Sunnyside Elementary
PTA Times
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
Principal: Nancy Schlenke
PTA President: Kari Gray
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PTA Meeting January 25th, 2009 , 5:30pm
Come and meet other parents at the monthly PTA meeting and learn about what is going on at Sunnyside. FREE refreshments and childcare provided.
During the January business meeting the PTA Bylaw Amendments and Standing Rules will be presented to the membership for approval. Both Bylaws and Standing Rules require two-thirds (2/3rd) vote of the membership in attendance for passage.
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Winter Read-a-thon Results
Thanks students and parents for making the Read-A-Thon a success; 140 students read 50579 minutes, or 843 hours. .
Winning classrooms will receive a grade level appropriate reference book, either a dictionary, atlas, or thesaurus.
- Kindergarten- Ms. Converse’s class read 7178 minutes.
- 1st Grade - Ms. Quillin’s class read 4216 minutes.
- 2nd Grade - Ms. Bell’s class read 5294 minutes.
- 3rd Grade - Ms. Lee’s class read 5803 minutes.
- School Winners - Ms. Rensman 4th/5th Grade Class read 9494 minutes and will have a pizza party.
Individual winners received a $10 Scholastic Books gift certificate.
- Kindergarten– Gabriel Amrull from Ms. Converse’s class.
- 1st Grade – Quinn Armentrout & Olivia Chaplin from Ms. Quillin’s class.
- 2nd Grade –John Luiz Agranum from Ms. Bell’s class.
- 3rd Grade – Eve Ngyuen from Ms. Lee’s class.
School Winner –
Una Chan from Ms. Hilmoe’s class received a $25 Scholastic Books gift certificate
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“Tap the Sky” Grant Awarded to Sunnyside
Sunnyside Elementary, in conjunction with the SFUSD Department of Sustainability and Green Schoolyard Alliance, has been awarded a grant to implement a rainwater reclamation program. The addition of a rainwater cistern to the school garden will give students a more complete picture of ecology, life sciences, and sustainability concepts. Sunnyside students will use the rainwater harvesting, composting and vermiculture programs to make a self sustainable, organic school garden.
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Help Wanted! 2010 Sunnyside Events
Sunnyside needs your help. Contact Kari Gray at kehgray@yahoo.com if you can help with any of these projects or events
JANUARY 16 10:00am– Bring your chainsaws, hedge clippers, shovels, work gloves, loppers and other gardening tools. We need to remove shrubs and hedges to prepare the beds for planting. Contact Cathy Meyer at (415) 794-2203 or mulkeymeyer@ att.net if you are available
January 21st - Math and Science Night
5:00 to 7:30pmFood Sales and Donations
Drop off baked goods in the office or help sell food in the cafeteria at 5:00pm . Prepare a potluck dish for the teachers to eat before the event starts. If you would like to help your student’s classroom with their project, contact their teacher directly. Contact Katy Nelson at pkweir@comcast.net or (415) 216-8773 if you can help.
Saturday, February 6 & 20
10:00am - Amend soil, install beds, reseed grass, plant flowering shrubs and drought tolerant plants. Contact Cathy Meyer at (415) 794-2203 or mulkeymeyer@ att.net if you are available.
International Potluck Set-up and clean up
Thursday, Feb 11 5:00pm- Greet and manage volunteers, accept food donations and set up cafeteria and hallways for event. Help clear tables and get the cafeteria ready for the next school day. Contact Kari Gray at kehgray@yahoo.com to volunteer.
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SpringFest 2010 - Planning Meeting
Wednesday, February 3rd at 5:30pm
School Library
It’s time to start planning for SpringFest! SpringFest will be Saturday, May 22.Come to our first meeting to find out more about our biggest event of the year. Share your ideas about raffle prizes, carnival games, food sales, and the student art show.
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2010 Sunnyside Events - At a Glance
Math and Science Night
Thursday, January 21st 5:30pm – 7:30pm
Please join us for fun games and activities!
Parents, caregivers and students visit each classroom to do hands-on math or science projects together. Students get their Math & Science Passports “stamped” to receive a small participation prize.
Pizza and baked goods will be available for sale from 5:00pm to 6:00pm in the cafeteria for an early dinner. If you can help set up or sell pizza, meet in the cafeteria at 5:00pm . If you can donate baked goods, please leave them in the office before 5pm. Contact Katy Nelson at pkweir@comcast.net or (415) 216-8773 if you can help.
International Potluck Dinner
Thursday, February 11th 5:30 – 7:30pm
Hope to see all our Sunnyside friends for a cherished tradition, the International Potluck Dinner held in the cafeteria/auditorium. Bring a favorite potluck dish to share with your Sunnyside friends. If you can help set up, clean up or serve food, look for the sign up forms going home soon! Katy Nelson at pkweir@comcast.net or (415) 216-8773 if you can help.
During the holiday season, you may have planned to give a gift to your classroom teacher. Please consider a gift that your teacher really wants - a gift to Sunnyside Elementary School. Teachers have made up their wish lists with ideas for rainy day games, puzzles and other classroom needs. We’ve hung them on our “Season of Giving” bulletin board in the hallway. THERE ARE STILL MANY ITEMS OUR TEACHERS NEED FOR THEIR CLASSROOMS. Please consider giving gifts to other classrooms, too.
Please remove a sun(s) from the tree if you plan to give that gift. You can bring it to the teacher, class, or school the last week of school (December 14-18) before the break. Please check back in case we add more wish list items!
Thanks!
All teachers
$ towards school laminator ($1000 total needed)
Steam cleaner vacuum cleaner
Give to Sunnyside PTA
Ms. Yee, Room 101
1. Vacuum cleaner
Dirt Devil Featherlike Bagless Vacuum
Item #: M085845
Cost: $47.99
Location: Target
2. Printer Ink
HP PSC All-in-one
Black: HP 92
Tricolor: Hp 93
3. Printer Ink
HP Photosmart C4680
Black: HP 60
Tricolor: Hp 60
4. Batteries (for wireless mouse and keyboard in the classroom)
Double AA
Any brand
Ms. Converse, Room 102
$ towards MacBook purchase - Give to parent Dana Pluck,
Staples gift certificate,
Kinko’s gift certificate,
Lakeshore Learning gift certificate,
Borders gift certificate
Ms. Plack, Room 103
Printer (such as HP LaserJet P1005 Printer, $130),
Black sharpie markers,
4 sets of Scotch® Laminating Pouches 8.5″x 11″ 50 pc (~$15 each),
Universal remote control,
Lakeshore Alphabet Sounds teaching tubs LC856 • $149.00,
Lakeshore Listening Storage Center LC4254 • $39.95,
4 sets of Lakeshore Heavy Duty Book Bins BX710X • $29.95
Ms. Quillin, Room 104
5 Jump ropes,
2 Nerf Footballs,
3 Hula Hoops,
KidKnows Outdoor Thermometer: http://www.kidknows.net/,
Astrobrights multicolored cardstock paper (1 ream),
Avery inkjet mailing labels #8160 (or similar),
Long-arm stapler,
Colored inkpads for stamps (red, blue, green, black),
Games: Sorry, Scrabble Jr., Mancala, Chutes and Ladders,
Lakeshore Items: http://www.lakeshorelearning.com/home/home.jsp,
Blends & Digraphs Word Work Center, #DD692;
Roll & Read Phonics Games Complete Set, #EE590X;
Phonics Fun Wheels, #LM412;
Rubber Stamps – Uppercase, #ED1470;
Rubber Stamps – Lowercase, #ED1471;
Digraphs Puzzles, #GG207;
Vowel Combinations Puzzles, #GG197;
Picture Perfect: Compound Words Game, #EE282;
Gone Fishin’: Contractions Game, #EE28
Ms. Chen, Room 107
Cassroom digital camera,
mini fridge (can be used),
class laminating sheets,
class glue sticks
Ms. Rensman, Room 109
Games: Uno, Sorry, Monopoly, Battleship, Connect Four, Boggle, 4-way count down, Mancala, Puzzles,
Dry erase markers,
Copy paper,
Small glue gun & glue sticks,
personal laminator sheets (standard letter size),
Office Max gift card,
Target gift card
Dream wish item: document camera (ELMO),
Ms. Grande, Room 110
Nonfiction books- all levels sports, animals, science, body anatomy, geography,etc;
Beginning chapter books- Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Flat Stanley;
long vowel games,
floor puzzles,
shelving,
drying rack,
jump ropes long and small,
Target gift card,
cd of children’s music,
field trip scholarship,
classroom picture,
dictionary/thesaurus,
play cash register,
old computers that you may not use anymore,
Michael’s gift card,
globe
Ms. Tucker, Room 207
3 Connect Four games,
3Checkers game,
10 packs of markers,
10 packs of color pencils,
2 packs of card stock paper (white),
2 packs of color copy paper,
40 two pocket folders,
20 notebooks,
paper towels,
Mini fridge,
Microwave oven,
$ to develop photos,
screen for overhead projector,
White board
Ms. Hilmoe, Room 205
LED projector,
Elmo Document Camera/reader,
Up DVD,
Bridge to Terabithia DVD,
skinny dry erase pens,
paper,
pencils,
500 piece puzzles
Ms. Bell, Room 208
Connect Four,
Checkers,
Chess,
Uno,
Legos or construction toys,
playground soft balls,
lined and unlined chart paper,
white and colored copy paper,
gift certificates to scholastic or bookstore,
Age appropriate DVD’s science, literature, movies
During the holiday season, you may be planning to give a gift to your classroom teacher. Please consider a gift that your teacher really wants - a gift to Sunnyside Elementary School. Teachers have made up their wish lists with ideas for rainy day games, puzzles and other classroom needs. We’ve hung them on our “Season of Giving” bulletin board in the hallway and posted the list here.
Please remove a sun(s) from the tree if you plan to give that gift. You can bring it to the teacher, class, or school the last week of school (December 14-18) before the break.
Best wishes for the holiday season and the new year!
Thank you!
Sunnyside PTA
The Sunnyside Library will host a Barefoot Book Fair November 16-20. This will be our second annual Barefoot Fair! Barefoot Books is a very unique children’s publisher whose books encourage kids to “explore, create and connect” to the world around them with a wonderful mix of beautiful artwork and whimsical, thought-provoking text. Check out their website at: www.barefootbooks.com.
This Fair is a benefit for the Sunnyside Library, and volunteers are needed during preview times and sales times throughout the week and at the Family Night, which will be on Wednesday, November 17th, from 5:00pm to 7:00pm. Monday and Tuesday will be preview days where classes rotate through the Fair to get a first look at the books and merchandise (the Fair includes related puppets, puzzles and other educational toys.) Then the Fair will be open before and after school and during recess and lunch so that children can browse and purchase. Families are welcome any time during the Fair, but Family Night will provide a time for working parents and guardians to visit. There will also be a way to purchase online with all profits going to the Sunnyside Library.
Please support our beautiful library and volunteer to help at the fair! If you’d like to help out, email me at akalulu58@sbcglobal .net. Thank you for supporting
the Sunnyside Library! ~ Laura
Planning Meeting
Monday, Sept 21
5pm - Time Changed from Newsletter
Room 107, Ms. Chen’s room
Octoberfest is a fun community event for the school. We set up a carnival in the cafeteria on Thursday. Friday, all the students take turns coming into the cafeteria to play games or do crafts. Just before lunch, there is a parade in the yard with dancing(!) and the older kids come to the cafeteria in the afternoon.
Please bring your ideas about other fun activities you think we can organize. If you can’t attend the planning meeting, please email or phone Kari with your ideas. Her contact information is in the bright yellow Involvement Guide you received at the beginning of the year.
We usually send a volunteer and donation form home in the Wednesday envelope and also online in an email. Then we make a list of things to do. If you are able to help coordinate the task lists or volunteers, please let Kari know.
Sunnyside School tours will be on Thursdays at 9am, starting on October 6. You will be able to visit all three classrooms, the library, cafeteria and yard and some of the upper grade classrooms. Tours are lead by parents and you have the opportunity to meet with the principal after each tour. These tours are a good opportunity to experience the classrooms and the style of the teachers.
There will also be two tours for prospective parents on Satruday, October 17 and Saturday, November 14 at 10am. The tour will start in the library include the opportunity to meet current Kindergarten parents and some school staff. You will have the opportunity to meet with the principal. These tours are a good opportunity to meet more Sunnyside families and talk for a little longer than the Tuesday tour.
Well-behaved prospective students and their siblings are welcome on the tours. Call 469-4747 to reserve a space.
More great prizes added today! Here is our prize list as of 5-12-09
Disneyland 4 passes
Six Flags G. America 2 passes
Bonfante Gardens 2 tickets
Aquarium of the Bay 2 passes
California Academy of Sciences 4 passes
Bay Area Discovery Museum 2 passes
Precita Eyes SF Mural tour for 2
Tech Museum Innovation 4 passes
Zeum 3 family passes (3 raffle prizes)
AcroSports 25.00 gift certificate
Atlas Chiropractic 1 Month of Treatment
Bianchi Fitness 3 month boot camp for 2, 60 minute personal training
Mission Cliffs Climbing Gym 2 intro classes and rentals for 2
MyGym 8 week membership
Noe Valley Dance 10 adult dance classes
Noe Valley Dance Beginner Childrens tap dance classes (2 certs-2 prizes)
Pump it Up SF 2 hour birthday party (M-th)
SF Gymnastics 8 classes
Sky High Sports Family pass (4) one hour trampoline
Sol Gym 300.00 Fitness Package
Yerba Buena Ice Skating 4 admissions and skate rentals
Charity Kahn CD and spot in Jamboodas summer camp
Martha Bruce Photography complimentary session 1 8×10 print
Baskin Robbins Ice cream cake certificate
Canyon Market 25.00 gift card
Destinations Bakery 25.00 gift certificate
Molly Stones Tower Mkt gift cert
Quake kit in Frisco 3 day emergency kit/family of 4
Vino Rosso Winebar (2) 25.00 Gift Certificates (2 prizes)
Electronic Arts variety of kids video games (could be several prizes)
Leapfrog Learning Leapster and games
Nvidia 3 video games
Young at Art is a nine day celebration of student artwork in San Francisco at the de Young Museum. Each year, Sunnyside teachers five visual arts submissions to represent the work of Sunnyside students. Come and see the pieces displayed in the museum. www.YoungAtArt.com for more information.
Our Raffle is back! Prizes will be raffled off at Spring Fest, May 30, but you do not need to be present to win.
Sunnyside SpringFest Donors
As of May 3, 2009
Disneyland: 4 passes
Sol Gym: $300 package
Bianchi Fitness: 3 months of bootcamp for you and a friend
Martha Bruce Photography: Free portrait session
Best Little Quake Kit in Frisco: 3-day emergency kit for a family of 4
Aquarium of the Bay: 2 passes
Bonfante Gardens: 2 tickets
Mission Cliffs: 2 introductory classes
SF Gymnastics: 8 classes
Sky High Sports: Family pack for 1 hour of trampoline
Tech Museum of Innovation: Passes
Yerba Buena Ice Skating Rink: 4 tickets and skate rentals
Zeum: 3 family passes
Baskin Robbins: Ice cream cake
Leapfrog Learning: Leapster and games
Nvidia: 3 video games
. . . and more to come!
Sunnyside’s biggest annual community event and fundraiser is Saturday, May 30 from 11am - 2pm. The festivities include a plant sale, games, prizes, entertainment, food and raffle.
The wonderful student art sale and auction will also return to the festival this year. Student artwork from our art programs will be available to buy and class aprons will be auctioned off.
Please plan to attend and invite your friends, family and neighbors to our fun event.
Next Planning Meeting and Volunteer Sign up: Monday, May 11, Library