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 Mark your calendars for the 10th Annual Cabin Fever festival on February 4th!
Happy New Year everyone! It’s hard to believe that it is 2012 already and that the holidays are over. The brisk weather is here to remind us that we are looking towards the winter months when it’s freezing, gets dark at 4pm and you are constantly on the hunt for indoor activities to keep the kids occupied and happy. And we all know that happy kids = happy parents! It is for this reason that HFA began our aptly named Cabin Fever event, which aims to be both informative and fun. We are so proud that 2012 marks the 10th Annual Cabin Fever on Saturday, February 4th from 10am to 2pm at Hoboken High School.
For those who have joined us before, we’d love to see you again! For those unfamiliar with Cabin Fever, think of it as a festival with something for kids of all ages:
- Sample activities such as dance, gym, sports clinic, Valentine’s Day crafts and face painting
- Learn about local camps and other summer options all in one place
- Performances throughout the morning by local favorites
- Amazing raffles for everything from semester-long classes to products, gym memberships and more!
- Tastily catered by Anthony David’s
- Emceed by Polka Dot
- Note: Cost is free to HFA families and $20 per family charge to non-HFA members (waived if you enroll on-site)
MUSIC – ACTIVITIES – RAFFLES – FOOD – FUN
As our flagship annual event, we use this opportunity to connect with our members and provide an overview of HFA’s event, programs and philanthropic work. This festival is also an excellent opportunity to meet other local families and HFA members. Please continue to check the HFA website for updated information as it gets closer to the event. We are so grateful to the volunteers that help make each event organized and run smoothly – and we hope it is rewarding to you too; volunteering is a great way to get involved in your local community (which is why we all do it)! If you are interested in learning more, please contact Sabrina Blom, Co-Events Director, at sabrina.blom@gmail.com.
Performance Schedule (Subject to Change)
Start Performance
10am Polka Dot (introduction)
10:10 Mimi Kids Yoga
10:40 A Music Space
11:00 Play Fitness
11:30 Hudson Dance & Movement
11:50 Garden Street School of Performing Arts
12:10 Grants and Awards & Raffles
12:40 Guitar Bar
1:00 Rockdoves
1:20 Preschool of Rock
1:45 Polka Dot / Raffles
2pm Close
The Red Cross is now offering CPR/AED classes at The SKY CLUB, Hoboken. These classes are open for SKY CLUB members and non-members. All members will receive a $10 discount off all Red Cross classes offered at SKY CLUB. Be prepared for any emergency with Red Cross Certifications. To register, please call or email Erin 201-222-2582 / erin@skyclubfitness.com.
January 28, 2012 10:30 AM-4:30 PM
CPR/AED— Adult, Child, Infant
The American Red Cross Standard First Aid with CPR/AED – Adult and Child plus CPR -Infant course incorporates the 2010 ECC standards. It will help participants recognize and respond appropriately to cardiac, breathing and first aid emergencies. The courses in the program teach skills that participants need to know to give immediate care to a suddenly injured or ill person until more advanced medical personnel arrive and take over. Students who successfully complete this course will receive certificates for Standard First Aid with CPR/AED – Adult and Child which are valid for two years.
FEBRUARY 8, 2012 9 AM-12:30 PM
CPR/AED –Adult
The American Red Cross CPR/AED – Adult course incorporates the 2010 ECC standards. It will help participants recognize and respond appropriately to cardiac and breathing emergencies. The course teaches the skills that participants need to know to give immediate care to a suddenly injured or ill person until more advanced medical personnel arrive and take over. Students who successfully complete this course will receive certificates for CPR/AED – Adult which are valid for two years.
Garden Street School of the Performing Arts is happy to announce auditions for our Childrens Musical Theater Company! Supervising Director and founder of the company, Annie McLoughlin, is delighted to have some very special guests work with her on the company’s debut performance! Broadway Star,Lisa Capps is Garden Street Children’s Musical Theater Company’s special guest director. We’re so honored to have Lisa Cappsbe a part of our first production.Auditions are on January 30th, at 3:30pm-5:30pm, and ages 5 through 18 are welcome to attend.Auditions are by appointment only, and you can request an audition by emailing Rachel at dance@gardenstreetmusic.com.Rehearsals for the company will be on Mondays from 3:30pm-5:15pm starting on Feb, 6th. The company will perform at the De Baun Theater in Hoboken on June 23rd, 2012. There will be a big musical production in January, and rehearsals will resume in September. The fee is $35, plus a costume fee.For additional information, and to request an audition time please email us. Space is limited and audition times will be given out to the first 20 people who respond.
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Just a quick reminder to let us know ASAP if you’d like to enroll your child in our upcoming SmartCookies “Kids in the Kitchen” program… class starts soon (January 31st) and we’d love to see your child there!
Also, due to popular demand by parents of younger children, we’re opening this session to 1st graders as well. We’ll have a chef-assistant on hand to help them out with activities.
Our “Kids in the Kitchen” programs are designed for elementary school children to encourage a natural curiosity about cooking and/or coax a shy eater out of their shell. Each week kids will follow simple recipes, practice basic cooking techniques, learn about nutrition and eating well, and participate in tons of fun hands on activities to get them excited about food and cooking. The programs are co-taught by a Chef and Nutritionist and run for 8 weeks, 90 minutes each week. We’ve received rave reviews from both our past student participants AND their “sometimes-frustrated-at-mealtime” parents. This program really changes the way kids think about cooking, nutrition, and “trying new things”!
Classes will take place on Tuesday afternoons from 3:30-5pm at the Hoboken Multi Service Center on 2nd and Grand St. Each 8-week program cost is $360 including all materials and supplies. A 10% discount is offered for siblings, and children enrolling in both Kids in the Kitchen Sessions 1 & 2.
Space is limited so please let us know if you’re interested in enrolling your child!
Ps: If this time of year is overbooked Session 2 may be for you – it begins on April 17th.
For more information about our Kids in the Kitchen programs, including the detailed week-by-week curriculum and specific class dates go to hobokensmartcookies.com and check out “children’s classes”.
We hope to see your child in the kitchen!
info@hobokensmartcookies.com
Next month Viridian embarks on its 2nd Global Sustainability Project; putting solar panels on a community library that is being built in a remote village in Ghana. Viridian is partnering with a solar panel manufacturer and an organization called The World Joy Foundation who builds schools, libraries and medical clinics in remote villages throughout Africa that have no electricity.
This is the 2nd of 7 global projects that the Viridian Foundation is committed to across 7 continents. Many of you know the work that the Viridian Foundation is already doing in the Amazon Rainforest; planting 5000 trees in the deforested areas.
In addition to putting solar panels on this community library we are committed to putting hundreds of books on EVERY shelf.
We are looking for new and used books up to the 8th grade reading level.
If you have any books (or know someone who does) please collect them and drop them off at my apartment NO later than next Wed January 25th.
I will be taking them to Viridian’s Corporate HQ on Thursday, January 26th.
Thank you in advance for your donation and your support. Click here for a quick video.
Lynn Danzker and Joe Epstein
1313 Park Ave #2D
Hoboken, NJ 07030
201 798 0036 home
201 970 8153 cell
All Saints Episcopal Day School and Stevens Cooperative School Come Together to Celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. with 2nd Annual Day of Community Service
Hoboken & Jersey City, New Jersey – January 16, 2012 – There may not have been any classes on Monday, January 16, but over 200 students from All Saints Episcopal Day School, Mustard Seed School and Stevens Cooperative School spent the day learning what Dr. King meant when he said, “Life’s most persistent and urgent question is ‘What are you doing for others?’” This “Day of Service” included children from Kindergarten through 8th grade working alongside teachers and parents in a wide range of activities.
“This is a ‘day on,’ not a ‘day off’” remarked one 8th grader. “A friend from another school was surprised I would come to school when I didn’t have to. But it’s the perfect way to spend MLK Day, and I told my friend I wouldn’t miss this.”
Volunteers from all three schools were mixed together, and everywhere you turned in both schools, the classrooms bustled like birthday parties. For the “Cooking with Love” project, young chefs helped prepare gallons of homemade lentil soup and trays of sugar cookies for the Hoboken Shelter. In the same room, industrious packers, part of the “TLC Body Care” project, assembled about 70 goodie bags of toiletries. The items, collected in school drives, were given to the Breakfast Plus Program at Grace Church Van Vorst in Jersey City.
“Look at all of those!” exclaimed one 1st grader, pointing out the pile of festively wrapped care packages. “Do you think the people who get these will be happy? I think they will.”
Continue reading Hoboken Students Participate in 2nd Annual MLK Day of Community Service
It’s not too early to think about Loveprint for Valentine’s day! Loveprint is your child’s fingerprint impression taken in soft wax and then cast into sterling silver or gold and is the ideal gift for moms, dads and grandparents. Buy one silver Loveprint and get the second one half price if you order by Saturday, January 28th. Call, email or text me for an appointment to come to my store, I also provide at home service.
Loveprint Jewelry
128 Sussex St.
JC, NJ 07302
CLCesari@gmail.com
201.280.2215
www.camillecesari.com
Looking for healthier options for your kids, but don’t have hours to cook? Come have fun at this workshop! We will provide tips and recipes of how to prepare fast and easy “superfoods” for your kids. These recipes will be a quick and healthy way to nourish you and your little ones. Recipes will be sugar free, and we can accommodate allergies. You will leave learning some great tools and recipes to make your kids healthier, while enjoying a great meal. You will also take away an organic brown bag lunch, packed and ready to go, for your little one Monday morning! We will have live music to make this a fun an upbeat afternoon!
Date: Sunday, February 26, 2011 3-5pm
$60 per person- includes recipe and information booklet, lunch, live music and brown bag takeaway.
Space is limited so please RSVP asap! Please email j_la73@hotmail.com with questions!
Tentative Recipes:
Froggy Smiles – Green Smoothie
My Kid Can “Rap” – Quick and Fun Super Kale Wraps
Very Veggie Burgers
Awesome Oaties- Healthy and quick oatmeal cookies
Saturday 1/14/12 at 10am at Newport Swim and Fitness.
(Right near the Pavonia/Newport Path Train in Jersey City or take the
walkway along the Hudson River…)
(Gym membership NOT required)
Yoga Motion
Please go to our website to reserve a spot in Saturday’s class: Free
trial class if you’ve never taken class with us…
Yoga Motion for kids uses a fun creative approach to yoga and movement that balances quiet and active poses with game playing, singing, storytelling, simple breath meditations and more. As children learn the names of the postures and movements, they develop a yoga vocabulary.
Yoga poses are used to play games, to spark the imagination, to make up stories and to take on the qualities of different animals. Yoga Motion is a fun way for children to build strength, confidence, and self-esteem!Feel free to ask Mom’s why their kids love Yoga Motion!
Toddler Program for children (and their parents/caregivers) includes songs, play, movement, and Jewish holiday celebrations. This program includes a Shabbat sing-along in the sanctuary and challah! A Little Bit of Shabbat, a Whole Lot of FUN!!
Toddler I Program Ages 6-15 months
Fridays 10:45-11:45 am
Toddler II Program Ages 16 – 24 months
Fridays 9:30-11:00 am
Toddler III Program Ages 6-24 months
Fridays 1:00-2:00pm
In the Twos Program, the children have fun in our happy and exciting classroom while learning basic preschool concepts. With the support of a caregiver they begin to get used to a more structured school environment. The program includes the celebration of Jewish holidays plus art, stories, snack, music, play dough, outside time in our yard and more.
A great introduction to school– *pre-preschool*!
Twos Program:
Monday/Tuesday/ Wednesday/Thursday 9:30-11:00 am
** Children may attend up to 2 days/ week total.
Siblings are welcome on Wednesday morning.
Thursday class includes Shabbat sing-along
Kaplan Cooperative Preschool
115 Park Avenue
Hoboken, New Jersey 07030
201 653-8666
ushpreschool@gmail.com
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