This sounds like it’s going to be neat! Here’s their blurb:
Tacoma-Pierce County’s Livable Communities Fair
Saturday May 17, 2008
9:00am - 4:00pm
Tacoma Dome Exhibition Hall
It’s Free, Fun and Informative
The fair is a county-wide effort aimed at raising awareness about projects and programs that make communities more livable.
Like a garden or home show, the fair provides interactive displays on a wide range of topics including energy conservation, carpooling, recycling, neighborhood emergency preparedness, affordable housing, water quality, public safety, clean environment, agriculture, recreation, health, education, community involvement, children’s activities, and much more.
For more information: www.livablepiercecounty.org or 253-798-7477
Here’s the schedule of events, and check out the long list of exhibitors. See you there!
Every time I come across these puppets, I am smitten. Each one is like a little work of art. They run the gamut from realistic wildlife to amazing and fanciful dragons and dinosaurs.
I love how Reilly interacts with puppets, too. It brings a whole new level of imagination into his play. He has a dragon puppet named “Glide” he brings to us when he wants to talk to it. He hands it over and says, “Here Mom, I want to talk to Glide.” Then he talks to the dragon as if I was not even there, not the one answering his questions … a beautiful state of suspended disbelief, I think. (more…)
We just saw this movie on cable and LOVED it. (Yes, it came out ages ago! We’re assuming other parents are as behind the times on these things as we are.) Reilly did not sit still for the whole thing (he’d seen it before at daycare), but Mike and I were entranced. We made Reilly bring his legos into the living room so we could watch it all the way through. (more…)
Disenchanted with the thought of sending your 4 or 5-year old off to public school kindergarten programs emphasizing standardized testing, worksheets and HOMEWORK?
Then you will want to meet Kassi and Sandi, two women who are frustrated with what traditional schools have to offer and the prohibitive costs of private schools, and are looking to start their own cooperative school in North Tacoma.
They are hoping to get enough interested families to get a class of 16 children ages 4-6 going by Fall 2008, and are looking for people who want to be involved in their child’s education and are willing to work in the classroom and get involved in the planning and running of the school. (more…)
