Weekly Bulletin

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!
No School Wednesday-Friday,
November 25th, 26th, 27th

IN THIS WEEK'S ISSUE:

Happy Thanksgiving!

A Message from the SunRidge Foundation:

Safety Drills

Winter Spiral Schedule

Gratitude

Country Campus Traffic Safety

Lost & Found

New Hot Lunch Form

Whole Foods Scrip Made Easy

Parent Handwork Group Continues to Meet

Pledge Report

Community Events

Classified

Calendar

Wednesday-Friday, November 25th, 26th, 27th

School Closed for Thanksgiving Break

Wednesday, December 2nd, 6:30-8pm:

8th Grade Parent Evening

Thursday, December 3rd, 5:30-7pm:

2nd Grade Parent Evening

Saturday-Sunday, December 5th-6th:

Winter Spiral

Monday, December 7th, 7-9pm:

Parent Council Meeting

Wednesday, December 9th:

3rd Grade Field Trip to Bale Grist Mill

Wednesday, December 9th, 6:30-8pm:

1st Grade Parent Evening

Friday, December 11th:

7th/8th Grade Dance

Friday, December 18th, 12:00 Noon:

Winter Assembly in the Gym

Friday, December 18th:

Early Release for Winter Break

Happy Thanksgiving!
Nature provides us with so much beauty and bounty at this time of year and here at SunRidge we feel a lot of gratitude for the students, faculty and staff, and parent and larger community. Thank you for your contribution to the community we experience together. May your Thanksgiving holidays be full of warmth and appreciation.

A message from the SunRidge Foundation:
If you are planning on shopping for gifts on line this holiday season and want to have your purchases return some benefit to our community, please remember to shop at smile.amazon.com and select SunRidge as your school of choice.
Be sure to click on this link: http://smile.amazon.com/ch/20-8406930.
Amazon will donate a small % of every purchase made through this site to SunRidge! There is absolutely no additional cost to you as a customer, so totally a win for you and the school.
Thanks for your support of SunRidge from all of us in the Foundation and we wish you a very festive winter season ahead.

Safety Drills
On track with our required Safe Schools plan, we have been practicing both regularly scheduled earthquake and fire drills. We are so pleased with how orderly and quiet our evacuation procedures have been! Please ask your child how the experience was for them.

Winter Spiral Schedule

Saturday, December 5th	Arrival	Ceremony	Meet In…

Third Grade	3:45	4:00 to 4:55	3rd Grade

Fourth Grade	4:50	5:00 to 5:55	4th Grade

First Grade	5:50	6:00 to 6:55	1st Grade

Eighth Grade	6:50	7:00 to 7:55	8th Grade

Sixth Grade	7:50	8:00 to 8:55	6th Grade



Sunday, December 6^th	Arrival	Ceremony	Meet In…

Morning Star Kinder	3:50	4:00 to 4:55	Faculty Room

Dragonfly Kinder	4:50	5:00 to 5:55	Faculty Room

Second Grade	5:50	6:00 to 6:55	2nd Grade

Fifth Grade	6:50	7:00 to 7:55	5th Grade

Seventh Grade	7:50	8:00 to 8:55	7th Grade

Gratitude
The faculty warmly thanks the fifth grade parent community for the flavorful and nutritious meal provided for the faculty meeting on November 12th. We appreciate this gesture!

Country Campus Traffic Safety
It has been observed that the entrance to the country campus has been used as an exit, causing backup on Watertrough Road and narrowly missing accidents.
It is essential that the entrance and exit at the country campus be used correctly in order to maintain a safe flow of traffic.

Lost and Found
New photos of lost and found items have been taken by a REACH parent volunteer and posted here:
https://www.dropbox.com/sunridgereachlostandfound
Please take a few minutes to browse and see if anything belongs to your family. All lost and found items will be donated to a charitable cause just before Winter Break.

New Hot Lunch Forms
For December and January Hot Lunch, grades 3-8 can order by filling out the following forms and attaching payment. Forms and payment can be dropped in the Hot Lunch folder that is attached to the front of Erin’s desk in the office. Please read notes on this folder for deadlines and contact information for the parent volunteer hot lunch coordinator.
http://www.sunridgeschool.org/hot-lunch-program.html

Whole Foods Scrip Made Easy

Whole Foods scrip/gift cards are now available for purchase in the school office. Using scrip/gift cards when shopping at Whole Foods Market is an easy way for SunRidge to raise thousands of dollars each year for school needs (WFM donates 3% of every dollar to SunRidge). If you shop regularly at Whole Foods, we want to make this easy by providing individual reminders when Whole Foods scrip cards are available for you to pick up in the school office. It is also possible for you to “re-load” a WF card through the scrip website on your own, and you can re-load up to $400 on your existing card at one time, so you don’t need to keep buying new cards each month or to carry around multiple cards. Want to receive personal reminders or learn more about reloading your own card? Go to: http://www.sunridgeschool.org/whole-food-market-scrip-e-scrip-and-store-cards.html scroll down to the bottom of the page to download the form. Send or bring in the completed form. We’ll take it from there.

Parent Handwork Group Continues to Meet
Join us for crafts and companionship Tuesday mornings in the handwork room from 8:30am-9:30am.

COMMUNITY EVENTS

Summerfield Winter Faire
Friday, December 4^th - Evening Shopping Event: 5:30-8:30pm
We are pleased to bring back our adult only shopping evening! This is your chance to shop for local, quality, unique, natural and hand-made items for all those on your holiday gift list. Treasures include jewelry, dolls, books, toys, wooden crafts, candles, soaps & body products, clothes, and much more.
Saturday, December 5^th - Faire: 11am – 3pm
The whole family is invited to enjoy the Summerfield campus in its full splendor of evergreens and twinkling lights. Enjoy making crafts, shopping, puppet show & storytelling, food and drinks.
Saturday, December 5^th - Circus: 3:30pm
Stick around after the Faire for a performance of “Wishing for a White Christmas”, Circus Waldissima style!
655 Willowside Rd
Santa Rosa, CA 95401

Credo First Application Deadline:
Friday, December 11th
The application can be found on the Credo High website: www.credohigh.org
If you have questions re: above, please contact Jodi Boyle, Enrollment Coordinator, at 707.664.0600. ext. 4

Credo High Winter Faire and “Scrooge’s Christmas” performance
Please join us for our annual winter faire and performance of “Scrooge’s Christmas”.
All ages welcome! See flyer here: http://www.sunridgeschool.org/events.html

CLASSIFIED
(We can list rentals, parents selling used items, free items, lost and found, or trades. With the exception of private, after-school care available for SunRidge students, we do not list for-profit business ads)

Carpool Needed
Carpool Interest from Highway 12 / Stony point Road area. Single Mother, self employed (flexible schedule) wanting to put together a carpool for the morning and/or afternoons, depending. My daughter is 8th grade SunRidge student. Please call Laura 707-291-7270.

Babysitter Available
I'm Sam White, a graduate from SunRidge last year. I am looking for same babysitting opportunities. I am really good with children and have experience. References available. Please call 707-483-3006

Childcare Offered
33-year-old nature mentor with experience working with many Sunridge families is available for part-time childcare, after school and babysitting. First-aid certified, trustworthy, owns a reliable car, and has flexible hours. Group childcare is available with rates depending on the number of children. Contact Lindsey Whited at 330-212-3616 or lindseymariewhited@gmail.com.

Part Time Nanny Needed

I am looking for a part-time nanny for my son, who is age 10 and in Class 4. This person needs to pick him up from school two or three days per week, take him home (we live a block away), and take care of him until I return from work. During that time he does a simple chore and completes some homework, and the rest of the time is for play; he usually likes some alone time and some social time. When he plays alone, I ask that you do a little light housework, such as washing dishes. Please call Alissa at 707-236-0747 if this sounds like a good fit for you. Thanks so much.