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Issue 1 September 7, 2018
Contact Us:
Principal Mr. Blair Taylor
Nodland
Elementary 5000 Mayhew Ave
274-4044
Office Manager Mrs. Cindy Posey
Sunnyside
Elementary 2700 South Maple
274-4047
Office Manager Mrs. Melinda DeMarest
We are
RESPECTFUL
We are
RESPONSIBLE
We are
READY
We are
RAIDER READY
Sunnyside 2015
HOME OF THE
FUTURE RAIDERS
If it doesn’t challenge you, it
doesn’t change you.
Fall Pictures
September 19th
IN THIS ISSUE
-Upcoming events -School Pictures -Walking School Bus
-Book Fair -Golf Tournament -PTA News
-District Info -Communication/Let’s Talk
3 4 5 6 7
10 11
PTA Meeting 6 PM @
Nodland
12 13
Rollerama 6-8
14
5th grade Field Trip
17
Favorite Team Day
Homecoming Parade
6:30
18
Wacky Hair Day
19
PICTURE DAY
Dress UP Day
20
All-Out Crazy Orange
and Black Day
Taste of Morningside
5:30-7
East Homecoming
Football Game 7PM
21
Pajama Day
24 25
Character Lunch -
Sunnyside
26
Character Lunch -
Nodland
Conferences 3:40-6:20
27
Conferences 8-8
Book Fair
NO
SCHOOL
28
NO
SCHOOL
SEPTEMBER
PICTURE DAY
WEDNESDAY SEPT 19th
Nurses
Corner
Julie Johnson
RN
Sunnyside
Kathy Bernard
RN
Nodland
LUNCH and BREAKFAST
Check your email for this month’s lunch and breakfast menu’s. Please feel free to contact the school with ques-
tions on your child’s accounts.
Candy Booe-Kass @ Nodland Yvon Fitch @ Sunnyside
274-4044 274-4047
[email protected] [email protected]
Spirit Week: September 17th - 21st
Monday 9/17 - Favorite team day
Tuesday 9/18 - Wacky Hair Day
Wenesday 9/19 - Dress for success (dress up) picture day
Thursday 9/20 - All-OUT Crazy orange and black day
Friday 9/21 - Pajama DAy
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.
Taste of Morningside
Join in on East High’s Homecoming celebration by attend-
ing the “Taste of Morningside” pre-game meal Thursday,
September 20. It will be held at the Olson stadium shel-
ter prior to the homecoming football game against Des
Moines Hoover. Serving times will be 5:30-7:00. Morn-
ingside “favorite foods” will be served: Bob Roe’s Point
After buffalo wings, Jerry’s Pizza, J & E Navarette’s burri-
tos, Sneaky’s chicken, and a variety of Dairy Queen ice
cream treats. Come with an appetite & enjoy the variety
that will be available.
Walking School Bus
September 13 - October 25th
Every Thursday Morning
You may contact Shelley Erwin with any
questions at
Greetings Sprites and Fairies!
It is time to hop on your unicorn or dragon and follow the mesmerizing mushroom trail over to our Enchanted Forest Book Fair!
Nodland and Sunnyside will be holding their annual Book Fair during Fall Conferences again this year.
We are in need of some beautiful Princess or handsome Knight volunteers for 2 to 3 hour shifts (even 1 hour would be fantastic) to help make this another magical Book Fair.
Please contact your happy chirping School Librarian or fairy Godmothers in the Office to volunteer.
All of your little elves will be previewing the fair and writing up their wish lists.
So all of you guardians and caretakers of the enchanted village, grab your magic mirrors, and frolic on over to our fantasyland of books during conferences and conjure of some magical reading books!
Our Castle office numbers are: Nodland 712-274-4044 or 712-274-4679
And Sunnyside 712-274-4047 or 712-274-4675
We cannot wait to see you in the Enchanted Forest of Books!
PTA President
Leah Book
Vice President
Stacy Lessman
Treasurer
Michelle Lessman
Secretary
Sarah Petersen
Next PTA meeting
Tuesday, Sept 11th
6 PM @ Nodland
If you have not already joined our
PTA Facebook page, https://www.facebook.com/
groups/254084483099/, please do so.
We try to post a lot of events and information to that page to keep everyone
up to date. You can also set your Notifications at the top of the page so
you’ll get a notification every time there is a new
post to the page If you click on the Events tab you will see all of our upcom-
ing events already planned
PTA UPCOMING EVENTS
Sept 11 PTA Meeting @ Nodland 6:00 PM
Sept 13 Rollerama 6-8 PM
Sept 17 East Homecoming Parade 6:30 PM
Sept 23 Golf Fundraiser at Whispering Creek
An engaged community makes our Dis-trict stronger. That is why we have made it easy for you to connect with us when-
ever it is convenient for you. We encour-age you to take advantage of Let’s Talk!
This is our 24/7 online submission site, so that you may reach out with your ide-
as, concerns and praise. To make a sub-mission, please visit http://
www.siouxcityschools.org/lets-talk/.
Of course, if you have something private to share, you may remain anonymous.
DISTRICT INFORMATION
NON-DISCRIMINATION STATEMENT
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 educa-tional institution to discriminate on the basis of race, creed, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information (for employment), na-tional origin, religion, age (for employment), disability, socioeconomic status (for programs), marital status (for programs), or veteran status (for em-ployment) 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, [email protected]. Please see District Board policies 103 and 504.4 for additional information on available grievance procedures.
School Safety
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. During the year, our school has Fire, Tornado and In-
truder drills. The drills ensure our students and staff are prepared for potential emergencies. Watch for future newsletter
updates that give you information on our drills, so you can continue the safety conversation with your child(ren) at home.
Should an emergency occur, the school notifies you through our Blackboard phone system. 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.
For more information about school safety, visit our website at: http://www.siouxcityschools.org/safety or speak to our
principal.
FIRE DRILLS: Nodland 9/6/18 and Sunnyside 8/28/18
TORNADO DRILLS: Nodland 9/4/18 and Sunnyside 9/5/18
Attendance Awareness Month
The Sioux City Community School District recognizes that good attendance is
essential to academic success. So, we’ve joined a nationwide effort to celebrate
Attendance Awareness Month in September.
Nationwide, far too many students are at risk academically because they are
chronically absent. Chronic absence is described as missing 10 percent of the
school year—or about 18 days – for any reason, excused or unexcused. Research
shows that’s the point at which absenteeism begins to affect student performance.
During Attendance Awareness Month, we are asking you to help us reduce absen-
teeism locally by taking these steps:
• Build a habit and a culture of regular attendance.
• If there are challenges that make it difficult for your student to attend
school, let us know so we can help.
