Principals’ Message ~ February 1st

Happy Week 22! Hope you had a wonderful weekend and are ready for an engaged week of learning! For the month of February, we have many celebrations. It is recognized as the Black History Month, an annual celebration of achievements by African Americans and their central role in U.S. history. Teachers will be working with your students to learn and honor the contributions of African Americans. Please see resources for you and your students at the end of this message.

Please click here to view your Monday Morning video Message from Ms. Kasner & Ms. Maffei.

Reminders for this week:

1. For school reopening commitment surveys, SFUSD continues to collect survey results from families. If you have filled out the survey in December, but would like to make changes, please feel free to submit another survey. You may use the same link sent to you in December.

2. Multicultural Month Celebration! We’ll conclude our month long multiple cultures and heritages celebration with a fun Virtual International Dance Party on Friday, Feb 5th, 4-6pm. Zoom link emailed out by our PTA.

3. Reminder: the SFUSD School application deadline is coming up on Friday, February 5th, 2021. Please make sure to apply before this deadline, 5th Grade and prospective families. You may apply online at https://www.sfusd.edu/schools/enroll/apply/apply-2021-2022 or go directly to your ParentVue app to apply.

4. We have our very fun FSK PTA Online Auction & Virtual Events coming up March 13 – 19! We would love Sponsors and Donations to make this a successful event for our school; please email our Auction Chairs, Katie & Tina, today at auctiongalachair@fskey.org. You may find the flyers and other Auction info at our webpage: https://myfsk.org/enrichment/fsk-gala/

5. Lunar New Year Celebration, Year of the Ox, starting February 12th, 2021. Many of our FSK community are getting ready for the Lunar New Year. This year, celebrations will be Virtual to continue to keep everyone safe and healthy during the Covid19 Pandemic. Some resources for family programs online include, but are not limited to:

— SF Public Library: https://sfpl.org/events

— Asian Art Museum, Calendar

January 28th, Storytelling
February 4, Poetry & Calligraphy
February 13, Art Escape

— SF Symphony, click here

— SF Chinatown YMCA’s CNY 5K/10K Run, Virtual Event

Resources for Black History Month:

SFPL Books: https://sfpl.org/kids and

https://sfpl.bibliocommons.com/list/share/378225037/783320497

SFPL More than a month: https://sfpl.org/events/special-programs/more-month-2021 and https://sfpl.org/#view-embed-40927

SFPL Black Stories Matter: https://sfpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/search?custom_edit=false&f_AUDIENCE=juvenile&f_NEWLY_ACQUIRED=PAST_7_DAYS&f_PRIMARY_LANGUAGE=eng&query=formatcode%3A%28EBOOK%20%29&searchType=bl&sort=NEWLY_ACQUIRED&suppress=true&title=Children%27s%20eBooks

SF MOAD – https://www.moadsf.org/learn/educator-resources/

We Need Diverse Books – https://diversebooks.org/resources-for-race-equity-and-inclusion/

Black Caucus American Library Association: https://www.bcala.org/booklists

https://www.bcala.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/BCALA_2020_Best_of_the_Best.pdf

Nat Geo Scientist: https://kids.nationalgeographic.com/explore/science/black-inventors-and-pioneers-of-science/

PBS Class lessons: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/extra/2019/02/black-history-month-resources-for-the-classroom/

https://www.pbs.org/black-culture/home/

Scholastic: http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/bhistory/?affiliate_id=21181&clickId=3463968919

Poetry: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/collections/101640/celebrating-black-history-month

https://www.theamandagorman.com/

Commonsense Media: https://www.commonsensemedia.org/videos/8-great-movies-for-black-history-month#

Have a wonderful week!

Sending you all big hugs and love,

Ms. Kasner and Ms. Maffei

早上好，FSK的学生，家庭和工作人员！

祝第22周快乐！欢迎回来！希望您度过了一个愉快的周末，并准备好参与一周的学习！在二月份，我们有很多庆祝活动。它被认为是黑人历史月，这是非裔美国人成就及其在美国历史上的核心作用的年度庆祝活动。老师将与您的学生一起学习和尊重非裔美国人的贡献。请在此消息的末尾为您和您的学生查看资源。

请单击此处，以查看您的Kasner女士和Maffei女士的“星期一上午”视频留言。

本周提醒：

对于学校重新开放承诺调查，SFUSD继续从家庭收集调查结果。如果您在12月填写了调查表，但想进行更改，请随时提交其他调查表。您可以使用12月发送给您的链接。

多元文化月庆典！我们将在2月5日（星期五）下午举行的有趣的虚拟国际舞蹈派对结束我们长达一个月的多元文化和传统庆祝活动。 FSK PTA即将推出详细信息！

提醒：SFUSD学校的申请截止日期为2021年2月5日，星期五，请确保在该截止日期之前，五年级和准家庭中申请。您可以在https://www.sfusd.edu/schools/enroll/apply/apply-2021-2022在线申请，也可以直接转到ParentVue应用程序进行申请。

我们将于3月13日至19日举办非常有趣的FSK PTA在线拍卖和虚拟活动！我们希望赞助商和捐赠能够使我们的学校成功举办这项活动；请给我们的拍卖主席Katie＆Tina发送电子邮件，地址为auctiongalachair@fskey.org。您可以在我们的网页上找到传单和其他拍卖信息：https://myfsk.org/enrichment/fsk-gala/

从2021年2月12日开始，牛年农历新年庆祝活动，我们的许多FSK社区都在为农历新年做准备。今年，将举行虚拟庆祝活动，以在Covid19大流行期间继续确保所有人的安全和健康。在线家庭计划的一些资源包括但不限于：

-市公立图书馆，马丁厨师烹饪课程

-亚洲美术馆，日历

1月28日，讲故事

2月4日，诗歌和书法

-SF Symphony，https://www.sfsymphony.org/SanFrancisco/media/SanFrancisco/Press%20Room/PDFs/SF-Symphony-Chinese-New-Year-Feb-20-2021_English.pdf

-SF唐人街青年会的5,000万元人民币/千人跑步，虚拟赛事

黑人历史月资源:

SFPL Books: https://sfpl.org/kids

and https://sfpl.bibliocommons.com/list/share/378225037/783320497

SFPL More than a month: https://sfpl.org/events/special-programs/more-month-2021

and https://sfpl.org/#view-embed-40927