Sunset Elementary School Newsletter

3101 Sheridan Avenue, Cody, WY 82414

307-587-4279; FAX: 307-587-6405

http://sunset.park6.org

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December 2 - Sunset School Store

December 5-16 - Cody Cupboard Drive for non-food household essentials

December 5 - Student Council meeting, 3:15-3:45 pm

December 6 - 2nd/3rd grade music program, Christmas at the OK Corral, 6:30 pm, Wynona

Thompson Auditorium

December 9 - Honor Choir performs at Music Club Christmas, Methodist Church, 2:10 pm

December 12-16 - Candy Cane sales for Toys for Tots

December 14 - 3rd grade music performance, Pinnacle Bank, 10:30-11 am

December 14 - Honor Choir performs at Absaroka-Brookdale Assisted Living, 11:45 am

December 17 - Honor Choir caroling downtown, 2 pm

December 19 - 1st grade Gingerbread House construction, 8:30 am

December 19 - Polar Express Hot Chocolate courtesy of Sunset PTO

December 20 - Sunset PTO meeting, 3:30 pm, Sunset Library

December 21 - 5th grade floor hockey tournament!, 8L30-11 am, Rec Center

December 22 - January 2 - Christmas break! No school!

It’s time! We are so excited for the 2nd and 3rd grade musical, Christmas at the O.K. Corral. The performance is at the Cody High School Wynona Thompson Auditorium, Tuesday, December 6, 6:30 p.m. Students are to dress western for the program.

The Holiday Season will soon be upon us and we are almost ready to perform! Listed below are the Sunset Honor Choir performance dates for December.

**Please remember to have your child dress up for all the holiday performances.

I will provide honor choir shirts. Students will need to dress in blue or black jeans or nice dress pants for the performances.

Thank you for all your help and support. If you have any questions, please call the school and I will return your call as soon as possible. (307) 587-4279

Kari Pinney

Honor Choir Performance Schedule

• Music Club Christmas Program at the Methodist Church, Friday, December 9th. Roll Call at 2:10. Performance starts at 2:30 p.m. **We are Guest performers at this performance. ***Parent transportation is needed for this performance***
• Honor Choir Absaroka Brookdale Assisted Living performance, Wednesday, December 14th at 11:45 a.m.
• Honor Choir Downtown Caroling, Saturday, December 17th at 2:00-3:00 p.m.

3rd grade students will present a music performance at the Pinnacle Bank Holiday Open House, December 14, 10:30-11:00 a.m.

December is here and our thoughts turn to how Sunset School supports those in need in Cody. We would like to support the Cody Cupboard with a drive of non-food household essentials, toiletries, and baby products. The drive is December 5 though December 16.

Boxes will be in each hallway for the donations. As we do, this is a competition between K/1st, 2nd/3rd, and 4th/5th hallways! The winners will receive a prize to be named later!

Sunset School Student Council sponsors a School Store one to two times a month, depending on the month. The School Store is staffed by students for students. Goods at the store include pencils, erasers, highlighters, bouncy balls, slap bracelets, and other fun items. The store is open for students during school lunch; items are priced from 10 cents to 75 cents. Funds raised from the School Store are used to do something fun for the entire school at the end of the school year.

Student Council is sponsoring candy cane sales the week of December 12. Sales will be after each classes' lunch. The proceeds of the candy cane sales will go to support Toys for Tots.

Our 5th grade classes will be participating in the annual floor hockey tournament on December 21, from 8:30 to 11:00 a.m., at the Rec Center. Come over and cheer them on!

Please take a moment to check out the December Early Childhood Community Newsletter, with a big emphasis on COMMUNITY! You'll find information provided by local experts and entities within our Cody community.

December is always a fun and busy month at Sunset School. Many classrooms will have holiday celebrations for the students to enjoy. I am asking you to keep food allergies in mind as the holidays approach. We have many students with food allergies, some causing skin or stomach issues while others are life-threatening. Please contact your child’s teacher or myself for any questions regarding food allergies in your student’s classroom. If your student has food allergies, consider offering alternative snacks for them to enjoy if there are snacks in the classroom that they can not eat. Thank you for working with me to keep all of our students safe. I wish you all the best!

~ Nurse Windy

Please help us help you with your child's winter wear. Please write their name on their coats so that we may get them back to your child. Also, if you need help with footwear or winter wear, please let me know I can help!

Linda Baumstarck

Sunset Guidance Counselor

Greetings from your Title 1 Team and many thanks for your continued support and efforts to help young readers grow!

Before we go to Christmas Break, we'll be assessing all students at Sunset to measure mid-year reading growth. We'll start on Friday, December 2nd and continue for a couple of weeks into December. Encourage your students to come to school rested and ready to be a reading superstar!

When our break begins and your student is home or traveling with you, consider some of the ideas in the links listed below. Whether managing busy holiday schedules or trying to keep literacy skills sharp, we hope these ideas will inspire.

https://5il.co/1lbws

https://childmind.org/article/how-to-take-the-stress-out-of-the-holidays/

Wishing you all a Safe and Happy Holiday!

Amy Preston & Deborah Blanchard

Title 1 Reading Interventionists

Thank you to all our parents who provided pies for the Veterans Program!

Sunset families, winter is here! We have the cold, cold temperatures to prove it. Please be sure your student dresses appropriately before they leave home - coat, hat, gloves, snow boots, whatever they need to stay warm in the cold weather. We go outside for recess unless the weather is 5 degrees or below!

Each month Sunset School hosts a special visitor, Miss Holly, children’s librarian at the Park County Public Library. Miss Holly visits Sunset School to read to our kindergarteners through 3rd graders, respectively.

Each visit has a theme, usually requested by the classroom teachers, to complement what they’re doing. Examples include kindness, perseverance, opinion sharing, and fluency. Her goal is to make her visits, and more broadly, BOOKS, something everyone will look forward to – avid readers as well as those who struggle. She attempts this primarily through material selection, and includes a simple, related craft project that everyone will have success with and truly enjoy. Sometimes there is even a small related snack! And of course, it’s a great opportunity to learn about libraries and all they offer!