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.