Sunset Express

Sunset Lake Elementary

Principal Amie McCaw

We are Lifelong Learners and Lifelong Leaders!

Email: amccaw@vicksburgschools.org
Website: Vicksburgcommunityschools.org
Location: 201 N Boulevard St, Vicksburg, MI, United States
Phone: (269)321-1500
Twitter: @TLIMPrincipal

Hello Sunset Lake Families,

We sure do miss all of you! We hope you are staying safe and have found ways to make the best of this difficult time in our country.

We will be sending out a weekly Smore newsletter for sharing updates and resources. We hope you find this newsletter a helpful place to reference additional information beyond what your child's classroom teacher will be sharing in their weekly learning plans.

As Mr. O'Neill shared last week in his letter on Friday, April 17 we are moving into a new phase of our remote learning plan. This Wednesday, April 22nd we officially kick-off our district learning plan with all of our families.

Under the guidance of our Michigan Department of Education, we have been hard at work to create grade-level plans that are consistent with our district resources and are also manageable for families to incorporate at home. We understand your family is under a large amount of stress during this global crisis and we are here to help and support you the best we can.

Beginning Wednesday we hope you are able to implement to the best of your ability the plans that your child's teacher shares out with you through their Google Classroom. We know so many of you have been doing amazing work during this whole shut down already so we hope you find the lessons continue to be something you are able to complete with your children. Our hopes are to get all of our children as prepared as much as possible for their next school year. However, we know that our fall will require adjustments and flexibility as we start the new school year.

In the past couple of weeks, we have been hard at work identifying families that do not have internet access or students that still need Chromebooks. Please contact me at

amccaw@vicksburgschools.org if your family does not have access to the internet or if you have any concerns or questions.

Also, as Mr. O'Neill shared our last school day continues to be June 12th.

Thank you and please stay safe!

Yours in Learning,

Amie McCaw

Sunset Lake Elementary Principal

Kindergarten Enrollment is up and running. Our district will be sharing an electronic online Enrollment Form that will be housed on our district website and elementary pages. However, you can also email Brenda Austin at baustin@vicksburgschools.org if you are needing to enroll your child for Kindergarten for the 2020-2021 school year.

Due to the current situation of the school shutdown, we will be looking at organizing K screening in the summer. More information will be shared as it comes up.

Meal Support
Last Wednesday we handed out 14,728 meals to 1052 children! Big thanks to VCS foodservice and transportation staff for their continued help with this huge endeavor. I have linked the Vicksburg Schools Meals Survey if you would like to add your student(s) to the list. These meals are for everyone.

Need comes in all shapes and sizes, not just financial. If this food keeps our families from making extra trips to the store, then it is less exposure for them or family members. If it makes families feel a sense of normalcy when they or their kids can wave at a familiar face at the pickup line. These are just a couple of examples of the needs that we are meeting, some of which are silent.

Remember we are handing out meals every Wednesday through June 10th at our normal distribution times.

If you have questions about our foodservice please email: foodsupport@vicksburgschools.org

Please click on the link below to learn more about our Sunset Lake Online Book Fair. It starts today and runs to May 3rd.

Thank you to Mrs. Negri for making this happen!

https://bookfairs.scholastic.com/bf/sunsetlakeelementaryschool

March 14- Isabella Cook

March 15- Isaiah Nielson

March 17- Mami Rose Engler

March 18- Caleb Pool, Casairia McFerrin, Lauren Durkee

March 22- Addie Malito

March 23- Sophia Wertman

March 24- Grayson Therrien

March 25-Ben Hartman

March 26-Hunter Kohler

March 28-Sheila Gehrman, Brooklyn Thrash, Emmelyn Horne

March 29- Timothy Phares, Calvin Pease, Lydia Root

March 30- Zackery Tatroe, Hunter Ray

March 31-Delaney Glaser, Ella Simmons, Nicole Durkee

April 1-Taylor Zagar

April 3- Cooper Lomason

April 4- Skylar Johnson

April 5- Grace Harris

April 6- Owen Zimmerman, Arabell Davison, Arian Middleton

April 7- Phillip Spinelli, Carter Stark

April 8- Brayden Thayer

April 9- Adrianna Ostrander, Erica Centofanti

April 10- Renna Caswell

April 13-Aiden Winter

April 15-Annebelle Stamm

April 16-Caylin Straka, Gannon Flick

April 18-Declan Dorman

April 19-Carson Boven, Isaac Sanelin

April 20-Trenton Haverkamp, Jonathan Hillman

April 22-Kenzie Neff

April 23- Haven Pence, Jillian Manier

April 24-Kael Veldt

April 25-Cayden Spicer, Evan Wilcox-Noble, Ty Brown, Sawyer Stephenson

In honor of our Annual PTSO Walk-A-Thon, let’s shower small business in Vicksburg by purchasing a gift card, no matter how small or large. We can start this Monday 4/20 through Friday 5/15, the day we would have had our Walk-A-Thon. Many of our small businesses, restaurants and breweries have Sponsored our Walk-A-Thon year after year. That Walk-A-Thon money has funded the Chromebook’s you have from Sunset and all of the new playground equipment that we have, not to mention supported our staff, students, field trips throughout the year and so many other ways. Let’s be there for our local businesses, that have always been there for us!

• April 22nd- District Roll-Out of Remote Learning Plan centered on practice and connections with students & National Earth Day
• May 4th- New learning plans for content areas shared with families
• May 25th-Memorial Day Recognized
• June 12th-Last Day of School

Now more than ever making sure our families are informed about how to best protect our young students on the internet is critical.

Common Sense Media is a great resource for families to use as a way to know what is developmentally appropriate for our children. Click on the link below to read an article posted from the Common Sense Media blog site.

https://www.commonsensemedia.org/blog/how-to-raise-a-good-human-in-a-digital-world