Sallas Mahone Elementary

The Georgia Parent Survey was developed to measure parent perceptions of school climate at your child’s school. Your opinion is very important to us. Your survey responses are confidential and will be combined with the survey responses of other parents at your child’s school to identify areas in need of improvement. It should only take ten or fifteen minutes to complete the survey. Click here to begin the survey - https://gshs.gadoe.org/parents Thank you for your time and participation.

Congratulations to Sallas Mahone's Continuous Acts of Kindness through Teamwork (CATS) Award recipient, Mrs. Amanda Batts!🏅🐾 Mrs. Batts is a wonderful and caring paraeducator in one of our kindergarten classrooms. We are so thankful to have her here at #SallasMaHOME! Mrs. Batts will represent Sallas Mahone and will be nominated for our district level Employee of the Year. #SMECapturetheCulture

The search committee wants to hear from stakeholders, what do you want to see in our next superintendent? Click here to take the short survey - http://bit.ly/3RiTdAE Survey available through February 17, 2023.

Due to inclement weather, all after school activities for VCS have been canceled today, Wednesday, January 25, 2023.

Due to inclement weather, after-school program has been canceled for today, January 25th. Students will be dismissing with their regular mode of transportation this afternoon. If you child is a car rider, please be ready at your car door with an umbrella to help dismiss your child(ren) safely. If your child(ren) is a bus rider, if possible, please be ready to at their bus stop for a safe pick up. Thank you SME Families for helping keep our children safe!

🎉Congratulations to our young authors whose writings were chosen as one of the place winners for their classrooms! 🎉 We are so proud of their hard work! Head over to our Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/sallasmahone/) to view these winners! The first place winners will advance to the grade level place winners! We cannot wait to name our grade level winners soon! #SMECapturetheCulture #youngwriters #HearSMEROAR #SallasMaHOME

We are ready to spotlight our young writers this coming Thursday!🎉 Plan to be here to peruse the hard work that our students and teachers have put into their writings! Our writing fair winners will also be acclaimed. "If you don't see the book you want on the shelf, write it." -Beverly Cleary, "Ramona" #SMECapturetheCulture #youngwriters

🍎Congratulations to Sallas Mahone's Crystal Apple Award recipients🍎 Ms. Gail Benjamin, second grade teacher, and Mrs. Amanda Batts, Paraprofessional staff. These ladies have been recognized for serving the needs of our students and staff here at SME! We are thankful for their continued dedication toward education and our community. Thank you to Horace Mann for providing our crystal apple and gift cards to celebrate these wonderful individuals! #SMECapturetheCulture #TeachersofSME

We want to hear from you! Thank you in advance for taking a few moments to complete this parent survey. You may find the link on our homepage: https://www.gocats.org/o/sme (Top corner or under the Parents section in the menu on our webpage.) Or follow this link: https://gshs.gadoe.org/parents #SMECapturetheCulture #SallasMaHOME #SMEParentPartners #SMEParentsaretheBest

Become a master gardener and volunteer with any of our VCS school gardens!

Reminder parents❗️ In observance of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday, Monday, January 16th, we will have no school. Enjoy an extra day weekend!

👟🏀Kicks for Cats!🏀👟 We are proud to announce SME's participation for this wonderful cause! The shoes collected will be divided amongst our team members of SME and then other VCS elementary schools. The goal is to distribute 100 pairs of shoes! Be sure to mark the date to come cheer on our SME team!!📣

SME is celebrating our young writers!🎉 Come join us on Thursday, January 19th, 5:30-6:30 PM. Our writing fair winners will also be acclaimed! "If you don't see the book you want on the shelf, write it." -Beverly Cleary, "Ramona" #SMECapturetheCulture #youngwriters

Introducing SME's Ladies of Excellence🌟 Mission: Our end goal is to foster and promote an air of accountable and responsible citizens in the school, home, and community. As our fifth graders leave Sallas Mahone in body, the spirit of their legacy is carried through our existing third and fourth graders; as the fifth graders leave for middle school, the culture that has been inculcated will be preserved by the remaining members who will carry the torch. We believe that a select group of students who model exemplary conduct and academic prowess before the entire student body creates the opportunity for positive active and passive peer mentoring, which we believe will decrease the number of behavior referrals in students and increase the percentage of students meeting the academic level of proficiency in 3rd through 5th grades. Through our mentoring program, Sallas Mahone students will have another source of motivation to strive for excellence in the school setting. We believe that the benefits of the mentoring program will promulgate positive student behaviors that will spill over into the home and marginally and incrementally impact our community for the better. #SMECapturetheCulture

❄️Winter Break is coming!❄️ We will have early dismissal on Tuesday, Dec. 20th. More details will be sent home and posted soon. Daycare parents, please be sure that your child's daycare will be providing early pick-up on Tuesday.

The December regular meeting of the Valdosta Board of Education will be held at the superintendent's office in the boardroom on Tuesday, December 13, at 7:00 pm. Click here to view the agenda (https://bit.ly/3HMZEJR). All meetings of the Valdosta Board of Education will now be streamed live via the VCS YouTube Channel. Subscribe to GoVCSCats on YouTube to stay up to date! Click here to bookmark the page (https://bit.ly/watchVBOELive).

🍎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.