Mrs. Griffin's daughter, Briley, was selected for the NASA astronaut Al Worden Endeavour Scholarship. Briley spoke with SMGS classes today about her adventures with NASA like meeting the astronaut Charlie Duke and meeting other scholarship recipients from countries around the world! She also spoke about witnessing a naturalization ceremony at Mt. Vernon where 100 people from 54 different countries became naturalized as US citizens.
Mrs. Stallbaumer's class took their plants out Friday to document any changes to their growth. They have been watering some with water and some with pop, Prime, Gatorade, lemonade, flavored water, as well as limiting sunlight and one corn plant that was planted in orbeez to see if these effected growth.
Tomorrow is Picture Day!!!
Our Play Cafe students worked so hard today they had to have snack time twice!
The kids loved our playdough exercises. Here’s the link so you can do them at home with your child to help develop those fine motor skills needed for writing and more:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrBsNhwxzgc
Students in Mrs. Todd's kindergarten class are working hard learning their numbers to 20 and practicing one to one correspondence.
Homecoming Spirit Week! Ms. Moylan's class rocks Jersey Day with a spectacular photo bomb!!
Friday Family Fun
Families for:
Ms. Moylan, Miss Serb, and Mrs. Hammersmith
Mrs. Stallbaumer's Family playing charades!
4th Graders painting outdoor themes in STEAM
Please join our SMGS Family!
This is gonna be Kevin's year! Kevin Byrne received a Pawsitive Bear call home from Mr. Medley for showing incredible improvement and working independently. Kevin also kept a positive attitude the entire morning. Mrs. Aubert was beaming with pride and couldn't wait to tell Mr. Medley and Kevin's parents! Way to go!
Third graders had a great field trip to the St. Marys Indian Pay Station Museum Complex. Thank you to Ms. Sumner and Mr. Steele for taking the time to explain the rich history of St. Marys and the surrounding community.
Miss Serb's dad, Mr. Serb, joined her 5th grade social studies class to present and discuss Native Americans and their influence during Colonial times. He introduced the class to many items including: various furs, beads, buffalo hide and skull, leather, wooden bow, flintlock, knife and hawks, arrowheads, a "horn-book", and traps. Mr. Serb discussed trading furs and beads for steel and knives. He also discussed the method of tanning furs into leathers using salt and arrowheads as knives.
STUCO had a working lunch with Mr. Medley going over the roles and responsibilities of being on student council as well as getting some ideas on Spirit Week for Homecoming!
Mrs. Kerwin and Mrs. Stallbaumer took advantage of the beautiful weather and took their third grade classes outside to plant some corn.
Student Council for 2024-25
Miss Foster's class putting the brand new building blocks to good use!
Congratulations to Peter Kasprzak for receiving a Pawsitive Bear Call home from Mr. Medley. Mrs. Stallbaumer said that Peter has been working very hard on his reading goal and when things seem to be getting hard, Peter stays positive and tries different books! Nicely done Peter!!
6th Grade band working on duets
What a welcoming committee we were greeted with this morning!! Our own St. Marys High School Cheer Team welcomed every member of our Bear Family this morning like we were the Kansas City Chiefs headed onto the field! Thank you SMHS Cheer Squad for the morning motivation!!
