Today, eighth grade used Cheez-It crackers to prove the Pythagorean Theorem! They determined it took 16 crackers to fill the area of square a, and nine to fill the area of square b. All the crackers were then used to fill the area of square c, proving why the Pythagorean Theorem is a^2+ b^2= c^2. #MTA #Math 🧀
As we gear up for Easter Break, we wanted to take some time to reflect on Saints Celebrate Reading Week that kicked off this month! We are so grateful to the many readers we had stop by to read us all the fun and amazing books! #MTA #SaintsCelebrateReadingWeek 📚
Second grade has been working on poetry portfolios for the past month and they just wrapped them up today. They worked so hard and completed eight different poems to add to their portfolio! #MTA #Poetry 📖
In honor of Catholic Schools Week in February and to celebrate the theme of the week, “United in Faith and Community,” we had school-wide penny war. The students in the winning classroom were promised the opportunity to donate all the funds raised to a local charity of their choice. First grade pulled out the win and chose to donate the total funds raised throughout the school to Emma’s Footprints. Earlier this week, we presented the organization with a check for $864.53. Great job, Saints! #MTA #Community
🚨REMINDER!!🚨
Join us THIS SATURDAY, March 23, as we partner with the Erie Otters Hockey Club for Blue & Orange Spirit Night! Wear your blue and orange to support our students! Stop by the MTA table for our basket raffle and goodies. The “Singing Saints” will also start the game by singing the National Anthem. Doors open at 6:00 p.m. and the puck drops at 7:00 p.m.! Visit www.mtasaints.com/otters or scan the QR code to purchase tickets. Tickets are going fast, so be sure to grab on before they are gone. If you would like to see the “Singing Saints,” you will need to arrive 15 minutes prior to the puck drop. We hope to see you there! #GoSaints 🏒🦦
Kindergarten did not catch the leprechauns! They did, however, trashed our room, made our toilets green, took our coins and lucky charms! They also wrote us a note in rainbow popsicle sticks, "You can not catch me!" They left us magic rocks telling us better luck next time! The magical rocks were washed off with the leprechaun's magic water, and they bubbled up and revealed our coins!! Next year leprechauns...next year! #MTA #StPatricksDay ☘
Kindergarten is gearing up for St. Patrick’s Day! They made their own leprechaun traps in hopes of catching a leprechaun! Also, they built bridges to hold all the leprechaun’s gold! #MTA #StPatricksDay ☘️
Middle school completed an escape room today! They had a leprechaun visit and destroy the room before classes! Students had to team together to complete different challenges to help trap the leprechaun. Challenges that included authors purpose, text structure and context clues! Students who completed the challenge helped trap the leprechaun, while those who didn’t had to help clean up the mess he made. #MTA ☘
Middle school science classes were busy dissecting owl pellets in class yesterday. Students were able to see what an owl consumes. Many bones were found, including skulls of mice and voles! #MTA #Science 🦉
Yesterday was Pi Day! Ms. Nolan’s seventh and eighth grade math classes celebrated the occasion. Seventh grade familiarized themselves with the first 40 digits of pi by creating pi skylines and cityscapes. Eighth grade used their measuring skills calculate pi. Students measured the circumference and diameter of circular objects, then divided these measurements to get (approximately) pi, 3.14. #MTA #PiDay math
Join us SATURDAY, March 23, as we partner with the Erie Otters for Blue & Orange Spirit Night! Wear your blue and orange to support our students! Stop by the MTA table for our basket raffle and goodies. The “Singing Saints” will also start the game by singing the National Anthem. Doors open at 6:00 p.m. and the puck drops at 7:00! Visit www.mtasaints.com/otters or scan the QR code to purchase tickets. If you would like to see the “Singing Saints,” you will need to arrive 15 minutes prior to the puck drop. We hope to see you there! #GoSaints 🏒
We had some dying plants dropped off at the MTA greenhouse last November. The MTA Garden club nursed them back to health over the winter. We now have fresh flowers, strawberries, and sweet peppers in March! #MTA #GardenClub 🌼🍓🌶
Happy International Women’s Day! This year’s theme is #InspireInclusion. Together we can forge women's equality. Today, and every day, we celebrate the women in our lives and the differences they make in the world. #InternationalWomensDay 💙🧡
This week, kindergarten has been reading “Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs” and working on subtraction! Today, for their Sight Word exercise, it rained spaghetti and meatballs! Each meatball had a number and a sight word on them (12 total), and the noodles had a sight word sentence. Students were to collect 12 meatballs and one noodle on their plates. They then had to write all 12 sight words. If they had a duplicate, they had to put the “extra meatball” in the “refrigerator” just like the people of Chewandswallow did with their leftovers! Students also had to write and illustrate their sight word sentences! For subtraction, they made Play-Doh balls and smashed the Play-Doh balls that were subtracted. We love kindergarten! #MTA #CelebrateReadingWeek #KindergartenFun 🍝📚
Mike McCoy of "Mike McCoy Ministries" spoke with our middle school students yesterday. McCoy reaches students in Catholic schools with the message of faith, hope, and encouragement; enabling them to make better decisions in their lives. He shared stories about his football career and life, including the struggles he faced. He spoke on perseverance and gave students examples on how to maneuver through obstacles in life. #Faith #EmpoweringYouth
Today was Heritage Day in eighth grade! Students celebrated their heritage and culture by bringing in dishes associated with their families. Dishes included macaroni and cheese, empanadas, dumplings and chocolate trifle cake. #MTA #HeritageDay
Third grade is learning about equivalent fractions using Play-Doh in math class! Math is our superpower at Mother Teresa Academy! #MTA #Math
Kindergarten recently participated in some experiential learning! They took a virtual field trip to the post office. They learned all about the process, postmen and postwomen, how to address a letter, and how the letters get mailed! They then made valentines, packaged them into letters, put the postage stamp on them, and walked to the mailbox and mailed them. They anxiously waited to receive their valentines and see who theirs was! #MTA #Valentines ♥📮
The Season of Lent has begun! We celebrated our weekly mass today in observance of Ash Wednesday with Fr. Mike DeMartinis and Fr. Jason Feigh in the Cathedral! The ashes come from blessed palms from Palm Sunday of the previous year to symbolize penance and repentance. May everyone have a blessed Lenten season! #MTA #Lent ✝
We want to thank everyone who came to join us for our Open House + Expo! We had student artwork displayed in the cafeteria, fifth grade science fair, and some very fun things happening in the STEM lab with our OCULUS headsets. While here, visitors were able to meet our awesome faculty and see just a small glimpse of some of the very cool things we do throughout the year! #MTA #OpenHouse #Expo 🟠🔵⚪
