the Sunrise Scoop
Week of March 21st
Principal's Message
Tomorrow officially marks the first day of Spring. I hope everyone is enjoying the break with family and friends. We look forward to welcoming our Sea Turtles back to school on Monday, March 21st for the remainder of our 21-22 school year.
Please note, March 31st is the final day to purchase a tile with your child's artwork for our Sunrise Memory Wall. These beautiful pieces of art work are very special to our school community, and we look forward to adding more student tiles this year! Please contact Mrs. Snow, our art teacher, if you have any questions (snow.sheryl@brevardschools.org). Please see more information below.
Friday morning, we will host our Winter Break Reading Challenge Celebration. Sunrise Elementary had the greatest percentage of students who read over the winter break...WAHOO Sea Turtles!!!!. We were finally able to coordinate getting our neighboring administrators from Palm Bay Elementary and Port Malabar Elementary to Sunrise to be duct taped by our participating students. Of course, our students want to enjoy taping me up there as well, so I will gladly join in on the fun. We are looking forward to it! If you happen to have left over rolls of duct tape at home, we will gladly accept donations for the event through Thursday. Thank you!
Student Report Cards will be posted to FOCUS on Thursday, March 24th, so please take the time to check out your students' progress. Please contact your child's teacher if you would like to set up a conference.
We have many items in our Lost and Found. Please encourage your child to look for missing jackets and hoodies. We will have these on display this week, and we will also put them out during our Title I Night on March 31st. After this time, all items will be donated.
We look forward to seeing our sea turtles on Monday morning. I wish everyone a wonderful week ahead!
Sincerely,
Mrs. Jost
Congratulations to Our District Art Fair Participants!
Students in grades 4-6 are eligible for a placement awards and Best of Show. Grades K-3 students were eligible for a Merit Award, which is judge's choice. Sunrise had 6 entries in the 4-6 category, and 3 students placed! Out of 15 Merit Awards given, Sunrise won 4 of them! Way to go Mrs. Snow and all participating students! We are so proud of you!
K- Ezra A.
K-Everly A.
1-Brooke M. - Merit Award
1- Meiya M.
2- Noah T. - Merit Award
2- Nora F. - Merit Award
3- Macy H.
3- Lillyana W. - Merit Award
4- Layla M.
4- Reese S. - 1st Place
5- Maria O.
5- Sarah P. - 3rd Place
6- Avery F.
6- Malia A. - 2nd Place
A huge shout out to Ms. Snow for all of the hard work, support, and encouragement you provide all our little artists at Sunrise!
Congratulations to Our District Science Fair Participants!
A huge shout out and thank you to Mrs. Hoolihan, our science committee, our teachers, and parents for supporting these students throughout the process of entering their projects in the fair. What a fantastic opportunity for these sea turtles!
Pictured Below:
Dane F. - 1st Place
William W. - 5th Place
Jacob G.
Denver S. - 2nd Place
Aiden K.
Trent O. - 5th Place
Jacob C. - 1st Place
Malia A.
Mallory G. - 5th Place
Title I Literacy and Social Studies Family Engagement Event
Lost and Found
Last Call for School Tile Orders
March 31st is the last day to order! If you would like to order a school tile with your child’s artwork on it for our Memory Hallway you can do it 2 ways:
1.) Go online to Square1Art.com. Access your child’s artwork. Click on school tile (4”) for $11.00. Total will be $11.77 with tax. There is no shipping if you send it to the school (not home).
2.) Send in cash (exact change) or a check made out to Sunrise Elementary for $11.77
Make sure to attach a note with your child’s name and teacher.
If you have any questions about ordering a school tile with your child's artwork, please contact Mrs. Snow, Sunrise Art Teacher.
PTO and School Advisory Council (SAC)
The next PTO (5 p.m.) and SAC (5:30 p.m.) meetings will be held on Monday, March 28th. Voting SAC members are required to attend this meeting in person in the Sunrise Media Center, and we strongly encourage everyone who would like to participate to attend in-person. We have enough space in the Media Center to social distance.
However, a virtual meeting link will be provided below for any parents or community members wishing to join via Zoom who feel more comfortable attending virtually. All Sunrise staff, parents, and community members are invited to attend!
Janene Jost is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: PTO and SAC
Time: Mar 28, 2022 05:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Join Zoom Meeting
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Meeting ID: 893 5885 1703
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Sunrise PTO Magnet Fundraiser: Our PTO has Sunrise auto magnets for sale for $5. This fundraiser will continue through the end of the year or until our magnet supply runs out. Please ask your child to get an order form from school if you would like to purchase one or more! These magnets are SO cute and can be used for anything, not just on your automobile. Thank you for supporting Sunrise!
Upcoming Sunrise Spirit Days & Events
Jeremiah’s Italian Ice Spirit Nights for the 21-22 School Year
Our business partners at Jeremiah’s Italian Ice want to help support Sunrise! Drop by Jeremiah’s Ice of West Melbourne (225 Palm Bay Road in Hammocks Landing Shopping Plaza) anytime from 12 noon to 10 p.m. on the dates below and mention Sunrise Elementary. We will receive 20% of supporter sales donated back to Sunrise! Enjoy a sweet treat while helping our school! Thank you!
April 5th
May 3rd
Texas Roadhouse Sunrise Spirit Nights for the 21-22 School Year
Our business partners at Texas Roadhouse on Malabar Road want to help support Sunrise! They have offered to donate a percentage of their earnings from our families who dine with them on the following dates this school year. Any purchases made between 4-8 p.m. on the following dates will count toward supporting our school, but you must mention Sunrise Elementary. They do honor take out dining purchases as part of our spirit night as an option for our families who do not wish to dine indoors. Enjoy dinner together while helping our school! Thank you!
March 29th
April 26th
May 24th
Sunrise is a Positive Behavior Intervention Support (PBIS) Model School
We center our actions on core standards of Be Safe! Work Hard! Be Nice! Students earn tokens and positive office referrals for going above and beyond to demonstrate these three Sunrise Standards and our PBIS expectations which fall under these standards. Students use their earned tokens to spend in our quarterly PBIS store. Please continue to encourage your sea turtles to follow our Sunrise Standards: Be Safe! Work Hard! Be Kind!
Positive Office Referrals: Students also enjoy receiving Positive Office Referrals for going above and beyond to demonstrate these Sunrise Standards. When students receive a Positive Office Referral, they receive a phone call from Mrs. Jost and Mrs. Isaacs into their classroom. The teacher places the call on “speaker phone” and the entire class gets to celebrate and congratulate their classmate on the referral. The student also receives a free kid’s meal from our business partners at Texas Roadhouse, along with administration’s specialty charms (Mrs. Jost’s is a dolphin and Mrs. Isaac’s is a lightning bolt) and a pencil. These charms are worth 2 at our quarterly PBIS thumb store. Students are also recognized and congratulated on WSUN, our morning news network. Student’s names are also written each quarter on the PBIS bulletin board outside of the front office. Parents, please be on the lookout for these referrals in your child’s backpack. We do send a copy home.
PBIS Standards Posters: Being a gold model PBIS school requires us to fulfill specific PBIS guidelines and expectations. One of these requirements is to ensure we have our standards posted around the school expectations are visible and clear to students and staff. We have expectations for the hallway, recess, cafeteria, and classroom. Mrs. Woodward and our PBIS committee identified the need to add bus and car loop to our expectation posters. In addition, our committee decided to amend our Be Nice standard to the language of Be Kind, as being kind is promoted more significantly in society. Our new posters reflect the amended standard of Be Kind (Be Nice will be changed to Be Kind in the left column). We would like to thank our Sunrise PTO for supporting the purchase of updated PBIS Standard posters. Our new posters arrived over Spring Break, and we will begin to replace the former posters as soon as possible.
Arrival & Dismissal Procedures
Morning Arrival Reminders
We thank you for adhering to our campus safety guidelines of not dropping off your child earlier than 7:30 a.m. as there is no supervision on campus until 7:30 a.m.
If your child will be eating breakfast at school, please drop off your child no later than 7:40 a.m. so there is time to eat before instruction begins at 8 a.m. Late student arrivals (after 8 a.m.) must be escorted to the front office by a parent for check-in. The morning car loop begins wrapping up around 7:55 a.m.
Tardy Students
Any student arriving after 8:00 a.m. must be escorted to the front office and signed in by a parent/guardian. The student must be present in the office with you to receive a tardy slip by one of our staff members. Please do not send your child to class prior to them receiving their tardy slip by a Sunrise employee. Thank you!
Dismissal Reminders
Dismissal is 2:30 p.m. daily and 1:15 p.m. EVERY Friday
Please note, our dismissal will be delayed if there is rainy or inclement weather during this time. Your patience is appreciated.
Approved Methods for Student Dismissal
Registered Bus Rider, Sunrise BAS program, Private Daycare Van Rider, Biker/Walker* (no vehicle drive ups*), or Car Loop
Dismissal via parent walk-up is not permitted. If you have a one-time specific circumstance, please go to the front office. Our staff will be happy to assist you. *Parents are welcome to walk-up to our biker/walker gate to meet their child to walk home. Parents entering the front gates via vehicle for student pick-up must use the car loop please.
We kindly ask you do not check out your students to avoid the car loop. Beginning at 2:15 p.m., our office staff begins working to help ensure our entire campus of students get home correctly and safely.
Car Loop Procedures
Please use both lanes of traffic once you pass the Welcome to Sunrise sign at the front entrance past the gates. If both lanes are not used, traffic will back up onto Mara Loma Blvd. and Babcock Street. Please do not block the lane of traffic used for vehicles exiting the parking lot. Form the second lane once you pass the welcome sign please. Once you approach the front of the school, a Sunrise staff member will help you merge to the correct lane for the pick-up of your student(s). If you are only picking up PreK or Kinder students, you will merge into the left lane and bypass the pick-up line in front of the school. You will get into line at the west end of the building near the bike rack for PreK/Kinder pick-up. If you are picking up 1st through 6th grade students, you will merge into the right lane and proceed to the pick-up line directly in front of the school. If you are picking up both, you will merge into the right lane to pick up your 1st through 6th grader(s) first, and then you will proceed down to the PreK/Kindergarten line. Our car loop will be slow during inclement weather. We thank you in advance for your patience. For your planning, our car loop has been running from 2:30 p.m. to about 2:45/2:50 p.m. Our goal is always student safety first. Please keep your car tag visible for our staff to see while in the car loop.
Volunteering at Sunrise
We are happy to be able to work with volunteers this year! If you would like to work in any capacity with children, you must be a Registered Volunteer. In order to apply to volunteer, please visit the BPS website at www.brevardschools.org. Click on Parents & Students, then click on Volunteers, then click Volunteer Application. The cost is $35.00 for the initial application and there is an annual renewal fee of $8.00. All volunteering must be pre-arranged and scheduled ahead of time with a Sunrise teacher or staff member. Mrs. Reynolds is our volunteer coordinator. Her email is Reynolds.dani@brevardschools.org
Mark Your Calendars
-“Be There!” ELA/SS Family Engagement Night (Multicultural/Around the World event)- March 31st from 5-7 p.m.
-3rd Quarter Report Cards Posted to FOCUS- March 24th
-Teacher/Student Holiday- April 15th
-Sunrise Career Day- April 21st
-4th Interim Ends- April 22nd
-Sunrise Spring Music Concert- April 28th (6:30 p.m. Strings, 7:00 p.m. Hand Chimes, 7:30 p.m. Chorus)
-Sunrise Teacher and Staff Appreciation Week- May 2nd-6th
-2022-23 Incoming Pre-K and Kindergarten Orientation- May 12th (4:30 to 5:30 p.m. Pre-K & 5:30 p.m. to 6;30 p.m. Kindergarten)
-Sunrise Volunteer Appreciation Breakfast- May 23rd 9:00 a.m.-10:00 a.m. (Invitations will be sent to our honorees)
-End of Year Early Dismissal Days: 5/24, 5/25, and 5/26 (Dismissal at 1:15 p.m.)
-Last Day of School for Students- May 26th
-Final Report Cards posted to FOCUS- May 27th
Sunrise Elementary School
Email: jost.janene@brevardschools.org
Website: https://www.brevardschools.org/SunriseES
Location: 1651 Mara Loma Boulevard, Palm Bay, FL, USA
Phone: (321)674-6145
Administrative Contact Information
Tina Isaacs, Assistant Principal
Email: Isaacs.tina@brevardschools.org
Phone: 321-674-6145 extension 53215
Cell: 321-917-3137
Janene Jost, Principal
Email: jost.janene@brevardschools.org
Phone: 321-674-6145 extension 53202
Cell: 321-917-0259
Please leave a message, and we will be happy to return your call. Please call the front office for time sensitive information. You may also leave a message for us with the office clerk.