’ End is our St. Mary’s School plaid uniform supplier. Enter promotional code: BEACH, Pin: 1234 at checkout (see store website for details) SHOP HERE Remember our School Uniform Closet welcomes your outgrown and gently worn uniform clothing for both boys and girls. Our FREE uniform closet will be available to our school families when it is safe for the office to reopen.  Thank you Ethan and everyone who joined us this morning for our Doyle's Daily from a Distance! See you again tomorrow and every Monday through Thursday morning at 8:50 AM Doyle's Dailies are also available to view anytime on Facebook and on our school website at https://www.stmarysl.org/doyles-dailies.html😀🙏✝️ #LoveMyCatholicSchool #WeAreSaintMarysCatholicSchool #SoaringWithTheSaints St. Mary's School, Spring Lake, Michigan  "HE IS RISEN!" St. Mary's kindergarten student Fabian enlisted his dad to help him build a wooden cross and preschool brother Beau to help him enact Jesus’ walk to Golgotha with Beau playing the part of a Roman soldier. Teaching the way of the cross in Mrs. Johnson's kindergarten religion class -- students were to design a cross using materials of their choice. The way of the cross is not easy, God gives us strength for the journey and gives us new life through his love. Thank you Fabian and Beau for sharing! ✝️ #LoveMyCatholicSchool #WeAreSaintMarysCatholicSchool #SoaringWithTheSaints #HeIsRisen St. Mary's School, Spring Lake, Michigan   CLICK HERE TO VIEW Ms. Doyle reads a few pages from Tomie DePaola's Book of Bible Stories
Written by Tomie dePaola and Illustrated by Tomie dePaola Ms. Doyle, Principal St. Mary's School, Spring Lake, Michigan #MarchisReadingMonth 2020 #StoryTime #LoveMyCatholicSchool #WeAreSaintMarysCatholicSchool #SoaringWithTheSaints
Due to the unexpected need for at home faith building materials, we were able to make special arrangements with Good News! Book Fair to move up our book fair and conduct it virtually. Enter code: MARY2020 at checkout - SHOP AT: https://goodnewsbookshop.com/ Orders ship directly to your home - FREE shipping on orders over $25  Please share with your friends and families.
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From our preschoolers like Samuel and Benjamin, to our eight graders, YOU are making a difference, Don Eric! We're excited that St. Mary's School is Introducing Virtual Spanish Lessons next week!
Don Eric will be coordinating with your child’s regular teacher to offer one weekly Spanish lesson virtually each week. Please watch for more communication on this as we firm up the plan. As a teaser, imagine a tour around Don Eric’s family farm in Spanish or Mexican Cooking with Don Eric! We are SO excited to prepare these opportunities for all our students. #WeAreSaintMarysCatholicSchool #SoaringWithTheSaints #LoveMyCatholicSchool St. Mary's School, Spring Lake, Michigan 
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Follow the link from our school webite at https://www.stmarysl.org/school.html or go to https://protectyoungeyes.com/blog/ to sign up to receive the PARENT TECH NEWSLETTER Topics like...
 Stay tuned every Monday-Thursday morning at 8:50AM for Doyle's Dailies from a Distance (morning meeting) for students to watch! Ms. Doyle will announce DEAR times for that day during her video. If you can't make it at 8:50AM, don't worry, they will all be available on Facebook and on the school website --Just click on the Doyle's Dailies from a Distance button above.
DIRECT LINK TO DOYLE'S DAILY MONDAY - THURSDAY MORNING MEETING VIDEOS CAN BE FOUND ON OUR DOYLE'S DAILY WEB PAGE HERE OR THE LINK CAN ALSO BE FOUND ON OUR SCHOOL LANDING PAGE HERE Please consider online giving to St. Mary’s Parish during these weeks without liturgical celebration3/20/2020
 Please consider online giving to St. Mary’s Parish during these weeks without liturgical celebration if it is within your power to do so. We are doing all we can to take care of our faculty/staff during this time, but the changes/cancelations hit close to our St. Mary’s home as well.
Here is a LINK to sign up.  We work hard each week to capture pictures and videos of our students in their classrooms and taking part in special planned activities. With our transition to distance learning, there's still so much good news to share, we just need a little help from all of our parents to collect the content!
Feel free to message me with content to share or submit it via email. What are you up to at home? We’d love it if you’d Include your pets, brothers and sisters...we cannot wait to see what you’re up to! Send a video, snap a picture or just share your thoughts… :) Thank you! Email: cpayne@slstm.org or Message us on facebook @StMarysSL  Mrs. Polega, Preschool Director
St. Mary's School, Spring Lake, Michigan #LoveMyCatholicSchool #WeAreSaintMarysCatholicSchool #SoaringWithTheSaints Please continue to encourage free choice reading every chance your child gets.  Even when we are not in school, there is still a need to help our parish community serve the local needy. If you can still honor the request for Easter food basket items, please do so by dropping items off at the Food Pantry or in the church gathering space by March 20. Each class is assigned an Easter food item that can be found below - THANK YOU FOR YOUR CONTINUED SUPPORT!  Students may wear GREEN for St. Patrick's Day with uniform bottoms. ☘️Limericks will be read over the PA throughout the day! A special THANKS to our anonymous leprechaun for donating a FREE Jet's pizza luncheon to our entire K-8 student body on March 17th! (PLEASE NOTE: No alternative entrees will be served on the 17th) #LoveMyCatholicSchool #WeAreSaintMarysCatholicSchool #SoaringWithTheSaints St. Mary's School, Spring Lake, Michigan   In the busyness of my new role as principal of St. Mary’s School, I must constantly remind myself about the power of gratitude. Taking a moment to recognize all we have to be grateful for opens my eyes to how blessed we truly are and washes over the hurried pace with peace and contentment…
This week, I am feeling grateful for our Hot Lunch Program managed by Director of Food Service Tanya Kval. It is such a blessing to have nutritious meal choices lovingly served by Mrs. Kval, Mrs. McKenna, and the dedicated parent volunteers who arrive each day to help. Parents who choose our Hot Lunch Program for their children can be assured that students will have enough choices to fill up with brain fueling, delicious calories at lunch thanks to the careful planning of each month’s menu. And Mrs. Kval works hard, shopping locally whenever possible, to manage expenses so school lunch remains affordable for all. She is also a great team player, creatively connecting food choices with special days around the school. This is just one more way we are taking care of our students’ minds, bodies and souls at St. Mary’s School! While I am on the subject of gratitude, I hope you have received your personal invitation to our first ever Gratitude Gala on March 21st. I can’t wait to share the evening with our honorees, our past and present faith leaders, faculty and staff, and all of you. St. Mary’s School is a special place where we go Above and Beyond in all we do, and this evening of gratitude will prove it to you. Tickets are now on sale through the parish website at www.stmarysl.org.
We're so excited to offer even more!! Our NEW morning Preschool Plus option is an enriching opportunity to extend preschool learning in a multi-age classroom. Daily themes will connect play based learning in faith, literacy, math, technology, Spanish, music, and art. Students will eat lunch together before joining the afternoon preschool class, entering childcare* or going home. *more information will be available at the OPEN HOUSE!  |
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