Show all those wonderful mammas out there how much you love and appreciate them!

Saturday, May 12 at 10:00am
The Garden Committee needs your help! Bring your shovels, hedge clippers, work gloves, loppers and other garden tools and help build new garden plots for the kids.

• Turn the side yards abutting the schoolyard fence on Flood street into garden plots. Remove tress and dig up grass.
• Install short fencing to protect the garden plots
• Remove the lone shrub in front of the school on Foerster Street
  

We are lucky enough to have a few Stanford alumni volunteers coming to help, but we  need Sunnyside kids and parent volunteers as well. If you can make it for just an hour, please let us know.

Contact Karen Franklin at krf.1sf@gmail.com or Cathy Meyer at mulkeymeyer@att.net, (415) 794-2203 if you can help.

Sunnyside's Second Family Craft Night: Making Small Autograph/Sketch Books
Thursday, May 10th 6:00 to 7:30 pm
Sunnyside Cafeteria

Come join us for a fun evening of making small books with your family! We will have supplies for kids and parents to decorate the covers of small books that can be used as autograph books, sketch books or anything else.

• Dinner and drinks will be sold from 6- 6:30pm
• Book-making will happen from 6:15-7:30pm.

What You Need to Bring: markers and any recycled materials to share (wrapping paper, old maps/magazines/books/cards, swatches of wallpaper, glitter, buttons, ribbons, tin foil). You can also bring stickers, stamps and other items that you would like to use.

What We Will Provide: blank books, scissors, glue, crayons, and many recycled materials to inspire your book cover designs.

If you have questions, please contact Siobhan Fleming at siobhanflem@yahoo.com. We hope to see you there!

-Sunnyside PTA Art Committee-

If you would like to make a donation to support our family craft nights via DonorsChoose, please go to http://www.donorschoose.org/project/building-a-community-through-crafts- fa/757073/#materials

Please join us in celebrating our wonderful Sunnyside staff! The PTA will be hosting some special treats for our teachers and staff throughout the week, please be sure to take this opportunity to show your appreciation to our decided crew!

A week of Appreciation!

• Monday: Decorate staff room (this year we are going with a garden theme). Provide  home-baked cakes, cookies, cupcakes, and fruit
• Tuesday: The PTA will provide plants for the teachers and staff
• Wednesday: Staff Appreciation Lunch (details below)
• Thursday: Bring a flower for your teacher
• Friday: Staff Appreciation breakfast – provide bagels, muffins, pastries, fresh fruit and juice

This neighborhood association meeting is in the auditorium at St. Finn Barr and they would love to have you join.  Meet there at 6:00 for a paella dinner before the formal meeting starts.  This is a great way for our neighbors and community to connect.

The next meeting will be this coming Monday.  Join Mr. Simard after the flag salute for this open forum where parents bring the questions and topics.

Sunday, May 6th
SpringFest 2012, 11:00 – 3:00 pm
Fun-filled day of carnival games, entertainment, raffle drawings, auction, food, and much more!

Student photographs will be taken Thursday, May 3rd. Don't forget to brush your hair!

Sunday, April 29th
10am - 4pm
Join Sunnyside families and our neighbors in a day of celebration at the Glen Park Festival. Sunnyside will have a booth at the festival and will be selling homemade lemonade, stop by and say hi!

STAR testing continues this week - Mathematics for grades 2-5.  Next week, 5th graders only will have Science testing.

This is an exciting time where students have an opportunity to show the knowledge and skills they have accumulated over the course of this year.  You can help your child to do well by ensuring the following:

• Get a good night’s sleep
• Eat a good healthy breakfast
• During testing, listen & read carefully
• Relax while you take the test, show what you know