Students in Heather Carter and Faith Manundo’s second-grade classes at Cherry Chase Elementary are expanding their idea of literacy to include computer programming and stop motion. With the help of Anu Agarwal, a parent volunteer, the class created projects using…
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Five Sunnyvale School District elementary students competed on May 17 in Sodexo’s Future Chefs Challenge. The national initiative aims to get students thinking about making healthy food choices while encouraging them to get active and creative in the kitchen! Sunnyvale…
Cherry Chase Elementary School hosted its eighth annual schoolwide Lunar New Year Celebration on February 2. Performances included a Dragon Dance, a choral recital, a traditional fashion show, multiple traditional dances, and an exhibition of traditional instruments. First established in…
At Cherry Chase Elementary, we transformed a vacant classroom into a science classroom to provide every K-5 student the opportunity to experience science through hands-on experiments and exploration on a regular basis. All students will have access to apply what they…
Something good’s always cooking at the Sunnyvale School District, and never as literally as this past March when SSD students joined international food company Sodexo’s National Future Chef’s Challenge. Our District’s children joined with hundreds of other students from across…
Students in Heather Carter’s second-grade class at Cherry Chase Elementary are expanding their idea of literacy to include computer programming. With the help of Anu Agarwal, a parent volunteer, the class created projects using ScratchJr, an introductory programming language that…
Three of the eight elementary schools in the Sunnyvale School District were selected for the state’s 2023 Distinguished Schools Program. The California Department of Education bestowed the distinction on Cherry Chase, Cumberland, and Fairwood elementary schools. The Sunnyvale campuses were…
We want to congratulate Jen Maylard for being the first classified employee to pursue a career as a teacher and be reimbursed by the SSD Pathways to Teaching program. “What I would like to personally say is that working with her side-by-side has been an…
Cherry Chase Elementary takes pride in promoting leadership skills, community service, volunteerism, and advocacy to our students and former students. One way we accomplish this is by soliciting “Wednesday Helpers”. Wednesday Helpers are middle school students who typically have attended…
This year, our second grade conducted multiple classroom transformations for students to apply what they learned in a given math unit. The transformations targeted grade-level standards, academics, and social-emotional learning. Teachers reported the following impacts on social-emotional and academic learning: Promotes…
Acknowledge Alliance recognized San Miguel’s Debbie Wiseth with its Teacher of the Year Award and the Front Office Staff of all 10 SSD schools with its School Community Heroes Award at its 15th annual Forget-me-Not Celebration on May 12. Our Forget-Me-Not…
Six Sunnyvale School District elementary students competed on April 29 in Sodexo’s Future Chefs Challenge. The national initiative aims to get students thinking about making healthy food choices while encouraging them to get active and creative in the kitchen! Sunnyvale…
Six Sunnyvale School District elementary students competed virtually on March 27th in Sodexo’s Future Chefs Challenge. The national initiative aims to get students thinking about making healthy food choices while encouraging them to get active and creative in the kitchen!…
Article written by Sunnyvale Middle School teacher, Dewey Huang. A group of volunteer students called the Public Health Enhancement Project (PHEP), banded together to create an educational video series composed of six videos that cover concepts from how a virus…
The whole new Cherry Chase Kindergarten Classroom Wing is almost complete! Kindergartners will have lots to look forward to when we are able to return to in-person instruction. The project entailed the removal of the four portable classrooms and associated…