On January 5th at 5:30pm, immediately before the Community Dinner and Meeting, there will be a snow sports meeting with parents to finalize the show sports plan. Please meet in the cafeteria.

Click here and here to download the two permission slips you will need

Permission slips and money must be in by January 7th; please make checks out to SHR (Sir Herbert Read).

Contact Susan Jenkins with any questions at either sjenkins@seattleschools.org or 206-226-9745.

Bob H., a member of the Washington State Holocaust Education Resource Center’s Speakers Bureau, spoke last week at AS #1. Approximately thirty 7th and 8th grade students heard his story of survival during the Holocaust.

Click here to read more about it!

Please join us this Thursday, December 17th, at 6:30 p.m. in Room 2 (Sara’s room) to discuss the way we do fundraising at AS#1.

The AS#1-a-thon and the auction have been our two major fundraisers of the year, but are they practical for a school of our size and general economic status? Please come weigh in on others’ ideas and bring your new and fresh ideas!

Childcare will not be provided but children are welcome to come.

Need more information? Call Toni Preston at 440-1935 or Christine Barrickman at 366-0359.

What does “alternative” mean to you? Click the link below to take a survey about alternative education in general and alternative education at AS#1. Make sure your voice gets heard!

Click here to take the survey!

Follow up discussion about the survey results will take place at the next Community Dinner and Meeting on January 5th at 6pm. Please join us for what is sure to be a lively conversation!

The next Alternative Schools Coalition Meeting will take place on December 15th at 7pm in the TOPS library. This is our opportunity to introduce the alternative schools of Seattle to Dr. Enfield and make sure that AS#1 is represented!

If you’d like to carpool, contact Megan McCall at megaina@yahoo.com

THE EQUITY COMMITTEE
Undoing Institutional Racism at AS#1

December Equity Dinner

AS#1 Antiracism 101:
A Practical Application of Antiracist Principles to What We Do at AS#1
Facilitated by Martin Friedman from the Peoples Institute Northwest

Thursday, December 10th
6:00-8:00pm
Room 9

Dinner and Childcare Provided!
ALL ARE WELCOME!

IF YOU WANT CHILDCARE: Please register for childcare by contacting Christine at calabar@gmail.com or 206-371-0755
People of color are strongly encouraged to participate. We’ll need your experience and insight into how racism plays out at AS#1 and in life if we are going to make real change.
Questions, comments, please contact: Leslie Morishita @ morisles@gmail.com, 206-783-6011, or Tsukina Blessing at tsukina@yahoo.com, or Christine Edgar @ calabar@gmail.com

AS#1 is proud to announce the AS#1-A-THON 2009!

Our community-­wide fall fundraiser is here! To honor the wonderful diversity and array of talents at our school, we are asking all our students to perform an activity they enjoy, have some fun and help raise money to keep our programs running.

Students:

1. Pick one of several community activities….

Climb-A-Thon
Walk-A-Thon
Belay-A-Thon
Read-A-Thon
Jumping Rope-A-Thon
Math-A-Thon

Or … invent your own “a-thon!” If your activity can be performed at school and easily supervised, you can raise funds doing you love best. Some ideas: CRP training, finger-knitting, playing a musical instrument, cup stacking…

2. Set a goal for yourself, such as reading a certain number of pages, climbing to the top of the climbing wall, or walking ten laps around the green field.

3. Use the forms (that came home a couple weeks ago) to get sponsors and collect donations.
If you would like help finding sponsors, talk to your core teacher.

4. Perform your a-thon activity with the school on Friday, December 11th, and return collected donations to school by Tuesday, December 15th.

We’ll celebrate the success of the AS#1-A-THON with a dance party in January, and a prize will be awarded to the core that raises the most money as a team!

Gifts of any amount are always appreciated and are tax deductible.

If you have questions about Sir Herbert Read, fundraising at AS#1 or the AS#1-A-THON, feel free to call Sabina Boehm at (206) 618-0506.

Thanks in advance for your participation!!

Snow Sports Club Update:

• It is not too late to sign up for skiing so see Ms. J, the Librarian, for the parent permission forms.
• Permission forms are due by Friday, December 18th, before Winter Break.
• Sign-up sheets for volunteering for gift-wrapping next week at Barnes and Noble at Northgate is in the office with Franchesca.
• There have already been 2 volunteer Sundays for Husky Stadium to support Snow Sports.
• Ski clothing is being collected for a clothing swap to be held in January. Give your ski clothes contributions to Ms. J in the Library.
• All checks for skiing are to be made out to Sir Herbert Reed or SHR
• Questions, concerns, ideas, please direct to sjenkins@seattleschools.org