Newsletter November 20

November is National Youth Homelessness Awareness Month. To help one our community homeless shelters, Center for Children and Young Adults (CCYA), we will have a School-wide Pajama Day on Friday, November 20^th. Staff and students bring a $1 donation and wear your pajamas to school on Friday. All of the proceeds will go directly to CCYA to help purchase bedroom furniture for the residents. The Center will replacing 30 year-old bedroom furniture. If you would like to make an additional donation by paying by check make checks payable to CCYA or Center for Children and Young Adults. Thank you for sharing your generous #SopeCreekHeart!

Sounds Like Fun!

This week was filled with sound! We had High Touch High Tech come to our school to help us have some hands on fun with sound. We also had a STEM activity that involved us designing and building our own musical instruments. The challenge was to make an instrument with 3 different sounds with at least one high pitch and one low pitch. Check them out below!

Newsletter November 13

Homework Week 11

Happy November!

This week we used our knowledge of magnets to create fishing rods to catch fish with! Some rods were unsuccessful and fell apart, but we were able to use the Engineering Design Process to improve our designs, so that they were successful!

 

Newsletter November 6

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Homework Week 10

"Let us remember that, as much has been given us, much will be expected from us, and that true homage comes from the heart as well as from the lips, and shows itself in deeds."  ~Theodore Roosevelt

This Thanksgiving season give thanks and give back! The Sope Creek Service Council and the PTA Community Outreach Committee invite you to do just that by participating in the annual Thanksgiving Food Drive the week of November 9-13th.

Throughout the year, Sope Creek provides support by supplying some basic needs such as school supplies and snacks to the students of our sister school, Powers Ferry Elementary.  The Thanksgiving Food Drive provides essential items for a traditional Thanksgiving meal for many families in need at this school. Please help us support our fellow community members by donating canned or boxed foods and any loose change that you can spare.  The change will be used to provide gift cards to our own Sope Creek families in need.  So rummage through those purses and coat pockets for that loose change!  It is important to stress that we always fill the needs of our Sope Creek families first before passing anything on to other members of the community.  Just a few of the many items needed are canned vegetables (green beans, peas, yams, refried beans, black beans, corn, sweet potatoes, white potatoes, carrots, squash, greens, etc.), boxed potatoes and rice (mashed, scalloped, rice, boxes or bags), boxed pasta mixes (macaroni, Mac-n-Cheese), boxed or bagged stuffing mixes (cornbread, herb, plain, bags/boxes), bags of flour, cornmeal, biscuit mixes (wheat, All-Purpose, white), boxes of baking goods (cake mixes, brownies, pie makings, corn bread), cans of gravy (turkey, chicken), soup (including cream of mushroom or chicken), cans of fruit (pumpkin, apple, cranberry, cranberry sauce, pineapple, applesauce, etc.), french fried onion strings,  and much, much more.

The 4^th and 5^th grade Service Council will be coming to the student’s classrooms each morning to collect the donations.  Classes that collect more than 100 items will be placed into a drawing to win lunch with the Principal.  There will also be volunteers just outside the cafeteria during lunch all week for students to donate their change.  As always, thank you for your continued support.  Be proud that our school community is raising GREAT citizens, and remember, the best place to find a helping hand is at the end of your arm!