Sallas Mahone Elementary

🍎Congratulations to Sallas Mahone's Crystal Apple Award recipients🍎 Mrs. Brandi Godwin, CATalyst teacher, and Ms. Lillian Mudd, Paraprofessional staff. These ladies have been recognized for going above and beyond to serve the needs of our students and staff here at SME! We are thankful for their continued dedication toward education and the community. Thank you to Horace Mann for providing our crystal apple and gift cards to celebrate these wonderful individuals! #SMECapturetheCulture #SallasMaHOME #TeachersofSME

🎉We are so proud of this year's spelling bee participants! We have some wonderful spellers here at SME! Congratulations to our spelling bee winners.🏆 🥇Eric Graham 🥈Kanish Patel 🥉Brylee Vince These top three winners will participate in the district spelling bee on January 20th, 2023! #SMECapturetheCulture #SallasMaHOME

🎄SME will celebrate the final 7 days of school with our annual holiday dress-up days leading up to Winter Break (Dec. 21st-Jan. 5th)!🎄 We will kick off our merrymaking this coming Monday, Dec. 12th. We hope that you will participate with us! You may also find these days listed on our Parent & Family Engagement Events Calendar. Reminder, if your child does not participate in the dress-up day, they must wear their required uniform attire.

SAVE THE DATE!! Students will begin participating in school level Spelling Bees. The top 3 from each school will move on to the VCS District Spelling Bee.

Click here (http://bit.ly/3F1Teo9) to see each school's Honor Roll list for the 1st nine weeks.

The Georgia Department of Human Services recently released updated information about the state's Pandemic EBT program. To view the entire document visit http://gocats.org or click here for the story (http://bit.ly/3idWPqf).

We are thankful for YOU, Sallas MaHOME Families! Here is a message from us to you! https://youtu.be/2bFy-Mpl0nc

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! Enjoy the week off reflecting upon all the things you are thankful for!

❄️December 2022 and January 2023 Parent Engagement & Events Calendars⛄️ You can now find links on our webpage (https://www.gocats.org/o/sme) in the Parents section under our site menu or look for copies to be sent home by your child's teacher of our upcoming events and engagement activities for SME.

🦃Reminder🦃 We will be out of school next week for Thanksgiving Break.

❗️Attention SME Families❗️

Perfect attendance is not an easy feat, but these teachers have given it their best for the months of August-October. 🤩 SME recognizes the following teachers for their dedication for showing up for our students! #SMECapturetheCulture #SallasMaHOME #TeachersofSME #grateful

⛈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!⛈ #SMECapturetheCulture #SallasMaHOME

❤️🤍💙Reminder!❤️🤍💙

❗️❗️️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

❤️🤍💙Just a small way to celebrate and honor our military families here at SME!❤️🤍💙

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!