Winter Wonderland

The giraffes have been busy over the last few weeks creating fun new art projects with our Friday Volunteers to celebrate the winter season! 

Last week, we "lit" up our classroom with our name lights and made some stained glass mittens to hang in our windows. We love how colorful and bright they make our room! 

This week, we made some snowman watercolor pictures, beaded snowflakes, shape houses, and winter moose!

We've really enjoyed having our Friday Center Volunteers helping us with all of these fun projects! We look forward to more fun in the weeks ahead

SMS Holiday Mission

Hello, Giraffe Families!

Our class will be teaming up with the 2H Owl Class to provide gifts for a local family in need. If you are able to sign up for and purchase one of the gifts listed here, it would be greatly appreciated.

If all the gifts and supplies listed are accounted for and you would still like to donate, small stocking stuffers (pens, pencils, small toys, movie gift cards, gas cards, etc) and any additional clothing items would also be welcome.

Please bring all gifts and supplies to school UNWRAPPED by Tuesday, December 18th. These gifts will be delivered to families the Monday before Christmas so they have time to wrap them and give them their own personal touch :)

Thank you for your generosity and for helping to make the season bright for all!

Warmly,

Mrs. Mitchell

Scholastic Book Fair 11/27-12/1

The Scholastic Book Fair will be at SMS the week after Thanksgiving! This is a great opportunity to buy gifts for friends and family for the holidays. While the giraffes will have the opportunity to go shopping during school on Wednesday, 11/29 from 1:15-1:45, anyone is welcome to come at any time during our shopping hours, which are listed here:

11/27 - 8:30-4:00

11/28 - 8:30-4:00

11/29 - 8:30 - 6:30

11/30 - 8:30-4:00

12/1 - 8:30-11:00

We are looking for volunteers to help with:

• Set up on Nov. 21 from 12:00-3:00
• Cashiers and restocking shelves during the school day 8:30-12:00 and 11:45-3:10 time slots.
• Packing up the fair on Dec. 1 from 11:00-2:30

If you can help at the fair please click here to sign up for a time. The profits we make from the fair go back into SMS classrooms and the library, so the money raised from your purchases will go directly back to supporting your children and their classmates. We hope to see you there, thank you for all your support! 

The Gingerbread Saga Continues...

We've had gingerbread on the mind ever since our little cookie friends joined us in our classroom! While we've been busy spotting them each day in their different hiding places, we've also been reading all sorts of gingerbread stories and creating some gingerbreads of ourselves! 

Somebody got into our gingerbread house candy a little early...

Poor Glinda got stuck on the word wall!

While our friends were having lots of fun hiding all around our classroom, we were creating Gingerbread Glyphs of ourselves!

We've also been keeping track of all the gingerbread stories we've been reading on a Gingerbread Story House in the hallway, which is right across from the Second Grade Gingerbread House we created along with 2H and 2A! 

When we came into school on the last day before our Holiday Break, we found a book left to us from our gingerbread cookies, which lead us on a QR Code Scavenger Hunt all around SMS! 

When we were finally lead back to our classroom, our gingerbread friends were already gone, but they left us a bag of goodies for our classroom! They wanted to thank us for all of the kind things they saw us doing for others, so they got us all sorts of fun games for free time and indoor recess! 

Thank you to our gingerbread friends for all of the fun (and mischief) you brought to our classroom in the Twelve School Days Before Holiday Break! Watch out for that sneaky fox!!