Sunburst Schools

Researching Dinos in Miss Aschim's ELA classes!

Jur"math"ic Park: 3rd Grade Students in my math class spent the week building their own Dinosaur Park. Fourth Grade math students worked together to find and solve different units of measurement in various activities. Each activity helped students become dinosaur and theme-park experts!

My favorite classroom transformation came to the third and fourth grade rooms this week! Jurassic Park! We spent the week learning about how to become dinosaur theme park experts in math, producers-consumers-decomposers by digging in "dino dung" (brownie mix), and even had time for some art and STEM activities creating our own dinosaurs! Miss Aschim participated in the fun in her classroom as well, reading a Magic Treehouse Book about dinos and doing a dinosaur research project, as well as a trivia game!

Dino Dung: Students drew a card out of the dino dung (brownie mix), either a picture of a producer, consumer, or decomposer. Once we rinsed off all the "dung" from the cards we created food chains!

Our Paraprofessionals are Unbelievable! Over the past week, Sunburst Elementary celebrated our unbelievable paraprofessionals. Mrs. Dunk, Mr. Fleisher, Mrs. Robins, and Mrs. Smith do so much on a daily basis to help our students and staff! We appreciate all they do and recognize how unbelievable their contributions are to our school.

Thanksgiving Break Sunburst Schools will not have school as we all celebrate the Thanksgiving holiday from Wednesday, November 23 through Sunday, November 27th. We are thankful for the wonderful students we get to work with daily as well as the tremendous community support for Sunburst Schools.

A few students were busy disguising a turkey so he hopefully won't get eaten for Thanksgiving dinner!

Refiner/Wildcat Extracurricular Activities for Nov. 21-28, 2022 Monday, November 21 JHBB @ Rudyard - Girls A - 4pm (Girls B to follow with two 5 min quarters)/ Boys A - 5:30pm (Boys B to follow with two 5 min quarters)

This morning the Sunburst Honor Society delivered books and blankies to our local library story hour. After enjoying several Thanksgiving-themed songs and stories lead by librarian Lindsay Sandon, NHS members helped the story-hour kiddos build a craft, then gave each kiddo a book and a blanket to enjoy.

High School Basketball Practice High school basketball practice begins tomorrow, Thursday, November 17. The high school girls will practice from 3:45-5:45pm in the elementary gym. The high school boys practice has been moved, due to the weather, to Thursday evening from 5:45-8:00pm in the elementary gym. Please contact Coach Aschim for the boys or Coach Tharp for the girls if you have questions.

It's igloo time! 1st & 2nd graders are collecting plastic, gallon milk jugs. Please send in your rinsed gallon milk/water jugs to school and drop off with Miss Tomsheck or Mrs. Pace! Thank you!

NTC Fall Athletic Awards Fall sports athletes were recognized for their accomplishments. Thanks to the booster club who provided cake and punch. Students were recognized for their efforts in football, volleyball, cross country, and for being academic all state. Congrats to all of our student athletes and their fall sports coaches.

Refiner & Wildcat Extracurricular Activities for November 14-20 Monday Nov 14 JH Girls vs. St. Jude - B girls at 4pm/ A girls at 4:45pm JH Boys @ Cut Bank - B boys at 4pm/ A boys at 4:45 pm HS Fall Awards at 6:30pm in the NTC Auditorium Thursday Nov 17 JH vs. North Star - B girls 4pm/ B boys 4:45pm/ A girls 5:30pm/ A boys 6:45pm First day of HS basketball Friday Nov 18 JH vs. Box Elders - Girls 3pm/ Boys 4:30pm (IN THE ELEM GYM) Saturday Nov 19 JH Basketball @ Big Sandy - CANCELLED *Please note that the Friday game is in the elementary gym and the Saturday game was cancelled due to Big Sandy's state championship football game.

Fish ID Today our 3rd-6th grade students, as part of the Hooked on Fishing Program sponsored by the Montana Fish, Wildlife, and Parks, learned about identifying a wide variety of fish in Montana. Mr. Nate shared many interesting and enlightening facts about a vast array of fish.

If you graduated between 2011-2014 and would like to have your Special Education file, please contact Mrs. Farbo at 406-937-2811 by January 1, 2023. If Sunburst Schools does not hear or get contacted about the files, they will be destroyed.

Fourth grade kids played a game in science called "Eat or Be Eaten"! They created food chains with predators and prey, and producers and consumers. The students who made the longest food chain won the game!

We have rescheduled the Explore America Meeting to be held on Tuesday, November 15th at 7:00P.M. The meeting will still take place in the NTCHS library. Remember, students currently in 8th through 11th grade are eligible to go on this trip! A parent must attend. Thank you! See you Tuesday!

Third grade students learned that area can be measured by counting the number of unit squares in a figure. In today's lesson they explored the meaning of unit squares used to measure area. They concentrated on finding area using differently sized unit squares.

NTC students, what a simple way to win $500!

Today we had an awards assembly for honor roll and perfect attendance. Congratulations to our junior high students. Keep up the good work.