Pancake Breakfast Is Served

What a year--all squeezed into 4-1/2 months. We seemed to cram as much fun as possible into December too! Sarah did a great job planning the faculty party with great food, party games and party favors. She also put together the traditional breakfast for the last day of school for the year on Thursday. The students were served pancakes and waffles by their teachers.

I was given an assignment too. I mixed up McDonalds' orange drink for the group and filled glasses. It kept me hopping and I had to do some MOPPING too. Somehow, I spilled enough that I had to get out the mop to clean up, paper towels just wouldn't do the job.

I think all of us left the lunchroom with smiles on our faces. It was a fun way to start the day.

Give Thanks...Think Snow

I didn't get a picture of our cute bulletin board. This is what it looked like as I took it down.

"Give Thanks" is going to be "Think Snow" for December.
 

Post-It Notes Everywhere!

Hurrah! We are getting great feedback from the students and help planning activities for 2016. We gave students post-it notes and asked them to write activities they would like to do during our after-school program - SMASH. We soon out grew the poster and started adding the ideas directly to the wall.

And more notes were added to the IDEA wall...

 

 

Now we have to compile the results and figure out how to deliver the programming.

The AmeriCorps members may have to learn a few new things!

Mice!

I don't think there are too many things that I hate more than cleaning up after mice. I have pulled items out of cupboards in the SMASH room, sprayed them down with Clorox spray, swept and wiped them out and put items back --too many times to count this month.
I had to throw away any open food items. I purchased plastic containers to store after-school snacks.

    
This has just been an exceptionally bad year for mice.

I received a great letter from a grandma of three boys that attended Harvest Happenings:
My grandchildren really enjoyed the Harvest Happenings provided by the SMASH program.

They enjoyed all the crafts they did. They especially liked the potato printing and the other thing they did with the stamp pads (sorry, I can't remember what the activity was called, but I think it was a Halloween activity).

They still have their grass pots and the faces are still in place. I really liked the Q-tip skeleletons.

Their favorite activities were the ones conducted in the gym. All of the gym games were fun to them and they were happy to have the two (maybe three, I can't remember now) karate lessons. (I should say "martial arts" lessons because it really wasn't karate, but all these forms of martial arts have all been lumped together in my mind as karate.)

Eating lunch outside and the lunch hour games were also fun for them.

All the instructors and helpers and volunteers were polite, attentive to the kids, and disciplinary (which I appreciated very much).

Thank you for the SMASH Program,
Suzanne Kofed


And thank you Mrs. Kofed for volunteering your time. We enjoyed having you there.
Sincerely,
Judy

Lights on After School

Taigan and Cory created a slide show for Parent / Teacher conferences which happened to be the same night as the national Lights On After School, the national day set aside to celebrate after-school programs throughout the USA. 

The winner of our light-bulb-design/coloring contest is CW.