DECEMBER Huskie Howl

Hello SBE Families!

Thank you so much for the Thankful thoughts for our SBE staff. Everyone appreciated hearing all the wonderful things they do to help your children.

The holidays are a special time of year for all of us! However, the school break, holiday gatherings and gifts can bring added stress and anxiety to our lives. Here are a few tips to get through this season.

1. Keep a routine: try to keep a schedule similar to your normal routine.

2. Rest: get 8-10 hours of sleep each night.

3. Have fun! Take time to do something your family wants to do, laugh, and be silly. Here's a list of other fun and free things to do:

--Make paper snowflakes

--Bundle up and watch the stars

--Dress up in the same color and take selfies!

--Write a thank you card to your teacher

--Cuddle up with a good book

--If it snows, build a snowman or snow angels

- Principal Christina Nava

December

December 8th - 1st and 2nd grade Music Concert @2:15

December 10th - Winter Dance @6-7:30 pm

December 16th - Monthly Birthday celebrations in classrooms

December 20th - Core Value Assembly

December 21st - Classroom Holiday parties @1:30

December 22-January 6th - Christmas Break

January 9th - Students return

Shadow Butte Elementary School wants our students to be safe at school. To ensure safety, adult supervision is provided from 8:35 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. on the playground, bus area and inside the school. The students are the parents’ responsibility at all other times. If you are dropping off your child before this unsupervised time, please know that we do not have staff available to watch your child. If you can make arrangements to drop off children after 8:35, that would be greatly appreciated.

• If there are changes on how your children will be going home at the end of the day, those changes must be called into the office at 208-365-0877 by 3:15 pm and on Wednesdays by 1:45 pm. Please plan ahead because it disrupts the process of release time when we pull students from the bus line if they are already there.

Our Lost and Found is FULL! Please check with your students to see if they are missing any jackets, coats, hats, etc. Lost and Found is located in the Cafeteria.

All unclaimed Items will be removed and donated if not picked up by 2:30 on December 21st

We are grateful for the Emmett District and the Board of Trustees for purchasing a security system for our front doors that is similar to the Emmett Middle School. We are still waiting to hear on when they will be installed. The company is waiting on certain parts to start the installation. In the meantime, we will be working on a more secure pick-up process for students that are going home during the day. I appreciate your support as we transition to a more secure method of picking up students. Look for more information and details in the coming weeks.

Donate your gently used clothes and shoes to the Collection Bin that is located in the Southeast Corner of the Visitor Parking Lot. ECO World will be donating the items to local nonprofits. Our school will receive .04 cents per pound of the items that are donated.

Please remind students that toys, trading cards like Pokemon cards and other valuables are a distraction as we are learning. Keep these items at home.

Attendance is super important to ensure students are learning grade level concepts. Please bring students on time and every day. Call the office or email sbeattendance@isd221.net to excuse your child if they are absent for any reason. If doctor appointments are necessary during the school day, please bring a doctor's note for our records. We really appreciate your help!

But don't be too quick to brush off your child's illness as just another cold. The important thing to remember is that flu symptoms can vary from child to child (and they can change as the illness progresses), so if you suspect the flu, call the doctor. Even doctors often need a test to tell them for sure if a person has the flu or not since the symptoms can be so similar!

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Please keep your child home from school if you suspect they have the flu.

Thank You,

Berkelee, RN

Hello Shadow Butte Families!

We have amazing students here at Shadow Butte Elementary! For Anti-Bullying week, November 14-18, we all pledged to be kind to each other by signing a leaf and adding it to our kindness tree. Here is how the tree turned out:

Thank you to all the families who participated in the book fair over fall conferences. It was successful for us in the library and we have been able to get many new books for the entire school to enjoy! Be on the look out for fun new books your student might check out!

Reminder if you student is participating in the monthly Reading Club, I ask they bring them back at the end of each month so they may pick from the prize basket and be entered in to the drawing for a new book! 5 days a week of reading is all we are asking and it is an optional program. DECEMBER READING CALENDARS: Due 12/22 before break!

Sign up Today for the Infinite Campus Parent Portal. A Parent Portal Account will give you access to pay for Lunches Online, view Student Attendance, view Student Grades (4th and 5th Grades), and receive School Correspondence. Call the School Office if you need assistance with getting logged into your parent portal.

• Email the PTO at ptoshadowbutte@gmail.com with any curiosities or suggestions you have.
• Stay up-to-date with PTO volunteer opportunities and event reminders on our social platforms.
• Sign up to receive text messages from the PTO for events, activities, reminders, and more!
• Check out our NEW & IMPROVED webpage on the Shadow Butte website as a resource for getting invovled.

Thank you to the four awesome parent volunteers who helped served food to our hungry STEAM Night attendees! A HUGE thank you to PTO President, Morgan Kimball, who prepped all the hot dogs and items beforehand.

These ladies were on a "roll" packing up all our Texas Roadhouse items! There's nothing "butter" than hard working volunteers who get the job done! Thank you to PTO Events Coordinator, Jocelynn, and PTO volunteers, Andrea & Larissa for all of their work getting our fundraising goodies!

Join us for the next PTO meeting in the Shadow Butte library. Come in-person, or join virtually through Google Meet. ALL parents who attend the meeting are entered to win a $10 eGift card!

Texas Roadhouse Rolls

We had a net income of $2,101.44 from this fundraiser

Football Mania

We had a net income of $602.00 from this fundraiser

Thank you for everyone who supported our fall fundraisers!

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