Election Day is Saturday, May 1st. Early Voting starts on Monday, April 19th! For information about who is running for Plano ISD Board of Trustees, check out this voter guide from the Collin County League of Women Voters. The Trustees candidate information is available after the City Council races
JOIN THE AWARD-WINNING SMS PTA FOR 2024-2025!
Support the SMS students and teachers by showing that you value your child’s education by joining the PTA. Memberships start at $12 and students are only $6 with a parent membership! As a benefit to members only, you will have access to an online directory as well as PTA member discounts. Student members receive special discounts during our spring and fall socials and have the opportunity to be involved in leadership opportunities. 
1. Donate to the PTA online! Please visit here to donate online!
2. You just keep shopping – let these stores do the donating for you!
3. World Wear Project –Time for Spring Cleaning and donations to our World Wear bin! SMS PTA will receive an extra $100 if we can collect 2,500 lbs or more during the month of April. Please remember to place items in kitchen sized bags and only place one bag at a time in the bin. If items don't fit, please don't leave items on the ground. Come back later if the bin is full! Thank you!
Did you know? Earth Day started in the United States, conceived by Senator Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin, inspired by Vietnam War protests and a massive oil spill off the coast of California in 1969. The first celebration of Earth Day was April 22, 1970. In 2009, the United Nations officially designated it, "International Mother Earth Day" though it is still just Earth Day here in the United States. Today, Earth Day is celebrated by over one billion people in 192 countries, making it the largest secular observance in the world.
This year's theme is Restore the Earth. If you are interested in learning more and/or viewing virtual Earth Day events, check out the official website at: www.earthday.org. Maybe today you will ride a bicycle, walk to school, recycle, or start using only reusable water bottles. Whatever you decide, definitely take some time to celebrate our beautiful planet!
SMS PTA is providing ice cream treats for all students this Friday, April 23rd. Treats will be offered to all F2F students during lunch periods.
For @Home students, only, we are offering drive-by pickup of ice cream treats after school from 3:45 to 4:30. Pickup location will be the bus drop-off area outside the cafeteria. If you plan to bring your @Home student, please sign up for a time-slot so that we can try to control the traffic flow.
We will be offering a choice of 6 ice cream bars -- all are nut-free, 4 are gluten free, 3 are non-chocolate, and 2 are dairy-free. Sign-up Genius is here!
We have the 4th largest increase in membership in all of Texas!
SMS PTA has earned the Golden Apple (all SMS staff are members), MARS (Men Are Really Super) and Student Membership (at least 25 student members) Awards. Thank you to our Schimelpfenig Community for your support! If you are not yet a member, please help us to earn the April Showers Award -- 15 new members in April!
Support the SMS students and teachers by showing that you value your child’s education by joining the PTA. Memberships start at less than $12 and students are only $5 with a parent membership! As a benefit to members only, you will have access to an online directory as well as PTA member discounts. Student members receive special discounts during our spring and fall socials and have the opportunity to be involved in leadership opportunities.
Just head to smspta.org and sign up!
Questions? Email Karen Gournay, VP Membership at membership@smspta.org.
Please join us for our next Virtual PTA General Assembly meeting on Wednesday, April 21st at 6:00 p.m.
Our program for the evening is Meet the Principal: Pamela Clark, Principal at Clark HS.
We are excited to have Ms. Clark joining us! We will also be voting on some budget changes and updating everyone on our end-of-year events. Please sign up by Tuesday, April 20 @ 6:00pm for our meeting; the meeting Agenda and link will be sent out the evening before the meeting.
How do we raise a happy, confident kid? And how can we be confident that our parenting is preparing our child for success?
Confident Parents, Confident Kids lays out an approach for helping parents—and the kids they love—hone their emotional intelligence so that they can make wise choices, connect and communicate well with others (even when patience wears thin), and become socially competent and confident human beings.
Read-Along Schedule: 4 Hours of Meetup time.
Please save the dates.
Meeting 1: April 7, Wednesday 2021 from 6:30 to 7:30pm
Meeting 2: April 14, Wednesday 2021 from 6:30 to 7:30pm
Meeting 3: April 21, Wednesday 2021 from 6:30 to 7:30pm
Meeting 4: April 28, Wednesday 2021 from 6:30 to 7:30pm
Click here to register in advance for this meeting/Book club meet.
If your Panther student(s) is going to school Face-to-Face and needs more masks to wear at school, we still have Schimelpfenig face masks available for purchase!
Face masks are $8.00 each. Buy in bulk, any combination, for discount: 2 for $7.50 each; 5 for $6.60 each; $10 for $6.00 each. Discount will be calculated at checkout.
* It will be delivered on a weekly basis.
Our wonderful Schimelpfenig MS librarian, Carol Campbell, continues to support all Schimelpfenig students despite the challenges of Covid-19. If you see her this week, please give her a big smile and thank you for all that she does!
PISD is honoring all assistant principals, including our wonderful Schimelpfenig Assistant Principals, Ari Weinberg and Latasha Goodwin. #PlanoISDCelebratesAPs
Plano ISD will use Monday, April 26, as the designated inclement weather day for the weather-related closure on Thursday, February 11. Originally slated as a student holiday and staff development/work day, school will now be in session on April 26. TEA has approved waivers for the additional weather closures during Winter Storm Uri, so no additional make-up days are required.
Students are still giving 100% during COVID-19, so should the state! Texas PTA has joined with 22 other organizations asking Gov. Abbott to assure 100% ADA funding for the remainder of this school year.
Lend your voice! Follow this link to ask your legislators to appeal to Gov. Abbott on behalf of all public school students in Texas. #FundTheFuture
Did you know? Some historians speculate that April Fools’ Day dates back to 1582, when France switched from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar, as called for by the Council of Trent in 1563. In the Julian Calendar, as in the Hindu calendar, the new year began with the spring equinox around April 1.
People who were slow to get the news or failed to recognize that the start of the new year had moved to January 1 and continued to celebrate it during the last week of March through April 1 became the butt of jokes and hoaxes and were called “April fools.” These pranks included having paper fish placed on their backs and being referred to as “poisson d’avril” (April fish), said to symbolize a young, easily caught fish and a gullible person. (from the History website).
Thursday, April 1 -- PTA is providing Sonic drink treats for the Schimelpfenig staff -- any drink switches are purely accidental (no April Fool's here!)
Friday, April 2 -- Student/Teacher Holiday
Monday, April 5 -- Student/Teacher Holiday
Tuesday, April 6 -- Writing STAAR for 7th grade F2F students.
Don’t forget: your student needs to bring his/her fully-charged Chromebook, charger, a snack, and water bottle. Lunch from home is encouraged. Also consider having your student bring a book or drawing materials for something to do if he/she finishes the test early.
The mission of Plano ISD's Family Education and Guidance Services is to strengthen all families in the community by providing education, resources and services which support raising responsible, self-confident, emotionally healthy children in today's complex society. Please visit HERE to gain access to PISD supports that you and your family may wish to utilize throughout the year!
DISCLAIMER: The Schimelpfenig Middle School PTA is a noncommercial, nonsectarian, nonpartisan association that does not endorse any candidate or political party. This PTA does not endorse non-PTA products or services. If you have a concern, please contact a member of the PTA Executive Board.
