April 10, 2013

This Week and Next: Dr. Susan Johnson talk, Healing Children’s Attention, Learning and Emotional Challenges, Thur, 4/11, 7pm, Assemby Room 4th Grade Parent Meet ing , Fri, 4/12, Forming a Community around our Boys & Girls with Chris and Melissa Baker Rainbow Kindergarten Parent Meet ing , Tue, 4/16, 6pm 4th & 5 th Grade Parent Evening , Working with the Social Realm, Thur, 4/18, 6:30 pm 6th Grade Play , Fri, 4/19, 6:30 pm Spaghett i Dinner , Sat, 4/20, Community Church Copperf ie ld ’s Fundras ier , 4/20-4/21

News and Events

Dr. Susan Johnson to Speak on April 11th We will be welcoming Dr. Susan Johnson for a three-day visit to our school April 11-13. On Thursday, April 11, she will she will give a public lecture on Healing Children's Attention, Learning and Emotional Challenges at 7:00 p.m. in the Assembly Room. Dr. Johnson is a behavioral and developmental pediatrician, as well as a trained practitioner in anthroposophical medicine. You may have read one of her many articles, often made available by kindergarten or class teachers, or known a family who has worked with her. While visiting our school, she will meet with the faculty, observe some classes and do some individual assessments. Mark your calendar for April 11th! Re-Enrollment for 2013-14: Forms! Do you want your child/children to attend Sebastopol Charter School next year? Look for the big white envelope in your youngest child’s basket or backpack the last week of April, fill out the forms neatly and completely and return them to the school office by Fr iday , May 17th at the latest. Re-enrollment lets us know you are committed to sending your child to Sebastopol Charter School next year.

Fresh Produce Program at Sebastopol Charter Farmers Exchange of Earthly Delights (f.e.e.d. Sonoma) and Sebastopol Charter are delighted to announce the start of our Fresh Produce Program. Don't miss out on this opportunity to pick-up your fresh, local produce, delivered every Tuesday at both campuses, beginning Tuesday Apri l 9th ! Perks for you include a box of produce arrangements that change weekly and consist of seasonal varieties sourced from over 30 different Sonoma County farms, with options for specialty item additions. Perks for the school include business sponsorship to our Foundation, supplementation to the 3rd grade cooking and farming curriculum, including farm trips and farmer visits to the classroom. Enjoy eating fresh local produce and feel good about supporting our school. A small proceed of the sales go to the Charter Foundation. To sign up online now go to: goodeggs.com/feedsonoma-sebcharter.

Roman Holiday--an Italian Feast You don't have to be Audrey Hepburn to enjoy a Roman Holiday! Get your tickets now for the Saturday, Apr i l 20th Sebastopol Charter Roman Hol iday , an Italian feast and benefit for the 7th grade class. Bring the whole family to this major community event to enjoy the mouth-watering food, the elegant service, the fabulous entertainment, the scrumptious homemade desserts, and the raffle and photo booth. Our student waiters will serve delicious sausage pomodoro pasta, rigatoni with pesto, creamy spring risotto, salad, and garlic bread. Is there a gluten-free option? Certamente! (Of course!). Seatings are at 5 and 6:30 pm at the Community Church, 1000 Gravenstein Hwy North in Sebastopol. Tickets are $15 for adults and $7 for kids aged 3 -11. Tickets will be sold at both campuses in advance of the event. Now repeat after me: Non vedo l'ora! (I can't wait!). Ciao!!

Rummage Sale May 18th As you tackle “spring cleaning” chores at home this month, keep in mind that the rummage sale will take place May 18th. Save the quality stuff your family has outgrown or no longer needs for the sale. This is one of the major fundraisers of the school year and will be organized this year by Laurie Mitchell. There will be more information about the rummage sale in next month’s Charter Notes. Make the World a Better Place The fifth grade Girl Scouts are working on making this school a better place, by reminding everyone to pick up their garbage, not only people at the school but everywhere. Do, please, help us make the world a better place! At Sebastopol Charter, people throw garbage on the ground a lot. There are quite a few reasons why you shouldn’t do this. Animals may come onto the campus and eat it, which might make them sick. Also, plastic and other materials don’t decompose, so if you throw things on the ground it hurts the earth. If you see someone throwing away trash on the ground, remind them to pick it up. If you see someone bring a dog on campus, remind them that dogs are not allowed, partly because dogs create mess. Please remember to follow the rules. Do not mix trash and recycling. Different things go in different bins. Paper, bottles, and cans go in the recycling bin. Sticky food and other non-clean items go in the trash. ~Shayla Rose Brown and Stella Kampmann, 5th Grade

6th Grade Community Service The 6th grade recently decided to help the community by picking up trash for the city of Sebastopol who generously lets us use their parks for our school. We picked up 34 pounds of trash and were proud of our accomplishment. We found plastic plates, spoons, wrappers, bottle caps, bottles, a ketchup bottle, and strangest of all—a wasabi packet! ~Will, August, and Kai for the 6th Grade

Supporting Our School

Pledge Participation Update Congratulations Fifth Grade Class! We are happy to announce that 5th Grade is the first class to meet 100% participation in the Pledge Program this year and has been granted $500 to go to their 8th grade trip. Thanks to them for leading the way. Let’s see how soon our school can meet 100% participation, keeping the impressive streak we began last year! We are getting closer:

Class Percentage of

Active Participants

RK 86% SK 86% 1st 81% 2nd 86% 3rd 87% 4th 72% 5th 100% 6th 87% 7th 88% 8th 86% School-wide 86%

By participating in the Voluntary Pledge Program: • You help our school meet it’s full potential. • You participate directly in making a positive difference

for our community. • You help us build reserves for our permanent site. • You make a real contribution to our school’s

continued success at providing the high quality, Waldorf-inspired curriculum to our children.

Thank you for your participation! ~Anna and the Charter Foundation

Charter Foundation Seeking a New Board Member The Charter Foundation, a non-profit organization whose mission support Sebastopol Independent's providing of a public Waldorf-inspired education, is looking to fill a vacancy on its board of directors. Since 1995 we have raised money through fundraising events, parent pledge donations and grants in order to pay for school facilities, supplement teachers’ salaries, and enhance the curriculum for Charter School students. The Foundation also owns and manages our downtown campus, which it leases to the Charter School and three retail tenants. We are looking for qualified and committed individuals who are willing to serve for a minimum three-year term. We are seeking prospective members who are task and deadline oriented, good communicators, and able to devote approximately 10 hours a month on any number of tasks. Prior experience working in non-profit organizations or managing others is helpful, as is a background in finance, land acquisition and development, or fundraising and community outreach. Candidates should be familiar with, and generally supportive of, the Waldorf pedagogical approach, but are otherwise invited to bring to the Board their own vision for the school and ideas for realizing it. Interested applicants should contact Bob Haroche at Bob@TheCharterFoundation.org or (707) 206-7842.

 Linda  McBee  volunteering  in  her  granddaughter’s  handwork  class.

Lean In! (Can You Help?) The school’s Development Committee has formed over the course of this year and we are actively soliciting more parents to step forward to help in a variety of ways. Development work is defined as supporting the school and reaching out to include more community members in that effort. There are many ways to get involved - some that can be done at home, at your leisure, without even attending meetings. I would add, however, that our meetings are fun and usually involve baked goods prepared by yours truly.

Please take a moment to scan the list below and see if you can find a way to join in the rewarding work of working with the really fun and savvy development team. Maybe you have a skill, idea, or connection not listed. When you volunteer, you are never on your own – we believe in working together and not saddling one person with a whole event or committee. Contact Susan Olson if you are interested in stepping up to help. solson@sebastopolcharter.org or 824-9700 x306. We don’t know who you are unless you tell us! “Lean in!” Business Directory:

§ Oversee ad sales and renewals – once a year for about 4-6 weeks

Business Development: § Chat with potential local business donors to

solicit sponsorships or other innovative ideas that help both them and the school.

Graphic design and social media: § Help with graphic design of posters, flyers, and

advertisements, website and social media Online Auction

§ Procurement § Logistics § Distribution

Volunteer round-up: § Be a Charter Foundation class rep –help and

encourage others to sign up for tasks, shifts, and duties for a few events each year. Are you often around at drop-off or pick-up and like to chat?

Event planning: § Like to party? We need a few more people to

help plan some social events for families and adults. Join a few others to plan an all-school potluck picnic in the fall, for example.

Super busy? Maybe you have time to do a one-time task: § Bake for a new parent welcome event § Make a few reminder phone calls to those signed

up to help Gala (Dinner Auction)

§ Logistics School Community/Social Adult Event (non-fundraiser)

§ Logistics Volunteer Coordinator

§ Volunteer recruitment and coordination ~Susan Olson Burrito Day! Please get your sign up sheet in by Tuesday if you want a burrito on Friday. Forms are available on the school website and in the office. Thank you for your participation with this 7th grade fundraiser. ~ The 7th Grade

Mary's Pizza Fundraiser – Wednesday - April 24th It's a Pizza Party! On Wednesday, April 24th our school will receive 20% of sales generated by our school at Mary's Pizza in Sebastopol. What a delicious and easy way to raise money for our school! All you need to do is bring in the green flier (attached to Charter Notes) when you pay for your pizza, pasta, sandwiches, soups and salads. This offer is available for Dine-In, Take-Out, Delivery or Gift Card purchases. The fundraiser is for the whole day and you can give out fliers to your family and friends. Why not organize a pizza party night with several Charter School families? How about leftovers for Thursday’s lunch? Additional fliers are available in the office. Volunteer Corner Our thanks to Jacques Levy for electrical work at the school recently. He replaced the light fixture in the boys’ restroom at the main campus and repaired a hanging light in the Sunflower kindergarten. Faculty Lunches Thank you 8th grade parents for the delicious lunch in March. These lunches are an uplifting treat much appreciated by the teachers.

Poetry Corner

Cargo You enter life a ship laden with meaning, purpose and

gifts sent to be delivered to a hungry world.

And as much as the world needs your cargo, you need to give it away.

Everything depends on this. But the world forgets its needs,

and you forget your mission,

and the ancestral maps used to guide you have become faded scrawls on the parchment of dead

Pharaohs. The cargo weighs you heavy the longer it is held

and spoilage becomes a risk. The ship sputters from port to port and at each you ask:

“Is this the way?” But the way cannot be found without knowing the cargo, and the cargo cannot be known without recognizing there

is a way, and it is simply this:

You have gifts. The world needs your gifts.

You must deliver them. The world may not know it is starving,

but the hungry know, and they will find you

when you discover your cargo and start to give it away.

~Greg Kimura Monthly Newsletter Charter Notes is issued on the first Wednesday of the month, with weekly calendar reminders via email. Submissions may be sent to mmiller@sebastopolcharter.org by the 22nd of the previous month. Community Events: The following notices are published as space allows. Sebastopol Charter is not affiliated with and does not check accuracy of the following community events and classified ads. Volunteer Opportunity , E l Agui la Lectora/The Reader Eag le . Senora Marcela is looking for one or two parents willing to help her with a mobile Spanish library. She has turned a box of Red Tail Beer into an small itinerant Spanish library. Volunteers needed to mark and number the books, make an inventory list, create displays for the children before dismissal time, instruct parents to avoid translating the books to their children, and help children check out and check in the Spanish books from the "eagle." Please contact Senora Marcela, 824-0571 x 333. Magica l Fa iry Dol l Wool Fe lt ing Workshop: Thurs., May 9, 9:30am-12:30pm, with Monica Ashley. $48-all materials are included. For more info and to reserve your space: Circle of Hand, 707-634-6140, circleofhands@sonic.net. 7766 Healdsburg Ave. in Sebastopol L it t le Tr ibe Chi ldren's Foundat ion ( LTCF) , (www.littletribechildrensfoundation.org) is a new non profit, created to provide funding for Arts and Music therapy programs for under privileged, and seriously ill children. Our kickoff Fund Raiser is being held at the Hopmonk Tavern Fri, April 12th, 8:30 pm, please see website for details) We’ll have over $7000 dollars in

raffle and silent auction items, as well as Tee Shirts, Children's books, Music Jewelery and other Artisan products for sale that evening, with all proceeds going to LTCF. We invite the Waldorf community to come out and support us. Min i Maker Fa ire ,The Sonoma County Office of Education, along with Sonoma Country Day School, the Children's Museum of Sonoma County, and Maker Media, are excited to be holding the fourth annual Sonoma County Mini Maker Faire on Sat, April 13th. Kids and adults of all ages are encouraged to take part in hands-on activities at this fun, FREE event that will be held from 10 am to 3 pm at Sonoma Country Day School in Santa Rosa. The event is a youth-oriented DIY (Do-It-Yourself) festival that promotes science, technology, engineering, math, arts, crafts, music, & more. Here is a link to the event website that includes an online proposal form for those individuals or groups who would like to set-up an exhibit/demonstration/activity/performance at this year's event: http://makerfairesonoma.com/2013/02/11/come-join-the-fun-2/ Don’t miss Teens Talk , a provocative film series at Analy High School this spring: April 17, Straightlaced, how stereotyping appearance stifles individuality; May 1, Miss Representation, how media shapes women’s identities. Both at 7pm at Analy Auditorium with discussion to follow. $15 donation, $10 online. Go To www.analyhighschool.org/teencounselingproject or call 707-280-0563. Mads Tol l ing Quartet , (Mads Tolling, internationally renowned violinist, violist, and composer, is a former 8- year member of the 2-time Grammy Award-Winning Turtle Island Quartet and acclaimed bassist Stanley Clarke’s touring band.) Mads Tolling – jazz violin, Dave Mac Nab–guitar, George Ben-Weiss – bass, Jason Lewis – drums. Fri, April 19th, 8pm, Main Stage West, 104 N Main St, Sebastopol. Tickets - $15-25 sliding scale, 707.823.0177. http://www.mainstagewest.com http://www.madstolling.com Bicyc le Rodeo and Swap, Sat, April 27th on the Brook Haven School blacktop. Last year’s Bicycle Swap was very successful, we redistributed over 100 bikes! And this year, we will be adding a Bicycle Skills Rodeo. The Bicycle Swap will take place from 9-12pm (drop-off bikes from 9:30-11am, raffle from 11-12pm) and the Bicycle Skills Rodeo will take place from 11-1:30pm. There will be kids’ helmets available for sale for $8, bike skill courses, and the ever popular bike license station! If you have any volunteer time available the day of (we are especially looking for bicycle mechanics), please contact Sarah Hadler at sarah@bikesonoma.org or 527-5285.

Classified Section: P iano lessons with Carol-Jean Boevers, teacher with 20 years experience. Children or adult, any level. jcjb@att.net or 545-2153. Sue Gimpel , S impl ic i ty Parent ing Coach & Group Leader, 707.322.6933, many talks and workshops available. www.FamilyHomeCoach.org Math tutor ing , academic coaching, and consultation in Sebastopol and the North Bay area, also bridging Waldorf and standard education, elementary through college, with creativity, compassion, and effectiveness. SICS references available, 30 years experience. Also covering science, English, history, social studies, SSAT, PSAT, SAT, ACT, CBEST, and GRE preparation. Contact Dr. Tui Wilschinsky, Ph.D at 707 829 8212 or email: ishq@sbcglobal.net The Fratus family is searching for a 3 bedroom house to rent , preferably close to town with some land to keep chickens and a garden. Please call 707 342 5534, Giuseppe and India Counsel ing by donation. Do you feel stuck in your life or in a relationship; feel weighted down by addiction? Feel free to call me for confidential conversation at (707) 824-1796. To your well being, Sahar Handyman Services . Interior/exterior painting, carpentry, minor plumbing/electrical, some auto mechanical, computer systems. Hang a door, fix a fence, paint a bathroom, replace a leaky faucet or a funky light fixture, or upgrade the hard drive in your computer. Reasonable rates, references. Paul Archibald, 823.0431 Circ le of Hands, A Waldorf Inspired Shop, Dolls, toys, silks, gifts, etc. 7766 Healdsburg Ave, Sebastopol. www.circleofhandswaldorfshop.com , 707-634-6140 I am looking to borrow 3-4 pairs of ye l low ra in boots any condition that will fit girls sizes 4-6 or so, too big is better than too small. They are being used in a play in May. Please call Lana McNamara, 869-9037 Wanted: e l l ipt ica l tra iner and/or treadmill. Call Susan at 322-1312. Conscious Mother ing Group starting April 9 on Tues mornings for 6 weeks 9-10:30am. Come deepen awareness, feel support, strengthen connection, and embody mothering more fully. Led by Aimee McConneloug somatic practitioner and parent consultant. Call for more info 328-1785. Coming next fall- The Mighty Oak Preschool ! Waldorf inspired, drawing inspiration from hands on nature experiences, Montessori manipulatives, plus so much more. Two dedicated experienced teachers! Mon-Thurs, 9-1. School is centrally located in town. Please call Rebecca or Kirsten at 707 291 5911 Jardin Del Arte Summer Camp, Spanish immersion, arts, building, water games, outdoor cooking, and more. Its not too early to register, For more information visit: http://marcelamejia.com/jardin-del-arte-summer-camp Golden Apple Preschool is now enrolling for the fall and our summer program; “Sing, Swim, & (bilingual) Drama”, including preschool year round. Call Caroline at 829-9091 for a visit to our lovely farm setting. Info at www.goldenapplepreschool.webs.com. Drumming As Spir i tua l Pract ice , with Sahar. Through drumming, song, guided meditations and sharing, we'll deepen our capacity to hear, feel, and express Life Itself, in thought, word, and action. Find your rhythm, enjoy sweet abandon. 6 Wednesday's, starting April 3rd. 824-1796. "...a soul enriching journey."

Earth Camp will run 4 weeks this summer: June 17-21, June 24-28, July 29-August 2, August 5-9, Call now to reserve space for your child: 707-321-5753. All forms are online at EARTHCAMP.org Timothy Hedges , an alumnus of the East Bay Waldorf School, has opened a full service real estate of f ice across the street from our main campus. Stop in anytime to say “hello”, ask questions or view paintings presented by Jennifer Bundy (Timothy’s grade school Waldorf teacher.) Waldorf Summer Camp at Marigold Playgarden for 3.5-7 year olds. Nature crafts, (wool felting, herbal creations, cooking jam or sorbet from summer fruits). Rhythmical days including: storytelling, imaginative play, organic snacks, berry picking and outdoor play and games. Mon - Thur, 9am-1pm, 6 sessions: June 24-Aug 15, closed the 2nd and 3rd weeks of July. $160 per session, some sliding scale available. Led by an experienced Waldorf kg teacher. Please contact Jennifer Bowen 824-9127, or jennybee@sonic.net

Seeking room to rent with kitchen access near downtown Sebastopol. Lovely single woman with new storefront for her healing and flower essence business, 'Luna Fina', seeks housing for 6 months to a year. Call Annabella, 415-460-1069. References available. Robin Setchko Parent ing by Connect ion: 6 week parent ing group, “Building Emotional Understanding” in Santa Rosa. Receive support, ask questions, learn valuable tools to be the parent you want to be. This is an opportunity to transform your parenting and your family! Tue, 6:30-8:30 pm April 9, 16, 23, 30, May 7, 14, 21. At Central Santa Rosa location – provided upon registration, $295 (includes $50 in materials) RSVP at rsetchko@sonic .net or 707-545-0722. Feel free to call or email any questions. If you are interested in the group but cannot make it on Tuesdays, please let me know. Bunk twin beds that can be stacked or separated have w/ cotton/wool futons. Sellling because children are too tall! Diane 887-7005