
Such a fun day in 6th grade language arts class! The students performed scenes from "The Phantom Tollbooth"!







The boys and girls wrestling triangular to be held in Yankton on Jan. 11 will be postponed to Jan. 23 due to blizzard conditions in the SE part of SD.

Save The Date!!!



Prevention Day in Math!




Today, students from Simmons Middle School and Holgate Middle School participated in a MathCounts Competition, hosted by Simmons! Students did a great job—congratulations to individual and team award winners! #AberdeenPublicSchools #GoEagles







Congratulations to our December Students of the Month! #goeagles #aberdeenpublicschools




The next SMS PTA meeting is Monday, January 8 at 6:30pm. Please support PTA by visiting Dairy Queen Thursday, January 11 from 5pm-8pm. 10% of sales are donated back to PTA to support student activities. https://5il.co/2btcf

The guest speaker for the January SMS International Club meeting was Randal Madrigal from Costa Rica. Costa Rica is in Central America and has coastlines on the Caribbean and Pacific., and is known for its rainforests and volcanos. Randal lives in Aberdeen with his wife and teaches yoga at the YMCA. He has lived in Costa Rica, New York, Philadelphia and Miami. Randal speaks Spanish and English. The International Club meets once a month, and all students are invited to attend!


The SMS library has a Book-in-a-Jar event happening right now! Guess the titles of all 8 correctly and win a prize!


Shout out to our very own Jim Panerio & Kris McCafferty!! They have both served the Aberdeen School District for 30 years, and we are so lucky to have them be a part of our school! #goeagles #aberdeenpublicschools


6th grade language arts students working through a vocabulary sort to identify and understand new unit vocabulary.





Basketball Schedule Update: The boys basketball game AC v SFW will be on Thursday Jan. 4. Varsity game time 7:00.

Happy New Year! The SMS January Newsletter is available at: https://5il.co/2bgfj
School resumes January 3rd, so enjoy your last few days of break!

Have you heard of any of these fun winter words?
Ms. Rostad, librarian at Simmons Middle School, made this list of unusual Christmas and winter words—check them out and see if you know any of them!
#AberdeenPublicSchools #GoEagles


Merry Christmas and happy holidays from Aberdeen Public Schools! Have a great winter break, and we'll see you back at school on Jan. 3! #AberdeenPublicSchools #GoEagles


After learning about the parts of the brain, 7th grade Medical Detective students designed, built, and tested helmet prototypes with hard-boiled eggs as their test subjects. Almost all the subjects survived testing!





7th Grade FACS Students mixed up their cookie dough today!











The 6th grade class had a fabulous time at SkateAway today!








A few kids in Trefz's Core made ornaments.
