April 26, 2026

 
 

This Week

  • April 27 (Day 6) 
    • Pre-K Soccer Shots
  • April 28 (Day 1) 
    • PSSA Testing, grade 3 (Math and Make-ups)
    • PSSA Testing, You Can Do It - YELLOW Day! All students are encouraged to wear yellow. 
  • April 29 (Day 2)
    • PSSA Testing, grade 3 (Math and Make-ups)
    • PSSA Testing, Orange You Glad It's Over - ORANGE Day! All students are encouraged to wear orange.
    • PTO Dine out night at Texas Roadhouse in Camp Hill
  • April 30 (Day 3)
    • Life Skills to Adventure Park!
    • 1st Grade to the Environmental Center
    • Community Meeting, 1:30pm
  • May 1 (Day 4) 
    • SCHOOL DAY - Snow Make-up day!
  • May 4 - NO SCHOOL
 

🌸 Spring Smencil Sale! 🌸

Get ready to make your school days a little sweeter (and smell amazing)! We’re selling Smencils—fun, scented pencils your students will love!

🗓 Dates: April 27 – May 1
💲 Price: $1.00 each
📍 Where: Bring money to the office

Choose from these delicious springtime scents:
🍭 Cotton Candy
🍬 Bubble Gum
🍉 Tutti Frutti
🍬 Jelly Bean
🍏 Sour Apple

Don’t miss out—grab your favorite scents while they last!

 

May

May 6 - MASD Wildcat Wednesday

May 11 - Pre-K Soccer Shots

May 12 - 3rd Grade Field Trip to E-Center

May 13 - K-1 Transition visit to Shep

May 13 - 3rd Grade Elmwood visit

May 14 - Probability Carnival - Students visit Mechanicsburg Middle School

May 14 - 2nd Grade Field Trip to Popcorn Hat Players

May 15 - Field Day!

May 20 - Life Skills to MASH Social

May 25 - No School, Memorial Day Holiday

May 26 - 1st Grade Field Trip to Lake Tobias

May 26 - Life Skills Field Trip to Cherry Crest Farms

May 27 - Shep Move-up Day

May 28 - May Community Meeting

May 29 - Last Day of School, early dismissal at 10:45am!

 
 
 
 

In keeping with Shepherdstown tradition, we will be pampering the staff at Shepherdstown this year during Teacher Appreciation Week May 4-8th. We are looking for your donations to make this possible.

We will be providing desserts, lunch, a gift card grab bag for teachers/staff, massages and coffee spread out throughout the week. One of the biggest ways in which you can partner with us to show our appreciation is by purchasing gift cards that we can use for food that we will be providing or gift cards from local businesses that can then be entered into the gift card grab bag.

Donation items MUST be dropped off at the Shepherdstown office (labeled PTO Teacher appreciation Week) or please text Beth Flood (717-451-8944) to coordinate other arrangements.

Donations are needed by the end of the day Monday, May 4th.

We THANK YOU in advance for partnering with us to show our teachers and staff at Shepherdstown just how much we appreciate and value all that they do for our kids each and every day.

- Beth Flood & Lauren Semanick

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From Mr. Roberts, Librarian

First, Second and Third grade students have been having a blast using the Design Process to help them create Stop Motion Animation movies. Students have been learning the intricacies of making stop motion movies, through “how it is made” videos and examples. Student have been using Stop Motion Studio on their iPads to create movies using Hot Wheels cars, Legos, suction cup stick figures and Playdough! 

It’s amazing to see how creative students have been throughout our explorations!!

 
 

On the website: Go to your child’s school webpage, click Menu, then Dining. Or, from the school’s homepage, click the Dining button located just below the main photo.

In the app: Select your child’s school, tap More, then Dining.

Need help accessing menus?

Click here to watch how to access menus from a desktop.

Click here to watch how to access menus from the mobile app.

Click here to learn how to set your default school of choice in the app.

Thank you for helping us keep menus accessible and translatable for all families.

 
 

Mark your calendars! Below are the Shepherdstown PTO meetings for the 2025-2026 school year.

  • Wednesday, May 13 at 7 PM (In person and Zoom)

 
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Shepherdstown Elementary School

Email: Dechelmeier@mbgsd.org
Website: https://shepherdstown.mbgsd.org/
Location: 1849 S. York Street, Mechanicsburg, PA 17055
Phone: 717-691-4589