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Week 3: "Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishment toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results."
--Author Unknown
Download a free multiplayer cooperative quest game
Week 4: Sense of Humor
"I'm not a man who constantly thinks up jokes. But I think it's very important to be able to see the funny side of life and its joyful dimension and not to take everything too tragically," he said. "I'd also say it's necessary for my ministry."
--Pope Benedict XVI
Read some bumper stickers Pope Benedict would like!
"The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
-Nelson Henderson
Sow seeds of kindness by playing the Generosity Game.
"Make us worthy, Lord, to serve those people throughout the world who live and die in poverty and hunger. Give them through our hands, this day, their daily bread, and by our understanding love, give them peace and joy."
--Mother Teresa
Learn about the Atlanta Food Bank
Listen to Pope John Paul II sing the Our Father in Latin
Solve an Our Daily Bread Jigsaw
"All works of love are works of peace.If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other."
--Mother Teresa
Learn about the pinwheels of peace STM will be creating during this week of remembrance
Light an online candle for peace
Download a free peace communicator booklet, designed by students to spread peace one smile at a time
"In the beginning, the Lord created chocolate, and He saw that it was good. Then He separated the light chocolate from the dark chocolate, and it was even better."
- Unknown
Learn all about chocolate, "food of the gods," according to the ancient Aztecs.
Play the Chocolate Machine game
Transform a cacao bean to an online chocolate bar
"The only way to have a friend is to be a friend"
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Take a friendship quiz
Send a free friendship e-card
"Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms."
--George Eliot
Play some online pet games
Solve an online pet jigsaw puzzle
Send a free Pet Blessings e-card
Learn about a curious person, Christopher Columbus, and find games and activities about him
Satisfy your curiosity about how stuff works
Curious about anything? Ask the online Magic 8 Ball
October is National Dessert Month
"Stressed spelled backwards is desserts. Coincidence? I think not!"
--Author Unknown
Solve some dessert anagram puzzles
Learn about the history of a great dessert, ice cream
"And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. God saw that the light was good and He separated the light from the dark-ness.."
Genesis 1:3-4
Learn about daylight savings time
See what parts of the globe are currently in daylight
Play the Light Game
“Perfect holiness is the aim of the saints on earth, and it is the reward of the saints in Heaven”
--Joseph Caryl
Celebrate All Saints' Day
Learn about how saints are made
How well do you know the saints? Take the patron saint online quiz
This week is National Kids Goal Setting Week
"An archer cannot hit the bullseye if he does not know where the target is."
--Anonymous
Learn about tips and techniques for setting goals
Use the free online goal setting tools at My Goal Manager.com
Play the field goal game
The 8th Grade Bake Sale is November 18 and 19
"Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie".
--Jim Davis, "Garfield"
Play the In the Mix Baking Game
Solve this pumpkin pie jigsaw puzzle
Learn about baking with kids
"On Thanksgiving Day we acknowledge our dependence."
- William Jennings Bryan
Read some Thanksgiving prayers
Learn about the First Thanksgiving
Have some online Thanksgiving fun, Have some more online fun!
Send a free Thanksgiving e-card
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This week is National Game and Puzzle Week
“There are no extra pieces in the universe. Everyone is here because he or she has a place to fill, and every piece must fit itself into the big jigsaw puzzle.”
--Deepek Chopra
Check out the puzzles, games, illusions, and logic games at Brainbashers.com
Erik's Puzzle Palace is bound to have a puzzle for you
Jigzone has jigsaw puzzle and you can even upload your own photo and have it converted into an online jigsaw puzzle
Make your own crossword puzzles online with the free Puzzlemaker at Discovery School
Father Patrick Mulhern, 1939-2006
Pastor, St. Thomas More, 1987- 1999
"I will raise up for myself a faithful priest, who shall do according to what is in my heart and in my mind. I will build him a sure house, and he shall go in and out before my anointed one forever."
1 Samuel 2:35
Send Fr. Neil or Msgr. Paul a free encouragement ecard
Learn about the essential role of the Catholic priest
Take a quiz about priests and nuns
"How good is the good God!"
-St. Julie Billiart
Color online a picture of a sunflower, the symbol of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur
Send a free sunflower ecard to some sisters, including our own Srs. Margaret Thomasine and Grace, at sndvilladev@aol.com
Purchase Sunflower Notecards or Mass/Remembrance Cards to support the Sisters' Development fund
Donate to the Sisters' Developement Program
This week's Advent project is Heifer International
“If you can't feed a hundred people, then just feed one.”
-Mother Theresa
Learn about Heifer International's mission
Watch a short Windows Media Player video clip about Heifer International (Click here for Quicktime version
Play some online honey bee games
Color a picture of a goat online
Watch the wierd and hilarious Llama Song
"If God had a refrigerator, your picture would be on it. If He had a wallet, your photo would be in it. He sends you flowers every spring and a sunrise every morning. Whenever you want to talk, He'll listen. He could live anywhere in the universe, and He chose your heart. What about the Christmas gift He sent you in Bethlehem; not to mention that Friday at Calvary. "
Joe Gatuslao
Watch a short flash animation about the birth of Jesus
See creche sets from around the world
Nativity puzzles, quizzes, and games
"The journey is the reward."
Chinese Proverb
Learn the definition of the word, "epiphany"
Everything you want to know about Epiphany and the Three Magi
Watch a mulitmedia presentation about the Star of Bethlehem
See pictures of gold, frankincense, and myrhh
This week we celebrate the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal-Martin Luther King, Jr.
What are civil rights?
See a scan of the actual ruling of Brown v. The Board of Education
See a timeline about Civil Rights in America
Take an online quiz about Atlanta's famous son, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Complete an online crossword puzzle about Dr. King
This week our 8th graders go on retreat to the Blessed Trinity Shrine Retreat
Learn what a retreat is
Make a retreat online, with your PDA or MP3 player
Listen to some Catholic rock while you think about yourself, God and the Big Picture
February 2 is our Annual Grandparents Mass
"What children need most are the essentials that grandparents provide in abundance. They give unconditional love, kindness, patience, humor, comfort, lessons in life. And, most importantly, cookies. "
-Rudolph Giuliani
Send your grandparents a free ecard
Create a free online family tree
Create a generations scrapbook
Start a grandparents/grandchild book club
February is American Heart Month
"The heart that loves is always young."
-Greek Proverb.
See a cool animation of the heart in action
Listen to music created by beating hearts
Read some tips about keeping your heart healthy
Learn how showing love and kindess is good for your heart
Thursday is Family Math Night
"Mathematics is made of 40 percent formulas, 40 percent proofs and 40 percent imagination."
--Unknown
Cool Math The name says it all; have some fun here for sure!
Cool Math Sites A huge list of fun, wierd and interesting sites about math
Interested in 3D modeling? Download the incredibly powerful and incredibly free Google Sketchup 6 here
Lego is a great math related activity. Download Lego Digital Designer for free and think in 3D
February 21 is Ash Wednesday
"Lent is supposed to be a time when we review our spiritual life, think again about what it means to be a follower of Christ, reset the compass of our discipleship and prepare ourselves to celebrate the Easter festival. But often we just give up cookies”
-Stephen Cottrell
Find out what to give up instead of cookies
Read the Holy Father's 2007 Lenten Message
Do something different every day of Lent
Lenten activities and crafts for kids
Learn why Lent starts when it does
Our Lenten project this week is to treat others with kindness and pray more
"It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice. "
~Author Unknown
"Prayer may not change things for you, but it for sure changes you for things."
~Samuel M. Shoemaker
Learn some ways to show kindness
Download free smile cards to pass your acts of kindness forward
Take an online quiz on compassion and kindness
Try some classic, yet online and interactive, Catholic prayer traditions
Pray by walking a virtual labyrinth
Can you email God? Kind of. Actually, it's more like knee mail.
Our Lenten project this week is reaching out to the Sisters with acts of kindness and remembrance
"How good is the good God!"
-St. Julie Billiart
Send a free online thank you card to some sisters, including our own Srs. Margaret Thomasine and Grace, at sndvilladev@aol.com
Purchase Sunflower Notecards or Mass/Remembrance Cards to support the Sisters' Development fund
Donate to the Sisters' Development Program
Color online a picture of a sunflower, the symbol of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur
Learn about St. Julie Billiart, foundress of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur
Our Lenten project this week is to provide storybooks for a Hurricane Katrina Habitat for Humanity Family
"Children are made readers on the laps of their parents."
- Emilie Buchwald
Purchase storybooks online at Amazon.com
Read some illustrated storybooks online
Browse a page of award winning storybook links
Learn about Habitat for Humanity
Learn how you can still help Hurricane Katrina victims
Our Lenten project this week is to send baseball and softball equipment to Katina ravaged New Orleans city parks
"I had just turned 20, and Jackie (Robinson) told me the only way to be successful at anything was to go out and do it. He said baseball was a game you played every day, not once a week."
- Hank Aaron
More ways to help the New Orleans Recreation Department
Read about the importance of youth sports
Play online baseball for free
Play MLB free online fantasy baseball
Learn how you can still help Hurricane Katrina victims
Our Lenten project this week is raising money for malaria nets for children in Africa
"Malaria kills more than one million kids a year. For just $10, we can buy a net, distribute it to a family, and educate them on it's use. You can save a family. Your friends, school, church or team can save a village. Together, we can cover a continent"
-Nothing But Nets
Sponsor Stripes as he tries to raise money to save kids in Africa from Malaria at Nothing But Nets.net
If you prefer, mail a check to
Nothing But Nets
Att: United Nations Foundation
Department 93
Washington, DC 20055
Nothing But Nets FAQ
Watch a movie about defeating malaria with mosquito nets, "The Gift of Growing Up"
Play an online game that shows how malaria is transmitted
Fumigate the mosquitoes to their doom!
Take a quiz on malaria
April is both National Humor and Holy Humor Month
"Humor is mankind's greatest blessing."
-Mark Twain
Read some funny church related jokes
View a gallery of pictures of Jesus smiling and laughing
Listen to an 8-minute program on the health benefits of laughter
Watch a video of a baby laughing
This week is our Annual Auction Dinner Dance
"Often used in charity events. In this type of auction, items are displayed. Bidders can write a bid on a piece of paper located near the item. They may or may not know what the other people are bidding, which closes after a pre-set period of time. The highest bidder pays the price submitted."
-www.music.us/education/A/Auction.htm
Learn about the upcoming STM Auction and preview some of the fantastic items up for sale
Learn how to play the auction game at home
Brush up your black jack skills to get ready for Saturday night!
Learn about the game of roulette. Is math really involved?
On Sunday, April 29, STM school and parish will honor Mrs. Msezane with a reception in Mulhern Hall after the 11:30 AM Mass
“My most important job is to choose and support the best teachers for you. Do you love your teacher?” When students invariably say, “Yes,” I say, “Well, I’m doing my job!”
-Gail Msezane
Learn about the reception in Mulhern Hall on Sunday, April 29 after the 11:30, honoring Mrs. Msezane as she retires
Read a short biography of our beloved principal
See what Mrs. Msezane has to say about the STM faculty
Read a special Communion Meditation written by Mrs. Msezane
Sing along with "O Canada," national anthem of the Mrs. Msezane's country of birth
May 5 is First Holy Communion
"Once for all beloved children, the surest, easiest, shortest way is by the Eucharist. It is so easy to approach the holy table, and there we taste the joys of Paradise,"
- Pope St. Pius X
Read a letter written by Pope John Paul II to First Communicants
Learn about St. Imelda Lambertini, patron saint of first communicants
Send a free First Communion eCard
Crown Mary Online
Watch a music video about the Eucharist
May 7-11 is Teacher Appreciation Week
"The best teachers teach from the heart, not from the book."
~Author Unknown
View some of our STM teachers webpages
Send a free teacher appreciation ecard
Play a Fling the Teacher trivia game about martyrs
Graduation of the Class of 2007 is May 18
"One Class, One Heart, Many Blessings"
-Class of 2007 Motto
Learn about the 8th Grades last week activities
Learn about traditional special events in the life of an STM 8th grader
Learn about the the different high schools the class of 2007 will be attending
Play Mystery High
Our beloved Principal is retiring after 23 years at STM
See the Mayor of Decatur's official proclamation that May 16 was Gail Msezane Day in the City of Decatur
Send Mrs. Msezane a free happy retirement ecard
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