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Welcome to the Sherman Elementary School PTA Website. Sherman is a public elementary school
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Sherman Community Auction
Come join us for an evening of entertainment, food, drink, and lots of bidding on fabulous items! The proceeds benefit Sherman PTA, and school programs our PTA funds including art, choral music, classroom size reduction teachers, Playworks physical education, and classroom supplies.
Tickets are $25 each. Admission includes food, beer/wine, live music from our Sherman Parent Band, “Los Tiburones,” and the chance to win hundreds of great items! Free parking at Marina Middle School! (Adults only please)
Saturday, March 20th, 2010
6-10 pm (bidding ends at 9pm, so get there early!)
Moscone Recreation Center
1800 Chestnut
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Town Hall Meeting - Public Education: Funding our Future SF
Enough is enough! San Francisco Unified School District is forecasting state budget cuts of 10%-20% for the 2010-2011 school year. It is imperative that we find real short and long-term solutions to this unprecedented budget crisis! On February 25th, join a coalition of parents and city organizations in a community discussion moderated by Michael Krasny, host of KQED's awarding winning radio show Forum.
Event panelists and special guests include:
- Mark Leno, California State Senator
- Fiona Ma, California State Assembly
- Tom Ammiano, California State Assembly
- David Chiu, President SF Board of Supervisors
- Carlos Garcia, SFUSD Superintendent of schools
- Debbie Look, California State PTA, Dir. of Legislation
- Jim Lazarus, SF Chamber of Commerce, Sr. V.P. Policy
- Leaders from business, education and non-profits
Let's look for funding solutions and ways to bring about long-term change together. We are Funding Our Future. For more information and to RSVP go to www.fundingourfuturesf.com.
We are also on Facebook, become a fan and share with fellow parents on Facebook today! http://www.facebook.com/FundingOurFutureSF |
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Feed The Need: Fantasy Books for Book-Hungry Students!
Needs $224 ($348 already given of $572 total cost) -- Give Now
California (North)
Level: Grades 3-5
Subject: Literacy
Resource: Books
Did you know that just 5 minutes in conversation about what one reads can skyrocket comprehension? Now midyear, we are shifting our reading workshops to begin book clubs. We want to take our students out of this world through the genre of fantasy.
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Inspiring Special Education Students to Have a Reading Life!
Needs $394 ($211 already given of $605 total cost) -- Give Now
California (North)
Level: Grades PreK-2
Subject: Special Needs
Resource: Books
Students in special education often get marginalized. Providing books and materials at their academic level will offer the opportunity for them to practice skills, develop a life-long passion for reading and support them in meeting grade-level standards.
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See “Up”! Come to Science and Movie Night!
Sherman PTA Weekly Update – February 4th, 2010
This Week’s Events
- Family Science and Movie Night, featuring the movie “Up” and Science fun!
- Science Fun from 5-6 pm in the Cafeteria with real-life scientist explorers, amazing living creatures from the rainforest and fun with Helium
- Movie “Up” from 6-8 pm
- Bring a blanket, a pillow, a picnic dinner! PJ’s optional!
- Science Night will feature:
- Movie theme: Real life visiting volunteer
- Rainforest life: Randall Museum (bugs and snakes) http://www.randallmuseum.org/
- Flying house: A party company doing helium balloons and experiments
- Visiting/exploring the rainforest: ekoVenture http://www.ekoventure.com/
- Talking dogs: Animal Conversation (yes really!) http://animalconversation.net/AnimalConversation.html
- General cool stuff: Dan the Science Man
Next Week’s Events
- NO SCHOOL, Monday February 15th President’s Day and Lunar New Year Observance
- PTA Meeting, Tuesday, February 16th 6:15 pm to 7:30 pm
- School Site Council Meeting, Thursday, February 18th, 6:15 pm to 8 p
Let’s Play In Spanish at Sherman!
- We need more kids enrolled in afterschool Spanish to be able to offer it afterschool – Only need a few more kids to enroll to be able to offer this great class at Sherman. This is truly one of the best providers in San Francisco! (We need 10 kids per class.)
- Kinder-1st grade: Fridays, February 12-May 28th, 1:50 pm – 3 pm
- 2-5th Grade: Wednesdays, February 10-May26th , 1:50 pm – 3 pm
- Cost: $250 for GLO families/ $260 Non-GLO families
- Need a minimum of 10 kids in each class to offer
- Note that both classes run through MAY
- For more information on Let’s Play in Spanish, go to www.letsplayinspanish.com
- Please contact Beth Guy today to let her know you plan to enroll. (Beth Guy, GLO at Sherman Site Director at shermand@gloinc.org)
Don’t Get Lost, Get Mabels Labels!
- Get organized and support the 4th/5th grade field trips with a purchase from Mabels Labels!
- www.sherman.mabel.ca – Go online now until March 15th.
- All kinds of labels to support your organizing and keep-from-getting-lost needs! (sticky, iron-on, metal, you name it!)
- All proceeds benefit 4/5 field trip funds. Our 5th grade is still significantly short for buses for the end-of-year trip and yearbook funds; 4th grade needs support for its Sacramento field trip.
Coming Up
- Town Hall — Public Education: Funding our Future. February 25th 6:30 pm. RSVP today at www.fundingourfuturesf.com. We need your help to show the strength of parent voices! Join our Sherman parent organizers for this city-wide event!
- Sherman Community Auction – Save the Date, Spread the Word, and Help us get MORE donations!
- Donation forms for items available in the front office – drop one by your favorite business today or offer up one of your great hidden talents! We need help from the whole community to donate! Donations must be received by March 1st to ensure catalog inclusion.
- Tickets available online at www.shermanschool.org
San Francisco Elementary Experiences “Reading Revolution”
Five Teachers and a Fund for Teachers Grant Fuel School-Wide Reading Revival
The Cat in the Hat, the Lorax, Horton and the National Education Association celebrate Dr. Seuss’ 106th birthday on March 2 with the NEA’s “Read Across America Day.” For a team of teachers from San Francisco’s Sherman Elementary, however, the celebration lasts all year long. A Fund for Teachers grant sent five Sherman teachers to the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project at Columbia University last summer and the Power Readers teamreturned to engineer a reading revolution at their school.
“I’ve taught for more than 12 years and have attended many literacy workshops, but never has a workshop inspired or transformed my thinking or teaching more than this institute,”said Jennie Chen, Sherman’s fourth grade teacher. “It introduced me to a new way of teaching reading that is balanced and produces well-rounded readers who decode words proficiently, comprehend texts deeply, and pursue reading joyfully in their lives inside and outside of the classroom. The enthusiasm brought back from New York has been contagious and the entire school community has gotten on board.”
Jennie’s principal shares her enthusiasm. “The grant that my teachers received from Fund for Teachers created a reading revolution at our school,” said Sara Shenkan-Rich, principal. “We are now all focused on building life-long readers and making sure that students are thinking as they read. And the kids can’t stop reading. They keep asking for more and more books. What more could a principal ask for — energized and excited literacy teachers and students who love to read!”
The Teachers College Reading and Writing Project’s weeklong Summer Institutes serve as annual clarion calls to more than 3,500 teachers, coaches, and administrators dedicated to creating a school community of life-long reading and writing enthusiasts. Each day delivers a new keynote address, followed by small and large group sessions that provide opportunities to practice the Reading Workshop structure and learn the theories behind the balanced literacy framework. Collaborating with staff developers and fellow teachers also inspires ideas for implementation.
That collaboration continued in December and January, when a staff developer from Columbia’s Teachers College came to Sherman for on-site teacher training. “It’s not an off-the-shelf, scripted program requiring little thought on the part on the teacher,” explained Teacher Librarian Clare Watsky, member of the Power Readers team. “Implementing this new approach requires an intense, ongoing commitment from teachers to keep learning. We have that commitment from teachers at every grade level. Seeing our workshop method implemented in our classrooms has been an exhausting, exciting experience.”
Introducing the balanced literacy framework taught at the Institute is already producing positive outcomes. “I see students becoming more excited about reading,” explained Winnie Leung, member of the team that also included colleagues Clarissa Chiu and Michelle Kishimoto. “Students are more willing to read because they have access to books at their independent reading levels. Low readers and high readers are challenged and given appropriate guidance to move their reading along. We are helping students read, think, and talk–things that proficient readers do throughout their lives.”
“The most powerful idea I took away from Columbia is that young students have the same drive as adults to find meaning in stories and talk with others about what matters to them,” said Watsky. “I feel empowered to share my deepest self as a reader to inspire my students.”
Fund for Teachers is a national, donor-supported organization celebrating its tenth year of awarding fellowships for self-designed professional growth to teachers who recognize the value of inquiry, the power of knowledge and their ability to make a difference. For more information about Fund for Teachers, visit www.fundforteachers.org.
 Jennie Chen implementing the new techniques at Sherman Elementary.  Left to Right: Clare Watsky, Clarissa Chiu, Winnie Leung, Jennie Chen and Michelle Kishimoto
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GLO After-school at
Sherman
GLO HISTORY -
In 1982, a group of working parents from West Portal
Elementary School who needed safe before and afterschool
programming established West Portal C.A.R.E., Inc. The
organizations humble beginnings had less than 50
children enrolled. Over 20 years later, in August 2005,
the organization was renamed Growth & Learning
Opportunities (GLO). Growth & Learning Opportunities
maintains its private non-prot status and community
based family services. The organization operates six
licensed before and after-school programs located in San
Francisco public schools.
UNIQUE QUALITIES ABOUT GLO AT
SHERMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL - At all the schools GLO
is in partnership with, there is a long term commitment
from the organization. GLOs partnership with Sherman
School has a goal to bring a quality afterschool program
available for all Sherman Elementary School students
provided by GLO in the Fall of 2010. For the next three
years, GLO will work diligently to create a strong
foundation for a sustainable program through joint
activities, special events, and partnership between the
GLO Director and SFUSD Excel Program Coordinator. The
process will ensure a respectful and culturally
competent program for children and families as well as
viable situation for GLO to provide services. The
process and outcomes will provide exciting and unique
opportunities for everyone in the school community.
Who will be the GLO Site
Director at Sherman? Beth Guy has worked for
GLO for the past 8 years. She started as a teacher
assistant at the Alice Fong Yu location. She worked 3
years as the Assistant Site Director at West Portal
Elementary and Director of the GLO Summer Program for
two years. She is extremely excited to begin her Site
Directorship at Sherman Elementary! Beth loves to
travel, and tries to make it to Europe at least once a
year to visit with her family. On her spare time, Beth
coaches club volleyball and enjoys spending time with
her friends.
Flyers and Forms - click here for
GLO flyers and enrollment information
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Enrollment -
Information Sheet /
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After School Programs
for Sherman Students
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On-site at Sherman -
Growing &
Learning Opportunities (GLO) - see above for more
information and enrollment paper work
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SFUSD Child Development Program -
Tule Elk Park Child Development Center - 2110 Greenwich
- 415-749-3551 and
Presidio Child Development Center
- 387 Moraga, in the
Presidio - 415-561-5822 - afterschool programs
(subsidized and fee-based) for Kindergarten through 5th
Grade
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Sports 4 Kids After School Program - onsite at Sherman
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Boys and Girls Clubs of San Francisco - 415-445-5437
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Chinatown Community Development Center - 1525 Grant
Avenue - 415-984-1450
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Jewish Community Center - Havurah Youth Center (HYC)
Afterschool Program - 3200 California Street -
415-292-1210
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Nihonmachi Little Friends - 2031 Bush Street -
415-922-8898
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Salesian Boys' Club - 680 Filbert Street - 415-397-3068
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Telegraph Hill Neighborhood Center - 660 Lombard Street
- 415-421-6443
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Pick up
procedures on Union Street
If you pick your child up
on Union Street after school at 1:50pm, please
help the process along by following the rules
below:
The pick-up zone will now be about 100 feet past
the main entrance. Kids will be waiting along
the school wall. If you are driving to pick-up,
do not double park. If there is no space for you
to pull in and pick-up please go around the
block. If you do pull in and your child is not
yet outside, please go around the block so
another parent can pull in.
After pulling in to pick-up
your child do not check their homework or talk
to other parents. Seat belt your child and
leave.
If you walk to pick-up your
child and wish to talk to other parents after
picking up, please move to an uncongested area
of the sidewalk.
We have had complaints from
MUNI about double parking and our local police
officer has warned us as well. Following the
above process will help ensure that all of our
children are picked up in the fastest and safest
manner.
We apologize for any
inconvenience that circling around the block may
cause but that is the price we pay for having
our wonderful school on such a busy city street.
Other Safety Tips:
Please do not jaywalk with
your children across the street. Please
the street at the proper crosswalks.
Please drop off your
children at the curb.
If you are walking your
child(ren) into the school, please do so via the
Union Street entrance. Please avoid
walking through the Green Street parking lots as
not safe with cars driving in and out of those
lots.
Thank you!
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Online Shopping...and earning for Sherman!
Remember to keep
using the Sherman Shopper link for all of your online shopping
throughout the year. It's an easy, easy way to support Sherman
throughout the year.
Firefox browser users: Add this non-intrusive Firefox Add-on which adds our affiliate code when you shop Amazon, so Sherman gets credit. Click here to install.
If you don't use the Firefox browser, start using it instead of Internet Explorer or Safari on your Mac or PC, so when you shop on Amazon, Sherman automatically gets a percentage. Download Firefox here and then use Firefox to come back to this page and click here to install the Sherman Shopper Add-on.
Get your friends and family using the Sherman Shopper Firefox Add-on or using the Sherman Shopper page to start shopping.
Using Amazon.com, we allow you to simply shop and
Sherman benefits! There is no need to sign up,
or give out your email address.
Simply click on the Amazon link listed below. If you make a purchase online, a portion of the purchase price will be
contributed to the Sherman Elementary School PTA! Spread the word! Tell you family and friends to bookmark our
Sherman Shopper page!
eScrip - Sign-up and Shop!
Sign Up!
You can sign up your Safeway card or your credit card
via
eScrip's website.
When you get to the
Supporter Registration form, simply enter "Sherman PTA"
as your Group Name and follow the directions.
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