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.

CSI Blog

Check out the CSI blog here.
http://csiearlychildhood.blogspot.com/

September 2011

Our next meeting will be Sept. 21 @ the Preschool Lab, 1pm. Bring your ideas, classmates, and recruits.

SRAEYC Conference

Sraeyc Conference

Novemeber 12

9-4pm

Speaker: Jennifer Ward

Focus: Children & Nature

Cost: $40 for General Public
$30 for Naeyc members

more to come when known

Blog about Play

Check out my blog I have made for young children. There are helpful hints and advice, places to find ideas, and much more.


Play: Curriculum for Young Children


Invite people you know to view the blog as well.

August 2011 Meeting

Student ECE Club Meeting   August 31, 2011
Attendees: Rachel Rullman, Jodie Bridges, Jamie Bridges, Maria Velazquez, Aubrie McArthur, Crystal Winter, Samantha Andreas, Jasmine Hargrove, Ellen Neff, Jennifer Patterson, Dannelle Green, Tiffany Mitchell

• Club Officers
• President-Crystal Winter
• Vice President-Christine
• Treasurer-Jodie
• Secretary-Jaime
• Inter-club-Jasmine
• Interclub Meeting- meets every other week on the 2^nd and 4^th Tuesday at 1.
• Sign up for NAEYC? Jennifer has the forms
• Budget-we have $350.00

• Club Member Ideas

• It was discussed to change the time of the meeting. However, no matter what day we schedule people will be unable to make it. It was decided to keep our meetings the 3^rd Wednesday of the month at 1:00. If you can’t make the meeting please know that you can and are a part of the club. Minutes will be sent out each month and you can help when and where you can.

• Drive for Head Start—school supplies. We would like to participate in this event. We will go shopping to support this event. More information to come.

• Look into attending a conference, besides, or in addition to SRAEYC’s fall conference.

• Recruitment-We need to do everything that we can to encourage people to consider Early Childhood. We would like to reach out to high schools.

• Let us know if you have any other ideas!!!

• Future Ideas—
• Date Night—September 23^rd 6-10
• Conference- Nov. 12, 9-4 pm, Speaker: Jennifer Ward, Focus: Children and Nature
• Halloween Carnival—Oct. through CSI
• Food Drive—if you are interested I'd like to do one in Nov.
• Christmas Drive—Dec. decorate a tree and buy gifts for a family

New from the Meeting

We talked about the following from the Oct. Meeting. First we will be doing sensory tables at the Halloween Festival. That will be Oct. 30th. 12 to 2 pm. If you can help us, show up at 10:30am at the Preschool Lab to help us gather items to take to the Rec Center. Next we talked about Fundraiser Ideas to do in November and December. I really want to have a Bake Sale and sell items at the Student Union Building on Campus. We will find out what we need to do to accomplish this. We can make the items at the lab. Let me know if you'd be interested in doing this with me. In December we are interested in having a Christmas shopping fun day for children while parents do their shopping. We will talk more about this in Novemeber, but I think parents would be really interested in something like this.

October Meeting

We will have our next student club meeting at the preschool lab on Tuesday, October 19th. Future meetings will be held on the third Tuesday of each month. We will meet at 1:00 and lunch will be provided. We will discuss the following topics: · Club approval from CSI · NAEYC membership (forms available) · Halloween festival (think about a booth you want to do for children) · Fundraisers UPDATE: Our meeting went well. We talked about many things. I will post about it next.

Sept Meeting

Thanks to all who came to our Sept. meeting for the club. It was a great turn out. We discussed what we needed to become affiliated with CSI in order to receive funding and took our club photo. We also talked about what we needed for our SRAEYC Conference on Oct. 1 and 2. Invite those you know to come to this. It will be great. Great topic and great speaker to teach us.
We also elected a new co-president. Welcome Christine Knight to the committee. Her insight to children's education will be welcomed.

Jennifer has submitted paperwork for CSI to become a club there. Our club name there will be Early Childhood Education Club or ECE Club.

Our next meeting will be held Oct. 19 at 1 pm to 2 pm at the CSI Preschool Lab. (246 Falls Ave.) Please join us and invite other education members interested in being part of the SRAEYC, an affiliate of the NAEYC.

For Children at CSI

Children's Fall Festival at CSI.

We will be having an obstacle course for children at the festival.

Date: Wed. Oct 6

Time: 4-6 pm

Place: Outside the Taylor Building on CSI campus

Join us. Bring your children. There will be other clubs there with other booths for children to enjoy.

This went great. Had a good turn out. Children loved the obstacle course.

Big thanks to Crystal, Jodie, and Jamie for helping out.

Conference

Our SRAEYC Conference will be held on Oct 1 and 2. Our Presenter will be Ashley Merryman (Co-Author of the book "NurtureShock"). Here is the link to the registration form to join us at the Conference. You will learn more than you thought you could. You could also read the book or there is an audio book as well before coming to the conference to be familiar with the aspects we will be talking about.

There is more information on the Upcoming page tab located at the top.

September Meeting

Our first meeting of the Fall 2010 school year will be Sept. 21 at 1 pm until 2 pm at the CSI Preschool Lab at 246 Falls Ave. It would be great if you tell all the Education Majors you know to come to the meeting. We would love all the support we can get. I will confirm this meeting once I've confirmed it myself. I will update this post once I know what will be discussed at the meeting. I'm pretty sure we will talk about making our club offical with CSI. That would be great.

Learning Together!

Let's Learn Together!!

Keep this club in mind for the next school semester.

Invite Early Childhood Students to join the SRAEYC Club!

First Meeting

April 27, 2010 we had our first club meeting. We elected officers and talked about future projects and fundraisers to do as a club. Notes about the meeting will be coming soon. Our officers are as follows:

• Advisor --Jennifer Patterson
• Co-Presidents --Crystal Winter & Christine Knight
• Secretary --Jodie Bridges
• Treasurer --Heather Hawley
• Representitive --Elora Wright

Thank you to all the officers.