Montana Wax Museum:
Jeanette Rankin, Chief Dull Knife, Evelyn Cameron, and Marcus Daly
Montana Wax Museum:
Taylor Gordon, Susie Walking Bear Yellowtail, Charles M. Russell, and George Oiye
4th graders just wrapped up a Unit in Social Studies celebrating many of Montana's most famous people. To display what they learned, students held a Montana wax museum. Watching the kids light up when they learned of the incredible things our own people have done was incredible to see and made my educator heart oh so happy!
November 2022 Refiner Newspaper Released!
Please check out the latest news from Sunburst Schools in the newly released 2022 November issue of the Refiner!
https://www.sunburst.k12.mt.us/page/refiner-newspaper
Wildcat Girls and Boys Tourney Brackets
Refiner/Wildcat Extracurricular Activities for November 28-Dec. 5
It is tournament week for JH basketball:
The JH Wildcat Boys play Wednesday @ Gilford at 3pm
If they win - Thursday @ Gilford 3pm
If they lose - Thursday @ Gilford 6pm
The JH Wildcat Girls play Wednesday @ Rudyard 4:30pm
Leave time is 1:55pm at the high school and 2:00pm at the elementary
If they win - Thursday @ Rudyard 4:30pm
If they lose - Thursday @ Rudyard 7:30pm
Lunch Change
We will be having chicken nuggets/strips on Tuesday, November 29.
Monday, November 28 Breakfast Change
On Monday, we will have a breakfast change from cereal to breakfast bars.
The next Explore America Parent Meeting will be held on Thursday, December 1st at 7:00P.M.in the NTCHS library. Looking forward to seeing you all again and having the answers to all of our questions!
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!