Christmas Family

November meeting minutes

Upcoming Campus Activities
Read and Feed – there is a drive on campus by the education department to support reading for kids. They are looking for donations of new or gently used books. They are also looking for donations of non-perishable foods. These items will be handed out to children at the Lincoln elementary school. This school is has an overall lower economic status than other schools in the area. These food items and books will be handed out to children in gift bags at the end of the semester, so that they will have them over Christmas break. If you would like to donate bring books or food items to CSI’s education department, or to the preschool lab.


Care Package’s for deployed troops – CSI’s veteran club is looking for donations to send overseas to our deployed troops. Some suggested items: Magazines, games, homemade gifts, or disposable cameras. They are also looking for cards and letters to send to our troops. If you would like to donate, you can bring your donations to Shields 103 or Taylor 144.

Toys for Tots – CSI will have collection boxes on campus for this campaign. This will be starting the week after Thanksgiving. They are looking for new toys to be donated.

Upcoming Events for our club
Sponsoring a Family - We decided as a club to sponsor a family this Christmas. This means that we will be buying gifts and decorating a tree for a needy family. This family will be a family from the toddler lab. We decided that we will spend $200 on this project from our club money. $100 of it will be reimbursed. We will be meeting at the preschool lab this Sunday, the 20th at 10:00. If you would like to help shop for this family, you can meet us at the lab, or contact Jennifer or Aubrie.
Thanksgiving Dinner - On Thanksgiving Day, New Hope Church is sponsoring a thanksgiving dinner for those who cannot afford it. They are looking for volunteers to help serve meals throughout the day. Meals will be delivered at the church, or driven to families in their homes. Some of the members of our club will be there. If you would like to volunteer your time that day, contact Jennifer or Aubrie for more information.


Stockings for children - The Community Service club at CSI is asking other clubs to help out with their project. In this project the club is making stockings for children whose parents are in drug court. They will be reimbursing clubs up to $550 for the stockings. Our club has decided that we can help with this project. More information will sent out in a future e-mail.

Christmas party – We decided that we would like to have a Christmas party for the club (faculty members are invited). This party will be on Saturday, Dec. 10th. It will be at 11:30. There will be a potluck at the party, so bring your favorite recipe! You can bring your children to the party, as well. We will also be doing an ornament gift exchange under $5. Jasmine has come up with a game to play where we will be randomly trading ornaments with others, so you will leave the party with a different ornament than you brought in! During the party, many members agreed to play Bunco. Prizes will be offered for those who win the game!

Jennifer Ward conference - Jennifer Patterson wanted to thank everyone for coming to the conference and to those that helped take things down after the conference.
Attendance: Jennifer, Aubrie, Crystal, Tiffany, Becca, Danelle, Rachel, Jasmine, Jamie, Jodie, Maria, and Janet.

SRAEYC Conference

November Club Meeting

Student ECE Club Meeting   October 19, 2011
Present Members: Jennifer, Aubrey, Crystal, Christine, Becca, Sam, Ashley, Jamie, Jodie, Rachel, Janet, Dannelle, Jasmine, Tiffany, and Maria

• Interclub Meeting Notes- Jasmine

We talked about if we qualify as a club at CSI.  We are an organization, the SRAEYC Student Affiliation.  We are not sure if we also qualify as a club.  Jasmine will be looking into it at the next Interclub meeting.


Jasmine also wanted to mention that the Medical Assistant club is selling raffle tickets.  These tickets are to buy markers for unmarked children's graves in Twin Falls.  The tickets are $5 apiece.  There are also baskets of different prizes.  You can buy these anytime in October.  More information is on the CSI Home Page.


Jasmine could not get an enforced dress code for the Halloween carnival.  However, the Interclub president will take care of any problems if we bring them to her during the carnival.

• Halloween Carnival

• Date - October 29^th, on a Saturday at the CSI gym.
• Time - 11:30 - 1:30
• Booths - We will be doing two sensory tables, one with leaves and the other with shredded paper.  We will also have a tattoo booth.  Leaves will need to be picked up in the week before the event.  Maria will be bringing leaves for us to use.
• Set-up - We will begin set-up at 10:00.  Crystal and Christine will pick-up the materials and bring it the CSI gym.  We will meet there.  Crystal, Christine, Sam, Jamie, Jodie, Ashley, and Rachel will be manning the booth during the event.  Let any of us know if you would like to help man the booth, too.

• Club Service Project

• Deliver tree cookies to area preschools or home providers--bags.

We have 20 bags of tree cookies ready to go.  The trees were cut and sanded.  They were put in bags with fliers.  If you know a daycare or preschool, come and pick up a bag from the Preschool Lab.  We also have more trees to cut, if you have a saw and would like to cut them.

• auction items

Jennifer has lined up five or six items, including tree cookies (Expensive ones), lakeshore donations, Kaplan donations, Discount school supplies donation.  Danelle will put a minimum bidding price on these items.  Keep looking - we could use more items to auction off. Talk with any business you know about donations. Don't be shy.

• SRAEYC Conference-- Nov. 12. 9-4 @ CSI

• Sign up for conference

Sign-up soon.  The last date to sign-up for is Nov. 4^th.  Jennifer has forms for sign-up.  The day of the conference the sign-in time is 8:30.

• Help with conference (Set-up, clean-up, auction table, food table, Idaho stars table, sign-in, book table)

We need some help to set-up and take down things for the auction during the conference.  We will be setting up before the conference, on Saturday.  We might also set up at an earlier date.  Jennifer will be sending out an e-mail, letting us know when set-up will be done.

• Club Member Ideas

Let us know if you have any ideas for upcoming activities for the club.
In February/March we will be doing a food drive.  We want to wait until food begins to run out of the food drives, which we approximated to be around February/March. 

Tree Cookies

We had so much fun cutting down the trees and getting out into nature. Thanks to all those who joined in the effort. Now we need to cut the trees into tree cookies. Here are some pics of how cutting down the trees went.

SRAEYC Conference

Two of the many books by the Author

    The Snake River Association for the Education of Young Children’s Fall Conference will be 


held Saturday, November 12th, from 9:00 am-4:00 pm, at the College of Southern Idaho. This 


year we are pleased to present Jennifer Ward.

     
     Jennifer Ward is a former educator who now writes full time. She is the author of 


numerous  books including Way Out in the Desert, Somewhere in the Ocean, Over in the 


Garden, I Love Dirt!, Let's Go Outside! Outdoor Activities and Projects to Get You and Your Kids 


Closer to Nature, and many more. This conference will be filled with exciting information.

Topics will include: the importance of immersing young children in nature, inquiry inside and 


outside of the classroom, and100 nature resources. You can visit Jennifer Ward’s website at: 


http://www.jenniferwardbooks.com/.






At CSI in the Taylor Building Room 276

For questions, or to register for the conference, please contact Jennifer Patterson at

208-732-6884 or jpatterson@csi.edu.

Cost: $40 for preregistration, $50 for late regristration

Please share this information with the community and invite all those you know teaching, 


working with, and who have children to come.

Student SRAEYC/ECE Club Meeting September 21, 2011

Jennifer, Aubrie, Tiffany, Jodie, Jamie, Danelle, Ashley, Rachel, Jasmine, Crystal, Christine, Janet, Sam, Katie, and Maria!

·      Interclub Meeting Notes

We got new rules to follow as CSI club, nothing different.  Some forms to fill out.  Next year we will re-due the elections and vote on officers of the club.

·      Date Night—Sept. 23. 6-10 pm. Who is coming?

You can come if you are a student or a club member.  Just contact Jennifer.

·      Club Service Project—

Cutting down trees and making pieces to use as blocks at the preschool.  We also want to make enough pieces to share with other preschools around town.  We will be going up to the South Hills, and carpooling to get up there.

Oct. 1^st at Noon.  We will meet at the CSI Preschool Lab before we go up.

E-mail Jennifer or Crystal about coming if you would like to join us. 

This will be a SRAEYC Club activity. 

·      SRAEYC Conference-- Nov. 12. 9-4 @ CSI

Jennifer Ward is coming.  She is talking about nature and getting kids out to nature.  There will be an hour and a half break for lunch in the middle.  Lunch is not provided.  Members of SRAEYC will pay $10.  Others who would like to come will pay $40.

·      Other fund raisers-Consider a silent auction at SRAEYC fall conference?

Have an auction before or after the SRAEYC conference.  Auction items will include tickets to massages, toys, and other items.  We will need help manning the booth before and after the conference.  If you know someone who would like to donate items for the auction, talk to Jennifer or Aubrie.  We would love to have their donations.

·      Club Member Ideas

Let Jennifer or Aubrie know if you have any idea’s.

We will do an outreach to High School’s Early Childhood Education Program later this year, or sometime next year.

·      Halloween Carnival

We are doing sensory tables with toys hidden underneath the sensory items. We will do shredded paper with coupons on the papers for the toys. The other table will have leaves.  Jasmine also suggested doing tattoo’s for older children, so that we will have two activities.  This will be on the 29^th of Oct.

Jasmine will be talking to administration about students dressing appropriately during the carnival.

·      Thanksgiving Food Drive

We will be talking to the other clubs about joining us in this challenge.  We will not be doing this until November.  We are considering taking the food to Idaho Food Drive.  Let us know if you know a great place to donate the food to.

·      School Supply Drive

This will be starting near the beginning of October.  Jasmine is running it.  She wants to collect art supplies for Head Start and other programs who do not have art supplies.