First grade has been researching an animal of their choice. They searched for their diet, habitat, predators/protection, and body parts. After they completed their book, they read it to the class and answered questions about the animal! #MTA 🦏🐘🐅
Seventh grade put their measurement and proportion skills to work to create enlarged scale drawings of candy wrappers. After enjoying the candy, students recorded the original height, length, and other parts of their wrappers. Students were then allowed to decide how much of an enlargement they wanted, ranging from two times up to five times the original size. Students worked hard and Ms. Nolan is so proud of the completed projects! #MTA #Math 🍫🍬
Last week, our Saints took part in Celebrate Reading Week! Students were able to participate in various activities, dress downs, and hear several friends of MTA read our favorite stories! Thank you to everyone who stopped by our campus to read to our students! It was a great week of fun and learning! #SaintsCelebrateReading 📚
Mrs. Vella created a periodic table of black history! The table contained different artists, authors, activists, musicians, famous firsts, scientists, actors/actresses, athletes, politicians and entrepreneurs. The table was up through the month of February and had a QR code that contained a YouTube video on each individual. Eighth grade took the opportunity to research individuals on the periodic table and share their information with kindergarten, while also showing them how to use the iPads and scan the QR codes. #MTA #BlackHistoryMonth
Middle school science used microscopes to conduct a criminal investigation in class today. They were given various slides from the scene to examine. They looked at cellular characteristics and organelles to make their verdicts. #MTA #Science 🔬
Fourth grade has been hard at work researching and creating PowerPoints that celebrate Black History Month. Students chose influential activists, artists and athletes that they wanted to research, and then created a presentation to help teach their peers more about them. Third grade was even able to join in on the fun as audience members during the presentations! #MTA #BlackHistoryMonth
The Season of Lent has begun! We celebrated our weekly mass yesterday in observance of Ash Wednesday with Fr. Jason Feigh in the Cathedral! The ashes come from blessed palms from Palm Sunday of the previous year to symbolize penance and repentance. Many people will undertake various practices, prayers and disciplines during Lent in order to grow in holiness. May everyone have a blessed Lenten season! #MTA #Lent ✝
We would like to send a very special thank you to everyone who attended our Open House + Expo last Thursday! Artwork from K-8 was spread across the building. Our Boomwhacker Crew performed for our guests. If that wasn’t all, our fifth graders got to show off their science fair projects in our STEM Lab! We are all so proud of our students here at MTA! If you missed our Open House and want to learn more about MTA, please visit our website at www.mtasaints.com or call the school at (814) 455-0580 for additional information. #MTA #Family 🟠🔵⚪
Want to learn more about Mother Teresa Academy? Please join us at our Open House + Expo TONIGHT from 5:00-6:30 p.m.!
You will have the opportunity to meet our principal & teachers, learn more about our curriculum and programming, tour the school, meet other parents and more!!
Interested in learning more about MTA? Please visit our website at www.mtasaints.com or call the school at (814) 455-0580 for additional information. #MTA #Family 🟠🔵⚪
Yesterday, sixth grade practiced order of operations with slices of pizza! Students were disappointed to find the pizza boxes didn’t have food in them, but they had fun practicing math anyway. They worked in groups to solve expressions and placed the slices in the corresponding box. They were then challenged with solving one last expression based on the number of slices missing from each pizza. #MTA #Math 🍕
Kindergarten enjoyed Valentine's Day by reading "Valentine's Cats!" After reading the book, they made their own cat valentines! #MTA #ValentinesDay ♥🐱
Today was the 100th day of kindergarten for our kindergarteners! Time has sure flown by as you can see!! Zero the Hero was kidnapped by Devious Agent 99. Students had to finish missions to complete Devious 99’s demands. They had to create cheerio necklaces (made of 100 cheerios), to use as fuel for their missions. They had to create a trail mix counting by 20, solve the mystery blocks using a magnifying class and create tens using large dice. Their final task was to put together the hidden message! #MTA #100thDay 🔎💯
Mrs. Johnson’s third grade math class is learning about area and perimeter using cheese crackers. Learning is more fun when you can eat the lesson materials when you’re done! #MTA #Math 🧀
Yesterday, we celebrated our students! What better way to celebrate than watch some hockey as one school community?! We had an absolute blast yesterday at the Erie Otters Hockey Club annual School Day Game!! #GoOtters #CSW2023 🦦🏒
We celebrated our nation yesterday for Catholic Schools Week! Students and faculty had the opportunity to wear their patriotic gear, dress like their favorite president or their future career! First grade joined their seventh grade buddies to read. Seventh grade gave reading tips to their buddies and maps to teach about related topics such as turtles, sharks and famous people. Prep’s AFJROTC also stopped by campus for a presentation and taught our students how to properly fold a flag! #MTA #CSW2023 🔴⚪🔵
Yesterday, we celebrated vocations! Students and faculty were able to dress in spirit wear or as their favorite saint! Students also got to enjoy a fun game of KaHoot in the cafeteria! #MTA #CSW2023
Yesterday, we celebrated our community for the first day of Catholic Schools Week! Members of the local community came come in to play board games and dodgeball with our students! The students really enjoyed seeing the fun side of these community members and getting to know the personal side of them! #MTA #CommunityDay
We "heart" art at MTA!! Kindergarten, first and second grade were busy at work creating heart themed artworks inspired by artists like Jim Dine, Jenn Stark and JGoldcrown last week! Student learned different techniques of mark making and observed the different art styles of each artist. We LOVE seeing the creativity and uniqueness of every piece that these young artists bring to Miss. Nordlund's art room. #CreateAnyway ♥
Middle school science classes were busy dissecting crayfish Friday. Students were tasked with locating the intestine, heart and brain. #MTA #Science 🦞
Second grade was “shaping” up their understanding of geometrical attributes with Mrs. Barger’s hands-on math lesson. Students gained a better understanding of how to describe a shape by the number of sides/vertices it has through making Play-Doh models. #MTA #Math 🔶🟦🟠
