Anne Sullivan Elementary School -

✨ Get to know Anne Sullivan Staff! ✨ Here is our 1st grade team and our SIPPs reading teachers. In 1st grade it is a big year for reading as we support all learnings and their foundational reading skills. Our SIPPs teachers support our 1st grade team to help all readers get to grade level. Our 1st grade team consists of: 102 - Mrs. Kringen 103 - Mrs. Wipf 104 - Mrs. McFarlane 105 - Mrs. Cunningham SIPPs Full Time Teacher - Mrs. Tverberg SIPPs Part Time Teacher - Mrs. Neu

📚 Early Childhood Book Bash 2024! 📚 On Thursday the 12th, our Early Childhood students and families celebrated with a book bash. They got to enjoy a snack, do a craft, enjoy a book reading, and take home a free book! Overall, we had over 40 families come and enjoy this event, and the kids had a BLAST! Thank you to all of those that came and enjoyed! We will share as more events come along!

FREE Preschool! The Sioux Falls School District is looking to increase their preschool enrollment. Openings for children aged 3-5 but specifically looking for 4-year-olds ready to start preschool. Please contact the school district if you are interested!

✨ Get to know Anne Sullivan Staff! ✨ Check out our Specials Team! This team includes our Physical Education teacher, our Music teacher, our Library teacher, and our Art Teacher. In the Sioux Falls School District, all students have access to these specials classes throughout the week. We run on an ABCD day schedule so that each week students get all specials and do not miss on days we do not have school. While these teachers work hard to incorporate academics into their classes, they also help students explore other areas such as athletics, singing, instruments, painting, 3D design, and literature. "Learning ignites curiosity we never even knew we had."

📸 2024-2025 Picture Day is HERE! 📸 Tomorrow, Monday, September 9th is school picture day! Send in your picture forms if you would like to order pictures. ALL students will get their picture taken for the school directory! :)

September Focus - Leader in Me - Habit 1 Be Proactive - YOU are in charge of YOU! This month we help students to be proactive, in their learning, in their social life, at home, and in the community. Within this skill we focus on having a "Can Do Attitude" which helps students to focus on the things they can do and can control as well as trying new things. A big part of this leadership skill is that trying new things, taking on challenges, and always trying before giving up makes us stronger and smarter. "You will never know what you are capable of if you don't try." - Sarah Michelle Geller

✨ Get to know Anne Sullivan Staff! ✨ Presenting our 5th Grade Team, Mrs. Sundermann, Mr. Koerner, Mrs. Pritchard, and Mrs. Madison! This year we will also have 2 student teachers joining us, Mrs. Wiley and Mrs. Rippentrop. In 5th grade the student's day looks a little different as they move from teacher to teacher for different core areas of learning. Besides continuing to improve on their academic skills this is also a big grade to start preparing for middle school. After 5th grade, students will leave Anne Sullivan and go onto middle school for adventures, growth, and exploration. From here our 5th grade students say, "goodbye to elementary school and hello to middle school." ✨

✨ Get to know Anne Sullivan Staff! ✨ Bring on Kindergarten! This amazing team works with our newest learners in the Anne Sullivan community. Over the course of the year our kindergarten students will build foundational skills in reading, writing, math, and critical thinking that will help them to succeed on their educational path! Overall, the goal for the kindergarten students is to become a confident reader! 📚 "Kindergarten children are confident in spirit, infinite in resources, and eager to learn. Everything is still possible." -Robert Fulghum

Anne Sullivan is a Leader in Me School! We are entering our 4th year as a Leader in Me School, helping kids to build skills for a bright future, we wanted to share this with you at home. "Leader in Me is a PK–12 evidence-based model focused on leadership, culture, and academics that equips students, educators, and families with the leadership and life skills needed to thrive in a dynamic world." In each of our classrooms, students work on building community, perseverance, grit, proactive social skills, and a voice to advocate for themselves and their learning. Each month we will break down the skills and share them with home so that you can talk with your student(s) about these skills as well! "Developing leaders one child at a time."

Reminder: There will be no school on Friday, August 30th, and Monday, September 2nd in observance of Labor Day! Enjoy the long holiday weekend and we will see you back in school on Tuesday, September 3rd! 👌

✨ Get to know Anne Sullivan Staff! ✨ Here presents our school's BASE team. This team consists of our administration, school counselors, social skills teacher and facilitator. This team works with all students in our building on their social skills, emotional awareness, positive peer interactions, and grit through hard academic tasks. Aaron Jensen - School Counselor Libby Bossman - Counselor/Success Coordinator Alyssa Fischer - Tier II Teacher (Social/Emotional Teacher) Seth Muller Tier II Facilitator

✨ Get to know Anne Sullivan Staff! ✨ Each week we will highlight our AMAZING Anne Sullivan Team so that you can get to know them and all that they do! 😊 This week we are starting with our awesome Administration and Office Staff. Nikkie Duin - Principal - Starting her 5th year at Anne Sullivan Nikki Karst - Assistant Principal Lisa Jennings - Office Secretary Shannon Clawson - Office Secretary - new to Anne Sullivan Carissa Scherschligt - Nurse - new to Anne Sullivan These amazing individuals can help you with all things school; lunch accounts, attendance, absences, concerns, etc! Stop in and give them a visit if needed! ✨

School is rocking and rolling already this year! In order to best serve our students and check for all of their growth and understanding, we will start our MAP testing on Monday. Each year we do MAP testing 3 times a year to track growth and learning in the areas of reading and math. This information is shared with you at parent-teacher conferences.

Anne Sullivan Staff welcomes everyone back for a wonderful school year! We have wrapped up the first 2 days of school and the learning has already begun! There are so many great things to come this year with learning, growth, experiences, and fun! We are so happy that you are all a part of our Anne Sullivan Family! 💙 Have a wonderful weekend and we will see you on Monday!

The 2024-2025 School Year is HERE!!!! Tomorrow, August 22nd, 2024, is the FIRST day of school! We cannot wait to see everyone and welcome back all of our wonderful students for a new year of learning and growth! Reminder school starts 7:55am. The breakfast door opens at 7:30am and other doors to classrooms open at 7:45. It is going to be an AMAZING school year!!

The first day of school is just over a month away! More info on open houses to come soon, but for now, please save these dates! If you haven't yet completed the Annual Student Information Update, please do so here. https://www.sf.k12.sd.us/page/school-registration See you soon!

LAST CALL for Camp Invention! Secure your child's spot TODAY!

🌟 That's a wrap on the 23-24 school year! 🌟 Today all of our students got to celebrate their last school day with some fun! We had bouncy houses, treats, arts and crafts, face painting and more! We had such an amazing school year with great memories and lots of growth!! Have a wonderful summer! See you in August!

🌟 Multilingual Students WIDA Graduation!! 🌟 Today we had a number of students graduate from ML services based on their success with the Spring WIDA test! We are so proud of these students and all of their hard work! They got to celebrate with ice cream and all the toppings! 🍨

Special Native American Guest! Today Starr Chief Eagle came to Anne Sullivan all the way from Rapid City for a special Native American performance! Some kids even got to go up and perform with her! She will also be performing this summer at the Levitt! On July 27th she will perform at 10:30am for all families to enjoy!