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MOTHERHOOD TO BE CELEBRATED AND STRENGTHEN IN ANCHORAGE

Free parenting workshops, childcare, and luncheon hosted by Kid’s Kitchen Inc. and

American Mothers Inc.

With Mother’s Day around the corner, one might wonder where this over-one-century-old national holiday originated from.  The official sponsor of Mother’s Day is American Mothers Inc. (AMI), a national nonprofit organization with supporting local chapters in every state, including Alaska.  AMI is cooperating with Kids Kitchen Inc. (a nonprofit in Fairview) in presenting a free “Empowering Motherhood” interfaith conference on May 7th for mothers and grandmothers.

During the conflict of the American Civil War, Anna Reeves Jarvis sought to help heal the hearts of families by organizing a day of love and friendship across the battle lines.  This simple observance grew into a national holiday, now known as Mother’s Day.  As its official sponsor, American Mothers Inc. (Alaska chapter) has helped to organize an Anchorage women’s conference that will educate primary caregivers in the areas of nutrition, family dynamics, and education.  Free childcare and a free lunch will also be available at this May 7th conference.  Sponsored by Kid’s Kitchen Inc. and hosted by the Fairview Recreation Center, the “Empowering Motherhood” conference will provide three rotating workshops for up to 150 participants interested in finding support, suggestions, and solutions for strengthening their families and motherhood skills.

Workshop participants will learn how to plan low-cost, healthy meals, the importance of eating and spending time as a family, suggestions for improving family life, and the importance of education – such as reading to children, limiting electronics, and making time for homework.  They will also have an opportunity to be paired with “Mentor Mothers” from American Mothers Inc. for on-going support as they endeavor to implement the things they learn at the conference into their homes.

The “Empowering Motherhood” conference is being held on a Monday (May 7th) from 10:00 am to 1:00 pm, so mothers and grandmothers can attend while their children are in school.  Held at the Fairview Recreational Center, free childcare will be provided on-site for children ages 1- 6.  Babes-in-arms are welcome to attend the workshops with a registered adult.  With a limit of two children per participant, registered conference-goers are asked to come at 9:30 am to check-in their child(ren).  A free luncheon will be held after the three workshops for both participants and their children.

Registration for the conference is required prior to the event.  Interested participants may register online at www.kidskitchenak.com or in-person at Kids Kitchen at the Fairview Recreation Center, Monday through Friday between 3pm and 7pm.  Seating and childcare slots are limited, so sign up early!

For the past nearly 16 years, Kid’s Kitchen Inc. has fed hungry children dinner after school, five-days a week.  Elgin Jones (Kid’s Kitchen founder) expressed the desire to feed the souls of children, as well as their stomachs.  Discussing the importance of strong parenting skills with a volunteer one day and realizing that mothers and grandmothers were the main caregivers of many children that ate at Kid’s Kitchen, the idea of a “mothering workshop” was born.  American Mothers Inc. (AMI) seemed to be the perfect match to cooperate with this women’s workshop/conference and the Municipality of Anchorage was kind enough to host the event.
For more information about this event, or to schedule an interview, please call Debbie Williams at 360-4206 or email Debbie at debnbrent@aol.com or Elgin Jones at 274-8522.

Looking for something for your kids to do during the first week of summer vacation (May 21-25)?  How about Soccer, Golf, Basketball, Frisbee, Cooperative Games…

The Susitna PTA is offering a week-long half-day and full-day Sports Camp to stimulate both body and mind.  Spots are filling up fast, so enroll soon.

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Come one, come all to Denali’s Family Volunteer Appreciation Breakfast, Monday, April 30th, 8:00 a.m. in the Denali Library.  

Teachers will serve you yummy goodies…supervision for children will be available on the playground…we’ll view a slideshow of all the amazing ways you help our children learn with generous contributions of time and talents.  We’re hoping you will join us in celebrating these efforts – Denali only works thanks to you!

Did you order your child’s group class picture? The forms arrived so late that many of the Denali families didn’t. If you would like a group class picture with your student, their classmates and teacher, please send in $10 for Lifetouch by Monday April 30th.

Now is the time to get your picture taken!
Did you miss the fall pictures? Were you absent or from a different school? Would you like nice Spring 2012 pictures to share with family and friends?

Download the form or look for it this week.
If you would like, you can follow the instructions on the Lifetouch website http://schoolportraits.lifetouch.com/picturedate/  to pay online and print the conformation.

As always, pictures from Lifetouch are a fundraiser for the PTA. Get great pictures and support our wonderful Montessori school!

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It’s that time of year.  All that snow is melting, sun is out, and schools almost done for the year.  Denali is sending off some great students to middle school and we would like to recognize those intermediate teachers who were a part of these great kids success. Denali needs a few parents from each of the intermediate classes, (O’Harra, Chalker, Mathis, Riley, Harps, Davis),  that have a 6th grader graduating this year.  We need to form a small committee and get together to decide what we want to do to show our appreciation to these awesome Intermediate Teachers. Please contact Kieth Harjehausen or Chuck Stafford, before or after school.