Future Raider News

• Office Contacts
  
• Monthly Calendar or Events
• December International Learner Profile
  
• Hearing Screening Dates
• Food Drive Information
  
• Breakfast/Lunch Menus and Contacts
• PTA News
• Health News
• District Info: Winter Weather and School Closure Info, Communication/Let's Talk
  

Office Manager - Cindy Posey poseyc@live.siouxcityschools.com

Building Instructional Assistant - Candy Booe-Kass booekac@live.siouxcityschools.com

SUNNYSIDE: 712-274-4047

Office Manager - Melinda DeMarest demarem@live.siouxcityschools.com

Building Instructional Assistant - Yvon Fitch fitchy@live.siouxcityschools.com

NWAEA staff completes hearing screenings annually for students in preschool through 5th grade and 8th grade. Also, if you are new to the district in other grades they will screen your child as well. Parents will be notified only if there is a concern regarding the results of the screenings. Please notify the school nurse, or secretary, in writing if you do not want your child to participate in the annual screenings.

1. Mrs. Boekelman's 1st grade - 1504 points

2. Ms. Schultz's 1st grade - 1060 points

3. Mrs. Hundwardsen's TK class - 847 points

Sunnyside:

1. Mrs. Cunningham 5th grade - 3957 points

2. Mrs. March 3rd grade - 3589 points

3. Mr. Dickman 4th grade - 1992 points

Sunnyside students collected 6023 items for the Food/Goods Pantries at the local High Schools.

The winning classrooms from both schools received a pizza party.

SUNNYSIDE - Tenille Mitchell 712-274-4047 mitchet@live.siouxcityschools.com

Please feel free to contact them with any questions regarding breakfast or lunch.

PRESIDENT - Leah Book

VICE PRESIDENT - Sarah Petersen and Brittney Statlander

TREASURER - Jen Preston

SECRETARY - Angela Benz

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.

Both alcohol-based hand sanitizers and hand-washing are effective ways of preventing disease, but remember these important facts:

• Hand sanitizers are not as effective when dirt is visible on hands. Hand washing with soap and water, singing the “Happy Birthday” song, should be used to remove the oil and grime where bacteria can live.
• Hand sanitizers should not be used in place of soap and water:

1. when preparing food
2. after restroom use
3. changing diapers
4. Hand sanitizers will not work in killing certain viruses or bacteria such as:

Cryptosporidium - causes diarrhea.

Norovirus – causes stomach pain, nausea, and diarrhea and to throw up.

Clostridium difficile – causes watery diarrhea.

Clean hands are one of the best ways to prevent infection or disease. For more information, visit www.cdc.gov/handwashing/

With cold weather upon us, it’s important to plan for inclement weather. Please ensure your child is dressed appropriately for the colder weather. Suggested apparel includes a warm coat, hat, scarf and gloves. If a student needs access to these cold weather apparel items, please contact the school office.

Even during the winter season, the District allows recess and outdoor activities to continue as usual. However, if a student does not have appropriate winter clothing, a school official may ask a student to remain inside.

When the atmosphere reaches a temperature that feels like 15 degrees or less, then all students are kept inside for recess/activities. The “feel” of the temperature is determined based on the National Weather Service’s report.

Thank you for helping us keep students safe and warm this season.

The winter in Iowa provides us with some days that make it a challenge to hold classes at the regular time, and sometimes we must close our schools early, late, or for the entire day. As you know, our weather is not only challenging at times, it is constantly changing.

Please remember that parents and guardians have the right to make the decision to keep their child home on any day that they feel it is unsafe for their student to be in school because of weather conditions. If you believe the weather provides a sincere reason why you may have to keep your students at home, or take your student home when classes are scheduled to continue, you as a parent or guardian will simply need to contact your child’s school to let them know.

If a decision is made on the day of school to cancel classes or to have a late start, a call goes out at 6:00 AM to all parents and guardians. Parents can also check the following sites for closure information.

1. GovDelivery https://public.govdelivery.com/accounts/IAEDU6039/subscriber/new?qsp=CODE_RED

2. District’s Facebook https://www.facebook.com/SiouxCityCommSchools

3. District’s Twitter @siouxcityschool

4. All media outlets

If the schools are dismissed early or if school is called off entirely, there will be no evening activities. If you have before and after school care, please check with your provider about their procedures.

The Sioux City Community School District offers career and technical programs in the following areas: Business & Marketing, Family & Consumer Science, Health Science, and Industrial Arts, Technology, & PLTW.

The Sioux City Community School District is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. It is an unfair or discriminatory practice for any educational institution to discriminate on the basis of race, creed, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information (for employment), national origin, religion, age (for employment), disability, socioeconomic status (for programs), marital status (for programs), or veteran status (for employment) in its educational programs and its employment practices.

Inquiries or grievances, including Section 504 grievances and grievances under Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act, may be directed to Jen Gomez, Director of Student Services & Equity Education at 627 4th Street, Sioux City, IA 51101, (712) 279-6075, gomezj2@live.siouxcityschools.com. Please see District Board policies 103 and 504.4 for additional information on available grievance procedures.

Nodland: 3300 S. Cypress St. (712) 274-4044

Sunnyside: 2700 S. Maple St. (712) 274-4047

Principal: Blair Taylor

Website: https://www.siouxcityschools.org/nodland-sunnyside/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Nodland-and-Sunnyside-Elementary-Schools-117120565300003/
Twitter: @NodSunES