What an amazing beginning to 2011! Home Sweet Home has greatly benefitted from the strong involvement of parents and Big Friends to enhance our learning community. It is impossible to represent all the success stories, but here are some highlights!
PAC Committees
Build: sandbox; interior fix and clean-up
Dad's Group: tiki fellowship; Bear Hike
Events: Harvest Festival; Joy Through Music
Fundraising: targeted spending; Laptop Lunch campaign; parent donations campaign
Garden: worm compost; garden clean-up
Music: Joy Through Music; Cowboy Jared visits; instrument of the month
Thank you to all our families for your tremendous support.
Our next BUILD is the last Saturday of this month! The PAC Build and Fundraising Committees are collaborating to facilitate the playground shade structure. To tie this in to the Green principles, Home Sweet Home would like to consider an arbor design anchored by large casks and have it be covered with vines. We need designers, carpenters, and can-do people to make it happen! Billy Davidson (Cash's dad) is our Build Committee chair.
Big Friend updates:
HSH will welcome eight additional Life Academy interns next week! These Big Friends will be on site Mondays and Wednesdays afternoons.
West Alameda Community Programs will offer YOUTH ACT, a performing arts group that will craft work for the Early Childhood audience. Youth Act will perform at the NAEYC Week of the Young Child festivities. Artensia will serve as the Adult Coach and Keith will serve as the Youth Coach.
Please support BASE at the next AUSD Board Meetings (flyer in mailbox). Any adult that comes out to represent gets a free t-shirt from an appreciative youth volunteer!
More parenting experiences in the media:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/06/garden/06play.html?src=me&ref=general
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Friday, September 10, 2010
Celebrating Culture
The opportunity to build a learning community includes the open invitation to represent our diverse ethnic and cultural traditions within the classroom. To present is to inform; to inform is to support understanding; and understanding can lead to positive relationships through continued sharing and reflection.
Home Sweet Home invites all families to celebrate their unique and individual traditions through a Parent Share. Parents plan and prepare an activity, in collaboration with teachers, to present in a developmentally appropriate way to their child's classroom. This may take the form of book, song, costume, cooking activity, game, and/or any meaningful discussion.
Many thanks to Jakki and Andy (Billie's parents) for supporting the Brown Bear exploration of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. We dipped apple slices in honey and learned the Hebrew phrases "Chag Sameach" (Happy Holiday) and L'Shana Tova (To a Good New Year).
Home Sweet Home invites all families to celebrate their unique and individual traditions through a Parent Share. Parents plan and prepare an activity, in collaboration with teachers, to present in a developmentally appropriate way to their child's classroom. This may take the form of book, song, costume, cooking activity, game, and/or any meaningful discussion.
Many thanks to Jakki and Andy (Billie's parents) for supporting the Brown Bear exploration of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. We dipped apple slices in honey and learned the Hebrew phrases "Chag Sameach" (Happy Holiday) and L'Shana Tova (To a Good New Year).
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