St. Matthew the Apostle Catholic School

Celebrating our staff with homemade soup, salad and fresh baked bread and desserts from Sr Paulina!
Thank you for all you do!
Merry Christmas!

Our kindergarteners spent the afternoon today watching Polar Express!

A BIG thank you to our lunch ladies for providing us with wonderful lunches everyday!

Fourth grade students along with their Friends Across Time buddies and the Golden Mustangs collected toiletries for a Gahanna Assisted Living Facility. The residents are very grateful to all who worked together on this Advent project.

The 4th graders along with their Friends Across Time buddies collected toiletries to help out the residents at a local nursing/rehabilitation facility for their Advent service project. The students got together with their buddies to make cards for the residents and spent some time doing some fun activities together. We were able to deliver 2 cars full of supplies!

Our PK-2nd grade Christmas Program was yesterday afternoon and evening. We had a wonderful turnout and the students did a fantastic job! Thank you Mr. Moses.

Our St. Albert 3rd graders shared a poem with the front office staff today. Thank you 3rd grade and Mrs. Hartge!

Mrs. Ohm came to do Gumdrop STEM Challenge in third grade today!

The 1st grade students participated in a service project for MOMM foundation by collecting hats and gloves! So awesome to spread the love of Christ by warming the heads, hands, and hearts of those in need!

The Saint Matthew FIRST Lego League teams had a successful day at the tournament in Pataskala Saturday. Way to go 👏

Mrs. Cox, Mrs. Panzo, and Senorita Spittle held a Fiesta and Paint teacher experience on Friday after school in the Art Classroom. During the event students had a blast decorating and glazing a festive ceramic plate for Christmas. When students finished they had a yummy snack and even got to watch a Christmas movie. Here are some fun photos of the event!

Becoming Saints | ep. 05 | Emmaus Road Scholarship

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tf9JfreG0Zs

Becoming Saints | ep. 05 | Emmaus Road Scholarship

We are very excited about this new way to support Catholic education. When you give a gift to the Emmaus Road Scholarship Fund, you can provide tuition support for a St. Matthew family AND get a dollar-for-dollar Ohio state tax credit in return!
See the details here: https://www.stmatthew.net/emmaus
Thank you for your support!

The 7th grade students and families filled a car full of donations to benefit Star House, which is the same organization that St. Matthew supports with Manna in the Morning. We are so grateful for the generosity demonstrated as part of our St. Nick Party!

Today, our 5th graders went to Storypoint Nursing home to sing Christmas Carols. What a wonderful way to celebrate St. Nicholas!

Our students received a special classroom visit from St. Nicholas today!

Guess who visited the classrooms today??

Last Friday our Intervention team got together for their Holiday Party!
Thank you ladies, for all you do to help our students!

You still have time to donate NEW toys to the Home for Families mission!
We have received so many GREAT things already!

Miss Rabold's class prepared for Advent by talking about the birth of Jesus and working to create this mosaic. It was so cool seeing how the one piece of the picture that we did comes together into something so beautiful that the whole class can be proud of. We hope that when students see this in the hallway they remember the true meaning of Christmas!

Kindergarten spent the afternoon talking about what we are thankful for and having our own feast!
Happy Thanksgiving!

2S is "popping" the day before break 🍿☺️

Holiday Donation Drive
fighting family homelessness

Mr. Rathburn and Mrs. Nowalk were honored to have Bishop Fernandes visit Saint Matthew today. The Bishop spent over an hour and 30 minutes talking with students in each classroom. We are very thankful for you Bishop Fernandes.

Bishop Fernandes celebrated Mass and toured our school today! The students loved visiting with him in their classrooms.

Happy Birthday to Mrs. Buzenski! The students celebrated her with cards, flowers and singing Happy Birthday!

Todays Thanksgiving luncheon was a huge success! The food was delicious and we were so happy to see all the families!

Photos from St. Matthew the Apostle Catholic School's post

We are ready for our Thanksgiving Feast today!

We had a very thankful Catch the Spirit today! Can't wait for you to see all of the homemade decorations at the Thanksgiving Luncheon!

Just a reminder, we are eating by last name tomorrow: A-G 11-11:30, H-O 11:30-12, and P-Z 12-12:30. If you are eating the turkey lunch, you'll eat in the Hutta (our regular cafeteria) and if you are bringing lunch, you'll eat in the PAC (the gym)

See you tomorrow!!!

St. Charles visited our 7th and 8th grade boys to discuss faith and leadership this morning

Judge Kimberly Cocroft will host “Parenting in the Social Media Age” presentation and discussion at St. Matthew on Tuesday, December 13. Parents of all grades are welcome, and students in grades 5-8 are welcome to attend as well. Parent attendance earns students a dress-down day on Friday, December 16. Please join us and RSVP at https://bit.ly/3E65t1k [bit.ly].

Students in 7M did a fantastic job making sandwiches for Charitable Works during their recess today!

Fair Finder

Our book fair is back! We will be hosting an in person and a virtual fair at the same time this year. The in person fair will be in our school library November 14th-18th. The fair will be open for student shopping during the school day and for families on Wednesday the 16th during parent teacher conferences 2:25-7pm and during the Thanksgiving Luncheon, Friday November 18th from 10:45am -12:45pm

Again this year if you do not wish to send your child to school with cash, Scholastic is offering e-wallets. To set up an account for your child you may use the following link: scholastic.com/fair. You may also shop our online book fair from this website.

https://bookfairs.scholastic.com/bookfairsdotcom/fair-finder.html

Fair Finder

Thank you to all our Veterans and guests who came to watch our 3rd and 4th graders perform for Veterans Day! The children did an outstanding job!

The Pre-k Corner!
"I can do all this through Him who gives me strength".
(Philippians 4:13)

Tonight at 7pm, is the last Drama Department performance of Moana Jr.

Today our 3rd and 4th graders practiced with Mr. Moses for the Veterans Day program tomorrow.

2022 St. Matthew Hometown Bazaar Parent Volunteer

We still have volunteer slots available for St. Matthew Hometown Bazaar is this Saturday!

We need your help to make this event successful and this is a great opportunity to get a few volunteer hours, meet new people within the school community, and support this fundraiser for the school.

We need your help on Friday, November 11, for set-up and vendor check-in and Saturday, November 12, to assist our vendors and shoppers. Sign up today!

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/30E0B4EAAA92EA4FE3-20221

2022 St. Matthew Hometown Bazaar Parent Volunteer Thank you for your willingness to help make the 2022 St. Matthew Hometown Bazaar a successful event, without your assistance we would not be able to make this event happen. Check-in will be in the front entrance/in front of the first Kindergartem classroom (Mrs. Ryno's room) Please check-in 15 minut...

“Dear young people, we need you. We need your creativity, your dreams and your courage, your charm and your smiles, your contagious joy and that touch of craziness that you can bring to every situation, which helps to break us out of our stale habits and ways of looking at things. As Pope, I want to tell you: the Church is with you and needs each one of you very much, so that we can be renewed, explore new paths, experiment with new languages, and become more joyful and hospitable. Never lose the courage to dream big and to live life to the full! Adopt the culture of care and spread it. Become champions of fraternity. Face life’s challenges by letting yourselves be guided by God’s faithful creativity and by good counsellors. And lastly, remember me in your prayers. I will do the same for you, carrying you in my heart.”
Pope Francis