It's official! Welcome Stars
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Effective July 1, 2010, South Shore Day Care is officially Stars! The growth of the organization has necessitated a new name that better reflects the breadth of our services.
We will continue to offer the same community based early education and youth development programs and services. |
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Star Volunteer: Mary Briggs
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Mary at work in the classroom.
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Mary Briggs is a passionate and committed Stars Volunteer. Since November, Mary has brought music enrichment to our Weymouth Preschool classrooms weekly. As an experienced music educator, Mary is especially skilled at creating fun, age-appropriate music-related activities for our preschool children. Thank you Mary! | |
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| Not Your Average Cause | |
Randolph's Not Your Average Joe's is featuring Stars as its July cause. Every Tuesday night in July, we will receive 15% of the total food purchases by people who eat there and identify themselves as supporters of Stars. Print this out and join us there! |
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Stars Joins Facebook! | |
Stars has a new Facebook page. |
The page will be used to provide updates on events and happenings, including volunteer days, family nights, our upcoming 40th anniversary celebration, and more.
Visit us here and become a fan:
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Annual Calendar Cash Raffle
| Congratulations to the winners in our Calendar Cash Raffle drawing! The raffle raised over $12,000 for materials and supplies at centers. The Weymouth Preschool's Kindergarden classroom families were the star performers, selling over $2,500 in tickets. They used their raffle proceeds for a class trip to the Big Apple Circus. The Lyons Extended Day Stars came in second with over $1,000 in sales.
$100 winners: Anastasia Apostolidis
Jen Gomes
Michelle Morris
Mary O'Brien
Martha Portnow
Karen Reynolds
$500 winners: Dominique Dixon
Tremain Fernandes
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Stars
200 Middle Street
East Weymouth, MA 02189
Mission Statement:
Stars provides comprehensive early education and youth programs, using a family support approach, that enhance the development of children from economically and culturally diverse families through collaboration with parents, schools and communities. |
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| Early Head Start Launch |
Randolph Superintendent of Schools Dr. Richard Silverman shakes hands with Congressman Stephen Lynch while incoming Superintendent Oscar Santos looks on.
(photo courtesy of the Randolph Herald) |
This past January, Stars was awarded a two-year grant, through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, to provide Early Head Start services to the communities of Holbrook and Randolph.
The launch of the program was celebrated on Friday, April 30th at Randolph Town Hall. Congressman Stephen Lynch spoke, and educator Diana Kane, of Creative Connection, performed.
The celebration was featured in the Randolph Herald. Diana Kane performing at the celebration
(photo courtesy of the Randolph Herald) | |
| RISE sponsored Family Nutrition and Fitness Night |
Having fun with movement activities. |
On Tuesday, May 4, Weymouth Preschool families gathered at Chapman Middle School for a family RISE (Reading Is So Exciting) Night. The evening was filled with cooking activities, nutrition games, and movement challenges. The kindergarten class put on a play about vegetables, and taste tests were done to compare raw and cooked foods. Each family left with a free book to add to their at-home library.
Kindergarten class performance about vegetables.. |
Sampling a nutritious dinner.here. | |
| Volunteer Days | LOCAL COMPANIES PITCH IN FOR SPRING SPRUCE-UP
Volunteers crews completed five projects this month including three days to ensure that camp is ready for over 300 daily campers this summer. UPS and Dunkin' Brands volunteers worked indoors and out on projects to get our Randolph Preschool and Quincy Preschool centers in top shape.
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UPS (United Parcel Service) Volunteers at Randolph
Preschool. Hardworking volunteers
mulched a playground area, painted indoor areas and outdoor parking lot lines, power washed the building
and picked up the grounds. Thank you UPS!
Blue Crew Volunteers put together literacy project kits for our summer camp. Each project is paired with a summer reading book as part of the Storyland pavillion at camp.
State Street Global volunteers have helped with the camp opening project at Hale Reservation for the last 4 years led by State Street manager Rob Gallagher. Camp opening is
labor intensive: crews mulch all play areas,
paint latrine and office cabin walls and floors, hang tarps, move picnic tables and cover table tops with heavy duty plastic, set
up the archery site, assemble first aid kits, and move supplies into cabins. Camp is now ready for
over 300 campers thanks to State Street and Blue Crew
Volunteers.
Blue Crew came out to finish the last details for camp opening. They cleaned the food cabin and engineering cabin, moved and organized materials, raked and swept pavilions, and hung the archery tarp.
Dunkin' Brands volunteers pitch-forked the playground and weeded and mulched the garden. The grounds and surrounding area of the building were pristine once Dunkin' Brands crew was finished.
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