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Dear Friend,
Summer is here and I hope you are staying cool!
This year's
Early Childhood summer camp has just wrapped up and the new Early Childhood playground renovation is underway.
We are asking for additional support for t
his beautiful project. We have raised and received over $31,000 in contributions and donated contractor services towards this renovation and are in need of an additional $7,000.
It is a a lot, and we all agree it is worth it!
A snapshot of the plan is below along with a
paypal donation button
. If every person who receives this email donated just $20, we would make our goal and fully fund this playground! Please don't hesitate to contact
Jennifer Bumgarner
with any questions or to discuss a financial contribution.
Thanks to alumni and alumni families for your written and photo submissions about our graduates. Please keep them coming, we love to hear about our alumni!
This month's alumni feature comes from
Casey Gillmore, Class of 1998.
Casey is living locally with his wife and infant son. Read below for a great article about him.
Parent education articles t
his month include a piece from the AWSNA Essentials in Education blog on Inspired Learning.
There is also an article from The Atlantic on Why Young Kids Learn Through Movement. The final piece is on the benefits of summer boredom
published on Quartz. All are relevant to Waldorf curriculum and the education at CSWS.
If you haven't seen the Association of Waldorf Schools of North America (AWSNA) new website, I highly recommend taking a look. The site is easy to use and you'll find great resources there, including an informative blog you can sign up for.
Lastly, I wish you all a Happy Independence Day! Enjoy a safe and relaxing holiday weekend.
Sincerely,
Jennifer Bumgarner
Director of Community Development
Inspiring our students to reach their highest potential as free-thinking, creative human beings who have a life-long love of learning, Cedar Springs offers a Waldorf Education to families and their children, infants through Eighth grade.
- CSWS Mission Statement
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Early Childhood Playground Renovation is underway!
We need your support!
We are so very blessed to have received over $22,000 in donations to this yeat's Annual Auction Fund-A-Need for campus playground improvements to include the construction of an upper grades parcourse and early childhood playground renovation.
The renovation of the early childhood playground has been picked up by Early Childhood Parent and Contractor, Shannon Pogue of
Malone Pogue Construction.
Shannon is passionate over this project and has already put many hours into the plan. She has been a parent here for many years, beginning in the parent-child classes with Miss Christl. She has experienced first hand the gift of our Early Childhood programs and "the ladies" as she refers to our Early Childhood faculty, have blessed her and her family with wisdom and encouragement through the years. She is a proud and generous member of our community and has created a plan to carry out the vision of the Early Childhood playgrounds with her skill sets as a Contractor specializing in site development and natural design.
It's not too late to contribute! Our project is in need of additional funding and you can help us bridge the gap. Please consider a contribution to support this beautiful vision for our campus. Every donation counts.
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I'll never forget my time at Cedar Springs Waldorf School. I joined Tim Connolly's class in the 4th grade. I loved every day of it. I loved the environment, small class sizes and the personalized goals and individualized teaching for each kid. Cool little story. My 8th grade project before graduating from Waldorf was on Computers. I got to tour Intel in Folsom, and was able to build my very first computer from scratch. Who knew that simple project would stick with me and eventually lead me to a very successful career!! I owe a lot to Mr Connolly and Waldorf, and for that I'll always be grateful.
I graduated from Ponderosa High School in 2002. In 2005 I graduated from Heald College in Rancho Cordova with an AAS in Information Technology with an emphasis in Networking. I got my first professional IT job in 2005 working for The City of Roseville. I worked on everything from Roseville Police Department's 911 dispatch center computers, to the City Manager's laptop and everything in between. I would still be working there today had the City not run into financial issues in 2010 and was forced to downsize all departments.
I left Roseville in 2010 for a new position working for FPI Management in Folsom CA. FPI is the 6th largest apartment management company in the United States and moves up each year in the ranks. I'm still working there today as a Network Analyst II. FPI has been very good to me. They have paid to further my education in Technology, allowing me to acquire a number of different certifications in servers, network and soon to be security and disaster recovery.
On a more personal note I married the love of my life, Cassandra, in 2009 in Sutter Creek CA. We honeymooned in Fiji, island hopping for 12 days to try and see as much of the beautiful country as possible. Was truly among the best days of my life! Cassandra graduated from UC Davis receiving a PHD in Physical Anthropology with an emphasis in skeletal pathology. If you don't know what that is.....don't worry about it. I'm married to her and I'm still not sure myself LOL. While acquiring her PHD she got the opportunity to travel the world. She has spent time in France, England, Italy, Czech Republic, Croatia, and Israel. She has a number of published papers in the American Journal of Anthropology and Journal of Human Evolution. Yep, she is way more interesting than I am hahah.
After she graduated, life has a funny way of redirecting your life and Cassandra currently works for FPI Management as Assistant Controller in the accounting department. Cassandra and I bought our first home in 2012 in Shingle Springs CA. It was a true fixer upper! But 4 years later and LOTS of work it's a beautiful home. On February 16th 2016 my wife gave birth to our son Matthew Robert Gilmore! He is going on 3 months old and growing like a weed! He is a handful but its a lot of fun watching him grow.
Please keep sending us updates and news to share with our community.
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 Fostering Lifelong Learning
From Essentials in Education 6/13/2016
By Beverly Amico
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Photo credit: San Francisco Waldorf School EC |
What motivates a baby to walk? Is it the same drive that motivates a business owner to work late or an elementary student to learn math facts? In the first case, most would label the baby as having intrinsic motivation - engaging in behavior that is personally rewarding
Read full article here.
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Why Young Kids Learn Through Movement
Published in The Atlantic
By Lara N. Dotson-Renta
May 19, 2016
Children acquire knowledge by acting and then reflecting on their experiences, but such opportunities are increasingly rare in school.
One of my children is spinning in a circle, creating a narrative about a princess as she twirls. The other is building a rocket ship out of a discarded box, attaching propellers made of cardboard and jumping in and out of her makeshift launcher. It is a snow day, and I've decided to let them design their own activities as I clean up and prepare a meal. My toddler becomes the spinning princess, imagining her character's feelings and reactions. What seems like a simple story involves sequencing, character development, and empathy for the brave princess stuck in her tower. The rocket ship my first grader is working on needs a pilot and someone to devise the dimensions and scale of its frame; it also needs a story to go with it. She switches between roles and perspectives, between modes of thinking and tinkering.
Read the full article here.
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Psychologists recommend children be bored in the summer
Published on Quartz
By Olivia Goldhill
June 11, 2016
Do you entertain your kids with chess camp, art school, cooking classes, or tennis lessons during the unstructured summer months? Or perhaps all of them?
There are
activities and
summer camps galore to fill children's time and supply much needed childcare when kids are out of school. But psychologists and child development experts suggest that over-scheduling children during the summer is unnecessary and could ultimately keep kids from from discovering what truly interests them.
"Your role as a parent is to prepare children to take their place in society. Being an adult means occupying yourself and filling up your leisure time in a way that will make you happy," says Lyn Fry, a child psychologist in London with a focus on education. "If parents spend all their time filling up their child's spare time, then the child's never going to learn to do this for themselves."
Read the full article here.
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Educational Opportunities
Exploring the Outdoor Kindergarten
and the Art of Storytelling
with Annie Bosque and Sieglinde de Francesca
August 5 - 7, 2016 Rudolf Steiner College, Fair Oaks, California
For all early childhood educators, home school teachers and parents, and anyone with y
oung children: Join us for a fun-filled weekend exploring practical ways to take the classroom outside and how to write stories using elements from nature!
Summer Waldorf Painting Course
An intensive course for Waldorf Teachers and Parents
with Gail McManus
August 4 - 9, 2016
Santa Monica, California
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