Budget Meeting with the Board
Ashwood's Board of Trustees invite you to attend a meeting on January 25, 2017 at 6:00 p.m. in the community room of the grade-school building. There will be a presentation on Ashwood's budget, how tuition is set, Ashwood's development goals, and how the tuition-assistance program at Ashwood works.
We encourage all families to attend.
-Jody Spanglet
School Director
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Reenrollment: 2017-18 School Year
Reenrollment packets will be mailed to all current families on January 27, 2017.
Tuition-assistance packets will be available in the office beginning Friday, January 27. Pick yours up from Sarah Ewing at the front desk.
Do you have friends who might be considering Ashwood for their children? Please encourage them to begin the enrollment process by inquiring soon!
-Betty Wyman
Business Manager
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Winter Magic
"King Winter now is in the land, he rules with cold and freezing hand, he makes Jack Frost touch nose and toes and brings us white and shining snow"!
We, in EC, wish King Winter to be a bit stronger and send us more snow. We keep entreating him through our circle, with songs and poems. It does seem that he is trying, but we have not had the opportunity to go sledding yet! So we wait and hope.
In the meantime, Jack Frost has been quite active. He came and made faint frost-flake patterns on the wet, blue paintings we put outside to dry on one of the coldest days (Audrey McGlashen, old friend and former colleague, taught me this magic trick). The blue water from washing the jars also froze into blue crystals, which were very much prized by some children!
And then there is the sandbox, turned into an ice rink for skating and hockey playing!
We hear birds, mostly chickadees, blue jays, crows, and woodpeckers, in the quiet of the woods, and have put out seeds by our windows in the hope of getting a closer look. So far, only a grey squirrel has shown any interest.
It is lovely to be back in school and to see the children and their parents!
-Marianne Böckli
Early-Childhood teacher
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Middle-School Curriculum Meeting
On January 30, from 6:00 until 7:30 p.m., our upper grades teachers will share how the Waldorf curriculum and program is specifically designed to meet the unique emotional and social needs of young adolescents. As childhood is waning and the turbulent years of adolescence loom on the horizon, the academic main lesson blocks meet the students where they are developmentally. As the students' awakening intellects are ready for critical and objective thinking, knowledge of cause and effect, and more refined observation, the curriculum meets them:
- through the observation of the physical world by studying physics,
- through finding equilibrium in the study of algebra and creating beauty in the precision of geometry
- through learning about the transformation of western civilizations; from the lawfulness of the Romans, into the chaos of the Dark ages, blossoming into the Renaissance, and beyond...
They study revolutions, learn about people through their biographies, read Shakespeare, and express their own inner stirrings through creative writing. 
Come hear more about how the students in the upper grades experience the dynamic interplay between self and the world!
Morning Verse for Grades 5 - 8
I look out into the world
Wherein there shines the Sun
Where glimmer all the stars,
Where lie the silent stones
The plants that live and grow
The beasts that feel and move
Where man in soul creates
A dwelling for the spirit.
I look inward to the soul
That lives within my being
The spirit of God is weaving
In sunlight and in soul-life
In heights of world without
In depths of soul within.
Spirit of God to thee
I turn myself in seeking
That strength and grace and skill
For learning and for work
May live and grow in me.
-Rudolf Steiner
-Jody Spanglet School Director
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Annual Appeal
Calling all Aswhood families: it's time to claim your cake! The first class to reach 100% participation will receive a Chocolate Decadent deliciousness at their next parent meeting. Most classes are are about 30% right now, so you are all in the running. Last year we reached an unprecedented 100% participation in the annual appeal, and we are reaching for the same this year. Friends, don't let the other classes get your cake!
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Annie Mahle
Development Director
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Knitting Circle
Join us Tuesday mornings from 9:00-11:00 for handwork, tea, and community in the Rosebud room in the early-childhood building. All skill levels and handwork crafts welcome! Adults and babes in arms only, please. For more information, send a note to
Julie Letowski.
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Thank You!
Dear Friends,
I would like to thank everyone who came to support me at my art show last month. I raised the money I needed to help cover my eighth-grade project expenses. I am very grateful to be part of such a supportive community.
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Caleb Edwards, Grade 8
P.S. I still have 2017 calendars, so please
let me know if you would like one.
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Click the icon to read the January issue of INFORM, newsletter of the Association of Waldorf Schools of North America.
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Friday, January 20
All-School Assembly
Grade 4-5 presents
8:40-9:15
Thursday, January 26
Grade 6-7 Class Play
9:00 a.m.
Ashwood Board of Trustees Meeting
7:00 p.m.
Friday, January 27
Grade 6-7 Class Play
9:00 a.m
Monday, January 30
Middle-School Curriculum Meeting
6:00-8:00 p.m.
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Housing Sought
Dear Ashwood Community,
We are looking for a place to stay for the months of April and May. Our family is about to grow by one and our house will not quite be able to fit us anymore. Thus, this spring we will be reconstructing our home to better fit a family of four. During the initial phases of this rebuilding we will need another place to live. If you know of a house-sitting or inexpensive rental opportunity for the months of April and May, please contact
Robert Kaczor 315-525-4897, or find me on campus. Thanks for your consideration!
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The Mystery of the Human Encounter
Offered by Studies in Anthroposophy
Stories, Conversation, and Exercises in the Social Arts
What is being asked of us now as we seek to meet the challenges of our times with insight, courage, creativity and love? And what is this "love" that can lead us into the future from out of even the deepest darkness?
As we explore such questions we will draw from the work and insights of Rudolf Steiner and the historian Luigi Morelli's
Legends and Stories for a Compassionate America, as well as our own studies and life experience. We will incorporate such themes as consciousness development, working with fear, working with those across the threshold, forgiveness, and ongoing engagement with the question of the mission of the Earth or the future towards which we are working.
Seven Sunday afternoons, 2:30 - 4:30 p.m.,
January 22, 29, February 5, 12, 19, March 5, 12. At Ashwood Waldorf School.
The course will be co-led by Sarah McBrian, Cheryl Martine, Bridget Qualey, and Susan Silverio
Cost: Special price: $125
You can
REGISTER online.
More info
here, or
email.
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We publish community-service announcements from and for Ashwood community members at no charge (50-words max.). Send to: Judith Soleil.
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Be a Sponsor
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Leaflet, and link to your website. The cost is $5/edition for a square ad (170 x 170 pixels) and $10/edition for a long ad (170 x 340 pixels). Discounts are available for long-term ads. The
Leaflet appears every other week except in July. For more information, email
Judith Soleil.
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Do you have a story to tell about Ashwood? A review of a book or an event? A reflection on Waldorf education? Photos you've taken?
A question about the Leaflet?
Send us an email! We would love to hear from you. The next Leaflet will be published on Wednesday, February 1. Deadline for submissions is MONDAY, January 30, at 9:00 a.m.
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Sarah Miller, a 2002 Ashwood graduate, is currently living in Amman, Jordan where she is studying Arabic. After completing graduate work at Tulane, Sarah was working in the fields of refugee and mental health in the U.S. before relocating to Amman last March. She is planning to continue that work in Jordan once she gets a stronger base in Arabic. 
