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A resource for families in Santa Cruz County
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“We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
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You're at the park. You meet someone new. They're playing with their children. Your children start playing with theirs.
They're like you but different. They look interesting. Connect! "Hi. I haven't seen you here before. Do you come very often?" How did you happen to land in Santa Cruz / Aptos / Watsonville? What do you like to do for fun? Relaxation? Read any good books lately? And just like that you're beginning a new friendship with someone like you, but different.
This is a great time to be visiting schools. Any school worth its salt welcomes your visit, after all they seek a good fit as much as you. Read about them on their website. Talk with friends. Jot down your questions. Above all, visit. May I gently suggest that you, not Yelp, are the best one to make an on site exploration. The moment you enter the front door you will feel the atmosphere.
My homesteading farmer friends are getting their seeds ready,
planning on new fruit trees and repairing fences and critter homes. "If you crave crisp apples, juicy peaches, or varieties of fruit that can never be found in the store, they are all within reach in your own backyard." Learn more about this at Bookshop Santa Cruz next week!
Dare we recommend that you take the children to the opera!? Well, this one's for you! Scroll down for a treat from UCSC Opera!
Have a pleasant weekend!
Please send us a story!
Parmalee
info@santacruzparent.com
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Peggy Orenstein,
Boys and Sex, Bookshop Santa Cruz,
1/28, 7:00pm
Details
Orin & Manjula Martin, Fruit Trees for Every Garden,
Bookshop Santa Cruz, 1/30, 7pm,
Details
Bad Kitty Joins the Team,
Bookshop Santa Cruz, Monday, 2/3, 4pm,
Details
The Silk Route: Visiting the Stans of Central Asia,
La Selva Beach Community Church, 1/23, 6:30-8:30pm
Details
Drop-In Family Craft – Ohlone Games,
Santa Cruz Mission
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Santa Cruz,
1/ 25, 1-3:30pm,
Details
Babies, Boundaries, and Bodies: How to Talk With Your Young Kids about Sex,
1/23, 6:30 – 8:30pm, Aptos,
Details
Free Family Movie Night, Moana
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Capitola Recreation
1/24, 6-8:3pm
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Contra Dance,
Live Oak Grange 1/24, 7-10pm,
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Santa Cruz County Science Fair,
Capitola Mall, 1/25,
8-12pm
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Celebrate Positive Parenting Awareness Month 2020 in the library with your family!
Every family will receive a free book provided by First 5 Santa Cruz County and a chance to win prizes! .
Downtown Library, 1/25, 1:30-3:30pm
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Open House at the Castro Adobe: Beginnings at the Adobe 1/
25, 11am-3pm,
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Women's Adventure Film Tour,
Rio Theatre, 1/25, 7-10pm
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Movie:Testing Block,
A movie shot in Capitola, Capitola Community Center, 1/26. 3-4:30pm,
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Ales for Tails,
Santa Cruz Mountain Brewing, Woof Pack & santa Cruz County Animal Shelter, Thursday, 1/30, 5pm-10pm,
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Coventry & Kaluza Circus Show,
Veterans Memorial Building
World Wetlands Day,
Watsonville Wetlands, 2/1, 9:30am behind Body Zone!
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February First Friday: Fantastic Fungi,
Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History
2/
7, 5-7pm, Free Admission all day 11am–7pm, special event 5-7pm,
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Learning to Read Is, or Should Be, EASY!
Can you believe "they" are still teaching reading by the look-say-memorize method?! Yes, some are. How tedious and difficult!
I remember learning how to read, loving the sounds of consonants and vowels, loving the logic of rules and exceptions.
I remember my first college "Teaching Reading" class (sight, context, memorize), and quietly deciding to help the children learn about the sounds letters make and fun chants for "discordant sounds/spellings" [rough, tough & enough coughed as they went under the bough and through the slough where they saw a horse drinking at a trough.
I retired for a few years to raise young children. Then taught at a school that had a wonderful, progressive phonics program (way better than McGuffey's Readers) combined with a rich literature program. Joy!
I've been around long enough to see the "latest" in reading come and go, to see teacher training schools go through 10 year cycles following the latest fad. It's amazing to me in this age that educators are again "discovering" phonics, but I guess I have a few decades on them.
We didn't know this!?
Reading to infants benefits both baby and adult, new research finds -
A study at Rutgers University details the importance of this parent-child bond.
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Seriously?!
At a Loss for Words: How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers
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I don't wholly agree with the following article, but I confess to using this technique with comics like the TinTin series for a couple of boys.
Getting 21st-Century Kids to Read More Books - b
y Jon Scieszka
For the last couple of decades, I’ve been wrestling with the complicated challenge of getting kids to read more — especially boys, who are more likely than girls to turn away from reading books as a pastime. When desperate parents, teachers and librarians ask me how to get their “reluctant readers” to open a book, I’ve found that the best short answer is: Help kids choose something they’ll want to read.
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F
amily Opera
Massenet's "Cinderella"
The UCSC Opera presents its annual production for families with an English adaptation of Massenet's
Cinderella. In partnership with the Watsonville branch of Santa Cruz County's El Sistema music education program, UCSC singers will present a 45-minute English adaptation of Massenet's
Cendrillon (Cinderella).
With a chorus of mice from Watsonville's Radcliffe Elementary School, and scenic design by Santa Cruz artist
Dave Gardner, this production is a gift to the community. Massenet's ethereal score will delight audiences of all ages.
Come early to meet the cast and color a coloring page in the lobby.
FREE for children. $5 suggested donation for adults.
Doors open 30 minutes before start time.
Buses and campus shuttles stop at Porter/Rachel Carson College.
Vehicle parking is available at the Arts parking lot (lot 126). Permit $5 from attendant in lot.
Saturday, February 15, 11am-12pm & 1pm-2pm
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