THANK YOU VERY MUCH!
Thanks to Sunnyside students for their enthusiasm for the garden!
Thanks to Sunnyside teachers for participating in the seed-germination activities last week and for their interest in the garden. Thanks especially to Kindergarten teacher Leah Plack, a strong supporter of the garden from day 1.
Thanks to Principal Nancy Schlenke for her support of and advocacy for the garden effort.
Thanks to the Green Schoolyard Alliance of SFUSD for its support of our garden effort and donation of 3 planter beds. Thanks to San Francisco ReBuilding Together for the donation of 3 planter beds.
Thanks to Lowe’s of South San Francisco for its generous Toolbox grant to launch our garden.
Thanks to Reva Bhatia for using her grant-writing mojo in the garden effort.
Thanks to Sloat Garden Center for organic seed donations (and to Cathy Meyer for making it happen).
Thanks to Sam Tonroy for designing a planter bench that will serve Sunnyside kids for years to come.
Thanks to Kim Kreis for creating the beautiful wall poster in the school’s entryway and thanks to Greg Chisolm for hanging it so securely.
Thanks to Sanjay of Bayview Green Waste Management for donations of truckloads of warm, sweet-smelling compost/soil that filled our planter boxes (and Sam Tonroy for making it happen).
Thanks to Sam Tonroy, Joe Meyer, and Sean Lynch for building a beautiful, redwood planter-bench prototype, soon to be replicated at our next garden work day, Saturday, March 21.
Thanks to Cathy Meyer for planning, organizing, and executing the seed germination activities in the classrooms.
Thanks to folks who helped assemble the seed-germination kits during the Feb. 21st garden work day: Troy (Wes’ dad), Mike Tzortzes, PTA Prez Kari Gray and her lovely son, and Ellen Cox.
Thanks to parents who volunteered in the classrooms for the seed-germination activities: Cathy Meyer, Eric Westby, Kristie, Julie Tonroy, Kelly Kocella, Karen Franklin, Ellen Cox, Kari Gray, and Wendy Chisholm.
Thanks to teachers Leah Plack and Kit Bell for opening the school up early on Saturday mornings for perhaps overly-enthusiastic parents.
Thanks to Mr. Yee for locking up the school after the Feb. 21st work day.
Thanks to Jenny Isenberg and Amy Nelson for making a cash donation to the garden effort.
Thanks to Jenny Isenberg, Lynda (Wesley’s mom), and Karen Franklin for taking photographs to document the garden effort.
Thanks to Sunnyside PTA for its support and resources.
An enormous thanks to Cathy Meyer, who has given so much of her time, enthusiasm, and ideas to the garden effort with no indication of slowing down anytime soon!
I hope I didn’t forget anyone!
What’s coming next:
Saturday, March 21: Garden Work Day
We will need many hands to build planter benches, create planting kits for students to transplant seedlings into garden plots, do container gardening, and more. Principal Schlenke will be hosting a SFUSD information session for incoming K parents who did not get any of their lottery choices from Round 1, so please come and let Sunnyside shine! More details to come.
Week of March 23: Transplanting Seedlings into Planter Boxes
Volunteers are needed to help teachers and students transplant their seedlings into the garden plots.
It’s time for our annual Scholastic Book Fair to raise money for Sunnyside Arts programs and 5th grade promotion. Please check out the Scholastic website for more information and to create your wishlist.
The Book Fair will be open every day afterschool from 1:30 until 3:30 so you can stop by when you pick up your student from school and after your teacher conference.
On Saturday, March 21, the BookFair will be open from 9:00am until 1:00pm so you can invite your friends and neighbors to stop by.
9am – 12noon
Meet in School Cafeteria
Sponsored by the PTA
Join Sunnyside families, students and staff to sweep, dust and clean our classrooms. Teachers will prepare a list of cleaning and organizing tasks for their rooms. You can either help your own teacher or any other classroom.
We provide some cleaning supplies, but you may want to bring your own supplies, rags or rubber gloves. Refreshments will be provided afterwards.
Please help if you can. You can
- rent a steam carpet cleaning machine and bring it to the school on Saturday morning.
- donate cleaning supplies and old rags
- purchase bolts and screws to repair desks (will be reimbursed)
- help greet and assign volunteers to tasks and hand out cleaning supplies
- drive a load of trash to the dump afterwards
- take donations to Goodwill or another thrift store.
- help supervise the children in the yard.
- donate $$ for supplies. (Cash or Check to Sunnyside PTA)
Thanks for helping make our school shine like the top of the Chrysler Building!
To everyone who made our recent International Pot Luck a screaming success, Thank you!
I think everyone in attendance had a great time. The food was delicious and the acrobats (www.redpanda2000.com) were fantastic! I think a new tradition has been born for our annual pot luck dinner.
I also would like to thank all the parents who lent a hand with set-up. It was amazing how quickly the cafeteria was transformed into a lovely dining hall. And everyone who quickly pitched in and helped with serving and clean up. Everything went smoothly and efficiently. Thank you all for your hard work and dedication to Sunnyside school. – Karen Franklin, Potluck Coordinator.
Join us for our third annual Science Night on Dec 2 at 5:30pm until 7pm.
Every class will host a hands-on Science activity for students and adults to do together. Students and adults who complete eight projects receive a special prize and a raffle ticket for a science activity prize.
Pizza will be available at 5:30pm and special treats will be sold to purchase additional Science supplies for the classrooms.
Groups of students met a few blocks from school to form “Walking School Buses” and all walk to school together on Walk to School Day 2008. Everyone enjoyed healthy treats prizess when they arrived. Thanks to Karen Frnaklin for organizing the event and taking photos of Walk to School Day and the Morning Stretches (M,W,F after announcements).
Thanks to Kelly Kocella, Karen Franklin, Jackie and Quinton Herzstein, Jimmy Acevas, Margaret Chesler, Laura Yanow, Elizabeth Arias, Della Davis, Wendy Chisholm, Kathie Smith, Ms. Ruby Bell, Mrs. Chen, and all the volunteers and staff who helped make our Octoberfest fun for all! Students enjoyed playing games, winning prizes and showing off their costumes in the costume parade. Even the threat of rain didn’t dampen our day. Thanks to Karen Franklin for photos
Thanks to all of the teachers and students who came by to visit rooms 105 and 106 for Ability Awareness Day. Every student got to visit our special education rooms, meet all of the students in the classes to find out what they do at school and what makes them special. K-2nd enjoyed a slide show during their visit and 3rd-5th got to sign up to be in the buddy program this year. We want all students to know that they are important and belong here in the Sunnyside community. Thanks also to the parents who took the time to talk to their children about their experiences on Ability Awareness Day. Next semester, we are hosting a Fun Ability Awareness Games Day on the schoolyard where all students play games that challenge their abilities.
Friday, Oct. 31 is October-fest, Sunnyside School’s annual fall festival. We’ve had terrific response to our sign-up sheets, however we still need help running games booths in the afternoon on the day of the event. If you have an hour to spare on Friday, come and play a game with the kids at school. Feel free to just show up or contact Kelly Kocella and tell her you want to help.
Come and welcome the new Sunnyside families at Kindergarten Orientation night, Thursday, August 21, 2008. Current families can meeet new students in the yard at 5pm before they visit their new classrooms at 6pm.
