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Hot Lunches
Sign up for hot lunches for this semester in the office. Print the form
here.
After School Electives
We are currently offering a discounted fee for our after-school electives.
Sign up by Friday in the office to receive a $15 discount. We have Woodworking on Mondays, Painting/Conversational Spanish on Fridays, and a new offering - Youth Fitness Group on Fridays with Mrs. Oltjenbruns.
Remember: Maestra Marta had to cancel her painting class on Friday, December 15. Instead, she will have the class on Friday, January 12. She apologizes for any inconvenience this causes.
Eurythmy News
Starting this week, we have a new teacher for our grades Eurythmy program and she will be with us through the end of the school year. Her name is Brette Lavery and she comes highly recommended by our previous teacher, Ms. Sophia Benvenuto. Please see below for details about an opportunity for you to meet Ms. Lavery at this Friday's Community First Friday presentation, a summary of her background and experience, and an announcement about this spring's Eurythmy performance.
Ms. Lavery has most recently been teaching the students of the Camellia Waldorf School in Sacramento, where they were pleased to have her teach a few blocks of Eurythmy for them. She has been a Eurythmy teacher for students in nursery-grade 8 at the Pine Forest Charter School in Flagstaff, AZ, Oakland Steiner School in Rochester Hills, MI, The City School in Lake Balboa, CA, Corvallis Waldorf School in Corvallis, OR and Woodland Charter School in Grants Pass, OR. She was the Eurythmy teacher for students in grades 9 - 12 at Santa Fe Waldorf School in Santa Fe, NM and the Freie Waldorfschule Heidelberg in Germany.
She earned a Eurythmy diploma from the American Eurythmy School in Weed, CA, a Waldorf teaching certificate from the Bay Area Center for Waldorf Teacher Training in Sausalito, CA and a Bachelor of Arts in Human Development from UC San Diego. She also is proficient in Spanish and German, worked on a hobby farm in Northern California for seven years with Biodynamic Agriculture, farming and gardening, and has been a classical pianist for 30 years.
Welcome to our DWS Community, Ms. Lavery!
Community First Friday, January 12
Please join us for our monthly parent education talk in the MPR. We will have a coffee social at 8:30 in the breezeway. The presentation will be 9:00 - 10:00 in the MPR. This month's topic is "Our Eurythmy Curriculum" - learn about this unique movement and art form presented by Brette Lavery, Eurythmy Teacher.
Please save the date for this year's Eurythmy Assembly - Wednesday, March 21 in the evening at the Veteran's Memorial Theatre. Ms. Lavery will be leading the students in their Eurythmy performances that evening. You don't want to miss it!
Kindergarten Orientation: An Informational Night for Parents
January 11, Thursday, 6:00-7:15 pm
During this meeting for DWS parents whose children will be age-eligible for kindergarten next year, our kindergarten teachers, Mary Caridi-Gorga and Jennifer Slater, will discuss what to expect in a Waldorf kindergarten, the differences between Waldorf preschool and kindergarten programs and how classroom assignments are made. They will also speak about how Waldorf kindergarten prepares children for their journey into the grades. There will be time to have your questions answered. This meeting is also open to prospective kindergarten parents from the public, so please feel free to invite your friends. Please R.S.V.P. to
office@daviswaldorf.org.
Kindergarten Open House
January 20, Saturday, 9:00-10:30 a.m.
Please join us for a relaxed morning in one of our beautiful kindergarten classrooms. Children are invited to explore and play in our classroom and play yard and watch a captivating puppet show. Teachers will be on hand to discuss our two-year kindergarten program. All are welcome. Please feel free to invite your friends! Reservations appreciated
office@daviswaldorf.org
Basketball Season is Here!
On Jan. 13, the boys will play against Live Oak at 10:00 am; girls play against Golden Valley at 5:00 pm.
Thank you to those who have helped with driving and cheering-on the teams! We're looking forward to this weekend's match-ups. All games are held at the Sacramento Waldorf School.
Natalie Oltjenbruns,
Movement Teacher and Athletic Director
natalie.kawecki@yahoo.com, 209-206-3223
Parent Council - All parents are invited!
Please join us for our Parent Council meeting on
Thursday, January 18, from
6:00 to 8:00 p.m.
at Ceri and Ezra Beeman's house, 334 I Street, Davis -
all parents/guardians are welcome, so please come!
Lauren Hickman, Pedagogical Chair, will be presenting on Partnerships - exploring partnerships between families and the school - how to create a supportive Waldorf home and an open discussion on how partnerships may be strengthened between the parents and the school.
Parent Council meetings are held on the third
Thursday
of each month
.
We include some light food/refreshments and a short time to meet new parents and get acquainted.
Contemplating Choices in Death and Dying
An afternoon workshop discussing, reflecting and learning about caring for oneself or a loved one before and after death with Susan Pelican and Heidi Boucher. We will also have
Kristi Dvorak, Community Outreach Director of Davis Cemetery & Arboretum and
Liz Romero, Gerontological Specialist & Community Ambassador of Yolo Hospice joining us for our discussion panel.
Saturday January 20, 2018 1:30 - 5:30pm, in the MPR
Suggested donation $10.00. All are welcome and no one will be turned away due to cost.
Join us as we touch on issues around end-of-life documents, hospice, options for body care, home funeral and green burial. Participants will also watch the award-winning film,
In The Parlor: The Final Goodbye, a documentary following three families who cared for their own loved ones after death.
Susan Pelican RN is a retired homebirth midwife and one of the early founders of the Davis Waldorf School. She is currently authoring a guide to conscious choices in death and dying from her experience with her husband's passing. Susan brings practical and insightful knowledge of the conventional medical system surrounding end of life issues.
Heidi Boucher has been guiding families in home funerals and caring for the dead for over 30 years. Working out of Anthroposophy and closely with the mainstream funeral industry, Heidi has bridged both worlds bringing reverence and beauty to families taking a more hands on approach. She also works in the film industry and recently produced
In The Parlor: The Final Goodbye.
Looking for a donation of a flute to help the 3rd grade
We need one Waldorf diatonic flute - a C flute. Please see Mrs. Borrego if you have one to donate.
Lost and Found
If you or a family member left their nice digital camera at Brunelle Hall on the evening of the Winter Concert, please call or come by our office to claim it.
Workshop with Alice Stamm - How can Therapeutic Eurythmy help my child?
Tuesday, February 6th, 6:00 - 7:30 pm in the MPR. This workshop is supported by a grant from ATHENA, the Association for Therapeutic Eurythmy in North America.
Eurythmy was created as a form of artistic expression and as a means to support healthy development in children. Steiner also recognized the significant therapeutic possibilities when, working closely with a group of physicians and eurythmists, he developed its potential to address underlying imbalances that are at the root of illness. Therapeutic eurythmy seeks to transform the individual - the whole human being - not just the bodily condition but also emotional and spiritual aspects.
You are warmly invited - Parent Education Speaker Series
Held at the Sacramento Waldorf School, San Juan Hall, 3750 Bannister Road, Fair Oaks. Tuesday, January 16th, 7 - 8:30 pm with Patti Connelly. Five Secrets to Happy Parenting (all ages). See flyer here.
Why can't you get your child to magically follow you like she does for her teacher? Patti Connolly has five secrets to help you unlock that mystery. Using Rudolf Steiner's insights about child development, she will guide you through creative, perceptive solutions and lead you on the path of becoming a fun, lovingly assertive elder. Your daily struggle of parenting is sure to become easier and happier.
The "Postcard Exchange" project has started
Waldorf schools change the world! In 1919, the first Waldorf school was founded in Stuttgart - in 2019 "the Waldorf School" will be 100 years young! Today, there are over 1,100 Waldorf (or Waldorf-inspired) schools and nearly 2,000 Waldorf kindergartens in more than 70 countries. And there are more and more. We are using the anniversary as an opportunity to develop the Waldorf School in a contemporary way and raise awareness of its global dimension.
There will be many projects on all continents. We are about 600 days away from our big jubilee party on September 19, 2019.
The Postcard Exchange idea is as simple as it is beautiful: every Waldorf school in the world is planning to send one (real!) postcard to every other Waldorf school in the world, so that each school will receive more than 1,100 cards from every Waldorf school from all over the world! This is creating a millionfold Waldorf greeting around the globe.
For this to work, we have been sent a box of 1,200 cards, on which all addresses of the schools around the world are already printed. The backside is blank so that all students can draw pictures or write notes on them. We will place a stylish "Greetings from California" marking on the other side with our name, address and website. We will then send the cards out around the globe. All of our K - 8 students will participate and each class has about 120 cards to create. All cards were printed with environmentally-friendly colors and climate-neutral on Blue Angel paper through a partnership with Lokay eK. For more information, go to
http://www.waldorf-100.org/
What's Happening in the Garden?
Before the Holiday Break, the students cooked up some yummy biscuits, baked in the earth oven. See the recipe below to cook some up at home. Ms. Haller also has a request for donations of hard dry wood for future oven firings. Thank you for any you can bring to support the program!
Herbed Buttermilk Biscuits
Ingredients
- 1 cups all-purpose flour, plus more for kneading
- 1 cups whole wheat flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- 2 teaspoons sugar
- ½ teaspoon coarse salt
- ½ cup unsalted butter, cut into 1/2-inch pieces, chilled
- 4 tablespoons mixed chopped fresh herbs, such as, rosemary, sage and parsley
- 3/4 cups + 2 tablespoons buttermilk, well shaken, plus more for brushing tops
Directions
- Preheat oven to 450 degrees. Or use earth oven.
- In a large bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder, sugar, salt, and baking soda. Cut in butter until resembles coarse breadcrumbs. Add herbs and stir to combine.
- Make a well in the center and gradually add buttermilk, stirring with a fork or wooden spoon until large clumps form. Turn mixture out onto a lightly floured work surface, knead two or three times just until a dough forms.
- Pat dough into a rectangle about ¾ inch thick. Using a sharp knife, cut 2-inch square biscuits, and transfer to baking sheet. Brush tops with buttermilk (optional). Transfer to oven and bake until golden brown, about 12 minutes.
We served our biscuits with maple syrup butter. (optional)
For a vegan version, we substituted Earth Balance margarine for the butter and almond milk for the buttermilk. Best to reduce salt since margarine is salty.
For Gluten-free version, you can substitute the wheat flour using 1½ cups brown rice flour and ½ cup tapioca flour.
New school year calendar
Please see the attached calendar. Note dates for Eurythmy assembly and the Annual Benefit Dinner have changed since the version was issued in our Back-to-School Packet.
Link to calendar.
February Break Holiday Care
Our teachers' in-service training week is coming soon, February 20 - 23. They are looking forward to a fantastic Western Waldorf Educator's Conference at the Rudolf Steiner College (Feb. 18 - 21) or the San Francisco Bay Area Waldorf Teachers Conference at the Marin Waldorf School (Feb. 21-23).
Holiday care is available in our June Bug and Sunflower programs - June Bug forms are here, Sunflower forms here.
Get Ready - It's Coming soon!
Grab your masks and capes and put on your superhero persona - we're going to have a blast! Yes, it's on St. Patrick's Day, so don't make other plans. We'll have a special prize for superheroes with a green theme.
This is our one big fundraising event for the year, so we're looking for the support of all families to make this year's event a success. Tickets will go on sale on January 22, so start talking to your friends and family to get together a table of folks to sit together. The food will be fabulous, the drinks will be plentiful, and the fun factor will be of superhero proportions!
Classes are currently working on ideas for their Class Auction Projects. And, we'll be sending letters this week to ask all families for items for our auction. We need:
· Gift certificates for Professional services
· Vacation home or timeshare offerings
· Handmade or custom-made items
· Waldorf-friendly children's toys
· Airline miles
· Gift certificates to local shops or restaurants
· Amazing experiences (camping, birthday party, rock climbing, wine country tour, airplane ride, fire truck ride-a-long....)
Bring your donations to the office or write to:
auction@daviswaldorf.org.
Donate your old car, truck, boat, RV, jet ski or motorcycle
We now have the ability to take your vehicle donation to benefit the Davis Waldorf School! Just contact Donation Line to make arrangements to have your old vehicle picked up, whether it is running or not. Simply complete the form on their website
found here, or call toll-free at 877-277-7487 anytime, seven days a week. This will start the no cost, no hassle vehicle donation process. You will be contacted by a towing agent who will arrange for a speedy pick-up. DWS will issue a receipt for your donation to use for a tax deduction.
To read the very interesting articles included in this newsletter,
use this link.
Reminder for Sunflower Aftercare parents
If you need drop-in care, please sign-up on the clipboard in the office, or call/email Debbie. Also, if your child is contracted for care and something comes up and you won't be coming, please call/email Debbie. Otherwise, we will be searching for your child after dismissal and calling for information. Additionally, if you let us know, we may be able to accommodate another child who needs drop-in care. Thank you for your help!
Substitutes are Needed!
Submit a resume and three professional references to office@daviswaldorf.org.
Workshop Coming Soon to Davis Waldorf School - Wild Women Rising by Dr. Florie Wild
Jan 27, Feb 24, Mar 24, Apr 21, May 19, Jun 16
Who Are You To Want More? More Freedom. More Confidence. More Connection. More Security. More Intimacy. More Power. More Spirit. More Abundance.
Could Life Really Be Better? These questions are so common among women. You Know You Have Been Called To Something Bigger,But Something Is In The Way
Is This You?
You are feeling like life is pretty good, maybe even good enough, but you have more to offer and maybe lack faith or confidence to get there. Maybe you have a little fear and could use some validation from others. Change can be scary. Fear can cause us to not prioritize our dreams. It can allow the needs of others to become the constant priority over your own needs.
Feeling Stuck?
Maybe you have a vision to be a published author and go on book tours, or spend time traveling abroad with your family, or be a great mom. Or maybe you want to spend time in nature with people that you love, or have a healthy intimate partnership with someone that you respect and admire and who makes you laugh, or maybe you want to turn your passion into something that adds value to the world.
If any of this sounds familiar, you could probably use some support to:
- Deepen your sense of trust in your intuition
- Make self care a priority to increase your creativity and energy levels
- Grow yourself love to decrease the dependence on validation from others
- Confidently speak your truth so you can take a stand for your needs
- Create healthy boundaries so you can say "no" with grace and stay focused on your vision
- De-condition all the ways that we as women have learned to stay small, and focus on others to the point where we lose ourselves and abandon our dreams
Dr. Wild is a licensed Psychologist who specializes in helping connect people to their dreams, power, and intuition, to become their bigger, more confident, free and alive selves. Over the last 10 years she has helped hundreds or women usher their visions into reality by teaching them to become their own best advocate. She calls this process becoming a "Wild Woman." Imagine the support of a tribe of wild women as you uncover the gifts you have to share with others. Imagine having the support of a mentor who deeply sees your value, and beckons your gifts out into the world. Imagine a program that helps you uncover who you are, deeply accept and love all of it, and find the confidence to unleash your wild woman with pride.
Exchange Student Opportunities
Hello, I'm Agata Garcia, I'm 14 years old, I go to "Escuela Libre Micael" in Madrid (Spain). I would love to have the opportunity to have an exchange with a student of your school. If anyone at your school is interested in having an exchange with me, please contact me:
agata.garciia@gmail.com
A cultural exchange opportunity for Davis Waldorf
The school has received a request to sponsor a family from South Africa for an 8 week visit while the mom is working at UC Davis - she is a former Waldorf student, a puppeteer and lecturer. While staying in Davis, the family would like to enroll their two children (Kinder and 2nd grade) at Davis Waldorf School, but don't have the means to pay the partial year tuition, as they are required to continue to pay tuition at their Waldorf school in South Africa. In exchange for a tuition sponsorship, the family will offer to host your family at their home while you enjoy a holiday in this beautiful area of the world. If you are interested in this unique opportunity, please contact Bessie Oakley for details. enrollment@daviswaldorf.org.
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