In the Third Grade, the students learned about the Solar System.  Each child got to choose a planet they wanted to learn about.  After their research, they created a project to present what they learned about their planet.

 

 

                                              

 

                     

The Kindergarten had fun learning about St. Michael, St. Raphael, and St. Gabriel. We learned that St. Michael protected the Kingdom of God by defeating evil and banishing Satan from Heaven. Our Kindergarten friends made sheilds and invited some Police Officer friends to our classroom. We shared the story “Have You Filled a Bucket Today?” by, Carol McCloud because we protect each other from bucket dippers, just like our Police Officers do. Our guests then “knighted” the children so that they may go out into the world to continue St. Michael’s work. The children sang a prayer to St. Michael and then raised their hands in prayer over our Officer friends so that they may stay safe while they continue doing St. Michael’s work in the world.

                                                   

       

STREAM Problem of the Month
October Pumpkin Stand

Whole School via Intercom: 10/12 2:00
Whole School in the Gym: 10/23

Challenge: Create a base for a pumpkin to sit on.

The stand must be 6 inches in the air.

(Can be modified higher or lower by grade level)

Materials:
Mini Pumpkin
20 Straws
4 feet of tape
1 foot of String
5 Elastics

On Friday, October 12, the children will be trying out their engineering skills for the first time this school year.  They will be creating a base for a pumpkin to sit on.  First, students will have time (with a time limit) to discuss, sketch, and plan how their group will create the base for their pumpkin to sit on.  Then, after the plan has been created, they will have to create and test their base (to check to see if their base holds their pumpkin up).  This step also has a time limit.   Each group will have time to redesign their base as needed to hold the pumpkin and test their redesigns before everyone meets in the gym on October 23 to show everyone their designs.

Check back to see the results of our STREAM Problem of the Month.

 

 

The Student Council for the 2018-2019 school year were installed on Friday, September 8 at the Opening of School Mass held in the Shelia Gadoua Memorial Gym.  Monsignor Scollen celebrated Mass for Grades Preschool – Eighth.  The Student Council was installed.  They received their pins from Mrs. Kursonis and then took their oath.

Student Council 2018-2019
8th Grade Officers:

President: Gwen Marcotte

Vice President: Michael Klofft

Secretary: Janelle Mensah

Treasurer: James Hoban

Student Ambassador: Patrick Hoban

Class Representatives

Gr. 7 Mia Zoghbi (Mr. Coonan)

Gr. 6 Olivia Hernandez (Ms. Slavinskas)
Gr. 6 Francis Cardinal (Mrs. Crosby)

Gr. 5 Cameron Joinville (Ms. Kontulis)
Gr. 5 Laurie Marcotte (Mrs. Pepin)

Gr. 4 Alexis Gemme (Mrs. Racine)
Gr. 4 Kassidy Gibree (Ms. Caissie)

Congratulations to all of them.

                       

The first week of school was a hot one, but thanks to our headmaster, Mrs. Kursonis, we got a chance to cool off a little during the day.  Everyone enjoyed their first days back.

             

The Second Grade is studying Ornithology – the study of birds.  They’ve learned about birds’ beaks and how different beak are for certain types of food.  The pictures show how they did a bird beak investigation.

After, they learned about how birds build nests.  They then had the opportunity to build nests using twigs, feathers, grass, moss, and cotton.  The pictures below show how they created their nests.

The STREAM Team successfully completed the year-long STEM integration plan program in partnership with WPI.  The team created a framework that is the building blocks of our STREAM program.  Our school received a grant for $1,000.00 from Dell/EMC for the team’s achievements.  SPCC is full STREAM ahead!

The children in Mrs. Dumas’ and in Mrs. Whamond’s First Grade classes learned all about butterflies and ladybird beetles (lady bugs).  They observed them from the larva stage to adult.  After observing them in the adult stage, the children released the butterflies earlier in the month.  They released the ladybird beetles on May 24th.  The children learned everything any first grader would want to know butterflies, ladybird beetles.  They also learned about other insects and spiders too.

On Friday, May 25 at 1:15 pm, St. Peter Central Catholic honored our First Communicants in a school-wide Mass followed by a reception for the children and their families. We was a momentous and special occasion that was celebrated as a school community!