December 8, 2025

Dear Bullpup Families,

Hey hold it.  Did we miss Winter?  This feels a lot like Spring!  Oh well – keep on doing those snow dances!  However you’re coping with this unexpectedly rainy season, I hope your family is starting to feel the Holiday Spirit.  Christmas Break is just two weeks away!  It starts at 1:20 p.m. on Friday, the 19th.  School resumes at the regular time on January 5, 2026.  Since this will be the last newsletter until the New Year, let me wish you a very joyous  Holiday season and Happy New Year!

Citrus Fundraiser Success!

We are so happy with the results of our Citrus Fundraiser.  We set our goal at 500 cases, roughly 1 case per student.  Our Bullpups blew right on past that and sold 689(!) cases of oranges and grapefruits!  24 Homebases met the goal of 1 case per student, on average, and earned a special treat next week.  Also, students will get a raffle ticket for each case sold.  We’ll be drawing for an iPad, Air Pods, and other smaller prizes next week too.  But, here’s the coolest thing about this sale: over 200 of those cases of fresh fruit were purchased as a direct donation to the Bonner Community Food Bank. That says great things about our town and supporters! We’re so appreciative of everyone who supported us.  When all the dust settles, we’re expecting to bring in more than $11,000 to fund student activities and classroom materials.  Thank you, all!

Citrus Pick Up

The Citrus is scheduled to be delivered here to SMS sometime this Friday morning.  We are hoping to be ready for supporters to pick up their fruit by noon.  We will be here until 6:00 on Friday, and then again all day Monday.  Any boxes of fruit not picked up by the end of the school day on Monday will be donated to the Community Food Bank also.

The fruit will be staged in the Annex building, which is directly behind (the West side) the school.  If you or someone you know are going to be picking up, enter the lot on the north side of school and follow around to between the gym, the woodshop, and the portables.  We’ll be there ready to pass along that Vitamin C!  Please bear with us as this our first time doing a pick-up like this!  

To make all of this happen, we would love to have a few parent volunteers to help unload the fruit, stack it in the Annex, and then help hand out the fruit and keep track of all of that.  If you can give an hour or two, we’d sure appreciate it. If you can help, sign up information has been sent home separately.

That’s all for now!  Have a wonderful Xmas break!

Mr. Penrose