April 26, 2012 APRIL
Looking ahead to the 2012-2013 school year
27 School Play, 7:00—8:30 p.m.
MAY 3 7 11 15
Plant sale pick-up Twins Family Outing, 7:10 p.m. 3rd Grade Music Program, 9:20 a.m. PTSA Meeting, 7:00 p.m. Open Gym/Tech Night, 7:00 p.m. 18 2nd Grade Music Program, 9:20 a.m. 22 Safety Patrol to MOA, 11-3:00 p.m. 24 1st Grade Music Program, 3:00 p.m. Art Club Field Trip 25 Track and Field Day, Grades 4&5 28 No School, Memorial Day 29 Field Day, Grades 1-3 31 Family Picnic and Spring Concert, 5-7:00 p.m.
JUNE 1 4 4 5
SHIFT swim, EMS 12-2:30 p.m. 1st Gr. Picnic, St. Mary’s Park, 9:30-1:00 p.m. 5th Grade Party, 1-3:00 p.m. 4th Grade Picnic, Oberlin Park 3rd Gr. Picnic, St. Mary’s Park 6 2nd Gr. Picnic, St. Mary’s Park, 10:30-1:30 pm 5th Grade DARE graduation, 2:15 p.m. 7 LAST DAY OF SCHOOL FOR STUDENTS Awards Assembly, 1:45 p.m. Sunset Hill Elementary 13005 Sunset Trail Plymouth, MN 55441 Office: 763 745-5900 Health Office/Attendance: 763 745-5915 Karen Keffeler, Principal Joanne Doucet, Secretary Internet Address: First name.last name@wayzata.k12.mn.us
It’s that time of the school year where we begin to plan for next year while keeping students engaged for the last few weeks of school. Your child’s current teacher will carefully consider their classroom placement for next year. If you would like to have some input as to the placement of your child(ren) for the 2012-2013 school year, there are forms available online and in the school office. These forms are due back at Sunset Hill no later than May 25th. The form allows you to provide additional information on your child’s social and academic needs. There are many factors that are contemplated when placing students into classrooms. We consider balance, learning styles, special needs, student/teacher ratios, and staff input. Our goal is the best placement for your child, and we take this very seriously when planning for next year. We cannot honor requests for specific teachers. We will have many staffing changes for the fall. Sunset Hill is anticipating five classroom sections in grades K, 1 and 2. There will be four sections in third and fourth grade. Fifth grade will be reduced to three sections. Andrew Worth will be joining the fourth grade team. Beth Dikeman will join the third grade team. Sara Koskela and Adam Hinnenkamp will be joining the second grade team, and Janelle Barr will be joining the Kindergarten team. We have open positions in first and fifth grade. We say goodbye to Lesya Parekh, Liz Gilbertson and Vicki Hester, who will be retiring. Janette Wachs is moving with her family to Arizona. We are grateful for their contributions to the Sunset Hill Community. The Board of Education has approved the addition of four classrooms at Sunset Hill. We will do our best to keep parents informed of all the decisions. Construction is scheduled to begin in October!