On November 30, the SCM community gathered for an evening of music and cheer at the annual Book Fair Christmas Concert and the final day of the Scholastic Book Fair. It was a wonderful event that included the Upper Elementary students singing “Ukrainian Bell Carol” and the Lower Elementary singers performing a robust and hearty version of “You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch!” The Ensemble performed jazz favorite “Sing, Sing, Sing” and “Sugar Plum Samba,” and featured many soloists in “Jingle Bell Rock” – including SCM parent Leo Costello on the electric guitar!
The Orchestra performed “Away in the Manager” and “Good King Wenceslas,” the Intermediate Band and Ensemble performed crowd favorite “Wooly Bully,” and our new musicians in the Beginning Band played “Au Claire de la Lune.” The evening ended with the traditional “A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols,” which was performed by the Ensemble, narrated by AC Students, and sung by all of the SCM families in attendance! This was a wonderful way to begin the Advent season!
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Friday, December 7
- Friends of the Garden Work Day, after drop-off (Welcome Center)
Saturday, December 8
Monday, December 10
- Girls Varsity Basketball HOME Game, 4:30 PM (Gym)
- Boys Varsity Basketball HOME Game, 5:30 PM (Gym)
Tuesday, December 11
- Friends of the Library Work Day, after drop-off (Library)
- AC Market, 3:00 PM (Outside Welcome Center)
Wednesday, December 12
- Christian Meditation, 8:05 AM, (Atrium)
- PJs for Casa de Esperanza Drive due
Friday, December 14
- Friends of the Garden Work Day, after drop-off (Welcome Center)
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Final Week of the Casa de Esperanza PJ and Basic Needs Drive
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Thank you to everyone who donated a book from the Scholastic Book Fair to Casa de Esperanza! Because of your generosity, St. Catherine’s Montessori families will gift 60 books to the children of Casa de Esperanza this Christmas season.
All of the Christmas tree ornaments have been claimed, but you can still support the drive by purchasing and donating items from Casa’s
Basic Needs List.
Please bring all items – along with the ornament – to SCM by next Wednesday, December 12.
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All are invited to join the Friends of the Atrium for
Our Lady of Guadalupe Feast Day
on Wednesday, December 12 at 8:30 AM. We will be praying the Rosary in the Atrium. An altar will be set up in the Welcome Center beginning this Thursday, December 6 through Friday, December 14.
This celebration commemorates the appearance of Mary to the Mexican peasant St. Juan Diego in 1531. The feast day is an important holiday in Mexico, however, she is also known as “The Lady of the Americas.”
Many blessings,
PSO Friends of the Atrium
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British Pub Night is this Friday!
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There are
2 spots still available
for the British Pub Night Sociable this Saturday, December 8. Enjoy a lively British quiz night with traditional English pub food and beer at the home of Birgit and Alastair Clague. Groups of four will compete by answering questions about current events, music, history, food, celebrities, and more! It is a fun evening for Anglophiles and those who enjoy a little light-hearted competition.
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PSO Faculty & Staff Appreciation Luncheon
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Dear SCM Parents,
The annual PSO Faculty & Staff Appreciation Luncheon is at 12:30 PM on Friday, December 21. We have planned a Tropical Holiday Luncheon and need your help to make the event a success.
Volunteer opportunities are available
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If you would like to contribute to help cover the cost of the catering, please leave your donation in the envelope at the front desk, or contact Misty Matin to send funds via PayPal or Venmo.
We appreciate your help as we celebrate the SCM team!
Sincerely,
Claudine Johnson, Cyndi Melton, Vanessa Barfuss and Misty Matin
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PSO Friends of the Library
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Another Scholastic Book Fair has come and gone!
Thank you to parent volunteers Cristina Dixon; Courtney Lerch; Brooke Nyberg; Jennifer Wu; Michelle Smiley; Misty Matin; Corine Noronha; Kerri Niemeyer; Brian Tucker; Julie McLarry; Melissa Meingast; Graham Randall; Sarah Harvey; Mary Tysor; Zsofia Intody; Carrie Tollar; and Angela Randall.
We greatly appreciate all of the time you put into making this one of the most successful Book Fairs to date!
Proceeds totaled $7,089.29 in Scholastic Dollars, which Library Manager Sarah Lewis will use to add titles from the Scholastic catalogue to the SCM Library collection. The list includes an expansive selection of high quality, library-bound non-fiction. These new materials will join the research books on the states and other titles purchased last year, which the children are currently using to aid in their research papers.
Many thanks,
Ivy Koteras and Angela Randall
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There are three copies of the book available in the Parent Library. Read it or don't, but please join us for what is sure to be a really rich discussion on how to raise empathetic kids.
Thank you,
Tracey, Dana and Michelle
PSO Book Club Committee Co-Chairs
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The basketball season is in full swing! Girls C-Team has already traveled to Kingwood and secured a hard-fought win. The Boys and Girls Varsity teams and Boys C-Team have played in several challenging games, and have won some
and
lost close games. Come out and cheer on the Varsity teams as the play their next home games on Monday, December 10 starting at 4:30 PM – all are welcome to attend!
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Welcome back to the High School Corner!
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After much anticipation, our trip to Greece and Italy is upon us! From December 6th to the 17th, the High School will travel to Athens, Florence, Vatican City, and Rome. Even though we have been awaiting the trip since the spring of 2018, we are still shocked that it is actually happening.
After we picked our destination, the guides meticulously planned the coursework to integrate with the trip. Some examples of integration include learning about the triumphs and challenges that religion faced in the ancient world in theology, researching famous mathematicians that paved the road for modern mathematics in math, and giving formal presentations about the medieval and Renaissance periods in humanities. We even heard presentations from and had discussions with experts in the fields of archaeology, music, and art history! Seeing firsthand the places that we studied so diligently throughout the course of this semester will make this trip so much more meaningful.
Outside of selecting travel dates and purchasing flights, students planned the trip including lodging, transportation, meals, and the daily itinerary. We made phone calls, we wrote emails, we read reviews, we booked reservations…the list goes on!
Here are only a few of the many things we will see while on our trip:
- The Vatican Scavi Tour (Vatican City) A tour of the secret excavations that went on during World War II under St. Peter’s Basilica to find St. Peter the Apostle’s burial location. We will see everything from remnants of the original basilica to early Christian tombs to St. Peter’s bones!
- Domus Aurea (Rome) A tour of the ongoing excavations in the palace built by the emperor Nero after the great fire of Rome. The experience will include a guided tour of the ancient palace and virtual reality demonstrations of what it would’ve looked like.
- The Temple of Poseidon (Cape Sounion, Greece) The Temple of Poseidon is one of the major monuments of the Golden Age of Athens. It is perched on a cliff and surrounded by the sea on three sides. This immense sacred space would’ve been the first thing people traveling to Greece by sea would’ve laid eyes on!
- Galleria dell’Accademia (Florence) An incredible gallery housing all sorts of Renaissance art but best known for being the home of Michelangelo’s famous marble sculpture of the biblical David.
We want to thank St. Catherine’s for giving us this opportunity— we realize how special this experience will be and are extremely grateful. We will be sending loads of pictures back home and plan on featuring some in The Globe, so be on the lookout next week.
Thank you for reading!
Sophia D.
High School Corner Committee Member
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SCM High School students with Dr. Hittinger, philosophy professor at the University of St. Thomas.
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