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[2 Sep 2010 | admin | No Comment | 16 views]
Preschool Home Visits

Before the start of Preschool each school year, families welcome their child’s teacher into their home for a brief Home Visit.

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[2 Sep 2010 | admin | No Comment | 18 views]
Videoconferencing up 500 percent at SMES

The 2009-2010 school year was St. Margaret’s second year with videoconferencing capabilities; the teachers and staff embraced the new technology allowing students numerous distance learning opportunities.

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[11 Jun 2010 | admin | No Comment | 205 views]
Mr. Leneau Brings Fitness Lesson to Preschoolers

St. Margaret’s Strength and Conditioning Trainer and Wrestling Coach Mr. Jason Leneau recently visited the Preschool with a few of his Middle School advisory students to introduce the basics of athletics, gross motor skills, healthy living and fitness to Mrs. Lore Fredette’s class.

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[10 Jun 2010 | admin | No Comment | 257 views]
Shel Silverstein Poems Come Alive for Lower School Students

Upper School Theater 1 students performed a collection of poems by Shel Silverstein for Lower School students in grades 1 through 5 last week in Sillers Hall.

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[4 Jun 2010 | admin | One Comment | 182 views]
Water Balloons Help Students Learn Statistics

Students examined data from different perspectives before using their newly-developed, graph-making skills to sell products that they created.

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[27 May 2010 | admin | No Comment | 77 views]
PreSchool and Middle School Students Working Together To Nurture Positive Social Behavior

Second Step: A Violence Prevention Curriculum helps preschoolers learn and practice social-emotional skills.

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[14 May 2010 | admin | No Comment | 111 views]
On-Campus Physiology Field Trips: Knee Replacement and Autopsy

We recently went on two “field trips” to the Library’s 21st Century Learning Lab.

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[13 May 2010 | admin | No Comment | 111 views]
SMES Library Celebrates Volunteers

Have you ever wondered how all those library books get placed on the shelf in just the right spot so they’re available when you need to find them?

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[12 May 2010 | admin | One Comment | 87 views]
United Nations and Humanitarian Aid: Middle School Debate

To successfully prepare for a debate, you must, pretty much, research your head off. Well, at least if you want to present a great argument, you do.

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[7 May 2010 | admin | No Comment | 70 views]
Visual Arts Guest Speaker Helps AP Students Prepare Portfolios

Guest speaker Wylie Ferguson visited St. Margaret’s AP art class last month to help students prepare to excel at this challenge.

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