Paw Print 2nd Edition - Spring 2023

The Paw Print

Staff Bios

My name is Faith Sendldorfer, and I am one of the editors for the Paw Print. I worked on the cover for this edition! My favorite colors are blue and teal. My favorite sport is basketball, and my favorite subject is math. I also do many sports around the school- like basketball and cross country.

Hello, my name is Ava Sendldorfer, and I am in 8th grade. My favorite subject is math, and I’ve been at St. Mark since kindergarten. Catholic Schools Week is always fun, and I wanted to share some of those fun moments with everyone. I participate in: the newspaper club, the play, chorus, glory singers, NJHS, robotics, yearbook club, and morning announcements.

My name is Keelyn Scannell, and I am an 8th grader at St. Mark School. I have been going to St. Marks for ten years, and this is my first time doing the newspaper club. I am a writer for the newspaper. I also participate in the Drama club. I do many sports around St. Mark- like basketball and soccer. I enjoyed working on this newspaper.

Staff Bios

Hello! My name is Vince Spence. I am in seventh grade and have attended St. Mark for two years. I serve as a writer for The Paw Print. I play basketball for St. Mark. I also participate in the swim team and play golf and soccer. This is my first year in the newspaper club, and I enjoy it. It is amazing how the 6 of us and two teachers can make a whole newspaper.

Hi! I’m Efua Poku, a writer for the 2022-2023 school year newspaper. I am in the sixth grade and have been going here since 1st grade, but this is my first year in the newspaper club. I do many different things outside the newspaper club, like dance, NJHS, yearbook club, drama club, green team, chorus, and more!

Hi, my name is Chris Gabriel, and I am an 8th grader at St. Mark School. I also serve as a writer for this magazine. I challenged you all in the last edition with a Pop Quiz, but this time I have a St. Mark School Scavenger Hunt. Take a look around the school and see what you find!

Staff Bios

Hello! My name is Phoebe Washington. I am an 8th grader here at St.Mark. I play basketball and soccer. This was my first year being involved with Newspaper Club. I served as a writer for this edition of the Paw Print.

My name is Mrs. Barrett. I have been a teacher for over twenty years. I have taught middle school, high school, social studies, and ELA. It has been such a wonderful experience to work with the talented students in the Newspaper Club. Working with the students and family members of St. Mark School is a blessing. We have the best school community!

Hey everyone! My name is Miss. Hancock. I am the Communications Coordinator for St. Mark School. I love and have skills for everything television, radio, and social media. But I also do the layout for this student-led magazine. I have truly enjoyed working with each of these students this year!

CATHOLIC SCHOOLS WEEK 2023 RECAP

CATHOLIC SCHOOLS WEEK 2023 RECAP Ava Sendldorfer

Sunday 1/29: Celebrating Our Faith, Start of Catholic Schools

Week Mass at 9 am. Students who came got a N.U.T pass for that Monday. Then the following Open House is from 10:3012:30.

Monday 1/30: Celebrating Vocations and Our Teachers: Students make cards for vocational leaders. FunDay Monday Baskets. Vocations Panel.

Tuesday 1/31: Celebrating Our Community. Wear your St.Mark class shirts with your uniforms—community outreach assignments.

Wednesday 2/1: Celebrating Our Students. Students dress in their grade level theme. HASA provides Chick-Fil-A lunch—8thgrade volleyball game.No homework.

Thursday 2/2: Celebrating Our Nation, Military Foundation, Tag Day (Red, White, and Blue) All School Assembly - Navy Military Band

Friday 2/3: Celebrating Our Parents, First grade does a prayer service at 8:20 am. Parents attend the prayer service, and Parents will join students in classrooms.

Check Out Photos From Catholic Schools Week 2023

Volleyball Fun with 8th Grade

By: Keelyn Scannell

During Catholic School’ s Week, one of the traditions is the 8th grade volleyball game against their classmates A few weeks before the game, the whole grade came together to pick teams for the games. Everyone broke off into individual teams of seven. Each group could choose their individual team names. The teams were: The Gwiddys, The Bikini Bottom Besties, Team Bingus, The Fab 7, and Team Roblox Everyone was expected to dress up, have crazy costumes, and have fun The 8th graders were excited and ready to play.

After weeks of practicing, it was time to make those skills useful and play The first game was The Bikini Bottom Besties Vs. The Fab 7. When the teams started playing, the grade started cheering and screaming. The players on the court were playing with everything they had. After 10 minutes, The Fab 7 won their first game

The next game was The Gwiddys Vs. Team Roblox. When they took to the court the crowd went wild. The Gwiddys came out victorious. The game after that was Team Bingus vs. The Gwiddys. The Gwiddys won their second game

Finally, the finale came, and it was The Fab 7 vs The Gwiddys Both teams took the court with so much energy The teams were so excited and ready to win When the game started, the whole grade was cheering. The ball was back and forth the whole game. The game was so close- right down to the wire. The score was 10-12 in the final 5 minutes. Then The Fab 7 tied the game up with 2 minutes to spare The score was 12-12 The ball was back and forth once again Until there was one minute left in the game, and The Gwiddys scored 2 points and won the championship game. The crowd went wild. The 8th graders had a lot of fun participating in the volleyball tournament.

With the volleyball tournament done, the 8th graders had a good end to their student day during Catholic Schools Week The 8th graders had a great time playing their fellow classmates They had a lot of fun playing, and cheering for their classmates. And with that, Catholic Schools Week came to an end.

St. Mark Student Success

Vincent Spence

Since the last edition of The Paw Print, many grades and students have been working hard on some projects Here are some projects that students have been doing in school.

5th and 6th grade: 5th and 6th grade worked on their black history month projects. They had to pick a person who was related to science and/or math and make a poster on them. They were voted on by three judges, and there were prizes for: first, second, and third place. Here is how they did

5th Grade Winners:

1st : Boden S , Brennen I, Ken O

2nd: Kim N

3rd: Sally A and Beth K

6th Grade WInners

1st: Hanna N

2nd: Jade W and Amelia B

3rd: Amanda A-S

7th Grade: 7th grade had to write an informative essay on a topic they got to choose. There were different categories to choose from like history, stem, fashion, and more. Once they wrote their essay, they made a presentation to teach the class about their topic. There was no set winner, and everyone did really well. Here are two of my favorite presentations.

Xavier Berger: Xavier did the Suez Crisis. Quinn Allen, Jimmy Merriman, and Griffin Becker: They all worked on how legos have changed the world.

8th Grade: 8th grade worked on the Between Shades of Gray Social Justice and Activism presentation. They picked one of the 30 human rights articles to research and present on. Here is one of the presentations done by Ava Sendldorpher and Edith Jefferson:

Everyone who worked on these projects worked very hard.

Sports Trivia

Teacher Interviews

Efua Poku

Mrs. Ostrander

This is Mrs. Ostrander´s first year teaching. Before teaching at St. Mark, she went to college at UMBC and majored in Environmental Studies. In 2022, Mrs. Ostrander came to St. Mark because she thought it would be a very good opportunity to find her role as a teacher She loves coming up with engaging activities for her 5th-grade ELA and 6th-grade social studies, and the amount of support she gets from the students and faculty Mrs O has an obsession with Marvel, which she shares with her husband. Her absolute favorite Marvel character is Captain Marvel.

Mrs Engel

Mrs Engel is the STEM and technology director here at St Mark She is originally from New Jersey, and as a child went to different public schools there. When she moved to Maryland in 2011, she taught 5th and 6th-grade science and math and was the Chair of Technology at Ashburton, a Baltimore City public school. In 2020, she started teaching at St. Mark because she fell in love with the Catonsville community, and the fact that she is in charge of technology, but she is also able to teach. Her favorite part about her job is helping teachers with technology and loves how she, “literally gets paid to play with legos ” She also loves how helpful everyone is, and how talented her students are A fun fact about her is when she was in middle school, she loved making websites to share with others.

St. Mark School Trivia

Chris Gabriel

1. ON THE FIRST FLOOR, ONCE YOU ENTER THE LOBBY OF THE BUILDING, RIGHT IN FRONT OF THE SECRETARY’S OFFICE, WHEN YOU LOOK TO THE RIGHT, THERE IS A WATER FOUNTAIN, AND BESIDES THAT WATER FOUNTAIN, DIRECTLY TO THE RIGHT OF IT, THERE IS A CLASSROOM. WHAT TEACHER RUNS THAT CLASSROOM?

2. ON THE SECOND FLOOR, IN A CLASSROOM IN A BASKET, THERE ARE A BUNCH OF JOLLY RANCHERS. WHAT TEACHER RUNS THAT CLASSROOM?

3 IN THIS SCHOOL, ON ONE OF THE HALLWAYS, ON THE WALL, THERE ARE MULTIPLE DRAWINGS WITH DIFFERENT GREEK GODS ON EACH ONE OF THEM WHICH CLASSROOM IS THIS?

4. ON THE SECOND FLOOR, THERE IS A CLASSROOM THAT RESIDES ON THE TOP RIGHT CORNER OF THE BUILDING THAT HAS ONE BIG TABLE AND TWO SQUARE TABLES ON THE SIDE. TO WHICH TEACHER DO THESE TABLES BELONG?

5. AT THE VERY BOTTOM OF THE SCHOOL, THERE IS A CLASSROOM WITH A MULTITUDE OF BLUE CHAIRS. WHICH TEACHER HAS THESE BLUE CHAIRS?

6. IN THE HALLWAY ON THE FIRST FLOOR, IF YOU MAKE TWO LEFTS, YOU’LL SEE ARTWORKS OF DR. SUESS'S CHARACTERS. WHICH CLASSROOM DO THESE BELONG TO, AND WHICH CHARACTERS ARE THEY?

7. ON ONE OF THE FLOORS IN THE SCHOOL, THERE IS A DOOR WITH YELLOW PAPER ALL OVER THE FRONT OF IT, AND IT READS, “ONE LUCKY TEACHER” WITH MULTIPLE LEPRECHAUNS WITH STUDENTS' FACES ON THEM. WHICH CLASSROOM IS THIS?

8. ON THE FIRST FLOOR, RIGHT BEFORE THE STAIRS THAT LEAD TO THE CAFETERIA, THERE ARE A BUNCH OF STRAWBERRIES ON THE WALL WITH TWO DOORS BESIDE THEM. WHICH CLASSROOM IS THIS?

9. WHAT FLOOR IS THERE A POSTER ON THE WALL WITH ALL THE NUMBERS IN PI?

10. HOW MANY CLASSROOMS ARE THERE IN ST. MARK IN TOTAL?

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ST. MARK STUDENT NEWS MAGAZINE

JUNE 2023 / SPRING ED.

The Paw Print

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8TH GRADE TRADITIONAL VOLLEYBALL GAME

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