March 21, 2012
By the time students reach their final year at San Francisco Day School, they have been exposed to a wide range of community service-oriented experiences. They have served food at Glide Church, planted seedlings in the Presidio and swapped stories with seniors at Canon Kip Senior Center. In eighth grade, students have the unique opportunity to take their service learning to another level – by immersing themselves in a week-long program designed to provide service with and not just for communities outside of our own.
Posted in Featured Excerpts, Student Voices
February 2, 2012
Check out our students on “Decades Day!” For this special day in Spirit Week, students were asked to dress according to their grade’s decade – for example, 8th graders dress in 80’s gear, 7th graders rocked the 70’s look, etc.
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February 2, 2012
Following the recent Alamo fire, which burned several homes and badly damaged the Creative Arts Charter school (destroying their library), three students at SFDS were determined to step in and help. In order to raise funds to support the school, fourth grade students Sophie, Lucinda and Catherine decided to hold a bake sale in their [...]
Posted in Neighborhood News, Student Voices
February 2, 2012
The SFDS technology department recently hosted two meetings to address parental concerns surrounding children and their consumption of technology. These meetings were designed to create an open forum for families to share anecdotes, ask questions, and debunk student-driven myths, such as “everyone else in my class has an iPhone!”
Posted in Faculty & Staff Voices, Featured Excerpts, PA News
February 2, 2012
When the post office is in full swing, the first graders are busy receiving, sorting, and delivering mail all around the school!
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February 2, 2012
Our JV girls basketball team recently advanced to playoffs, after an emotional and physically demanding double overtime nail-biter.
Posted in Sports, Student Voices
January 6, 2012
Please don’t miss this opportunity to show your appreciation for an SFDS student!
Yearbook recognition ads are a great way for parents, families and friends to commemorate student achievements and important milestones. To purchase your ad online, go to www.YearbookAdService.com and choose your ad size, template and upload your pictures. If you prefer to upload a [...]
Posted in Around the School, Faculty & Staff Voices
January 6, 2012
On Tuesday, December 3, AXIS Dance Company performed for San Francisco Day School, exposing our students to a fresh and inspiring style of modern dance.
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January 6, 2012
Groceries, Stamps, and Measuring Strips – To learn more, visit: http://3gclassof2017.blogspot.com/.
Currently our focus in math is the introduction and early development of multiplication. By making use of realistic contexts, this unit invites students to find ways to mathematize their lived worlds with grouping structures. The unit uses many contexts: inside the grocery store; postage stamps; [...]
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January 6, 2012
Q: Timbuktu, a center of caravan trade for almost a thousand years, is located north of the Niger River in which landlocked country?
Don’t worry, if the answer didn’t immediately spring to mind, you are not alone. Fortunately, we have a special student at SFDS who knows that the answer is Mali. After several challenging rounds, [...]
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