Harvey Milk Civil Rights Academy
We are a San Francisco K-5 public school located in the Castro
Tuesday, September 10, Cafeteria
Dinner at 6:15pm, Meeting starts at 6:30pm
The Parent Faculty Club (PFC) is our school’s parent teacher organization. We’re all members, and there are no membership fees. We discuss various issues about the school and the budget every month. This is where your voice can be heard! We’d love to see you at our first meeting of the year, so mark your calendars. As always, childcare is provided.
May 30, 6:00pm, Cafeteria
Come together with the entire school community for our end-of-year assembly celebrating our students and our schools’ commitment to civil rights. Get ready to be moved (or at least entertained) by our students’ wonderful class performances!
NEW TIME! Wednesday, May 15, 2:30-3:30pm
Come visit your child’s classroom during the last hour of school on Wednesday May 15 (2:30-3:30 pm) to explore our K-5 scientific excursions! Research projects, experiments, and hypotheses galore! The students have been hard at work over the past month to get everything ready to present. Expect the use of scientific vocabulary, in-depth knowledge on their topic, and the excitement that comes with all of that!
Saturday April 20, 12-3pm
School Yard
Carnival 2019 at HMCRA is not too far away and we need all the help we can get to continue to make this a magical event. Set up, clean up, managing the various games, ie: cakewalk, bingo, jumpy house, filling the notoriously popular dunk tank, and many, many more. Please sign up here to put in your 30+ minutes of time to make this a memorable event for our kids and families.
Please donate a cake to our annual cake walk. Big, small, funny or beautiful are all welcome and the more the merrier. Please sign up here.
Email events@harveymilk.com if you have any questions.
If you are a HMCRA family with an Incoming Kindergarten student and you would like to help us make our new families feel extra welcome, please email communications@harveymilk.com.
Saturday, March 16, 4:00-8:00pm
at The Café, 2369 Market St.
www.canyoudrag.com
Childcare: (now starting earlier!) from 4:30-10:00pm at the school. Please RSVP online (http://bit.ly/POLHMCRADRAG).
Tickets: Available online (https://canyoudrag.eventbrite.com) or at the door. $25 general admission or $50 for VIP tickets, which include meet & greet (4:30pm-5:30pm) with Laganja and the cast, plus delicious bites!
The Show: Laganja Estranga from RuPaul Drag Race will headline. Twelve local drag entertainers will be performing. All tips you give the performers go to the event.
The Competition: At 6pm, the top 5 fundraisers compete to be crowned San Francisco’s Drag Superstar! Can anyone beat last year’s queen Ryan Swick? Don’t forget to bring $$ to tip your favorite performers! All tips go to the event.
Silent Auction: Throughout the evening, bid on items from local merchants, plus 3 days in Sonoma, and a week’s stay in Nice, France.
Email Jeff at jefffassnacht@gmail.com with any questions.
The Read-A-Thon is HAPPENING! From February 19-28, students will be recording their minutes reading (in class and anywhere else!). Each student should have received forms to track reading minutes, pledge forms and the important raffle tickets! Every day from Feb. 20-March 1st, students who read the day before can put a raffle ticket in the bucket at morning circle to try to win prizes from local book stores.
New this year is a Civil Rights Leaders theme. Every school day, the entire school will be learning about a different civil rights leader. We’ll kick it off with a short biography of the day’s leader at morning circle, followed by further reading in each classroom. Ask your room parent how to volunteer to read in the classroom!
When the big day is over, we’ll also need some help tallying the totals. Please email readathon@harveymilkpfc.org if you’d like to help.
Getting contestants from our network of friends, co-workers, and Castro neighbors will help make this years’ event an even bigger success!
Saturday, March 16, 4:00-8:00pm
at The Café, 2369 Market St.
www.canyoudrag.com
Calling all contestants! Want to drag or know somebody who does? Sign up as a contestant [https://canyoudrag.com/i-want-to-perform/] to raise funds for Harvey Milk, and drag your heart out. Contestants will receive a dedicated page on the event website to share and fundraise. To get started as a contestant, email a photo headshot and short bio to Jeff Fassnacht at jeff@sobend.com
The TOP FIVE FUNDRAISERS will become performers at the event and compete for a chance to win the title of Queen of the Castro. The top three fundraisers will receive extra points toward their final competition score. The five top contestants will be matched with a local drag queen to have their makeup done and then perform a talent of their choice (lip-synch, singing, dance, etc.). Contact Kylie Minono at kylieminono@yahoo.com or 208-697-0551 with questions.
Childcare! There will be childcare and dinner at the school during the event. More info coming.
Thursday, December 20
5:30-7:00pm, Harvey Milk Cafeteria
Please mark your calendars for the annual Winter Peace Assembly where each class will present a rehearsed piece onstage to celebrate winter and peace! It’s a wonderful community event to close the calendar year and hopefully many of you can attend!
Students in the YMCA after school program will have the option of eating the after-school supper and students who are picked up directly after school should be fed a snack or dinner at home or elsewhere before the show. All students should be delivered back to school in their classrooms at 5:15pm (teacher may request an earlier drop off) to have a chance to practice before going on stage. Students will be released to their families after their performance. Please help them to be good audience members.
❄ WELCOME ❄
November 26-30, School Library
The annual Book Fair to support our library is coming closer. Fifty percent of sales go directly to the school and classroom libraries.
Preview some of the books here.
For an even bigger selection, purchase books online here from 11/19-12/9. Online sales qualify for the 50% profit, and books will be delivered to school for free before Winter Break.
More info in this flyer, you can volunteer here volunteer link.
Cash, checks (made out to HMCRA PFC) and credit cards accepted.
Friday, October 26, 6-8:15pm
Join the Harvey Milk community in the school cafeteria for a family-friendly movie night! This fall we will show the Pixar movie Coco. As an article in the New Yorker describes: [COCO] presents death as a life-affirming inevitability”. Ultimately, the main message of this film is that families belong together, in life and in death.
Please sign up here to volunteer at the Movie Night!
THE HARVEY MILK CIVIL RIGHTS ACADEMY family would like to honor our ancestors and loved ones who have passed on by putting up an “Ofrenda” in the hallway across from the main office. Anyone and everyone are welcomed to bring a photo, a poem, a symbol representing the person(s) you are honoring, to place on the altar. The altar will be up Monday, October 15 through Friday November 2, 2018.