Wednesday Word
January 20th, 2021
From The Principal
Happy Inauguration Day! We hope scholars were able to watch this historic event. We also want to thank everyone who supported our Eat and Earn event last night at Chipotle. Our 5th graders will benefit from the money raised.
As an AVID Elementary we are focused on teaching our scholars how to become engaged, prepared and empowered learners. We started with our roll out of the AVID Binder or Organizational Tool in grades 2-5 and our two-pocket folders at K-1. Organization is a key to becoming a successful student. Now teachers are learning instructional strategies to implement across all grade levels. For the next couple of months we will be focusing school wide on the Focused Note Taking Process. You might notice your students using two and three-column notes to process their learning. The first step is to take the notes, but what is more important is going back to the notes frequently to add to them, discuss them with a partner and use them to write summaries and more. Below is a short video (less than 2min) that briefly explains the Curve of Forgetting and how using the Focused Note Taking process can solidify the information being learned. Sunflower has identified this as a high-yield instructional strategy that we will implement school wide in order to increase student engagement and achievement.
As always it is an honor to serve as the Principal of Sunflower Elementary.
Melissa Blevins
From The Office
Parent Teacher Conferences:
Conferences will be held Virtually February 17th and 18th. More information to come!
One Dream MLK Celebration Program:
Please review the flyer below for the annual ONE DREAM MLK Celebration event and plan to join us online January 21st at 6:30pm. Click the link to view the livestream. https://www.usd497.org/OneDream
From The Counselor
Healthy Futures (FREE Dental Care for ALL Youth)!
If interested, please fill out the application online at https://heartlandhealth.org/healthy-futures/
If you need a hard copy, please contact Julie Heatwole (counselor) at #785-330-4860 or jheatwol@usd497.org
For more information, you may check out these attachments below:
From Sunflower PTO
From Sunflower PTO:
The next PTO meeting will be on Tuesday, February 2nd, at 7pm. Please email sunflowerelementarypto@gmail.com for a link to the Zoom meeting.
*Follow our Sunflower PTO Facebook page. We post a lot of information and events on our page.
https://www.facebook.com/Sunflower-Elementary-PTO-532741010145883/
Upcoming Events
February Calendar
- 2- PTO Meeting at 7pm
- 9- Site Council at 6pm
- 11- End of 2nd Trimester
- 12- No School
- 17- P/T Conferences
- 18- No School (P/T Conferences)
- 19- No School
March Calendar
- 8-12 Spring Break
- 15- School Resumes
- 25- No School
- 26- No School
Sunflower Elementary
Email: melissa.blevins@usd497.org
Website: https://www.usd497.org/sunflower
Location: 2521 Inverness Drive, Lawrence, KS, USA
Phone: 785-832-5870
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SunflowerElementaryLawrenceKS/?rf=143171452380768