US Cellular Award Assembly

WOO-HOO for SSM! We were the winner of $50,000 from the US Cellular Calling All Communities Competition. On Friday, US Cellular presented the check to our school at a special assembly.

FALLING FOR FORESHORTENING - ART

Our recent art project was called "Falling for Foreshortening". We started by tracing our shoes and hands to create the optical illusion that the person we are drawing on our paper is falling!

FYLING HIGH WITH ACRODUNK

Due to reaching our school goal in the magazine fundraiser, we had the opportunity today to watch the group AcroDunk perform. What a talented trio!

Turkey Time with Kindergarten Buddies

We were able to meet up with our buddies again to create a Turkey with accordion style legs. We will meet with them again next week for our last Thanksgiving project.

Gingerbread Hunt

During Reading today, we had visitors from Preschool as they were in search of the Gingerbread Man. They searched high and low and finally found him hiding near the calendar! The preschoolers were also very interested in the Smart Board!!

ALL SAINTS DAY

In Religion, we have been talking about why saints are important to our spiritual growth. In addition, we discussed that they are patron saints for countries, people, and organizations. There is even a patron saint of actresses & actors! Students are currently deciding what they would want to be a patron saint of (either a characterstic or issue facing society today, why that is a need, and how they are going to go about taking care of that need, and why they chose it). If you want to learn more about patron saints, here is the link we used.
http://web.archive.org/web/20061209021839/http://www.monksofadoration.org/patrons.html

FLUSH

We just started our first whole class novel. We will be reading Flush. To start off the unit, we did a variety of prediction activities. At the end of the novel (right before Thanksgiving Break), we will revisit our predictions! The kids were excited today when they got to sit on their desks while I read to them.