Mrs. Kennedy visited last week for her October lessons. Please see below for what students focused on. Kindergarten–2nd Grade Focus: Awareness of Emotions-Fear and Courage This month, primary grade students learned that being brave doesn’t mean you aren’t afraid; it…
Last week, our Parent Guild hosted an Advent Wreath Workshop with Anne Schmitt Florals. It was a lovely evening filled with creativity and peace. A big thank you to Sister Patricia and Sister Ann Marie, Director of the IHM Spirituality…
Computer Science Week was last week! CSEdWeek is an annual program dedicated to inspiring K-12 students to take interest in computer science. Although we do Computer Science and programming all year long at Villa, we do stop and celebrate Hour…
Thank you to all 65 students in grades K-4 who joined in for Villa's first Virtual Paint Night with Pinot's Palette on Friday, March 12! Prior to the event, Villa sent home virtual painting experience kits for students who registered,…
Villa Maria Academy and St. Aloysius Academy were delighted to welcome Dr. Leonard Sax, a highly acclaimed American psychologist, family doctor and New York Times best-selling author to St. Aloysius Academy today to speak with the faculty and staff of…
The Fourth Grade recently worked on a project to celebrate the United Nation's Women and Girls in Science Program. Each student prepared a report on a woman scientist and then shared what she learned about that woman. The girls were…
The Fourth grade just began their STEM lesson with LEGO® WeDo robots to build race cars. The girls will also learn programming to make them move: go forward, turn left, turn right, and adjust the speed. In STEM, the girls are discussing…
The Eighth graders recently learned about WWI. During this unit, students were tasked to construct R.A.F.T. Projects that assessed their knowledge of the causes, events, and effects of "The Great War" that they discussed in class. "The main objective of…
As part of their service learning in Religion class, through the Unbound program, the seventh grade adopted Holga. Holga is a 10-year old girl living in Guatemala. Because of an illness, Holga spends her life in a wheelchair. She lives…
Congratulations to Fifth Grade teacher, Mrs. Maureen Wible and 27 of her students that were accepted for publication in Creative Communication's Spring 2016 Poetry Contest. Creative Communication has been working with schools and teachers in promoting writing for over 20…