SEES BULLETIN January/February 2012, Issue 21

Happening This Week

2/3 – Smencils on Sale Before School

Upcoming activities

2/6 - 6p PTO Meeting 2/6 - 6p Mom’s Prep Night 2/8 – RSVP’s Due for Father/Daughter

Dance 2/10 – Smencils on Sale Before School 2/11 – Father/Daughter Dance

Mark Your Calendars

2/16 – Pennies for Patients Drive Ends 2/17 & 2/20 – School Holidays 2/21-24 – Teacher Experience Bidding

Period 2/21-24 – Staff Appreciation Week 2/24 – 8:45a Flag Salute

Congratulations to Mrs. Guzman she gave birth to Bowen West on January 18th, 6lbs 4oz. Mom and

baby are doing great.

Discovery Elementary School won $50,000 from the Clorox Power a

Bright Future grant! Thanks to all of you for your participation and being a

part of the SMUSD community.

January Character Trait Initiative

February Character Trait Responsibility

Once Upon A Time Father/Daughter Dance Saturday, February 11 in the SEES Enchanted Forest.

K-1: 4:00-5:30 2-3: 6:00-7:30 4-5: 8:00-9:30

Each fair, young maiden of SEES is requested to come accompanied by a noble escort. please leave all frogs at home. There will be music and complimentary refreshments.

Raffle tickets, Cold Stone Ice Cream, bottled water, and Ribbon Halos will be sold…so don’t forget to bring your pennies. Pre sales will also take place the week of the dance. Marlo Yoshimoto Photography will be on hand to capture your magical evening, as well (order forms will go home separately). Please return the RSVP form on the flyer that went home last week (or download from the website) to the PTO box by Wednesday, February 8th, or RSVP to SEESsocial@yahoo.com.

Calling all Fairy Godmothers! We need you to help transform the SEES MPR into an Enchanted Forest, and help make our Father/Daughter dance as memorable as the fairy tales of old. Please contact the volunteer coordinators at: sees_volunteer@yahoo.com to help.

Eagle Play Needs Your Help! Eagle Play has been a long-standing lunchtime tradition at SEES. Eagle Play is a group of volunteers organized through a coordinator that provides structured activities twice a week during lunch. These structured activities provide an opportunity for our students to increase their physical activity, explore their imaginations, connect with other people and grow both emotionally and socially through team activities. If you are interested in volunteering for the Eagle Play program, please contact Carolyn Kalicki at carolyn.kalicki@smusd.org.

Labels for Education on Facebook! Just go to facebook.com/LabelsForEducation and SEES will earn 50 points for each person who clicks the "like" button. How easy it that? Also, don't forget to turn in any bonus sheets before the first of March. A collection box is available in the front office.

5th Grade – Photo Request The Yearbook staff wants a photo of you from when you were in kindergarten. Bring your photo with your name on the back to your teacher by February. 10th. Photos will be returned in a timely manner. This is your last yearbook at SEES – Make it a memorable one!

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Pennies for Patients Campaign Last week you should have received a letter from Mrs. Kalicki and the LLS in your child’s Wednesday envelope along with an individual collection box explaining how the campaign works. The idea is to collect any spare change in the individual collection box and bring it to their classroom, where the money will be deposited into a "classroom collection box". LLS is also looking for donated cell phones and they can be deposited in the Cell Phone Collection Box located in the Front Office. Each classroom will have its own temperature gage poster letting all students know where they stand in the campaign. The classroom earning the most money will receive a $50 gift card. The money we raise will support local cancer patients and cancer research at The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society in trying to cure blood cancer. So start gathering all that loose change and old cell phones you have sitting around the house! Be sure to check out the Heroes poster displayed by the front office with local students and one of our very own teachers, Mrs. Mullane, who has been fighting against blood cancer! Let's help The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society make change, one penny at a time. Sincerely, Michele Zamora and Tatiana Walton LLS Contact at SEES

Valentine Smencil Sales These sweet scented pencils will be on sale before school on 2/3 and 2/10. Thank you for supporting our fourth and fifth graders.

Thank You We would like to thank the community and the San Marcos Fire Department (IAFF Local 4184) for making the Pancake Breakfast a great success! The San Marcos Fire Department generously donated their time to cook and serve our community a hot delicious breakfast! The kids had a blast making a craft, creating unique art on the chalk walk, listening to music, and getting their faces painted. We couldn't put on these events without our volunteers, so we would like to thank all the volunteers who helped put this event together! The proceeds collected from this event benefits the San Marcos Fire Department and SEES.

Flag Salute Highlights Mrs. Kalicki recognized the Students of the Month for January. They are as follows: Aguirre, Jason Allred, Lauren Arcinue, Katherine Barcenas, Victoria Bautista, Emily Bernales, Teo Beyerlein, Lily Buchwald, Delaynie Butler, Brooke Carbonero, Gabriella Carnes, Caroline Carpino, Daniel Cecena, Natalie

Christian, Tyler Clifford, Emily Cloud, Caden Conlee, Brennan Conrad, Haley Del Rosario, Neil deLeon, Abby Diaz Sanchez, Francisco Druxman, Rachel Duke, Avery Duke, Quincy Durkin, Grace English, Anna

Entrikin, Kaia Esarey, Cole Felix, Logan Fernandes, Alex Gallagher, Ian Gardner, Dylan Garot, Ben Garot, Molly Graham, Landon Hazen, Payton Herrera, Isabel Hickey, Chase Howell, Christopher

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Hurley, Emily Hurley, Ryan Ines, Samantha Jansen, Chloe Jolley, Hannah Juson, Cameryn Knowles, Brock Lamberson, Isabella Lawler, Jessica Lewis, Megan Lietti, Emma Matzuka, Natalie McLeod, Paige McWilliams, Sydney Michaels, Nicole Mitchell, Shelby

Mumma, Oliver Murray, Sarah Nazario, Nicole Nelson, Amber Nguyen, Kyle Ohara, Kyle O'Reilly, Ciara Osegueda, Hudson Patel, Mary Phillips, Carson Pritchard, Evan Rose, Emma Ruth, Jayden Sapol, Jared Schreckengaust, Ben Schwalbe, Brooke

Searles, Alexis Sheriff, Emma Siben, Sloane Sipe, Griffin Sobel, Carly Sparks, Mary Stebbins, Sydney Sterlitz, Grace Sterlitz, Max Supple, Nachesa Torrinello, Isabella Valle, Carter van Hamersveld, Ella Vetlesen, Jason Weir, Malia Werts, Megan

Students from the SEES Mandarin Chinese Program performed various songs and skits in Chinese to celebrate Chinese New Year. Running Club certificate winners were announced and received free movie passes and a t-shirt (for the 40 mile mark).

20 Miles or 100 Laps Nathan Salazar Tea Wagstaff Samantha Kascoutas Jordan Salazar Estella Prince Abigail DeLeon Mason Gaines Aaron Tartz Jessie Garza Cooper Sedlmayer Devon Moore Skyler Knapp Amanda Bailey Jackson Orlando Michael Rizzo Nathan Coates

40 Miles or 200 Laps Cooper Murphy Hanna Schrekengaust Chase Teetes Zach Smith Megan Wertz Aiden Mengar Nicholas Dowd Emma Hanson Kendra Power Casey Macias Hayden Wertz Kevin Diller Miles Groth Ivan Ortega Nathan Coate Alyssa Macias Emitt Hansen Aidan Minger Cade Teetes

Bob awarded PE Students of the month, Kasey Clouet and Alexis Searles with a certificate and charm. Mrs. McGavin’s class was awarded PE Class of the Month. The following students donated Birthday Books to the library.

Brooke Collins Brianna Knowles Caitlin Cornell Sean Cornell

Evan Sipe Thomas Dolby

Rex Burgus Leila Love-Diggory

Griffin Sipe Emily Benton

They received a happy birthday whisper backwards spell from their fellow students.

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Mrs. Corbin, PTO Co-President made the following announcements. The Father/Daughter Dance will be held on Feb. 11th, flyers went home in the Wed. envelope. Teacher Experiences will be available for bidding during staff appreciation week in Feb. More information will go home in the Wed. envelope. Mrs. Basinger, our Box Top Coordinator announced that we earned $1900 from our last collection drive and told us that a new drive will start next week. Gather up all those box tops and send them back to school with your students on the collection sheets that will be sent home next week. Mrs. Nicol told us about the Pennies for Patients drive which will start next week to raise money for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. She read a letter from Mrs. Mullane who told us about her ongoing battle with Leukemia. Tyler Todd and his family shared some of their experiences about Tyler’s fight against Leukemia. A representative from LLS explained to students how Leukemia affects the blood of those with the disease. Mr. Phinney explained how the collection program will work. So gather up all your spare change and let’s raise a ton of money for this worthwhile cause! Mrs. Kalicki also announced that a blood drive will be held at SEES on Feb. 11th; check the website for more details and to sign up. The Eagle Pass raffle was held and winners received a coupon to Fro Yo Love.

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