Hey, so maybe it rained, but we are certainly not all wet!
Sooooo many projects got accomplished with the magic hands and mighty minds of our dedicated volunteers. The Sand Box; rehanging the shades, painting and mounting the nap bag hooks, the curtain rod, and all the small details of cleaning and repairing that make a huge difference.
With appreciation for Billy Davidson's coordination as Build Committee Chair and many thanks to our hardworking crew:
Joe Anakata (Michael's dad); Christa and Issa Brandt (Ava's parents); Federica Colla (Elisa's mom); David Elias (Shani's dad); Andrew Fletcher and Kris Palmer (Katy's parents); Lisa Hilley and Chris Martin (Olivia and Grace's parents); Keith Lewis (Big Friend); Annalee and John Mintz (Ziggy's parents); Cierra Price (teacher); Bill and Camille Reynolds (Elizabeth's parents); Kate and Michael Ruggiero (Jackson's parents); Tanoa Stewart (Mylie's dad); Jenny Tran (Big Friend); Artensia Young (teacher); and Sky Young (teacher).
Saturday, October 23, 2010
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
How Much Fun Can You Have at the Fall Festival?
Thursday, October 28, 2010 is the Home Sweet Home Halloween Carnival from 4:00PM - 6:00PM! All families are encouraged to attend with all their children, parents, grandparents and assorted loved ones. The event is from 4:00PM - 6:00PM in the Alternatives in Action BIG ROOM (across the hallway from our playground).
Lovely decorations, yummy snacks and six booths to explore will be complemented by a Costume Parade and dance lesson for "The Monster Mash".
Children attending Home Sweet Home this day are asked to bring their costume in a bag (labeled with their name) and Big Friends will help them to get dressed up after 3:00PM. In this way we hope to help costumes stay intact for the big night on Sunday, October 31, 2010!
Many thanks to all the parents and Big Friends who volunteered their time and talents to support our children's joy, including: Keith; Jessica; Nancy; Raven and Shabreia; Dorinda Von Stroheim (Dashiell's mom), Event Chair; Heather Jennings (Jasper's mom) Special Events Committee Chair; Kimberly Anakata (Michael's mom); Christa and Issa Brandt (Ava's mom and dad); Stephanie Lapachet (Pierce's mom); Kelly Conley (Giuliana's mom); Shivaun McDonald (Emmett's mom); Deborah Hodgkinson (Lucy's mom); Annalee Mintz (Ziggy's mom) and Lea Speed (Dylan and Gabe's mom).
Wanna help and don't know how to get involved? Please contact Dorinda or Heather through parentsofhome@yahoogroups.com.
Lovely decorations, yummy snacks and six booths to explore will be complemented by a Costume Parade and dance lesson for "The Monster Mash".
Children attending Home Sweet Home this day are asked to bring their costume in a bag (labeled with their name) and Big Friends will help them to get dressed up after 3:00PM. In this way we hope to help costumes stay intact for the big night on Sunday, October 31, 2010!
Many thanks to all the parents and Big Friends who volunteered their time and talents to support our children's joy, including: Keith; Jessica; Nancy; Raven and Shabreia; Dorinda Von Stroheim (Dashiell's mom), Event Chair; Heather Jennings (Jasper's mom) Special Events Committee Chair; Kimberly Anakata (Michael's mom); Christa and Issa Brandt (Ava's mom and dad); Stephanie Lapachet (Pierce's mom); Kelly Conley (Giuliana's mom); Shivaun McDonald (Emmett's mom); Deborah Hodgkinson (Lucy's mom); Annalee Mintz (Ziggy's mom) and Lea Speed (Dylan and Gabe's mom).
Wanna help and don't know how to get involved? Please contact Dorinda or Heather through parentsofhome@yahoogroups.com.
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Alternatives in Action BIG NEWS
The photograph above features the work of our youth at Life Academy now on display at the Oakland Museum for Dia de los Muertos. Home Sweet Home is thrilled to welcome 10 interns from Life Academy who will be observing and working in our preschool on Monday and Wednesday afternoons!
The Alternatives in Action youth from the summer program will be presenting The Real Me Movement on Tuesday, Oct 12th to the Alameda Unified School District. Check out their website at http://www.facebook.com/pages/Real-Me-Movement/129259223782811
Home Sweet Home welcomed 10 alumni back to school on Friday, October 8th. A morning of messy Art was supported by Big Friends Alannah, Nancy and Raven. 100% of attendees polled would like to come back in November for clay play and muffin making!
SAVE THE DATE! Wednesday, October 20th is the Candidates Forum - the ONLY youth run Candidates Forum on the island! Please come out at 6:30PM and support our youth in this huge endeavor. For parents that would like to earn volunteer hours supporting this event through set-up and clean-up, please connect with Dawn Humphrey at 748-4314 ext 302. Our target goal is to contribute 40 adults to the audience, please invite your family, friends and neighbors.
It is Charter renewel year for the Bay Area School of Enterprise. Home Sweet Home is well aware of the special place we hold as the lab for the BASE Child Development program. It is exciting to be a part of the high school that has the first student written charter in the United States! Please be aware that AUSD site visits will be happening this Fall. Feel free to share your child's experience with our Big Friends to our site visitors.
Child Development students support the Omnibus Work Sampling System for Home Sweet Home Parent-Teacher Conferences. Every class day, Big Friends spend the first 10 minutes journaling about their interactions with children during lab hours. Cierra and Kathleen have begun to utilize the journal reflections to appreciate how often children and Big Friends interact, and where, how and why. The youth's perceptions will be weighed with the teachers' observations to get a picture of the Whole Child.
The Alternatives in Action youth from the summer program will be presenting The Real Me Movement on Tuesday, Oct 12th to the Alameda Unified School District. Check out their website at http://www.facebook.com/pages/Real-Me-Movement/129259223782811
Home Sweet Home welcomed 10 alumni back to school on Friday, October 8th. A morning of messy Art was supported by Big Friends Alannah, Nancy and Raven. 100% of attendees polled would like to come back in November for clay play and muffin making!
SAVE THE DATE! Wednesday, October 20th is the Candidates Forum - the ONLY youth run Candidates Forum on the island! Please come out at 6:30PM and support our youth in this huge endeavor. For parents that would like to earn volunteer hours supporting this event through set-up and clean-up, please connect with Dawn Humphrey at 748-4314 ext 302. Our target goal is to contribute 40 adults to the audience, please invite your family, friends and neighbors.
It is Charter renewel year for the Bay Area School of Enterprise. Home Sweet Home is well aware of the special place we hold as the lab for the BASE Child Development program. It is exciting to be a part of the high school that has the first student written charter in the United States! Please be aware that AUSD site visits will be happening this Fall. Feel free to share your child's experience with our Big Friends to our site visitors.
Child Development students support the Omnibus Work Sampling System for Home Sweet Home Parent-Teacher Conferences. Every class day, Big Friends spend the first 10 minutes journaling about their interactions with children during lab hours. Cierra and Kathleen have begun to utilize the journal reflections to appreciate how often children and Big Friends interact, and where, how and why. The youth's perceptions will be weighed with the teachers' observations to get a picture of the Whole Child.
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
Parent-Teacher Conferences
On Friday, October 29th Home Sweet Home will facilitate Parent-Teacher Conferences.
In preparation for this opportunity, the following summary of reasons favoring parent participation is reproduced from a translated conversation between Sergio Spaggiari (Director of Education, Reggio Schools) and Lella Gandini (Pedagogista, Reggio Schools)from "The Hundred Languages of Children" (second edition):
*The education of young children is of major importance and is of concern to all. It can be limited neither just to the home nor just to the school. It occurs in many places and no one place can claim to be all encompassing or exclusive. Each environment must be aware of the partial and incomplete role it plays and must therefore seek to collaborate and be integrated with others.
* A child is biologically predisposed to relating to others and of being the major actor in the playing out of his or her own life. For this reason early learning centers are educational communities, places not so much where one educates, but where one is educated, a place where interested parties (children, teachers and parents) are at the same time both teachers and learners.
* The participation and active involvement of the parent in the school is perceived and appreciated by the child who can derive from it a sense of security besides seeing it as a model and incentive for his or her own personal growth.
To best facilitate conferences and honor time for parents and teachers to exchange information, Home Sweet Home has calendared one day in October and one day in May one year in advance. The goal is very much to promote 100% parent involvement for this essential communication. Please be reminded that Home Sweet Home is closed for children's direct-program on Conference Days. Teachers respectfully ask parents to attend conferences without their child/ren present. An exception will be made for nursing babes in arms.
In preparation for this opportunity, the following summary of reasons favoring parent participation is reproduced from a translated conversation between Sergio Spaggiari (Director of Education, Reggio Schools) and Lella Gandini (Pedagogista, Reggio Schools)from "The Hundred Languages of Children" (second edition):
*The education of young children is of major importance and is of concern to all. It can be limited neither just to the home nor just to the school. It occurs in many places and no one place can claim to be all encompassing or exclusive. Each environment must be aware of the partial and incomplete role it plays and must therefore seek to collaborate and be integrated with others.
* A child is biologically predisposed to relating to others and of being the major actor in the playing out of his or her own life. For this reason early learning centers are educational communities, places not so much where one educates, but where one is educated, a place where interested parties (children, teachers and parents) are at the same time both teachers and learners.
* The participation and active involvement of the parent in the school is perceived and appreciated by the child who can derive from it a sense of security besides seeing it as a model and incentive for his or her own personal growth.
To best facilitate conferences and honor time for parents and teachers to exchange information, Home Sweet Home has calendared one day in October and one day in May one year in advance. The goal is very much to promote 100% parent involvement for this essential communication. Please be reminded that Home Sweet Home is closed for children's direct-program on Conference Days. Teachers respectfully ask parents to attend conferences without their child/ren present. An exception will be made for nursing babes in arms.
Monday, October 4, 2010
October Birthdays!
10/1 - Pierce
10/14 - Jackson
10/17 - Adrian
10/18 - Bruno
10/30 - Kira
Please be sure to wish our friends a wonderful birthday and happiness the whole year through!
10/14 - Jackson
10/17 - Adrian
10/18 - Bruno
10/30 - Kira
Please be sure to wish our friends a wonderful birthday and happiness the whole year through!
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