Smithton CCSD 130

Thank you Smithton Teachers for everything that you do! Your contributions do not go unnoticed. Our students are so lucky to have each and every one of you in their corners.

October is AAC Awareness Month! Mrs. Morra, our amazing Speech Language Pathologist, reminds us that everyone deserves a voice with her amazing bulletin board! AAC stands for Augmentative and Alternative Communication, which are ways people use to communicate besides talking; typically when someone is unable to speak or hard to understand. However, we ALL use AAC when we type, text, write & gesture!

Kindergarten went to the Pumpkin Patch on Friday. Here are some pictures from Mrs. Brueggemann's class!

6th Grade playing the cardboard box games they created in STEM class!

We can't say it better than the US Department of Education, "Principals set the tone for the entire school community with strong leadership, school spirit, and care for students, teachers, staff, & families. We celebrate you for everything you do! #NationalPrincipalsMonth" Thank you Mrs. Belosi!

Girls on the run this weekend!

On Friday Mother Goose visited Pre-K for their Nursery Rhyme Party! Each student took turns reciting their own nursery rhyme from memory - earning themselves a badge into the Mother Goose Club! Then Mother Goose led the class outdoors to play silly games! There was the Itsy Bitsy Spider chase, Humpty Dumpty Egg Race and Egg Toss, a Jack Be Nimble jumping contest and the Jack and Jill Water Bucket races! When we came inside, Mother Goose had left us some muffins from Little Miss Muffet, and cheese sticks from the Hickory Dickory Doc mice!

Good Luck to our Softball and Baseball teams as they both travel to Pinckneyville this morning to compete in the 1st round of state championships! Go Cougars!

8th Graders attended Career Day at Beck Vocational Center today. Here are some pictures from their day!

Smithton staff celebrated Ms. Guyette's "almost here" baby boy this week with a diaper shower! Our wonderful 5th graders helped arrange her gifts in her classroom to find when she returned from today's kindergarten field trip.

Mrs. Servos' 5th Graders are on the hunt for abiotic and biotic factors in our ecosystem!

Last week in STEM...2nd grade worked on balancing, 3rd grade programmed with Dash robots, 5th grade measured the volume of small objects & 7th grade used pipe insulation to make roller coasters.

8th Graders are reading The Outsiders in ELA and some of them dressed up as Greasers and Socs yesterday.

And lastly (but certainly not least), Mrs. Stuhlsatz's 2nd Graders & Mrs. Liszewski's 5th graders were excited to have their first buddy reading time today also!

More 5th & 2nd Grade buddy reading today with Mrs. LePere & Ms. Servos' classes.

Today, 5th grade went to 2nd grade to do some buddy reading during Cougar Connections! This is Mr Sehr & Mrs. Sliment's classes. #SEL #Reading #ReadingIsFun

On Tuesday the Pre-K class celebrated Applesauce Day! They worked together to make applesauce from their field trip apples and enjoyed it together at the end of the day! They even had a few spare apples for painting! 🍎🍏

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Last week in STEM...1st & 2nd grades used gentle forces to blow bubbles and 8th grade built with LEGO robotics.