Important note about 2018-2019 supply lists: This year, many teachers will ask for cash donations, rather than for purchased supplies. The goal is for parents to spend LESS than we normally do.

As SES grade supply lists are made available, they will be linked from this page and the headline will be updated.

It is never too early to find a bargain on school supplies!

Click on the link for the appropriate grade(s). Don’t forget:

• If you shop at Office Depot (in person or online) and use the school code 70084282 and Office Depot will donate 5% of your purchase to SES.
• If you shop at Target, link your Target REDcard to SES and SES will earn 1% of your purchase (on top of the 5% discount you receive). Go to https://www-secure.target.com/redcard/tcoe/home to learn more.
• If you shop at Fred Meyer’s, make sure to register your reward card—you’ll still get your rewards, and SES will also receive a donation from Fred Meyer.
• If you shop at amazon.com or powells.com, use the links on the right side of this page; SES will receive donations that way, too.

The supply lists:

• Kindergarten
• 1st and 2nd grades
• 3rd grade
• 4th grade
• 4th/5th mixed classroom
• 5th grade
• Middle School [Note: “Please see other side” refers to the Middle School math supplies list, linked below]
  • Year of the Forest
  • Year of the River
  • Year of the Mountain

FOR REFERENCE, the 2017-2018 lists can be found here.

Do you love Sunnyside and have been looking for a way to give back, get involved and make a difference during the school year?

The PTSA position of Room Parent Coordinator is open and needs YOU! This job involves recruiting and organizing a team of room parents for every classroom (and one for each special) and continuing communication through the school year (relaying information and support to your RPs) through weekly emails. (If this sounds daunting, take a breath and know that Justine Light has done it for the past 5 years and says it was 100% worth it.)

Please contact Justine if you have more questions about the job. Your school community will be so so grateful for you.

It’s that time of year again, to gather up all your useful goods and bring them to Sunnyside Community House Social Hall for our annual swap!

We look forward to this event for the great thing that it is… a place to check in and swap around for fab new-to-you things before going to a store to buy them.

You can sign up right now with the link to become a swap sorter (the best way to see and have first dibs on everything that comes into the swap); volunteers make it happen.

Many of us have been to the swap every year for the past 13 years; I’d love to see you all again. Spread the word to neighbors, family and friends. The more the merrier.

Event info:

• On Saturday, August 4, doors to the Sunnyside Community House Social Hall (corner of SE 35th and Yamhill) open from 4pm to 8pm take in Community donations: Those jeans that don’t fit anymore, all the clothes your kids have outgrown, a lunch box or backpack with plenty of life left in it, sports gear, art supplies, books, toys, games. Everything should be in good, usable condition.
• On Sunday, August 5 the donating and swapping continues from 9am-4pm. Everyone who brought in items on Saturday or volunteers their time gets in for free. Everyone who comes on Sunday without volunteering or donating in advance is asked to bring items and pay a $2 per family fee. All fees and monetary donations will be donated to the Community House program that allows people to shower and get a hot meal there.

At the end of the swap, all remaining kids’ clothing items will be donated to the PPS/PTA clothing center. Adult clothing will be left on site for those in need.

Everything is free in the last hour!

We are looking for someone that works or volunteers for a nonprofit that would take away the infant clothing and any other baby items still left at the end of the swap. Let me know if this is you!

Remember to spread the word. Here is the Facebook link, like, share and come to our event.

Hope to see you there!
Samantha Fisher

I hope you are all having a wonderful summer so far!

The office has been a busy place up until the last few weeks, and I’m writing to announce some of our staffing changes for the upcoming school year. 

As many of you may already know, Ryan Pederson, Heidi Wigman, Rebecca Wagner and Shannon McClure will not be working within our Sunnyside community next year. Rebecca, Ryan and Shannon will still be in PPS, and Heidi has decided to pursue a career in higher education. Given these changes, several of our staff–and some parents, thank you!!– have been hard at work, interviewing and meeting candidates. I’m proud to announce that we have hired some amazing folks to join our school community! We do still have a few, additional smaller, support/temporary positions to fill, and I will announce these once hiring has been completed:

• Tiffany Lane will be teaching 3rd grade. Tiffany’s most recent teaching experience has been at the Emerson School and Faubian K-8 in PPS.
• Monica Vogel will be teaching 1st/2nd grade. Monica completed her student teaching at Sunnyside many years ago, and has spent several years in the West Linn-Wilsonville School District. Last year Monica taught at Llewellyn Elementary in PPS.
• Tyler Young will be our new K-8 counselor. He comes to us from Terra Linda K-5 in the Beaverton School district. He will be joining Ashley Bevan, our .5 counselor, completing our SES counseling team.
• Iris Powell will be our full time PE teacher, fully taking over the position that was vacated through Dian Christensen’s retirement last spring.
• Sarah Conley will be our new school secretary in the front office, joining Michelle Schaefle as a permanent front office team. Sarah has been a paraeducator at Sunnyside for several years, most recently supporting 3rd grade in Heather Chaney’s classroom.
• Alix Pickett will be our new Assistant Principal. Alix comes to PPS from the Lake Oswego School District. Most recently, she has been the principal at Hallinan Elementary School for the last few years.

Please join me in welcoming this incredible group of educators to their new positions at Sunnyside!

In other news, a few of our staff will be changing grade level teaching assignments:

• Heather Chaney will be moving up to the middle school, teaching Year of the Forest and 6th grade math/school skills (formerly called “Friendship”).
• Jeremy Thomas will be teaching 4th grade.
• Asa Gervich will be teaching 4th grade.
• Leo Soell will be teaching a 4th/5th grade blend.

Enjoy the summer, more announcements to come as we get closer to the start of school.

With gratitude,
Amy

Happy Summer from Steph and the SES chickens!

It is nice and quiet here, but it can get lonely, too. There are many projects that need more attention than one little garden teacher can tackle. This is meant to be a school community garden; a place that is the creation of a group of people working together. Call a Sunnyside friend to meet you to work on a garden project for an hour this summer. Here are times that Steph will be facilitating with tools, directions and possibly treats!

• Tuesday, July 24, 8:30-10:30am: Morning planting, weeding, watering and chicken care
• Friday, July 27, 9-11am: Planting, watering, weeding and popsicle party
• Tuesday, August 14, 8am-2pm: Gardening drop-in hours
• Tuesday August 21: Grade-level gardening get-togethers. Meet with friends that may be in your class, tend to your specific grade-level garden projects and welcome new student families.
  • 8:45-10:00am: Kindergarten, 1st and 2nd grades
  • 11am-12pm: 3rd, 4th and 5th grades
  • 2-3:15pm: Middle school grades

Contact Steph with inquiries: sunnysidesustainability@gmail.com.