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Good Habits Parent Association Meeting Yearbook Orders Due Open House Events Calendars For Sale Winter Faire Wish List Note Card Survey You're Not The Boss Of Me Focus on Faculty HIGH SCHOOL NEWSHalloween Photos Current Studies Pre-College Testing GRADE SCHOOL NEWSTent City 3 Kiosk Break Care Lost & Found Halloween Photos Reports From Grades EARLY CHILDHOOD NEWSMud! COMMUNITY ANNOUNCEMENTSProvided as a free service to the SWS community. November 5, 2010Dear , Enjoy this current issue of the Connection. Here you will find all the latest SWS news and information. The Connection will be delivered to your email inbox every two weeks.    We First Make Our Habits, And Then Our Habits Make Us
Scrip programs are an easy way to support SWS while making your everyday purchases. Tapping into this otherwise lost income is accomplished in two ways.
The most profitable way is for you to make it a habit to use scrip in your weekly grocery shopping. Currently we use PCC (5%) and Safeway (1%).
The second way is to go through a portal that links to our school every time you make an online purchase. Go to onecause.com, register an account linking you to SWS and make a habit of using that portal to access thousands of venues: Amazon, Nordstrom, L.L. Bean, Lands' End, Ebay, HP, Dell, and more.
Visit the office to purchase a reloadable PCC scrip card or see our website for information on how to register your Safeway card. Currently, 15% of our families are involved in the PCC program, which last year generated over $11,000 for the school. We received an additional $500 through other vendors. Our goal is $17,500 this year which supports the general operating budget. All income over that figure goes to the Parent Association.
Imagine 100% of our families developing the habit of capturing dollars we already spend. Brad Keefe & Jim Krantz |
Parent Association Meeting - All Are Welcome - Tent City Update
Tuesday, November 9th, 7 - 8:30 pm, Grade School Music Room
Representatives from Maple Leaf Lutheran Church and Tent City 3 will join us for the first half hour to give a presentation and answer questions.
The rest of the meeting will be about Winter Faire and possible topics for future discussions.
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Yearbook Orders Due Friday, November 19
The 2010-2011 hardcover yearbook will again feature all classes from preschool through grade 12. Order your copy by turning in the yearbook order form with payment of $30 to the high school or grade school office by November 19. Late orders cannot be guaranteed. Students will receive their yearbooks in June.
Click here for order form.
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Open House Events In November
Please remember to invite your friends and share the gift of a Waldorf education with them.
Preschool through Grade 4: Tuesday, November 16, 6:30-8:30pm (flyer)
Grades 5 through 8: Wednesday, November 17, 6:30-8:30pm (flyer)
High School: Saturday, November 20, 10am -1pm (flyer)
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Hot Off The Presses - SWS 2011 Calendar 
The 2011 wall calendar is here and it is beautiful and available for purchase at the high school and the grade school offices. It will also be available at the Winter Faire. The calendar features artwork by over 40 current and former students of all ages and costs $12 - a great gift idea for friends and relatives!
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SWS Wishlist
Small treasures for Pocket Person: Small items made of natural materials such as glass, metal or fabric. Also gems, bells, stones, ceramic, small balls, any special treasures that the children would be happy to have. No plastic please. There will be drop boxes for treasures in the grade school lobby and at Kinderhaus. Thanks!
Winter Faire - Come One, Come All...
...to be a part of this wonderful community event. Volunteer to help children make a rain stick, serve warm soup, or decorate the school before the doors open. To find out how you can participate, talk to Maria Galvao or Alicia Arnold, or visit the online sign-up page.
Here is a list of crafts that will be available this year:
Glass bead bookmarks, rain sticks, pine cone bird feeders, "stained glass" votives, herbal silk sachets, beeswax candles, painted napkins, fleece fabric wreaths.
Sign up with a friend to spend an hour helping out at a craft or in the cafe. We can also use your donations of yummy baked goods. Sign-up is quick and easy in the grade school office or online.
Call Maria to learn more about jobs of all sizes: 206-542-2079.
Call Alicia to learn more about helping out with the crafts: 425-516-2009
Call Shelly McSweyn to learn more about being a vendor: 206-365-2366.
Feel free to invite your friends by sending them the flyer.
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Your Opinion Is Wanted
Note cards with SWS student artwork will be for sale at the Winter Faire. We would like to learn about people's preferences, such as how many cards should be in a set, would you like to have sets grouped by subject, age group, or...? Click here to let us know what you think.
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You're Not The Boss Of Me! 
The Charms and Challenges of Raising Healthy Boys
Save the date: March 16, 2011, 7-9 pm, Stroum Jewish Community Center
We are very excited to have our own Melissa Borden and Tim Bennett lead this interactive presentation as part of the Parent Map Lecture Series. Tim and Melissa have each written a chapter of the book of the same title, and yes, the book will be available for purchase at the event.
Expect to learn about the different qualities of boys from birth through the teen years, to laugh, and to walk away inspired and with a new appreciation of your son.
Tickets are $20 and are available now through the grade school office.
This is a wonderful opportunity for the wider community to get a glimpse of the wisdom and pedagogical approach that our school and teachers offer, so please tell your friends and families and forward the flyer.
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Focus On Faculty
In this section we will introduce faculty members, starting with teachers new to our school.
Tom Varner, our new band teacher for grades 6-8, is internationally known as one of the top living pioneers of jazz on the French horn and a great all-around horn player. He is an inventive, witty, and passionate composer for his different ensembles, which over the years have featured such great players as Steve Wilson, Ed Jackson, Tony Malaby, Lee Konitz, Mark Feldman, Kenny Barron, Drew Gress, Cameron Brown, Victor Lewis, Billy Hart, Tom Rainey, and Matt Wilson.
Tom's latest project, Heaven and Hell, a new work for tentet, was released in 2009, and is his 13th recording as a leader/composer. Tom won the 2000 Jazz Composers Alliance Composition Award and has been awarded residencies at the MacDowell, Civitella, Centrum, and Blue Mountain arts colonies and grants from the NEA and the Doris Duke Foundation/Chamber Music America. Tom has toured all over the world, and also plays on over 70 CDs, with Miles Davis, Quincy Jones, Steve Lacy, John Zorn, Bobby Previte, Jim McNeely, and many others, and wrote the soundtrack for the feature film Saints and Sinners.
Click here to listen to a clip of a piece from Heaven and Hell, titled Queen Tai.
After living in New York City for 26 years, Tom moved with his family to Seattle in the fall of 2005. Since his move, he has enjoyed teaching at Cornish College of the Arts, the Lakeside School, and his private studio and playing at the Vancouver, Earshot, and Bumbershoot festivals and the Seattle Art Museum. He also plays at Tula's and other clubs as a leader and sideman alongside many Seattle greats such as Mark Taylor, Eric Barber, Hans Teuber, and Jim Knapp.
Tom is married to a Seattle native, has two great kids, and is excited to be teaching at the Seattle Waldorf School!
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Halloween
As you can see, there were some very creative costumes on display in celebration of Halloween. Photos thanks to Karoline Krogsboll, grade 10.
    
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Current Studies
Each grade started a new block this week. Grade 9: Comedy and Tragedy, with Dr. VanDerPloeg, Grade 10: Embryology with Mrs. Tompot, Grade 11: Sky Motions, with Dr. Fraser, Grade 12: World Religions, with Dr. Hipolito. Visiting and working with all of the grades and the faculty this week has been speech artist Mr. Craig Giddens, who hails from Maine and is a longtime Waldorf class teacher and teacher trainer. He worked with students and faculty on recitations and speech exercises in Morning Lessons, Eurythmy classes, and individual coaching sessions.
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Pre-College Testing
Grade 10 and 11 students took the ACT PLAN test this week at school, as part of our college counseling program. The PLAN is designed as a preparation and practice for taking the ACT -- which, like the somewhat more familiar SAT, is a standardized test students take in the junior and senior years as a part of their college application process.
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Tent City 3 - Two Opportunities To Stay Informed
Tuesday, November 9, 7pm - Representatives from Maple Leaf Lutheran Church and Tent City 3 will give a presentation during the first half hour of the Parent Association Meeting.
Sunday, November 14, 7 to 8:30pm - Community Meeting at the Maple Leaf Lutheran Church, open to all. (Display on how you can become involved, panel discussion, Q & A)
Kiosk Update
The Parent Association raised money that will be used to build a kiosk along the walk to the main entrance. The project will be built largely with volunteer labor and we will directly contact people who have indicated an interest in participating in such a work party. However, all are welcome! We are specifically looking for folks with carpentry and stone-masonry skills. Please contact Shelly in the grade school office if you or someone you know would like to be involved. 206-524-5320, ext 0
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Break Care - Plan Ahead!
Seattle Waldorf School offers Break Care for our students, grade 1 through grade 5, when school is not in session. Our Break Care activities complement our school curriculum in a warm and relaxing environment. Each day follows a schedule similar to that of school days, and particular attention is paid to consistent rhythms and meaningful activities. We offer a morning and afternoon snack, and ask that you provide your child a lunch. Our Break Care schedule for 2010-2011:
Parent-Teacher Conferences and Veteran's Day: Thursday and Friday, November 11 and 12
Winter Break: Monday, December 20 through Wednesday, December 22
Parent-Teacher Conferences: Friday, January 14
Mid-Winter Break: Monday, February 21 through Friday, February 25
Teacher Work Day: Friday, March 25
Spring Break: Monday, April 18 through Friday, April 22 and Monday, April 25 through Friday, April 29.
Please contact Carolyn Harris, charris@seattlewaldorf.org with any questions.
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Lost & Found
Please check the Lost & Found bin (the wicker chest in the lobby, right inside the door) regularly for items that may belong to your family. The chest tends to fill up quickly!
All items not picked up by Thursday, November 25 will be donated to a charity the following Monday, November 29.
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Halloween Assembly For Grades 5 - 8
  
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Grade 7
Grade 7 is now entering the Age of Exploration and Discovery, studying trade routes from China and India to Europe, monopolies, technology, sailing, charts, winds, currents, dares, gambles, and more! If you have time, visit the grade school lobby to see their Day Of The Dead display.
 
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Grade 6
O Roma Nobolis! Sixth graders are studying Rome, from the founding of Rome to the death of Caesar. Mornings are spent marching!
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Grade 2, 5, 6 - Lantern Walk and Bringing Joy and Fruit To Seniors
Grade 2 will celebrate their Lantern Walk this coming Monday evening. As the students make their way along a trail across our campus, they will carry their lights and sing to their parents and other family members, who will stand in small groups at designated spots along the trail. Families are encouraged to bring treasures (fruit and nuts) which the students will collect.
The next day, the big baskets with fruit will be brought to the fifth-grade classroom, where the fifth-graders will compose smaller gift baskets of fruit.
Grade 6 has planned a trip to a retirement home on Lake City Way, where they will surprise the elderly residents with these baskets. They will also sing songs and play their recorders as a gift.
The light from our Lantern Walk on Monday night will shine into every elderly home. This event commemorates the beginning of the dark time, where with our lights we show our inner strength and determination to overcome this darkness on our way to the shortest day in December.
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Grade 5 - Hiking At Wallace Falls
Grade 5 had a terrific time at their hiking adventure last week, despite plenty of rain. Each cabin was given the task of creating their own offering (skit, poem, song, etc.) to share with the class, which proved to be very entertaining! Students also spent many hours around the fire carving out wooden spoons, the "bowl" of which was carefully burned out with coals. As part of their study of Ancient Cultures, Mrs. Rice is introducing the students to Vedic-Asana to experience movement with balance, flexibility, strength, and inward poise.
 
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Grade 3 
Grade 3 is learning about bartering and money, and working their way into vertical addition and subtraction. Here is a picture of third graders painting, taken from outside. Notice the carrots on the wall - a reminder of the Sunfield Farm trip.
Grade 2 - Report From Pumpkin Carving
Last Thursday, in preparation for pumpkin carving, the kids all made drawings of pumpkins and hung them in the classroom to get ideas from one another for the faces. On Friday they were ready! Most dove in and shaped the faces with a small nail provided by Mr. Gottenbos, and then - the best part - worked on removing the goo. Some of the children dug their hands in and grabbed gobs of pumpkin seeds and guts and others swished it around until it was a mushy blob inside the pumpkin!
It was fun to watch Jules, who cleaned the pumpkin so thoroughly that the strings of pumpkin looked like they should be made into spaghetti! Mr. Gottenbos would walk by, humming, which started little choruses all along the table. The children were happy to teach (and correct!) us parents when we joined in the songs!
As some washed their finished product, others just admired the line-up of pumpkins along the logs in the yard, while still others ran laps (I counted Levi running by four times) in the second-grade yard. All in all, it was a beautiful morning with blue skies to work under and much joy in the beehive.
Jeanette Mabry-Crissman
  
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Grade 1 - Learning About Numbers
Grade 1 students love to count and are getting very good at going forwards and backwards. Students were counting fingers and toes in their classroom, when a desire emerged to know how many fingers there are in the whole school. Consequently, Ms. Ellingson inquired in the office how many students are in each class, and how many adults work in the office. Very likely Grade 1 students will know the total number of fingers in the grade school by the time you read this.
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Mud Is Welcomed By Preschoolers!
Miss Gina reports that during the recent rainy days a favorite digging hole next to the wood shop building was transformed into a huge puddle. This puddle generated a seemingly inexhaustible supply of mud that was immediately and cheerfully put to good use by all Daffodils and Sunflowers.
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This section provided as a free service to the SWS community.
Celebrating 50 Years Of Camphill in North America
Excerpt From the Lilopoh Magazine Website
"The social experiment of Camphill began in Scotland in 1939 when Karl König put his spiritual ideals into practice to start the first Camphill community. Just at the time when National Socialism was ravaging Middle Europe, crushing human values and social order, König founded a therapeutic community based on anthroposophy and his love for children in need of special care. ...
In most Camphill communities life and work is shared with people in need of special care, particularly those with developmental disabilities. The extraordinarily pure, tolerant human goodness that so many of these individuals embody allows our communities to flourish. It is not our aim to live for people with special needs; we want to live with them, appreciating that they have a contribution to make to our lives and social future.
Camphill is an impulse for social renewal. In a society that is becoming more and more self-absorbed and individualized, we try to meet one another with openness and interest. In this fragmented and over-stimulating world, we try to do our tasks with intention and peacefulness. In an increasingly materialistic culture, we strive toward balance that comes with spiritual awareness."
Read more on the Lilopoh website or find a copy of the special edition of Lilipoh Magazine with a focus on Camphill at our Grade School Parent Library.
AWSNA Newsletter INFORM
For the November newsletter, click here.
What Are Our Students Up To?
Come see Shalee Murphy ('09 Grade 8 graduate) in Shorecrest High School's fall play, A Midsummer Night's Dream. This Dream is a hilarious play set in a contemporary British boarding school with lost lovers, mischievous Punk Rock Fairies and Hobgoblins in the woods, and Mechanicals who run the place, including the production of an uproarious play within a play. It runs Nov. 11, 12, 13, 18, 19 & 20 at 7:30 p.m. and Nov. 14 & 21 @ 2:00 p.m. Tickets are $9 in advance and $10 at the door. Tickets can be purchased at the ASB office or Third Place Books. Reservations can be made by calling 206-393-6224 or by e-mailing sc.tickets@shorelineschools.org
Seattle Family Dance
November 21, 2010, 3-5pm at the Phinney Neighborhood Center-Community Hall
Come and join the fun! Simple dances will be taught to kids 10 and under and their families. Professor Banjo (Paul Silveria from Portland, OR) will call and live music will be provided by the Small Time String Band.
SFS/PNA Members: $5 per person, $15 per family; all others $6 per person, $18 per family.
Find the Community Hall at 6532 Phinney Ave N., Seattle and go into the brick building using the the lower parking lot entry.
More info: Rosemary parent Clare Woolgrove clare@seattlerolfer.com or seattledance.org/family
Looking for a Nanny
We are looking for an after-school nanny for a 7-year-old.
He needs to be picked up at the grade school at 3pm and brought home to Kirkland (Kingsgate) where he needs regular care until approx. 8pm. This will be needed for 3 days a week or so.
Please call Tatiana Avaeva at 425-749-9032.
Magic Cabin catalogue doll size Flower Clothing rack for sale, $25
OBO. The most recent catalogue shows it in red, ours is the older
version with pink flower sides and green shelves. Includes 12 doll
hangers. Contact Sam at sam.hranac@gmail.com or 206-661-6423.
DK Bicycle Co used BMX bike for sale, front and back pegs, 360 degree
turn on front handle bars. $80 OBO, contact Sam at
sam.hranac@gmail.com or 206-661-6423.
Used Diamondback Sorrento men's mountain bike for sale, $180 open to
other offers. Bought for $320 just one year ago, in great condition.
Bought the wrong bike for our teenage son, just hoping to get some
money back to help purchase a road bike. Contact Sam at
sam.hranac@gmail.com or 206-661-6423.
Bladerunner Pro XT rollerblades, men's size 9. Used maybe 4
times, $80 new, selling for $40, OBO. Contact Sam at
sam.hranac@gmail.com or 206-661-6423.
TOYS FOR SALE! LOTS HERE! THERE MAY BE SOMETHING FOR YOUR CHILD! All in very good shape. Everything only $15 each. BALANCE TOYS: The Woggler (orig. $90); Fun Wheels (as seen in Hearthsong); Bike/Skate Ramp, never used, includes attachment hardware.
Also $15 each: Little Tykes Toy Box (plastic and great for outdoor toys!). Wooden Playhouse - small and simple in form; ideal for little people or animals. Email or call Sue: sah1063@gmail.com 206.407.6362.
MORE FOR SALE! American Girl Doll - JOSEFINA- $65. We still have some of her accessories. Also some American Girl Today accessories. Girls Figure Skates, Glacier 220, size 5, $10, worn only a short time. Porcelain Dolls on stands - 2 Victorian era, 1 Ice skater, $15 each. IKEA Minnen Dragon Wall Hanging Storage Organizer - 3 sections, great for getting those little things up off the floor! $5.
Please email or call if interested in the following as we have lots: BRATZ Dolls and accessories. Build-A-Bear outfits; some "girl"/several "boy" styles, $2 - $10 each. Email or call Sue: sah1063@gmail.com 206.407.6362.
SNOW GEAR FOR SALE! SnowShoes, Tubbs Sojourn 21, used only one time, $75. "Boys" Ski Coat and "Boys" Snowboard Pants, size 12, $20 each. Impwear Snuggli, Cheetah print, size M, $8. Gordini Ski Gloves child S, $5. Solstice Mircoshed Men's Coat size L, like new but missing detachable hood, $10. Email or call Sue: sah1063@gmail.com 206.407.6362.
In case you missed it in the last issue. . .
Celebrate The Joy Of Self Expression
New art classes with artist and educator Janet Lia
Drawing Charcoal Portraits
Fridays, November 12, 19, December 3,10, 17, 9:30-11:30 am, Wedgwood
Enjoy learning to draw portraits in charcoal. Beginners will learn how easy it is to draw from observation, spaces and shapes, instead of outlines. The result will be a strikingly realistic portrait with expressive feeling! Cost: $200 including all materials.
Watercolor Book-Making Class
Wednesdays, November 10, 17, December 1, 8, 15, 10:30 am-12:00 pm, Wedgwood
Create a field book as a holiday gift or keepsake. Learn binding, signatures, and adhesive techniques as well as watercolor unique paper for the cover! Cost: $185 includes all materials
Email janetlia@comcast.net or call 206-522-1937 to enroll.
Sound Circle Center presents:
Tristan and Iseult - For Ages 12+
Saturday, November 11, 8 pm, grade school campus, Huckleberry Hall
Performance by Master Storyteller Ashley Ramsden
Click here for flyer.
A Christmas Carol - For Ages 7+
Sunday, December 5, 2 pm, Skinner Hall, Bright Water School
Performance by Master Storyteller Ashley Ramsden
Click here for flyer.
For other offerings by Sound Circle Center, see link at the end of the newsletter.
Marie's Cleaning Services
Marie, mother of Teo in the Lupines preschool, offers house-cleaning services - weekly, bi-weekly, monthly, and special occasions - Thorough and detail-oriented, eco-products (or your own favorites), home laundry services - Excellent references. Call 206-734-7912 or email mariegizard@gmail.com. |
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meaning to their lives, who meet life with courage, and respond with
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For information on Waldorf teacher training and other course offerings, visit www.soundcircle.org
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