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 1 - Dress Up Like Your Favorite Movie Character Day!

December 1 - 15 - Cody Cupboard Non-Food Drive

December 1 - School Store

December 4 - Student Council meeting, 3:15-3:45 pm

December 5 - Miss Holly from the public library visiting 2nd grade

December 8 - School Store

December 8 - Nutcracker performance for 1st, 3rd, and 5th grade students

December 11-15 - Candy Cane Sales for Toys for Tots

December 11-20 - 8 Days of Christmas celebration - stay tuned!

December 12 - 4th and 5th grade music program, 'Twas One Crazy

Night Before Christmas, Wynona Thompson Auditorium, 6:30 pm

December 13 - Honor Choir performs at PInnacle Bank Open House, noon

December 14 - Mrs. Galagan's 4th grade class to Absaroka Senior Living

December 16 - Honor Choir caroling in downtownCody, 2 pm

December 18 - 1st Graders Gingerbread House construction

December 18 - Sunset PTO's Polar Express Hot Chocolate

December 18 - Miss Holly from the public library visiting 3rd grade

December 18 - Honor Choir performs at Absaroka Senior Living, 11:15 am

December 19 - Sunset PTO meeting, 3:30 pm., Sunset Library

December 20 - 5th grade floor hockey tournament, 8:30-11:45 am, Rec Center

December 20 - Early release at 1:35 pm!

December 21 - January 2 - Christmas Break!

January 3 - See everyone back at school!

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 1 through December 15.

• Toiletries - deodorant, toilet paper, shaving gel, shampoo, bar soap, toothbrushs, toothpaste, hand sanitizer, facial tissue
• Household items - laundry soap, dryer sheets, dish soap, Clorox wipes, paper towels, napkins
• Baby supplies - diapers, pull-ups, baby wipes

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! There will be prizes!

The Holiday Season is right around the corner and we are almost ready to perform! Here are some dates to mark on your December calendars.

4th & 5th Grade Musical Performance:

Tuesday, Dec. 12th: 4th and 5th grade musical performance: Twas’ One Crazy Night Before Christmas at CHS Wynona Thompson Auditorium. Performance time: 6:30 p.m.

A second costume note was sent home. All students need to be in costume, ready to go up on risers, at 6:15 p.m. If you have any questions, please give me a call at school and I will get back to you as soon as possible. (587-4279) Thanks

Honor Choir Performances:

1. Wednesday, Dec. 13th: Honor Choir at Pinnacle Bank Open House performance

Performance time: 12:00 noon

2. Saturday, December 16th: Honor Choir downtown caroling starting at the Irma

Performance time: 2 p.m.

3. Monday, December 18th: Honor Choir Absaroka Assisted Living performance

Performance time: 11:15 a.m.

If you have any questions about the performance dates listed above, please call me at school. I will return your call as soon as possible. (587-4279).

Miss Pinney

1st graders will spend the time Monday morning, December 18, constructing gingerbread houses. They will use a variety of "construction materials" including graham crackers, frosting, and all types of candy to build Christmas worthy houses!

Anyone available to help with this fun event, please let PTO know through Sign Up Genius:

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0F48ABAF2CA6FDC70-46449762-ptopolar

Happy December Sunset Families!

As we head into these busy weeks, please consider helping your student find opportunities to read and write, whether it’s a holiday card, favorite recipes, a Christmas wishlist, a to-do list, thank you cards, etc.

Here to help inspire young readers is a Christmas Bingo Card.

Have a safe and Happy Holiday !

The next PTO meeting will include a parent education discussion on why reading is so hard and how to support reading at home with read alouds.

Ms. Preston and Mrs. Blanchard

Your Sunset Title 1 Reading Teachers

A note from Brooke Sieg, PCSD 6 Preschool Liaison:

It's hard to believe that the Holiday Season is upon us!! I hope you take a few moments to read over the December Community Newsletter, which is full of great information for families, including FREE events in Cody throughout the month.

Our 5th grade classes are participating in the annual floor hockey tournament on December 20, from 8:30-11:45 a.m. at the Rec Center. Come over and cheer them on!

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!

Mrs. Lindsey Swope will be the long term sub from approximately early January to early/mid April while Mrs. Larson is out on maternity leave. Mrs. Swope will begin meeting the students in December in order to provide a smooth transition. Please read more about her below!

Lindsey Swope completed her master's degree in speech pathology through the University of Wyoming and has worked with children and adults in a variety of settings, including providing in person and teletherapy speech therapy services for elementary school students, and speech therapy for adults in the medical setting. She served as a clinical instructor for speech pathology graduate students at the University of Wyoming Speech and Hearing Clinic.

Mrs. Swope grew up in Vermont, but moved to Wyoming 20 years ago and currently lives in Powell with her husband and two children, ages 4 and 2 1/2. She loves any outdoor activity with her family, especially camping and hiking in the Bighorn mountains.

Parents, just a reminder about absences due to illness or doctor/dentist visits. If your student is sick and they see a doctor, please get a note from their doctor regarding their illness. This will excuse their absence from school. The same is true for a doctor or dentist appointment, a note from the doctor/dentist will excuse their absence.

Please label your student's coat, hat, mittens, lunch box etc. with their name. This makes it easier to return misplaced items to the proper owner! Thank you.

Sunset families, just a reminder that you can use linq.com for applications, paying on accounts, and checking on your student's accounts.

Meal costs for this school year:

Breakfast $3.00

Lunch $3.75

Our Food Services department is happy to announce they are able to locally source so of their ingredients; the ground beef is purchased from Gallagher Farm and the lettuce is purchased from Greybull Valley Produce.