October 13, 2011
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October 13, 2011
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Upcoming EventsAll School News
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 | Week At-A-Glance PAECE (Parent Association for Early Childhood Education) Meeting Volleyball Home Game Cross Country Meet Tuesday, October 18 FAIS/CAIS Parent Workshop Volleyball Away Game Thursday, October 20Coffee & Questions with Kerri Willa Thursday, October 20 Pre-K/K Parent Ed Event Volleyball Home Game Please check on Veracross or through the school website calendar for details about all upcoming events. The calendar is updated on a regular basis as events are created. Please check back regularly. |
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| All School News | back to top |
 | One More Week to Order 30th Anniversary Wear
Yerba Buena Family Day Happening This Sunday, Featuring CAIS Alumnus Yerba Buena Family Day is downtown San Francisco’s biggest daylong family block party happening Sunday, October 16 and features free admission, special art activities and free performances for children and families at the Yerba Buena Center as well as various venues located within one to two blocks of one another, including SFMOMA, Contemporary Jewish Museum, Children’s Creativity Museum and Museum of African Diaspora. Taiko drummer and CAIS alumnus, Wesley Yee will perform on the Esplanade Stage in the Yerba Buena Gardens at 2:30 p.m.Activities are happening throughout the day from 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. on Sunday, October 16. For detailed information, click here. CAIS to Participate in California ShakeOut Earthquake Drill Next Thursday, October 20 at 10:20 a.m., CAIS students, faculty and staff at both Oak and Waller Street campuses will take part in the statewide earthquake drill called the Great California ShakeOut. The event is organized to bring awareness throughout the state about earthquakes and how to prevent disasters from becoming catastrophes. Classroom teachers will spend time before the drill explaining why this is happening, who is participating and what needs to be done. At Waller Street, the drill will be conducted in a developmentally appropriate way with games where the teachers will surprise the children and say 'drop and cover' a few times a day to practice leading up to the 'real' earthquake drill that will occur at 10:20 a.m. If you would like to learn more about earthquake preparedness to help prepare your home and talk to your children about what to do when an earthquake occurs, the Great California ShakeOut website has a wealth of information including videos, games, suggestions on how much food and water to have on hand and so much more. Please visit shakeout.org for more information. Walk to School Event Wet and Fun! Thank you to everyone who came out for the International Walk to School Day on Wednesday, October 5. Despite a heavy downpour of rain in the morning, more than 15 families, teachers and administrators showed up at Patricia's Green (park at Hayes and Octavia) to participate! NCIS reported 20% fewer cars on Fell Street/Hickory Yard drop off that morning. The event was not only a fun way to build community, but also about behavior change, and showing kids how much fun it is to walk to school, not just for a one-day event. We encourage you to leave your car at home and consider walking to school every day or once/week or once/month! A link to the walk to school day photos are available through our community wiki and can be found here. Thanks to parent organizer, Mai Mai Wythes, who organized the event. PA Meeting Next Week The second PA meeting of the school year is this Tuesday, October 18 at 8:00 a.m. in the parent lounge of our Waller Street campus. All CAIS parents are members of the PA and welcome and encouraged to attend all meetings during the school year. Items on the agenda include:
Raise Money for CAIS While You Shop Online Did you know that online purchases can raise a lot of eScrip revenue? More than 800 major online stores including Amazon, Best Buy, Macy's, Expedia and Toy's R US will donate up to 10% of your purchases to our CAIS Parents Association. But signing up for eScrip does not automatically capture online donations! You also have to:
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If every CAIS family, faculty and staff member were to make this effort, the increased revenue would help the Parents Association to support student and classroom needs in addition to the community activities the PA already supports. Parent Education Opportunities at SpeakSF – Free for CAIS Community SpeakSF is an organization that brings parent education events on a variety of topics to communities of several independent schools around the city. Because CAIS is a participating school, all CAIS families, faculty and staff are invited to the SpeakSF speaker presentations that will happen throughout the school year. The first event is happening this Tuesday, October 18 and New York Times bestselling author Daniel Coyle will lead a presentation on unlocking the secrets of talent. Click here for details about the upcoming presentation and to learn more about SpeakSF. If you have any questions about SpeakSF or upcoming events, please contact CAIS parent organizer, Patricia Martell. Missed Coffee & Questions Series? There’s One More! The PA brought us a beginning of school year coffee & questions series to give everyone an opportunity to learn about some of our new faces and roles at CAIS a bit more in depth. If you missed any of the coffee & questions events and wish to see a meeting summary, please check on the community wiki. Summary from coffee & questions with Linda Mackay can be found here. Next up is coffee & questions with Technology Coordinator, Kerri Willa
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| Development | back to top |
 | Meet Rick Herrick, Annual Fund Middle School Chair
Annual Fund Update Give Now | Pledge | Match | Transfer Stock Thank you to the parents at Waller Campus who stopped by for coffee and bagels this week. The Development staff enjoyed meeting all of you and look forward to assisting you as you join the community-wide effort to give to the Annual Fund. Thank you to our new supporters this week: Michael and Alicia Chang, Stefano Alberti and Tina Shau, Joachim Li and Anita Sil, John Wong and Shirley Tom, Jeffrey Trenam and Laura Johnson, Courtney Beck and Jonathan Harris, Ian O'Donnell and Yunsian Tai, Jeff and Sally Shen, Richard and Wendy Yorke. Click here to see this week's Annual Fund progress. Before any other opportunity, please consider giving to the Annual Fund First. |
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| Early Childhood Division | back to top |
 | Yerba Buena Family Day Happening This Sunday, Featuring CAIS Alumnus Yerba Buena Family Day is downtown San Francisco’s biggest daylong family block party happening Sunday, October 16 and features free admission, special art activities and free performances for children and families at the Yerba Buena Center as well as various venues located within one to two blocks of one another, including SFMOMA, Contemporary Jewish Museum, Children’s Creativity Museum and Museum of African Diaspora. Taiko drummer and CAIS alumnus, Wesley Yee will perform on the Esplanade Stage in the Yerba Buena Gardens at 2:30 p.m.Activities are happening throughout the day from 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. on Sunday, October 16. For detailed information, click here. Upcoming Parent Ed Speaker – Focus on Keeping the Family Healthy Dr. Christopher C. Stewart, MD Associate Professor of Pediatrics at UCSF and also father of Pre-K student Mia, will lead a discussion on keeping your family healthy as we enter the critical months when we tend to see more illnesses. Dr. Stewart works at SF General Hospital with a focus on inpatient and outpatient pediatrics. His areas of specialty include child abuse and global health. As a child abuse specialist, he does consulting work with the San Francisco County and hospitals. As a UCSF professor, he teaches courses and runs programs for international health on various continents. Please join us next week.
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| Lower School | back to top |
 | CAIS/FAIS Parent Workshop Happening Next Week The FAIS Lower School Parent Board has organized a yearlong parent workshop series for FAIS and CAIS lower school families to attend. The subject matter of the four-part series spans topically from friendships, bullying and gender learning differences. The series dates and times have been included on our school calendar. Because this is a FAIS-sponsored series, we are unable to provide child care to CAIS families. First event
Click here to read about and download the other events in the series. If you have specific questions about the workshops, please email LSPB@frenchamericansf.org. Yerba Buena Family Day Happening This Sunday, Featuring CAIS Alumnus Yerba Buena Family Day is downtown San Francisco’s biggest daylong family block party happening Sunday, October 16 and features free admission, special art activities and free performances for children and families at the Yerba Buena Center as well as various venues located within one to two blocks of one another, including SFMOMA, Contemporary Jewish Museum, Children’s Creativity Museum and Museum of African Diaspora. Taiko drummer and CAIS alumnus, Wesley Yee will perform on the Esplanade Stage in the Yerba Buena Gardens at 2:30 p.m.Activities are happening throughout the day from 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. on Sunday, October 16. For detailed information, click here. |
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| Middle School | back to top |
 | Meet Rick Herrick, Annual Fund Middle School Chair
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| Parent Association | back to top |
 | One More Week to Order 30th Anniversary Wear
Walk to School Event Wet and Fun! Thank you to everyone who came out for the International Walk to School Day on Wednesday, October 5. Despite a heavy downpour of rain in the morning, more than 15 families, teachers and administrators showed up at Patricia's Green (park at Hayes and Octavia) to participate! NCIS reported 20% fewer cars on Fell Street/Hickory Yard drop off that morning. The event was not only a fun way to build community, but also about behavior change, and showing kids how much fun it is to walk to school, not just for a one-day event. We encourage you to leave your car at home and consider walking to school every day or once/week or once/month! A link to the walk to school day photos are available through our community wiki and can be found here. Thanks to parent organizer, Mai Mai Wythes, who organized the event. PA Meeting Next Week The second PA meeting of the school year is this Tuesday, October 18 at 8:00 a.m. in the parent lounge of our Waller Street campus. All CAIS parents are members of the PA and welcome and encouraged to attend all meetings during the school year. Items on the agenda include:
Raise Money for CAIS While You Shop Online Did you know that online purchases can raise a lot of eScrip revenue? More than 800 major online stores including Amazon, Best Buy, Macy's, Expedia and Toy's R US will donate up to 10% of your purchases to our CAIS Parents Association. But signing up for eScrip does not automatically capture online donations! You also have to:
OR
If every CAIS family, faculty and staff member were to make this effort, the increased revenue would help the Parents Association to support student and classroom needs in addition to the community activities the PA already supports. Missed Coffee & Questions Series? There’s One More! The PA brought us a beginning of school year coffee & questions series to give everyone an opportunity to learn about some of our new faces and roles at CAIS a bit more in depth. If you missed any of the coffee & questions events and wish to see a meeting summary, please check on the community wiki. Summary from coffee & questions with Linda Mackay can be found here. Next up is coffee & questions with Technology Coordinator, Kerri Willa
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| Athletics | back to top |
 | Firedragons Fast Runners at Cross Country Meets
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