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Bring a Book, Take a Book
This is a Title I All Student book exchange program that takes place in the library once a month from 8:20 am - 8:35 am. Students’ may bring up to 5 books to exchange, and will receive a book tag for attending.
**PLEASE WEAR YOUR BOOK TAG CHAINS EACH TIME YOU ATTEND!!
The Dates for the 2019-2020 School year are as follows:
Friday, January 10th
Friday, February 14th
Friday, March 13th
Friday, April 3rd
Friday, May 22nd (** All school day event…receive a book for summer break **)
Chuck E. Cheese Night!
Family Glow Dance!
5th Grade Boys Book Club!
Prisoner B-3087. 10 concentration camps. 10 different places where you are starved, tortured, and worked mercilessly. It's something no one could imagine surviving. But it is what Yanek Gruener has to face. As a Jewish boy in 1930s Poland, Yanek is at the mercy of the Nazis who have taken over. Everything he has, and everyone he loves, have been snatched brutally from him. And then Yanek himself is taken prisoner -- his arm tattooed with the words PRISONER B-3087. He is forced from one nightmarish concentration camp to another, as World War II rages all around him. He encounters evil he could have never imagined, but also sees surprising glimpses of hope amid the horror. He just barely escapes death, only to confront it again seconds later. Can Yanek make it through the terror without losing his hope, his will -- and, most of all, his sense of who he really is inside? Based on an astonishing true story.
Attention 5th Grade Parents--Middle School Registration Information!!
Dear 5th Grade Parents/Guardians,
It is time to begin the process of welcoming your child to East Middle School and planning for registration then transition into 6th Grade. Whether students have older siblings who have been at East Middle School before or not, your student will encounter this transition in his or her own unique way. We hope to see many parents and students at our EMS Transition Information Night on February 19, from 5:00-6:00 p.m., at East Middle. Please plan to attend that night if you are able!
School Counselors will be registering incoming 6th graders in January. EMS Counselors will be visiting with students in their 5th Grade classrooms to talk about classes that are offered at East Middle School. Students will sign up for classes on registration day, then parents will sign off on Course Verification Forms during school conferences in late February with elementary teachers. Any changes need to be written on the course verification form then signed by a parent at conferences at the end of February. Fifth grade teachers will send the forms back to East Middle for school counselors to adjust course requests as needed.
East Middle School Peer Helpers will be answering questions along with the East Middle School Counselors during the visits to 5th Grade Classrooms. Counselors and Peer Helpers will be speaking about what a typical day will be like as a 6th grader at East Middle School.
We look forward to working with your students at East Middle School by establishing a positive relationship and patterns for success! All fifth graders will visit East Middle School on Wednesday, April 15, during the school day. This is such an exciting time for our new students!
Your Partners in Education,
Kim Imming, Scott Krosch, Mark Walker
East Middle School Professional School Counselors
Notes from the Nurse
Sick Day Guidelines
Keep others well by keeping your child home when sick. For your child’s health, stay home if:
A fever of 100.0 degrees or higher
Vomiting or diarrhea
Symptoms that keep your child from participating in school, such as:
Cough that he or she cannot control
Headache, body aches, or earache
Sore Throat—a little sore throat may be ok for school, but a bad sore throat is not.
24 hour rule is good!
Fever: Keep your child home until fever has been gone with no medicine for 24 hours.
Vomiting or diarrhea: Keep your child home for 24 hours after the last time he or she vomited or had diarrhea.
Antibiotics: Keep your child home for 24 hours after the FIRST dose of antibiotic.
Influenza (also called flu) http://www.cdc.gov/flu/index.htm
Influenza (also known as flu) is a contagious respiratory illness caused by flu viruses that infect the nose, throat, and lungs. The flu is different from a cold. The flu usually comes on suddenly.
Flu symptoms
ü Fever* or feeling feverish/chills * Not everyone with flu will have a fever
ü Cough
ü Sore throat
ü Runny or stuffy nose
ü Muscle or body aches
ü Headache
The Flu Is Contagious
ü Flu symptoms start 1 to 4 days after the virus enters the body
ü Call your medical provider if your child has symptoms
ü Stay home for 24 hours after fever is gone without the use of medicine
Let's Talk
An engaged community makes our District stronger. That is why we have made it easy for you to connect with us whenever it is convenient for you. We encourage you to take advantage of Let’s Talk!, our 24/7 online submission site. Reach out with your ideas, questions, concerns, and praise. To make a submission, please visit http://www.siouxcityschools.org/lets-talk/.
Communication and Preparedness
Student and staff safety is of paramount importance in the Sioux City Community School District. For this reason, the District exercises a host of crisis prevention and planning tactics. Should an emergency occur, the school notifies you through our Blackboard phone system. In an emergency, the system calls every phone number associated with your child in order to reach you. The message will give you details about the emergency and provide directions on when/where to pick up your child if the normal school day is altered. Learn more about school safety.
Focus 2022 Strategic Plan
Unity Elementary School
Principal: Eric Kilburn
Website: https://www.siouxcityschools.org/unity/
Location: 1901 Unity Avenue, Sioux City, IA, USA
Phone: 712-279-6839
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/UnityKnightsk5/
Twitter: @UnityFuture
