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| January 2010 |
Vol 2, Issue 1
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SOME STUFF FROM STEPHANIE
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Happy New Year!
We all hope you had a wonderful and relaxing holiday! We have so many exciting things planned for you for 2010! Of course, our End of Semester Show is this month - please come and see our talented kids! There will be many displays from this semester's classes and you will also get to see and hear some wonderful performances. Performing is a vital, and sometimes scary, part of education - so please come and support our kids! Our Spring semester will start on Feb 1st, and several classes are already full. If you are interested in taking a class or two, please enroll soon! Don't forget about the scholarship if you need help - it was created specifically to help homeschoolers in need. February will also bring two amazing field trips; one to College of the Canyons for a dance celebration from Uganda and another to the Huntington Gardens to explore history's greatest science. You can only take advantage of these community offerings as a group, so please join us. Come meet other homeschooling parents, chat and see Tammy Takahashi, author of Deschooling Gently at our Barnes & Noble Seminar Series! And our own Ramon Hamilton has organized another Film Fest for Santa Clarita and two of the films made here at HuckleBerry will be included this year! Congratulations to our fabulous film makers - watch out Steven Spielberg! And finally, a huge Thank You to everyone that has found a way to help HuckleBerry financially - either through your e-scrip contributions, your purchase of gift card scrip to buy anything from your groceries and gas to nights out on the town, your boxtops, or even coming for a class! We would not be able to be here without your generous support - so Thank You from all of us to all of you. Best wishes for a wonderful 2010!
Stephanie |
| SPRING SEMESTER CLASSES FILLING UP QUICKLY |
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| HISTORY OF GREAT IDEAS IN SCIENCE -
A DOCENT LED TRIP TO THE HUNTINGTON LIBRARY |
Date; Friday Feb 5th
Time: 9:45 - 11:30
Ages: 11 - 14
Utilizing the many history of science resources at The Huntington, including the exciting new exhibition "Beautiful Science: Ideas that Changed the World," this program introduces students to the history of great ideas in science. Through hands-on activities, students will learn basic scientific theories and facts and the background and origin of those theories and discoveries. This tour will focus on the turning points in science and how these ideas advanced scientific exploration Students will also discover the basics of the camera obscura and create a model using scientific principles.
SIGN UP SHEET AT HUCKLEBERRY
*Limited to 20 students. We can accommodate up to 1 adult for every 4 children
*Students may stay with chaperones for an extended visit to the Huntington where we will stay together and explore the Art and Gardens of the Huntington until 3:00
*Siblings, small children and babies are NOT allowed on this tour. Chaperones will be there to take the kids on the tour |
ALOHA WEEK!
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 January 11-14
Wear your favorite Hawaiian clothes all week and help bring a little warmth to our cold winter days! |
HUCK STUDENT FILMS CHOSEN FOR LOCAL FILM FESTIVAL
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The films GETTING OUT OF CHORES FOR DUMMIES (Made by Ashlyn Matthews, Bret Matthews, Carly Matthews, and Jaeger Rydall) and THE SNEAKY MIME (Made by Lake and Daley Peterson, Amanda Rodriguez, Emily Bradford, and Graham Johnson), are official selections of the 2010 SCV Film Festival. This is quite an honor, as only the best Script 2 Screen films get into the annual festival.
The festival will once again be at the Repertory East Playhouse, which is located at 24266 Main Street, Newahll, CA 91321. The screening will take place Saturday, January 9, 2010 from 3-4:30 p.m.
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YEAR BOOK SUBMISSIONS
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Have a photo that would be great in the yearbook?
Send them in to huckyearbook@yahoo.com
The Yearbook class will be looking at the best photos to include in this year's spectacular
YEAR BOOK! | |
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| Quick Links |
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Register for eScrip
Scholastic Books - Kelly Bygum
Community Outreach - Elizabeth Johnson
eScrip & Scrip Gift Cards-Marla Leighton
Huck Pages - Elmarie Hyman
For more info - Stephanie Berry
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MARK YOUR CALENDARS
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Jan 4
1st day back from Christmas Break
Jan 11-14
Aloha Week!
Jan 18
Huck closed for MLK Day
Jan 21
Last day of Fall semester
End of semester show - 6pm
Feb 1
Spring semester beigins
Feb 5
Huntington Library & Gardens Field Trip
Feb 8
Spirit of Uganda Native Song and Dance at COC
Feb 21
Barnes & Noble Seminar Series Presents:
Tammy Takahashi author of Deschooling Gently |
| FUNDRAISING AT HUCK |
Here are ways to contribute to our fundraising efforts . Many of these require no money out of your pocket, just a little bit of time to clip or click.
AVAILABLE NOW: SCRIP GIFT CARDS!
Purchase gift cards for groceries, gas, birthday gifts and just about anything you would normally purchase. Pick up an order form at Huck or go to shopwithscrip.com
to place an order. Get a free gift with your first order AND be entered to win a $25 gift card.
Questions? Contact Marla Leighton atTheL8ns@sbcglobal.net
BOXTOPS FOR EDUCATION, LABELS FOR EDUCATION & AMECI'S PIZZA BOX LABELS
 Look for the pig at the desk and put in all the labels you've been collecting!!
E-scrip is the easiest way to help out ! Just log on, enter your Vons grocery card and other shopping cards, and just keep shopping the way you normally do! Please join today! Register your Vonsclub, debit and credit cards and watch the funds add up for Huck. You can also shop at the eScrip mall. Log on to www.escrip.com for all the details. If you would like help signing up, feel free to email Marla at TheL8ns@sbcglobal.net
GOODSEARCH.COM
Use Goodsearch.com for all your internet searches. Huck will receive a donation for all qualifying searches. Goodsearch is powered by Yahoo! Give it a try and let us know what you think. | |
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BOOK REVIEW BY HOLLY VAN HOUTEN
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Nurture Shock: New Thinking About Children, by Po Bronson & Ashley Merryman
I'm a book gal - no doubt about it. Read all about it is a motto that has served me very well. Want to learn to knit? Read, follow directions, voila - knit! Want to learn to cook? Well, you get the idea. So, when I was pregnant, I faithfully followed all instructions in "What to do When You're Expecting" and a host of other books I'm willing to bet we've all at least thumbed through. But once my kids were born, my tried and true method began to fail. Parenting advice on any number of vital subjects (colic, sleep, picky eating, separation anxiety, time outs) not only failed me, but led me down disastrous paths I never would have chosen instinctually - sleep in particular, was a minefield I would handle entirely differently. It took me an astonishingly long time to realize that children, unlike stitches and risottos, will not behave in predictable ways and that regardless of how well one "pattern/recipe" may have turned out for another parent: results will definitely vary.
Now, having abandoned almost all bookish advice on child rearing, I will occasionally glance through the child rearing advice section at bookstores, but I generally regard them as biographies of parenting adventures having little or nothing to do with my particular adventure. Coming across Bronson and Merryman's Nurture Shock: New Thinking About Children, however, I have to put it in a new and far more interesting category. This is one of the first books I've read that explains why most parenting ideas I read when my children were toddlers backfired so dramatically on me.
Nurture Shock doesn't offer any specific advice; it simply analyzes outcomes of various parenting strategies in light of the most recent research on the science of child development/behavior. With that premise it can take on subjects like why and how praise backfires, why most strategies to encourage truthfulness in children end up making them better liars, what we actually lose when we lose an hour of sleep, how and if self-control can be taught and many other subjects I found fascinating. One chapter on sibling rivalry was subtitled "Freud was wrong. Shakespeare was right. Why siblings really fight." - Now you know that got my attention! I was also particularly impressed with a chapter on children's television that focuses on specific programming techniques that are backfiring. I happen to agree with McLuhan that the "medium is the message," but I found it fascinating to discover why children's programming aimed at teaching "conflict resolution" fails so dramatically. Other chapters tackle such subjects as gifted programs, "The Science of Teen Rebellion," "Why White Parents Don't Talk About Race," and early language acquisition. Overall, I found it a fascinating look at modern parenting and recommend it wholeheartedly.
Reviewed by Holly Van Houten
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Stephanie Berry
HuckleBerry Center for Creative Learning
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