Kelley Smith Elementary School

Well look who was next on Santa's nice list! Ms. Sylvia Severance's 2nd grade class got their books today from Donor's Choose. They were so excited when they found out they got ...

Libby the Library Elf has been on a roll since let out of quarantine last week! She missed the painting with literacy night and "borrowed" some paint left over in the media cente...

Christmas came a little early for some 2nd graders today in Mrs. Misty Hager's class. During their Media Center special they got a new book to keep for their very own. The stude...

KSES had their 5th grade Spelling Bee on Friday. All of our 5th grade participants did an awesome job! We would like to congratulate Damien Wylie who was our first runner up a...

Kinder - 5th grade students in STEM Lab enjoyed participating in Hour of Code this week. The Hour of Code takes place each year during Computer Science Education Week which was De...

Mrs. Pat Hudson's students had a fun STEM in the classroom activity this past week. They had to use their creative minds to make snowflakes using pretzel sticks and mini marshmall...

Twenty lucky students in 5th grade got to join Mrs. Shelly Raburn in watching a sheep brain dissection via Zoom with Miller Middle's 8th grade students in Mrs. Kerry Paul's class....

Today was all day Kinder Specials and what fun we had! In STEM Lab students created mechanical arms using Strawbees. They then had to practice passing a paper ball to their tabl...

Mrs. Leslie Cooper's class had a blast today reading the book Snip Snip Snow. Afterwards, the students designed their own snowflakes and made it "snow" in...

Your opinion matters, and we'd love to hear it! The Putnam County School District is inviting staff, students, parents, and community members across the district to participate...

Daily records for new COVID-19 cases in the United States continue to be broken nearly everyday as the fall surge of the disease shows no sign of relief. In response to the evolvi...

KSES students in STEM Lab learned a little history today. They read the story "The Carpenter's Gift". In the story they learned about the Rockerfeller Christmas tree in New York C...

Mrs. Misty Hager's students read the book “Balloons Over Broadway” and learned how the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade got started. After reading the book the students got to desi...

In honor of Thanksgiving last week, Ms. Katie Lee’s Agriculture classes learned the difference between wild and farm raised turkeys. After understanding the difference between the...

Students in Media Special today listened to the story "The Great Turkey Race". The story is about three turkeys, Cassie, Wing, and Ollie, who all want to be the Thanksgiving Turke...

Check out Mrs. Josie McDaniel's class who wrote, illustrated, and published their own class book "Adventures of Thankful Turkey". What an awesome and fun experience for these fi...

What an awesome project our KSES Sharks just completed in their Art special with Mrs. Brandi Wilkinson! They made cards to send overseas to soldiers who are not able to be home wi...

If you don't have your Thanksgiving turkey yet don't fret! These first graders have some awesome ideas on how to trap a turkey for Thanksgiving dinner. They were given only 12 ...

Mrs. Sonya Werkheiser’s class had a great time today during STEM in the classroom Wednesday creating a shelter using Unifix cubes to hide Henry Turkey from getting eaten for Thank...

STEM in the classroom Wednesday was so much fun for our KSES 5th grade Sharks! Their challenge this week was "how tall of a free standing tower can you make with just a box of alu...