The kindergarten class is having a good year so far. Twenty-three are in the St. Mary's 2001-2002 kindergarten class. Thirteen of the children attend class all day on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. The other twelve are in class on Friday so the can attend Mass together, and so they can get to know their classmates from the other group. They have been getting ready for the holidays by decorating their classroom Christmas tree and making Christmas stables out of toothpicks. The children have been very busy learning about the letter I. Mrs. Susan Krugman teaches the Kindergarten classes.

Mrs. Peg Wettlaufer and the fourth grade students planned the traditional All-Saints Day for November 1st. The fourth graders studied their saints. They dressed as many of the saints including St. Stephen, St. Patrick, St. Elizebeth, St.Mary, and St. Francis. After the Mass the students presented biographies of their saints to their parents and elementary, junior high, and high school students.

Mrs. Mickey Heitz's fifth grade students made prayer cards and sent them to a Catholic Church in New York City. The Catholic Church lost their priest, Mychal F. Judge, in the tragedy on September 11. The fifth graders received a letter from one of the brothers at the Church, and he thanked them for their prayers and support. The fifth graders' prayer cards were put on the display at the memorial in the firehouse across the street from the Church in New York City where the cards will be seen by many people who stop to pause and reflect there each day. Each of the firemen will then take one of the prayer cards as a reminder of the prayers and support they recieve from the fifth graders at St. Mary's Grade School in O'Neill!

Mrs. Bergs sixth grade class put on a play called the Monsters Are Due on Maple Street. They also helped the first graders learn subtraction during their M&M subtraction day!