Inside Mater Christi
News: Accepting Applications for 2021-2022 Academic Year
February 23, 2021
This academic year has been very unique due to COVID-19 and all the challenges it has presented to teachers, staff, and students. Even with all the obstacles, we started in-person school on September 8, when we welcomed 64 new students to MCS. Twelve additional new students joined after the first day of school, bringing our current enrollment to 235. Thanks to our community’s commitment, as well as the diligent work […] Read more...
News: Geography Bee
February 15, 2021
This year for Catholic Schools’ Week, Mater Christi School decided to compete in a virtual Geography Bee challenge! MCS is no stranger to holding a National Geographic Geography Bee, as we have had one each of the last twenty-plus years. However, the National Geographic Society canceled the event this year because of COVID-19. Mr. Brent Tremblay, our middle school social studies teacher, decided to keep the tradition going virtually. Prior […] Read more...
News: MCS Ice Rink
February 9, 2021
“We plant the seeds, but God makes things grow…” – St. Paul November 17th saw an unusual gathering of MCS parents on the playing field. What germinated on that day was the seed of an idea for afterschool student activity this coming winter. What has grown up, however, has been much more than expected; a transformational addition to school life at Mater Christi. In the midst of the darkest months […] Read more...
Teacher Talk: Kindergarten “Bee-Bot Drive”
February 4, 2021
Mater Christi School kindergarten students each designed and built a building for their Bee-Bot community. The buildings are arranged around a special road for robots — “Bee-Bot Drive” — in the MCS elementary building lobby. Since returning from Christmas break, the kindergarteners have been coding in Bee-Bot, programming Bee-Bot and Blue-Bot robots to visit the buildings along Bee-Bot Drive. This process has helped students learn computer concepts such as frame […] Read more...
Teacher Talk: Science – Car Pull
January 29, 2021
There is an old proverb which goes something like this: “Tell me and I will forget, show me and I may remember, involve me and I will understand”. This has been a tough year for having students do the most important part of any science lesson…the lab. This is the part of science that really has students get involved in an idea for understanding. Due to COVID-19, many labs which […] Read more...