Sunshine STEM Academy Newsletter

Dear Sunshine Parents,

We had our Fall Festival this Saturday, and it was a huge success! It was exciting to see the joy of kids in their eyes. Many thanks to our PVO and volunteers!

We have begun ITBS Testing. Our 3rd and 5th grade students completed Reading portion of the ITBS today. You may see the schedule for the rest of the week below. I would like to remind you that after school clubs and tutorings are not cancelled this week.

The Book Fair is coming up. Book fair can be visited between October 26 and October 30. We look forward to seeing our parents and students at the book fair. Please visit times below.

I am planning to invite our parents to our traditional Breakfast with the Principal event. The purpose of this event is to establish an opportunity for our parents to build a connection with school administration. I will send invitation email according to grade levels. When you received invitation email, you may RSVP for the breakfast your child's grade level scheduled for.

I would like to remind parents that Quarter 1 Report Cards are available on Sunshine Connect. We will not send a paper copy of the report cards. Please see below for instructions to see your child's report card.

I wish you a wonderful week!

Sincerely,

Murat Cetin, Head of School

mcetin@SunshineSTEMacademy.org

Sunshine STEM Academy has decided to administer ITBS test to all of our 3rd and 5th grade students Monday, October 19th - Friday, October 23rd. Please do not schedule doctor's appointments for your 3rd or 5th grade students during that week.

• Please do not schedule any morning doctor's appointments during those dates for your 3rd or 5th grade children.
• Please make sure that your child arrives at school ON TIME, eats a good breakfast, and is well rested. If your child is late for testing, they will be kept in a separate room until testing is completed that day and will need to do a make-up test.
• In the interest of keeping down the general noise level in the building, NO visitors will be allowed into the building during the testing time.

Testing Schedule:

Monday, Oct 19: Reading
Tuesday, Oct 20: ELA
Wednesday, Oct 21: Math
Thursday, Oct 22: Science
Friday, Oct 23: Social Studies, Maps and Diagrams

Soft copy of the Quarter 1 Report Card is ready for parents to review.

Please login to your child's Portal account and click Instruction button. Sunshine Connect button will appear underneath the Instruction button. You will be automatically login to Sunshine Connect when you click it. Report Card Link will be accessible on the top of the page at the right hand side. Please see screenshots below.

Please contact Mr. Duzyol at tduzyol@sunshinestemacademy.org if you have any questions.

Thank you for coming out to support Annual Sunshine Fall Festival! A special thanks to PVO and all of the volunteers that helped to make the Fall Festival a success!

Please contact pvo@sunshinestemacademy.org if you have any feedback or suggestions for next year.

Scholastic Book Fair will be available for our parents and students to visit at designated times below:

Monday-Friday: 7:15 am - 7:45 am & 3:00 pm - 3.30pm
Monday/Wednesday/Friday: 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm

Online shopping link is now active at

http://bookfairs.scholastic.com/homepage/sunshinestemacademy

We update our social media channels frequently with the news and happenings at our school. You may follow/like/subscribe us to stay connected. Please share our social media channels with your friends.

• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Sunshine-STEM-Academy/683495445106457
• Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/sunshinestem
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6upaG6AO7KCueMm_4hfbIw

Thanks to everyone that is promoting the Student Council sponsored event: SOCKtober. Our students began this endeavor hoping to help families in need in our local community. We wanted to provide families with something very useful that most may not think to give-- warm socks for the winter months.

We reached out to The Drake House (see link below) as they are doing great things to help families in our area. Yesterday, I received a call back from the director and she was thrilled that our students thought of The Drake House and the families they support. She stated that they would gladly accept any new socks. http://thedrakehouse.org/

Please help spread the word to anyone that would like to donate that we are now collecting new socks only.

SoulPancake asks that you share a picture of your donation drop-off on Twitter using #socktober and by sending email to socktober@soulpancake.com

We would like to announce that MAP Winter Term will be administered at the first week of December, from December 1st to December 7th. Results will be shared with parents after December 8th.

Our school library is available to checkout books. Students can visit Media Center between 7:10 and 7:45 to check-out books and return their books.

Accelerated Reader quiz is be available for all students. Students can visit Media Center in the morning between 7:10 and 7:45 to take AR Quizzes for the book they read.

If you are interested in volunteering for AR Quiz Help for students, please send an email to PVO@sunshinestemacademy.org

We need volunteer parents to help students for taking AR Quizzes in the mornings from 7:10 AM to 7:45 AM. If you are interested in being volunteer for AR quizzes, please send an email to pvo@sunshinestemacademy.org

Please see upcoming important days below. Please mark your calendar for our upcoming events.

• October 19-23: ITBS Testing for 3rd and 5th Grades only
• October 26-30: Book Fair
• November 23 - November 27: Thanksgiving Holiday

• December 1-7: MAP Test Winter Term

Painting, moonwalk, games, face painting, food... October 17, Sunshine Fall Festival 2015 was a full of fun day!

Sunshine STEM Academy strives for success and continued desire to provide a quality education to all students. With a strong administration, passionate teachers, and enthusiastic support staff, Sunshine STEM Academy as one of the top private schools in Atlanta is pleased to continue offering exciting learning environments to foster the growth and development of young scholars.

Email: info@sunshinestemacademy.org
Website: http://sunshinestemacademy.org/
Location: 1675 Hembree Rd, Alpharetta, GA 30009
Phone: 770-674-0010
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Twitter: @SunshineSTEM