Philip R. Smith Elementary School

A special thank you to all of our families for the generous gifts, cookies, candies and sweets. We are so appreciative of your thoughtfulness. Thank you for being such a caring and supportive school community! We are truly blessed! Love, Michelle and Christina

Just a reminder that Full Day Wednesdays begin on 1/8! Students will be dismissed at 3:50 p.m. We will resume early dismissal Wednesdays in mid March.

What a beautiful Holiday Market on Tuesday! The students had a blast. We knew our students loved a good raffle, bingo, and dance party but now we can add shopping to the list!! Thank you to all organizers and volunteers. The event was so successful due to the excellent organization and many adults willing to make the day special for our students. Word on the street is that the vendors were very impressed with our students. 😃

Also on behalf of myself and the PRS staff, thank you for the delicious soup-er luncheon on Wednesday. Everything was a hit...and that garlic butter spread was AMAZING!

Here is the PTO newsletter and calendar of events for December.

Cook's Night Off

https://drive.google.com/file/d/17oFhcIBvztY-TQzNVgYK7jcxJasyq10B/view?usp=sharing

Adventures with Avery

https://drive.google.com/file/d/10eiNN5zubopCxnz_ebaYnRFPGHHZ_W19/view?usp=sharing

Yard Goats Save the Date

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FGeEF3IKw6HCOXOJdUzkDR95slunpxGw/view?usp=sharing

The Student Leadership Team would like to thank you for your kind support of our December projects. Our Pajama Day for the Cure raised $529 for CCMC. We collected 37 toys and stuff animals with our Toy and Stuffed Animal Drive. Those donations will help South Windsor Human Services provide toys to children for the upcoming holidays. Please see the attached flyer for details about our January projects. Thank you!

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Ytunn-vLrcCibUZ6Ps_J6Pvbt0f2zC1flDIxvpfYFKU/edit?usp=sharing

As you can imagine we go through headphones for students pretty quickly around here. We purchase ear buds but they don't necessarily work for our youngest learners. If you have any extra sets of headphones at home or know someone who might, would you please send them into school and we can distribute them to classrooms that need them.

If you have had a chance to spend time outside in our beautiful memorial garden, you would have noticed engraved bricks in the walkway. There have been two opportunities over several years for families to purchase engraved bricks. We would like to offer this to our families again. Please see the link below for more information if you are interested in purchasing a brick that would be included in our memorial garden!

https://www.canva.com/design/DAGVzvoULfw/_tYuz7g_br8mcT5qkMnNjQ/view?utm_content=DAGVzvoULfw&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link&utm_source=viewer

Latest article about building resilience in our students. https://www.understood.org/en/articles/building-resilience-in-kids

Senator Murphy invites your students to participate in his Office’s annual Martin Luther King Jr. Essay Contest. We ask students from elementary, middle, and high schools from across Connecticut to participate in honoring the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. by submitting essays that reflect on Dr. King’s dream, their own aspirations, and the importance of what Dr. King means to them.

Submissions are now open and must be received by Saturday, January 11th at 11:59pm. Essays can be submitted online or mailed to our Hartford Office.

Essay instructions and FAQs can be found here on our website. This site includes word count guidelines, submission guidelines, and information on what we look for in essays.

We look forward to reading and reviewing your student’s work! If you have any further questions, please contact Sarah Lopez at 860-549-8463 or email at MLK_Essay@murphy.senate.gov.

12/21-1/2 Holiday Break

1/23 PRS Math Night NOTE CHANGE of DATE!

Adding Someone to School Messenger https://docs.google.com/document/d/1h2vqldyvZFOK_jumwjaGUbHMP2H4GSLs/edit#heading=h.gjdgxs

Yearlong Calendar

https://cdnsm5-ss13.sharpschool.com/UserFiles/Servers/Server_239916/File/Calendars/2024-2025%20School%20Calendar%20SWHS%20Principal%20Update.pdf

Attendance https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-0idrvt_FgrUNOSYEH85cJwtMIoiBsEj/view?usp=sharing

Open House Informational Links https://secure.smore.com/n/8y39c

Nurse's Blog

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QoYcCkcavl8PlOhe7qdj66idT1cmvLoV9IW4z_DOjl8/edit?usp=sharing

Universal Stories https://sites.google.com/apps.southwindsorschools.org/prs-universal-stories/home

Volunteer Registration: This is the newly revised Volunteer Registration form-In order to volunteer you must complete this form. If you have already completed it in the past and have been approved to volunteer, you do not need to complete it again.

https://www.southwindsorschools.org/cms/one.aspx?portalId=240000&pageId=28297053