November 13, 2025 | Volume 44, Issue 11

ARRIVE BY 6:45 PM

SCIENCE FAIR

Our Science Fair is tonight! The presentations will be done in the classroom. Please make sure you arrive by 6:45 pm so that students can prepare and parents can view all the projects.

ATTIRE: Since this is a formal presentation, it would be appropriate for BOYS to wear dress pants with a button shirt or dressy sweater and nice shoes. Please no jeans, gym shoes/shorts, or t-shirts. Appropriate dress for GIRLS is dresses (not party dresses), skirts, dress slacks with blouses or sweaters, and nice shoes. We'd like the students to experience academic presentation behavior, which includes appropriate clothing for an academic audience.

PRESENTATIONS: Students will present their topics and explain what they’ve learned, followed by a brief question and answer period before we move on to the next presenter. Everyone should take boards and projects home unless they have been selected for year-long display.

OTHER: Parents, please leave electronics (iPads, etc.) at home since this is one of the planned socializing opportunities for students.

REFRESHMENTS: Please bring finger food to share after the presentations have concluded. Be sure to mark your dishes with your name. Please avoid using tree nuts or peanuts, as we have a nut allergy in our Steppingstone family.

GET READY TO REHEARSE

Winterfest Variety Show

For the students who have submitted a variety show proposal, rehearsals will start next week. Please make sure your student is performance-ready!

NO SCHOOL

Fri., Nov. 14

Tomorrow is a teacher workday so there will be no school!

MARK YOUR CALENDARS &

JOIN US FOR GIVINGTUESDAY!

Make an Impact This Season

Tue., December 2nd

What’s happening on Tuesday, December 2nd? It’s GivingTuesday!

After the excitement of Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, and Cyber Monday, GivingTuesday is a global day dedicated to supporting your favorite nonprofits.

This GivingTuesday, your support will help Steppingstone School continue to inspire gifted learners, nurture their unique strengths, and cultivate compassionate leaders for the future. Every donation makes a difference, enabling us to offer personalized education, enrich our curriculum, and create an environment where every child can thrive both academically and emotionally. Together, we can shape the journeys of young minds poised to make an impact on the world.

Our goal is to raise $10,000, and we can only achieve this with the kindness and generosity of supporters like you!

SALMON IN THE CLASSROOM

An Update from Dr. Morse

One of the projects, the upper elementary class has been working on over the last couple of weeks is preparing the fish tank for the salmon eggs, which we will be receiving next Thursday. This involves what is called cycling the tank, which means you give it ammonia and allow the bacteria to convert the ammonia to nitrite and then to nitrate. The process has been going slowly, but today we discovered that ammonium had been converted to nitrite and you can see that in the purple vile in the middle; until now that vile has been blue. So, we’ve got nitrite and we’re starting to get nitrate as well. Soon the tank will be ready to receive the eggs.

Annual Giving 2025-2026

We would like to thank everyone who made an Annual Giving donation in the 2025-2026 school year.

$5,000 to $9,999

$1,000 to $4,999

Fran Eldis

$500 to $999

$100 to $499

$50 to $99

James & Alicia Phillips

Up to $50

In-Kind

Volunteers

Auction Chair

Barbara Malnar-Styke

Auction Acquisitions

Michelle Belt

Dena Nehme

Brad Styke

SMART Center Chair

Dr. Reef Morse

Marketing

Jorge Contreras