CHAC/FIRST
5 Presents: Your October Overview
Greetings Families, Partners, and LTI Community
Greetings Families, Partners, and LTI Community
October is the unofficial most fun month of the year for the staff because of our annual Halloween Party! This is our fifth year and we think it keeps getting better and better. Fall is a time of gathering the crops and preparing for the cold, dark months ahead. That means it’s busy! We hope you find some time for fun and quiet in between the chores.
Here’s this month’s news
Announcing the Fifth Annual Halloween Party!
This year, we’ve moved the venue to Washington Park in Sunnyvale to give us
some more room. Join us for a costume parade, (not so) spooky story time and
silly songs, arts and craft stations, games and photo booth.
The best part? Admission
is FREE! All arts & crafts, games and photo booth are FREE!
Face painting and Jameszini’s Balloon Animals are $2 each.
Face painting and Jameszini’s Balloon Animals are $2 each.
Details: Washington
Park, 840 W Washington
Ave
Saturday, October 25
10:30am-12:30pm
(please arrive on time
so you don’t miss the parade!)
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Let’s Make This Guy Dress Up as Clifford!
The dare has been
issued! Mercy Street FRC has dared Marcus D., host of the “Star Mornings with
Marcus D. and Sandy” show on Star 101.3 in San Francisco to make an appearance
at our Fifth Annual Halloween Party, dressed as Clifford the Dog! He must also
read a story to the children during story time.
Marcus D. has
accepted the challenge – on the condition of raising $3,000 to support
Mercy Street FRC (and includes our sites at Sunnyvale [Vargas], Canon Music [Cupertino], and Escuela [North. Mt. View]).
Let’s make him dress up
and support our centers! Please share this link with all of your contacts and
on Facebook, Twitter, or any of your other networking sites.
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FREE Vision and Dental Screenings coming in October
FocusFirst is back! We
are pleased to announce FREE vision and dental screenings coming to 3 of our
centers in October. With their specialized equipment, FocusFirst can screen
infants. Parents at our last events said the screening was fast and easy and
most got their results right away.
Did you know that
dentists recommend that children should have their first dental screening by
the time their first tooth comes in? It’s a great time to check on the health
of the gums and new teeth, and to give children a gentle introduction to an
oral exam. It helps to see a pediatric dentist – they know how to work best
with little ones.
You can come to any one
of the screenings. No registration is required – screenings are on a first
come, first served basis.
Center:
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Day:
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Date:
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Vision:
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Dental:
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Mercy Street FRC
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Wednesday
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10/22
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10:00 -
10:45
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Not an available time
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Escuela FRC
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Thursday
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10/23
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10:00 -
11:00
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9:30 -
11:00
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Vargas Elementary FRC
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Thursday
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10/30
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9:00 -
10:00
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9:30-11:00
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Take the Pledge to Bring Your Bottle, and Get a Free One From FIRST 5.
From now through
November 21, staff and teachers will be making Potter the Otter presentations
to teach kids the value of drinking water and the reasons to stay away from
sugary drinks. During these presentations, if you take the Bring Your Bottle
Pledge, you will get a FIRST 5 bottle for free. It’s part of FIRST 5’s campaign
to prevent obesity, encourage drinking good, clean water and reducing waste!
Did you know FIRST 5 has also launched “Hydration Stations” around the county?
At these stations, placed in local schools, kids can fill up their new bottles.
Get more information
about “Hydration Stations”: http://www.first5kids.org/page/local-agencies-install-38-new-hydration-stations-local-schools/
Go to the Bring Your
Bottle Pledge Page: www.bringyourbottle.org
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First Meeting of the Mercy Street FRC Fundraising Committee Gathers to Help Ensure Program’s Future
On September 30, we
hosted our first Fundraising Committee to raise funds for our
program. We are grateful to have so many interested and passionate supporters.
Thank you to everyone who was able to attend, for your commitment, and if you
were not able to attend, it is not too late to participate.If you would like to participate in our Fundraising Committee, please contact our Program Director, Maddi Pascua, at mpascua.chac@gmail.com
The next Fundraising
Committee meeting will be on Tuesday, October 28 from 12:00-2:00pm. If you would like to be kept
informed about fundraising projects, please email us at mercystreetfrc@gmail.com.
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Help keep our Family Resource beautiful!
On Thursday, October 30, join
Mercy Street FRC staff and volunteers for a potluck and FRC beautification day.
It’s time to organize the supplies, toss out dried up markers, refill glue
bottles, clean the toys and get ready for a busy Winter ahead.
Can you support your center by spending a couple of hours helping our beautification efforts? The fun begins at 12:00PM and ends at 4:00PM. Please RSVP at mercystreetfrc@gmail.com, or call us at (650) 967-4813
Can you support your center by spending a couple of hours helping our beautification efforts? The fun begins at 12:00PM and ends at 4:00PM. Please RSVP at mercystreetfrc@gmail.com, or call us at (650) 967-4813
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Thank you to Dan and
Tesin Dosch for helping CHAC/Mercy Street FRC get sponsored for a Yahoo Employee Foundation Choice Grant
(need correct name). Not only did they sponsor us, they also did a lot of
rallying of Yahoo employees to help us earn votes for the grant. Thanks to
their efforts, our Science Kids program received a grant that will help its sustainability. We are grateful for families who want to give their time, energy
and resources to maintain our program.
Donations
We very much appreciate all of you who kindly
give us gently used clothing, supplies and toys for our classrooms. In order to make sure that we have adequate
space and good use for your donations, please call us first at (650) 967-4813 before
bringing your donations to our centers.
Thank you!
Holidays
and Scheduled Closings:
Here is a list of
upcoming days we will be closed and class cancelations. Please watch our
calendars for unexpected closings, such as teacher illness.
9/1
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All
centers closed for Labor Day
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10/25
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Fifth
Annual Halloween Party 10:30am - 12:30pm
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11/10
– 11/11
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Closed
for Veteran’s Day (note: closed both Monday & Tuesday)
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11/26
– 11/28
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Closed
for Thanksgiving
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11/26
– 11/28
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Closed
for Veteran’s Day
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12/22
– 1/2
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End
of year break
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1/4 –
1/9
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Office
hours only – No classes
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1/11
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Classes
resume at all centers
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Volunteers Needed! Do
you have a few hours a week you that you can spare? Do you want to give
back to your community? Do you want to make an impact in the lives of
young children and their families? Do you want to expand your knowledge
of early childhood development? Do you have expert knowledge that you can teach to our families? Come join our team. If you are interested and/or want more information on our fabulous volunteer program, please send an email to Nancy Doan at nancydoan5@gmail.com. Thanks for considering – the success of our program depends on Volunteers! Together we make the difference.
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Feedback: Do you have comments that you would like to send the staff? Please send us a note to:mercystreetfrc@gmail.com
