3/5: Poppy Path Project

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Congratulations to our Greening Team! Starr King, along with a number of neighborhood partners, has won a grant to beautify the walk from school to the Potrero Hill Rec Center by installing a native California wildflower meadow path, featuring beautiful views, shaded platforms, and interactive signage along the way. We’ll keep you posted on progress, but here’s an artist’s rendition of the project for now.

2/29: Starr King Chickens!

Mr. Hsu, our science teacher, reports that the chicken eggs that all our classes have been incubating have hatched!  These Australorp chicks are 2-3 days old.  

Love this science experiment? Our schoolwide supplemental science curriculum was started by parents and our science instructor is supported by the PTA.

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1/18: Fall ASK parties!

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Three Starr King staffers - Mr Kenny, Ms Huynh (4th grade) and Ms Mackey (library) - were good sports and the recipients of pie in the faces to celebrate achievements in our ASK campaign. Students from the 3 classes that donated the most Hawkeyes were entered into a drawing to deliver the pie faces.

Congrats to the students in the following three classes for donating the most Hawkeyes!

  • 2nd Grade - Ms Lin's class 

  • 3rd Grade - Ms Zhou's class  

  • 5th Grade - Ms Markle's class  


Also congrats again to Ms Zhou's class for the donating the most Hawkeyes, with the students getting a pizza party yesterday as well!

1/6: Wildflowers

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California Wildflowers starting to emerge at SKES.

Hi SKES community,
We spread these California Native Widflower seed mixes this fall and last and many of these wildflowers are starting to emerge. 

Shady Mix - Showy clarkia, Chinese houses, mountain phlox, mountain garland, five spot, tansy-leaf phacelia, bird's eye gilia, tall and dwarf farewell-to-spring, and baby blue eyes (Clarkia amoena, Clarkia bottae, Clarkia unguiculata, Claytonia sibirica, Collinsia heterophylla, Gilia tricolor, Linanthus grandiflorus, Nemophila maculata, Nemophila menziesii, Phacelia bolanderii, Phacelia tanacetifolia).
Pollinator Conservation Mix -Achillea millefolium, Clarkia unguiculata, Clarkia williamsonii, Eschscholzia californica, Grindelia camporum, Lupinus microcarpus var. densiflorus, Phacelia californica, Phacelia ciliata, and Helianthus bolanderi, Phacelia bolanderii.

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11/15: Greening Projects

Our greening team is hard at work! They’re applying for a grant to beautify the walk from Starr King to Potrero Hill Rec Center (look at our student advocating on our behalf below!), and look how nice our back courtyard space looks now. Thanks, Team Green!

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Does your PTA committee want to brag about its accomplishments in the blog? Send us your pics!

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