
⛈Don't let the stormy weather keep you down! Here are just a few at-home activity ideas that you can do with your child/children.
Learning is ongoing, even during weather days!⛈
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❤️🤍💙Just a small way to celebrate and honor our military families here at SME!❤️🤍💙


❗️❗️️Attention SME Military Families❗️❗️
Please take note of the date change for the luncheon.
If your child is a participant, they will come home with the following note for you to reference as well.


🥇Congratulations to JORDAN ARNOLD, 5th grade, for receiving 1st place in the 2022 National Chemistry Week Illustrated Poem Contest sponsored by the Southwest Georgia Local Section of the American Chemical Society!🧪
Also, congratulations to the following Honorary Mention Awards: Alex Baity, 5th grade and Aarsh Patel, 3rd grade!
We are so proud of you for representing Sallas Mahone Elementary!
#SMECapturetheCulture





Congratulations to our PBIS happy meal winners!🍟 These students were recognized by their teachers for ROARing loudly above the rest during the month of October for the excellent behavior!
Keep ROARing SME students and you may be heard for the month of Nov.!
#SMECapturetheCulture #HearSMEROAR #ROARsome #ROARStars


All meetings of the Valdosta Board of Education will now be streamed Live via the VCS YouTube Channel. The link will be posted to the VCS Facebook page for the regular meeting held on the second Tuesday of the month, work session on the fourth Tuesday of the month and all called committee meetings of the board.
Subscribe to GoVCSCats on YouTube to stay up to date! Click here to bookmark the page (https://bit.ly/watchVBOELive).


We cannot wait to see you TONIGHT!
Food trucks will be here at 5:00 and doors will open at 5:30 for our S.T.E.A.M. Night family event!


Every November the Georgia Department of Education celebrates Family Engagement Month. This is to emphasize how significant families can impact a child's success in school. (https://youtu.be/-v3e_ymx7oU)
Here at Sallas Mahone Elementary we appreciate and value our families and how you engage in your child's learning!❤️
Remember to view our event calendars and find an event that you can enjoy with your family!
https://www.gocats.org/o/sme/page/calendars
#SMECapturetheCulture #SallasMaHOME

🔬🥽"Science is magic that works!"--Kurt Vonnegut🥽🔬
This Thursday night, 5:30-7:00 PM, S.T.E.A.M Night!
Come enjoy a family night filled with S(science).T(technology).E(engineering).A(art).M(mathematics) activities that will guide student inquiry, dialogue, and critical thinking. Lots of exciting activities planned!


‼️Attention Parents‼️
We cannot wait to see our 5th grade students dress up as an idiom on Mon., Oct. 31st to reinforce their learning about figurative language.


🍎Sallas Mahone's September Crystal Apple Award recipients🍎
Mrs. Dennard, fourth grade teacher and leader, and Mrs. Ard, one of our amazing office ladies who does a tremendous amount making our school run smoothly. Congratulations!
Thank you to Horace Mann and Peak Performance Accounting (Jessica and Dan Barnes, parents at SME) for donating gift cards to celebrate these wonderful individuals!
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🥼S.T.E.A.M Night is only 1 week away!
Come join SME teachers and community partners on Nov. 3rd to engage in exciting, hands-on activities that will bedazzle your minds!
Thank you Valdosta State, Hester And Morris Orthodontics, South Georgia Regional Library, Valdosta, A City Without Limits, and CJB Industries for partnering with us this year to provide exciting activities that will feature these vital roles in our community!
#SMECapturetheCulture


❗️Attention Parents❗️
Please ensure that our children are safe!
Please also be mindful that your children will return to school the next morning, so plan your child's nighttime routine and candy limit to ensure a wonderful day of learning for Tuesday, Nov. 1st.
You may also head over to this link to review safety tips and information: https://www.valdostacity.com/news/valdosta-trick-or-treating-festivities-scheduled-oct-31
We love our SME parents!


✏️SME’s 3rd and 5th grade Young Author’s Club recently hosted a guest speaker, author and illustrator Alison Stephen. Ms. Stephen spoke to our rising writers about her experiences and guided a fun writing activity! She was impressed with our students’ creativity, and they were impressed that she has been inside Dr. Seuss’s house!




Let's kickoff Red Ribbon Week by wearing red on Mon., Oct. 24th.
#RedRibbonWeek


The Valdosta City Schools (VCS) School Nutrition Program will be accepting sealed bids for the sale of surplus commercial kitchen equipment. Viewing and inspection of the equipment and sealed bids will be accepted from 8:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. on Saturday, October 29, 2022 at the old Valdosta High School cafeteria located at 3101 Barack Obama Boulevard in Valdosta.


🥼STEAM Night is back!! 🔬
A family night filled with S.T.E.A.M activities that will guide student inquiry, dialogue, and critical thinking. We also have some wonderful community partners who will be participating in our event this year!
Be sure to mark your calendars now! 🗓


Yesterday our administration, academic coaches, and Mrs. Penland updated Valdosta City Schools' School Improvement Team on how SME is striving, recording, and making progress towards our three SIP (school improvement plan) goals.
Mrs. Penland was able to share all the amazing things going on with PBIS that are helping us to reach our 3rd goal: Climate and Culture!😍
SME is doing amazing things! We are so glad that YOU are a part of our family and team!
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📸REMINDER Picture day is tomorrow!📸
