PTO November Meeting Notes

SUPPORT THE PTO WHEN YOU SHOP ON AMAZON!  Click on the link on the PTO page of the SCS website each time you shop at Amazon and the PTO will receive up to 15% of your purchase!

The PTO wants your input!  Please take our  SURVEY by clicking on the link on the PTO page of the SCS website or click on the link below:

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/5TSTHSL

The SCHOOL DIRECTORY is finished and has been distributed.  Extra copies can be purchased for $5 from Esther or at the Holiday Fair.  We raised over $1500 in business listings.  Please solicit these LOCAL BUSINESSES that have supported the PTO.

HANNAFORD HELPS SCHOOLS program ends on December 1.  Please remember to bring all of your "schools" receipts to the office or put in the kiosk at Hannaford.

The PTO decided to replace the Flower Power fundraiser with a new local plant fundraiser through Hinesburg company, RED WAGON PLANTS.  More info. on this in the spring.

The PTO FALL GRANT COMMITTEE met and distributed $5000 in grants to teachers and staff!  Some of the great things we've funded are:  New instruments for K-8 music programs, books to support the Common Core, an on-line book subscription, playground equipment for EEE/Kindergarten, and math tools.

The WINTER GEAR DRIVE is still happening.  The need is as great as ever for winter gear for all age children and adults.  Box in front of office.

IMAGINATION PLAYGROUND is at SCS again!  This interactive mobile exhibit on loan from the Green Mountain Children's Museum will be shared by all of our primary classrooms through November.

The CVU ROBOTICS TEAM treated middle school students to demonstrations of various robotics and a 3-D printer!

The 2 Vermont based stars of the documentary WRETCHES & JABBERERS visited with 6th graders culminating their lesson of a Skills4Life Bullying & Harassment unit.

7th graders enjoyed STEPAFRIKA at the Flynn as a powerful conclusion to their world music culture unit.

David Southworth's 7th graders had the opportunity to take control of a CAMERA ON BOARD THE INT'L SPACE STATION and took some great pictures!

Officer Thomas Nash is giving presentations to all middle school students on INTERNET SAFETY.   We will also be sponsoring a parent education night with him on January 29.

Teachers and staff have attended PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT on the topics of suicide prevention and youth stress and anxiety.

MARK YOUR CALENDARS:

HOLIDAY FAIR:  Sat. 12/7, 9:30a - 1:30p.  Adult and child made crafts and goodies. and games! Great place to do your holiday shopping - fun for the whole family!

HELP WANTED:

• Setting up and decorating for the Holiday Fair:  Friday, 12/6 from 3p - whenever.
• Clean-up and breakdown after Holiday Fair:  Saturday, 12/7

C:  Leslie Borrok (leslie@borrok.com)

THANK YOU TO:

• Amy Knight for coordinating the Newberry Cup Bake Sale.
• Everyone who donated baked goods or helped at the Newberry Cup.
• Everyone who supported and helped distribute Genevieve Gift Wrap.
• Leslie Borrok and Lisa Merrill for coordinating the directory and Kim Schmitt, Valerie Richardson, Corinne Levinthal and Elaine brand for their tremendous amount of work on the directory.

NEXT PTO MEETING:   TUES. DEC. 10 @ 6P.  Pizza and babysitting provided and we will have a cookie swap - bring 3 dozen of your favorite cookies!

Field Trip Photos

Imagination Playground

Cones, Cones, Cones

Today was Hands On Nature.  The topic was cones.  Here is a YouTube link to visit at home with your child about spirals, Fibonacci numbers, and being a plant.

http:// www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahXIMUkSXX0

Author & Illustrator Celebration

Today the kids read little alphabet books that they made to our Pre-K class.  They were so proud to share their hard work.

Bird Treat Gifts

Today the kids made bird treat gifts that they will give the the residents of The Arbors after our sing along on Friday.  We will be leaving school to walk down to the Arbors at 8:30.  Please be sure your child dresses warm that day!  They will each have to bring a small snack that will fit in their coat pocket as we will not be here for snack time.  More information will come home this week about the field trip.

Math Perseverence: Solving Problems in Multiple Ways

Fun with Technology

We are Authors! Come read our little books!

Meet the Authors!

Today we read a story called Library Mouse by Daniel Kirk.  This book is about a mouse that likes to read and write.  He lives in a library where he writes books and secretly tucks them in the book stacks for the kids to find.  The kids wonder who this mystery author could be.  In the end, Sam, the library mouse, teaches the kids that they can be authors themselves by writing little books on their own.  After enjoying this fun story, I taught the kids how to make little books with only one sheet of paper and two staples.  Let the book making begin!

Pretzels

As a culminating activity for our "Me and My Community"unit, our team baked pretzels.  We invited a very special person in our school community, you may know her as bus driver Lucy, to make and bake pretzels with us.  They all pitched in to help and we all enjoyed them as a Journey Team Community!