Spartan Herald February 2017
Building Community Empowering Learners Inspiring Creativity
Applied ISTEP testing will begin at the end of this month. Please read the parent letter included.
If you have a daughter attending SMS, please consider the opportunity at Notre Dame described below. Only a limited number of Schmucker students will be able to attend.
Go Spartans!
https://schmucker.phmschools.org/
Sean Galiher
Principal
Parent To Do List
1. Read this newsletter, especially the ISTEP letter below.
2. Read the weekly emails you get from your child's Advisory teacher.
3. 2nd Washington D.C. payment due to Hemisphere on 2/2.
Click below to Read ISTEP Letter
Important Dates
2/03 - PHM Job Fair @ SMS
2/17 - President's Recess Day
2/20 - President's Recess Day
2/22 - 4.0 Principal's Honor Roll Breakfast
2/27-3/7 Applied ISTEP testing
Check out all events on our Website calendar: SMS Calendar
Expanding Your Horizons
For more information: "Click Here"
SMS will pay for up to 30 girls to attend this conference. Please complete the online registration and email Mr. Galiher when complete. Please select "My school is paying for me" on the online registration form.
SMS SKI CLUB
One Book/One School
Athletics
National Junior Honor Society
Schmucker Technology Club
Schmucker Technology Club is an opportunity for students to expand their knowledge and work with various forms of technology. We plan to do projects in 3D design/3D printing, electronic circuits with microcontrollers, and wearable technology. A $25 fee will cover supplies for projects you will be able to keep.
We plan to meet on 8 Thursdays after school during the second semester. January 26, February 9 & 23, March 9 & 23, April 20, and May 4 & 18. If you are already in art club, these dates are the opposite Thursdays so you can participate in both!
Students signups end on 2/3. Please sign up this week and contact Mr. Reininga if interested.
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Get to know our NEW TEACHERS
Mrs. Freed completed her Master’s Degree in Biology at the University of Notre Dame in June of 2016. She also has experience working as a scientist in academic and industrial laboratories, as well as teaching at the undergraduate level. She completed her undergraduate education at DePauw University in Greencastle, IN in 2010, where she earned a Bachelor's Degree in Biology. She and her husband have been married for three years and have two rescue dogs. She is also expecting her first child in July of this year! For her hobbies she enjoys traveling, board games, reading, and watching Netflix.Currently she teacher 7/8th grade science at SMS.
Miss Marazzi graduated from Penn in 2003 and this is her first time returning home since! She graduated from Purdue in 2007 with a B.A. in History and after she lived in Brazil in 2010. She returned to the United States to obtain her M.A. in Secondary Social Studies Education from The University of Kentucky. While pursuing her M.A., she completed her student teaching in Cologne, Germany and decided to pursue a career in education in Germany. She moved to Germany in 2012, where she worked as a 5th grade teacher at Die Europaeische Schule RheinMain for three years. When she returned to the United States in 2015, she worked for one year in Chicago Public Schools near Chinatown before finally moving back to good old Indiana in the summer of 2016. In her free time she loves reading, traveling, nerding out to Harry Potter, being a cat mom and shopping. Currently she teaches 7th grade Social Studies & World Language
School Grade
Amazon Smile (PTO)
Schmucker has recently joined AmazonSmile. You can do all your regular Amazon shopping but use the AmazonSmile website. AmazonSmile has everything Amazon has to offer. Before checking out make sure your account/purchase is linked into the link below. Schmucker PTO will earn 0.5% of your purchases.
https://smile.amazon.com/ch/35-1718599
Remember, start your Amazon shopping at this link and Amazon will donate 0.5% of the price of your eligible AmazonSmile purchases to the SMS PTO!
The account will be named "PHM No-Profit Organizations Inc."
This is a simple way to help the students and staff of Schmucker. Thank you for supporting the PTO!
Elearning
eLearning Parent Letter (click link)
Canvas
Canvas is a LMS (Learning Management System) that is used in PHM. Teachers can put content online for students, make announcements and provide assignments. All parents are enrolled in the Canvas course of their students as observers. As observers, you can see the content, but are not able to interact with it. Please access the links below to learn more.
To keep you organized, you can also download the Canvas app on your phone or tablet for Android and Apple devices.
Community Events/Activities
Check out the P-H-M website for an online listing of non-school events & activities agencies have asked us to share with P-H-M families:
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Intramurals
Schmucker will be offering fun activities to enjoy through our intramural program throughout the year. The intramural coordinator, Mr. Sears has set up "Frisbee Fling, Volleyball & Open Gym". Check out dates and time on our SMS Calendar. Come and join in the fun!