It’s been exciting to have kids back in school! With a couple of weeks of the new school year under our belts, we thought this would be a good time to remind parents of the importance of calling the school the morning your child is absent if your child will be not be in school that day. Here are some important tips and reminders:

• If your child is going to be absent from school, please notify the school before 8:30 am THAT SAME DAY. This will prevent the school from having to mark them as an unexcused absence.

• It is best practice to notify the school via email. Please email your child's teacher along with the attendance clerks in the front office ( office-attendance@usd368.org ) to let them know your child will be gone and how the absence should be marked (ill, out of town, etc...) To avoid a call from the attendance-dialer, be sure to include the office-attendance in your correspondence. When you use the above email address for attendance, the office attendance clerk and Mrs. Kinaman, our school nurse receive the email.

• When you contact the school, if you anticipate an extended absence, please note length of the absence then be sure to send a doctor’s note upon your child returning.

• If you are not able to email, please call the school at 913-294-8040.

Your partnership in notifying the school the day your child is absent, will help the school prepare for your child’s absence in organizing their missed work. It will also help families avoid unnecessarily receiving an unexcused absence letter from the school outlining state truancy laws. (Although, state truancy laws are important for families to know: An unexcused absence in Kansas is when a parent does not notify the school of their child’s absence that same day. When a child has 3 consecutive unexcused absences, 5 total unexcused absences in a semester or 7 total unexcused absences in a school year, the child is considered truant by Kansas state law and the school is required to report them as such).

Thank you so much for your continued partnership in making this a great school year!

Sunflower is putting together a "shoe box" to loan shoes out to students that forgot to wear tennis shoes on PE days.

Needed:

1) Good, used tennis shoes (washed first please) that will fit Sunflower Students!

2) If you know what size they are, please use a permanent marker to mark the size on the back of the heel so that the student(s) are able to find a pair of shoes in their size quickly!

3) A few pairs of shoe laces in case a student's breaks.

SHOES WILL BE SANITIZED AFTER EACH USE.

Donations may be dropped off in the office.

The faculty and staff look forward to a positive and productive year at SUNFLOWER ELEMENTARY!

There are many ways to stay connected at Sunflower Elementary. It is important that you connect in all three ways if possible.

· Infinite Campus (Web Browser & App)

· Panther Alerts

· Facebook

Information on each of these communication tools can be found below.

The success of any educational institution depends on the support and cooperation between parents, teachers, and students. All of us must work together as a team to provide the best education program for our students. We look forward to working with you and your child this year.

There are 2 versions of the IC App available for download in the iTunes App Store and Google Play. They are Campus Parent and Campus Student. To use the Campus Student or Campus Parent apps, mobile devices must be on an Android version of 4.4 or later and iOS devices must be on a version of 9.0 or later.

Parents - Sign up for IC to receive emails & texts from your child’s teacher & school.

NEW account? Trouble logging in? Email josie_erives@usd368.org (put IC in the subject line). If you signed up at Cottonwood, you will use the same account for Sunflower.

Students & parents have different login pages.

1. Click the INFINITE CAMPUS box above.

2. Choose Campus Parent or Student.

3. Enter Username & Password provided by your school.

4. Click LOG IN