Mary Poppins had a great run at Sagamore Hills Elementary!
Images from 2017-2018 STEM Night at Sagamore Hills Elementary:
Thursday, Feb 8, 2018, 6:30–7:00 pm, at Sagamore Hills Elementary, enjoy a free evening with your family experiencing hands-on STEM activities, including:
March 24, Saturday, 6–10pm
Briarcliff Wood Beach Club
Tickets are $30/person in advance ($40 at the door) – advanced ticket sales close 10 pm on Friday March 23rd! After 10 pm, please plan to buy your tickets at the door. ONLINE TICKET SALES HAVE NOW CLOSED – BUY YOUR TICKETS AT THE DOOR!
Open to any adult who loves Sagamore!
Can’t make the Auction, but still want to support Sagamore? Donations of any size directly benefit students—thank you!
Sagamore Showcase of Stars 2017!
When: Friday, November 10th, Curtain call is at 7pm
Where: Sagamore Hills Elementary School Cafeteria
How Much: Cost: $2 (cash or check at the door) Bring your Sagamore Hills Community Card and 1 adult gets in free! Performers are Free!
Food: Yes, concessions will be sold.
Tonight, August 31, 2017, The PTA will present this year’s budget for approval at a general PTA meeting at 6:15 p.m. in the cafeteria prior to Curriculum Night. Please find proposed budget here.
A presentation of a banner was held August 16th to formally recognize the partnership between Mercer University and Sagamore Hills Elementary School. Dr. R. Stephen Green, Superintendent, Mr. Marshall Orsen, DeKalb School Board member, and Mr. Trenton Arnold, Regional Superintendent, joined us for this recognition and celebration. Dr. Kelly Reffitt and Dr. Deb Rosenstein from Mercer University presented the banner and spoke of the partnership and benefits of working with pre-service teachers at Sagamore Hills Elementary School.
Sagamore Hills, Sagamore Hills, How Does Your S.T.E.M. Garden Grow?
It grows with an outpouring of loving support from enthusiastic students, dedicated volunteers, vested community members, and generous sponsors. This beautifully eclectic group makes for the best garden family…which I am so proud to be a member. Together we each played our parts in making the expected HUGE Spring Garden Planting more successful than imagined. It all began with having our tough, coarse soil freshly tilled into a loose, fine consistency. Mr. John Miller and Mrs. Lynn Douglas freed our Garden Club Member’s from this daunting task by taking care of it ahead of time. Then came an ENORMOUS herb, flower and vegetable plant donation from new Assistant Store Manager, Mr. Chad Meetre , and Store Manager, Mr. Shawn Brooks, at The Home Depot in Decatur. This gifting was enough to fill a vehicle trunk and cargo bed to capacity. Sagamore’s Head Custodian, Mr. Zellner, was kind enough to assist in the pickup and delivery process of these delectable items. We got beans, greens, potatoes, tomatoes…YOU NAME IT-we got it, and then some!
miller tilling, tilling, home depot donation, custodian zellner
But, the excitement didn’t stop there. The ASA students and morning bus riders, along with creative support from Paraprofessional-Mr. Gardner and Kitchen Staff Members-Ms. Leonard and Ms. Shade, custom designed extra-large paint sticks to label each plants place in the garden. During the actual planting, our 130 plus Jr. and Sr. S.T.E.M. Garden Club membership took care of the gardening business at hand. Students channeled their energy into digging deep holes, perfectly positioning, gently covering and snugly patting each plant into their nutrient rich new homes in the soil. Seeing all of our garden beds over flowing with new life was a sight to behold.
kitchen staff labels, planting, garden beds
To continuously meet the watering demands of our thriving garden program we “have stepped up our rainwater harvesting game”. Or at least that is what Engineer and Georgia Tech alumnus, Mr. Richard Hanson, owner of Georgia Water Tanks and his assistant Eric said as they recently installed our 5,000-gallon Cistern. What is a CISTERN you may ask? It is a ginormous above ground rain barrel with pressurized pumping mechanisms. This amazing donation was made possible through our continued partnership with The Captain Planet Foundation and was funded by a grant from the Georgia Aquarium…we are taking High-Tech into the garden!
cistern
Having this Eco-friendly watering system totally aligns with the academic curriculum we teach (Ancient Greek and Roman History), S.T.E.M designs we create (Low-Flow Shower Heads) and environmental consciousness we foster (Reduce-Reuse-Recycle) in every grade-level at Sagamore Hills Elementary School. It didn’t take long for our inventive students to engineer a way to get the Cistern water to the more deprived areas beyond its reach…enter wagons and watering cans. Real-World S.T.E.M. application people!
wagons watering
Retired DCSD Teacher, Master Gardener and Sagamore Community Member, Mrs. Betsy Razza summed up the impactful experience best by paying this tremendous compliment to our program, “It was wonderful to see the enthusiasm of the children as they planted the vegetables. Sagamore Hills provides the children with a sense of accomplishment, ownership and an appreciation of nature.”
Many hands and hearts went into making this year’s Spring S.T.E.M. Garden planting an awe-inspiring success from start, finish and beyond.
Mrs. Tasha L. J. Messer
Sagamore Hills is so lucky to have some of the best teachers in the world. We are sad to lose some of those teachers this year (2016-2017), but they have definitely earned their retirements. We asked the following teachers a few questions about their time as teachers and about their retirement plans: Diane Jackson, Janet Jasper, Suzanna Quinn, Geri Stein, Linda Menendez, James Garner, Ernestine Cooper, and Sarah Brown.
Saturday, November 4th, 2017
10:30am
The 5k is a PEACHTREE QUALIFIER! Runners Fit Race Works will be timing the race, and the course is USATF certified.
Open to the public, the 5 kilometer race begins in front of Sagamore Hills Elementary, goes through the neighborhood, and ends on the track behind the school. All registrants will receive a commemorative t-shirt. All proceeds benefit Sagamore Hills Elementary.
Register on RunSignUp.com or fill out a paper registration to save the processing fee.
PLEASE NOTE: We are not able to give refunds for registration fees. You have the option to transfer your registration to another participant. We do not charge transfer fees.
Free to all registrants and available for purchase, the 100% cotton commemorative Día de Los Muertos t-shirt features the 2017 sugar skull design. All proceeds benefit Sagamore Hills Elementary.
Cost is $5.00
12:00 pm
One mile run for children 13 and under. Everyone who finishes receives a skull necklace.
Skull Sprint Registration Form
We need volunteers along the 5K route and to help students with crafts at the tables during the festival.
10:30am–12:30pm
The festival will include a mariachi band, sugar skull face painting, holiday traditions, as well as other fun activities and crafts. Cost is free!
Taqueria el Vecino will be on site offering food for purchase.
Learn about the holiday that inspires this Sagamore Hills Elementary School PTA event.
ddlm@sagamorehillspta.org404-985-8151 (Kellei Johnstone)Team members of Sagamore Robotics Wildcat Whizzes competed in the FIRST LEGO League Jr. World Festival Expo in Houston, TX, April 21, 2017.
At the competition, teams were awarded for parts of their display, presentation, and research that stood out and deserved to be highlighted. The Whizzes received the “Professionalism” award. This means that all aspects of our team’s performance showed their skill and in depth knowledge of the challenge. They also mentioned our team’s respect towards each other, the judges and other teams and of course how much fun they were having.
Our team got to meet teams from Hong Kong, China, Mexico, Panama Costa Rica, Canada and all over the United States. Their success is due to their hard work and dedication. They represented Sagamore Hills well!
Team members included: Rylie Gardiner, Kirsten Gabriel, Dorothy Baldwin, Owen Flake, and Shorani Roy
