THE MAY DINNER DETAILS

Sussex County Association for the Education of Young Children

Annual Spring Dinner

May 15, 2007 (YES, the 15th)

The Keynote Speaker will be Carol Benevy, MSW

Sussex County Youth Services Coordinator

There will be one training hour for attending for the May Dinner. There will be our year in review, scholarship presentations, and a very informative program.

Dinner choices are Chicken Francaise, Eggplant Parmigiana and Vegetable Napoleon

Additional courses are salad, pasta and dessert

The cost is $25 for members and $30 for non-members

Please call Anna Corbo at 973-579-9999 to RSVP and send your check with dinner selection to:

Tiny Town Preschool

99 Demarest Road

Sparta, NJ 07871

Show up and schmooze at the Farmstead Country Club, 88 Lawrence Road, Lafayette, NJ 973-383-4506.

Cash bar from 6:30 Dinner at 7:15

March 14th Natural Sciences Training

Natural Science Investigations

Learn how to ask creative questions and develop critical thinking skills for young children while having fun and exploring the natural world.

Using an integrated inquiry based approach to foster children's curiosities and interests; increase children's knowledge and understandings of new ideas and concepts.

Training to be facilitated by Sue Mankiw, MS Ed, William Paterson University, College of Education, Elementary/Early Childhood Department Instructor.

Training will take place at TRICO (see under TRICO heading on blog) on March 14th. There will be a dessert reception starting at 6:30. Certificates for 1 1/2 hours of training will be provided to all attendees. Admission is free for members and $5.00 for non-members. Register for training by emailing your name and membership status to justjanes@gmail.com. Don't miss this opportunity.

News from the December and January Minutes

From the December 13, 2006 meeting: The May dinner was scheduled for May 15th a Tuesday so as to not conflict with graduation at SCCC. It was discussed that we need to have at least 2 membership wide meetings, not including the May Dinner.

From the January 10, 2006 meeting: The location of the Trico Community Room was discussed for a possible training location for March and April general membership meetings and trainings.

The theme for the Fun Fair was to be "It's All About the KIDS" on the flyer. It was suggested that we make a Community Partner Directory for the businesses participating.

Getting Ready for the Fun Fair

A flyer will be coming to your center very soon with the Fun Fair sign up pamphlet. This year's theme is "It's all about the Kids". Last year we estimate that around 500 people came to the Fun Fair. Providers are able to post a 2'x3' sign at their table advertising their center and they can hand out business cards or pamphlets.

This year we are putting a provider directory together. All centers who participate can have a business card printed in our provider directory. This directory will be in the bag that each child receives when they come to the Fun Fair. Providers who can not attend can pay $25.00 to have their business card included in the directory.

May Dinner

Thursday, May 18th at 6:00 at the Farmstead Golf Club is our May Dinner. There will be an election, scholarship award and Sharon Giacchino will be our speaker.

Fun Fair

Fun Fair March 25th!!!!

Minutes from March 3, 2006

The SCAEYC Executive Board, along with members Maureen Greiner, Anna Corbo, Joanne Taylor and Jane Hutnik, met on March 3, 2006 at the offices of NORWESCAP.

Scholarship
Jane Hutnik stated that Laura Boonham has mailed 20 scholarship applications to various High Schools and Community Colleges.

Fun Fair
Pam Raynor had found 2 banners that were displayed for earlier fun fairs. The large street sign for Main Street in Newton was very dirty and it was too late to get the municipality to hang it. Jane will try to get her children to clean it with clorox and see if the state will get us funds for a new one. Maureen Greiner thought she had the specs for the previous banner and would try to find them.

Pam had only 2 people respond for tables at the Fun Fair. Anna Corbo will call centers that received the flyer and see if they are attending on March 15th and 16th. She will then call Pam [phone number] with the results. Jane will e-mail Anna with the list of centers. [as of this posting 11 centers are signed up].

It was decided that SCAEYC would supply tables with signs listing Center's names. They will then be collected and used to reserve Tables at the May dinner. Maureen Greiner will go to Staples and get the plastic signs, name badges and markers are needed for the fair.

Sparta Book Store will supply us with a number of children's books to sell at the Fun Fair. We will need to contact Vito Telischak to provide cash for change. it was decided that we needed $150 in $10's, $5's and $1's increments, $50 for book sale change and $100 for entrance change.

Director's Meeting
The next director's meeting will be March 21st at NORWESCAP's office and will be on "Children Biting".

Newsletter
Jane has gotten the newsletter together and another flyer on the fun fair. She needed to make some corrections and will then deliver it to Pam who will take care of mailing it.

May Dinner
Barbara young said that we did not need to elect any individuals this year. It was determined however that we did need to vote on two positions, Vice President and Treasurer. Maureen Greinerwill ask if Sharon Giacchino to be the speaker.

My Favorite Day
Jane had contacted Mickie Wood to type the book, but has not received an answer as of yet.

The meeting ended about 7:30 pm Next meetings will be March 20th at 5PM in the Cafeteria of Sussex County Community College to see about set-up.

Respectfully Submitted,
Anna Corbo, Secretary

Fun Fair and Board Meeting

There is a Fun Fair and Board Meeting at NORWESCAP, 186 Halsey Road in Newton,
Thursday evening from 5:30 - 7:30.

If anyone has not been emailed an attachment containing the fun fair flyer please email me at justjanes@gmail.com and I will send you a copy. Please post in your centers, and out to your parents and promote the event for the Week of the Young Child.

If I can figure out the blog I will see if I can attach the flyer to a post.