December 8, 2024
Hello Sycamore Springs Middle School Families,
Happy Sunday! I hope that you and your family are enjoying the weekend and staying warm. We had an amazing week at Sycamore. The week started off with band, art, and choir hosting our annual Coffee, Cookies, Carols, and Creations event for all our faculty and staff. The week continued with some great competition with our basketball teams playing Hill Country Middle School, and the finale was our amazing Snow Much Fun Pep Rally on Friday. Thank you to all the students, staff, and parents who helped make all these events a huge success. We couldn't do this without you!
As always, if you need anything or have any questions, please contact your student's teacher, counselor, or administrator.
Go Tigers!
Sincerely,
Kelly Miller
Principal
1. Get into the holiday spirit with our festive Holiday Dress-Up Week starting tomorrow! Join the fun each day with cozy, cheerful outfits!
Merry Monday - Holiday PJs
Tinsel Tree Tuesday - Holiday Tree with lights and ornaments
Workshop Wednesday - Holiday socks and hats
Sweater Weather Thursday - ugly sweaters
Flannel Friday - anything and everything flannel
2. On Friday, November 22nd Mr. Santos' eSports Tiger Win Club held their first tournament in Super Smash Bros Ultimate. Congratulations to Merc Delgado who finished rank #1 with a 6-1 record. Runner-ups were Brady Echevarria, and Trevor Funk. Thanks to all the students who participated! If any SSMS students are interested in participating in eSports please join us at the Dripping Springs Community Library on Monday, Dec. 9th at 5:15pm for our next meeting! Or talk with Mr. Santos (adam.santos@dsisdtx.us) for more info!
3. Attention 8th Graders - DSHS has created a Rising 9th Grade Newsletter to communicate all upcoming events. I will include the link in my weekly newsletters, but feel free to save the link and check it periodically for upcoming events. Click HERE to access the Rising 9th Grade Newsletter.
4. The SSMS PALs class has set up a Spirit Wear Shop! Sales are open until December 15! Click HERE to access the online shop.
5. The first deposit for the Close Up Trip to Washington DC is due this Thursday, December 12th! It is $500. If you have filled out the interest form, Coach Hulett has sent an email to the address listed on the form with your login and password for your account on the Close Up website. If you need the login information to be resent please email me at megan.hulett@dsisdtx.us
6. PTA's Annual SSMS Sugar Shack is this week (Dec. 13)! Help us fill their hearts and cookie boxes with cookies, brownies, cupcakes, bars, candies, and any other sweet treat you would like to donate! Please sign up here!
7. The SSMS PTA is offering a new way to see our school in action! In an effort to increase family engagement, we will be doing parent-to-parent campus tours to give you a firsthand view of what our students and teachers do each and every day - sign up here! The next tour date is December 13.
8. Join us next Tuesday night , December 17 for our annual Winter Dance Showcase. 🎄🎅❄
9. Our Winter Orchestra Concert is this Tuesday night at 7:00 pm in the DSHS Auditorium. 🎼❄
We hope you can join us.
10. Fall Semester Exams begin next week and Friday, Dec. 20 is an early release day. Students will be dismissed at 1:10. Click HERE to see the schedule. All math and ELA classes will take the MAP tests instead of a final exam during finals week.
11. Yearbook Information -
- Less than 100 copies of the 2024-2025 yearbook remain! Books are only available while supplies last. Order yours today by clicking HERE.
- Celebrate your student with a Recognition Ad! Ads are on sale until 2/13/2025. Order your Yearbook Ad HERE.
- Yearbook is looking for baby photo submissions! Be featured in a special part of the yearbook - submit your baby photo by emailing cassandra.martinez@dsisdtx.us
12. It's Spelling Bee registration time! The Spelling Bee will be held on Tuesday, January 21 at 6:30pm in the SSMS Cafeteria. Register now! You will receive the study list after you register!
13. SSMS Attendance - our weekly attendance percentage went up from last week, but we are still below our goal of a 1% increase. Please help us make attendance a priority. Go Tigers!🐯💛
eSports Tiger Win Club
On Friday, November 22nd Mr. Santos's eSports Tiger Win Club held their first tournament in Super Smash Bros Ultimate. Congratulations to Merc Delgado who finished rank #1 with a 6-1 record. Runner-ups were Brady Echevarria, and Trevor Funk. Thanks to all the students who participated! If any SSMS students are interested in participating in eSports please join us at the Dripping Springs Community Library on Monday, Dec. 9th at 5:15pm for our next meeting! Or talk with Mr. Santos (adam.santos@dsisdtx.us) for more info!
Yearbook Information
- Less than 100 copies of the 2024-2025 yearbook remain! Books are only available while supplies last. Order yours today by clicking HERE.
- Celebrate your student with a Recognition Ad! Ads are on sale until 2/13/2025. Order your Yearbook Ad HERE.
- Yearbook is looking for baby photo submissions! Be featured in a special part of the yearbook - submit your baby photo by emailing cassandra.martinez@dsisdtx.us
November SSMS PTA Updates:
Please consider signing up for our Annual SSMS Sugar Shack of 2024, where we give thanks (and sweets!) to our amazing and jolly SSMS team! Help us fill their hearts and cookie boxes with cookies, brownies, cupcakes, bars, candies, and any other sweet treat you would like to donate! Please sign up here!
Thinking about showing gratitude to our amazing SSMS staff during the holiday season? You can find the Staff Favorites list here!
WOULD YOU SPELL FOR FOOD? It's Spelling Bee registration time! The Spelling Bee will be held on Tuesday, January 21 at 6:30pm in the SSMS Cafeteria. And you read it right - the prize is a medal, a certificate and FOOD! Gift cards, gift baskets! You will receive the study list after you register! Register now
A huge thank you to everyone that has joined SSMS PTA this year! We have hit every monthly goal so far: Head Start (75% of last year's number by end of August), Early Bird (100% of last year by September's end), Snappy Increase (more than 100% of last year's total). Our next goal is to get the teachers and administrators on board 100% (Deadline December 19)! If you haven't joined yet, please consider! It is open all year to new memberships, we appreciate each and every one of you. Go to joinpta.org to join.
We are planning two additional informational meetings this year for our community to learn more about what we're doing this year, ask questions, and listen to a presenter. We want to hear from YOU to determine when these meetings should take place and what topics you want to hear about! Please fill out this Google Form to let us know your thoughts!
The SSMS PTA is offering a new way to see our school in action! In an effort to increase family engagement, we will be doing parent-to-parent campus tours to give you a firsthand view of what our students and teachers do each and every day - sign up here!
SSMS still needs our wonderful workroom volunteers - take this opportunity to see a little behind the scenes action and present our teachers with the gift of time with their students (our children!) and their families by signing up on the date(s) of your choice on our LinkTree. Thank you and please don't hesitate to contact us at volunteers@ssmspta.org if you have any questions, comments, or ideas!
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