Y News C O R O N A - N O R C O

F A M I L Y Y M C A

Community events:

April 11, Color-A-Thon for

Simple Acts of Care and

Kindness (SACK) at Dos

Lagos (see page 5)

April 25, Helping Hands

Service Project : City

Park, Jurupa and the Main

Y Sites (see page 6)

Admin Office meetings:

March 24, Site Supervisor

Training, 10:00am.

Topic: State of California

Community Care Licensing

Part 1

April 1, Site Supervisor

Meeting, 11:00am

Topic: State of California

Community Care Licensing

Part 2

Parent meetings:

City Park: Tues., March 24

@ 6pm. Topic: Asthma

Jurupa Valley: Wed.,

March 25 @ 5:30pm.

Main Y: Thurs., March 26

@ 6pm.

Merrill: Tues., April 7 @

6pm.

Job Openings:

Teacher Aides

*Jurupa Campus

*Merrill Campus

*Must have 6 units

Teacher

*City Park Campus

*Merrill Campus

*Teacher’s Permit (CA) required

*1 yr. experience with desired results and environmental rating scale

Download job application from

the Y website and return to

Main Y, Attention: Monica

Hunter, Programs Director.

M A R C H 2 4 , 2 0 1 5

WHAT WHEN TIME WHERE COST

CPR/1st Aid Class Sat, April 11, 2015 8:30am Main Y

Cardio Fitness Monday 11:00am - 12:00pm Y Community Center

$5 per class

Core Workout with Pilates/yoga

Thursday 9:30am - 10:30am Y Community Center

$5 per class

Health & Safety Class

Sat, April 11, 2015 8:30am Main Y

Karate Monday & Wednesdays

Beginners 6:15pm - 7:00pm

Int/Advanced 7:15pm - 8:00pm

Call Main Y to register

Music Lessons One-on-one lessons drums, piano and

for woodwinds/brass, guitar.

Call Main Y to register

Youth Sports - Flag Football

April 21, 2015 Tuesday & Thursday

Ages 4-6 6:15pm - 7:00pm

Ages 7-10 7:15pm - 8:00pm

Call Main Y to register

Cost $45 Member, $55 Non members

Zumba Mon, Tues, Wed, Fri

Monday & Wednesday

10:00am - 11:00am

6:00pm - 7:00pm

Y Community Center

$5 per class

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P A G E 2 City Park

Y N E W S

Home Gardens Planting Week: This weeks objective is to introduce children to planting and explain the parts of a plant, In ad-dition, children will have hands on experiences regarding the various steps it takes to grow their own food. We will be planting cilantro and chili's this week. Kids will bring in recycled water containers to plant their vegetables. They will decorate their plant containers. They will paint, color, draw what they like about planting.

We will be working on spelling words, and doing water play if weather permit. Outside play: balls, bats/gloves, soccer balls, hand balls.

Happy Spring from City Park. This week we are talking about exercise and healthy eating. We will be doing a cooking project Friday. We are making our own pizza. We will be teaching counting, measuring, and following recipes. On Saturday, Ms. Martha and Ms. B. went to a workshop on Nutrition and Physical Education. They brought back many fun ideas for fun Physical activities they will use with the children here at City Park. The activities include: homemade twister games, balancing activities using various props, and jumping through hula hoops. In our classrooms, we will be talking about “What jobs are related to

exercise”. The class will be making cardboard box cars to use on the playground. The children will be taking turns being the Yoga Instructor. We will be adding things related to exercise in her dramatic play area. This includes a whistle , foam weights, stopwatch, a calendar, and an appointment book. We are continuing to work in our garden. Our garden has beets, carrots, radishes, and peas.

Teen Center

Main Y

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Homework help Monday-Friday. Tutoring Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 3:30-4:30pm.

This week the Teens will be doing a career fair on what College or University they would like to attend. They will also be doing Googly Eye Push Pins and different crafts involving beads and straws. On downtime we will play HEAD BANDZ board game and most of the Teens will play Basketball outside. We’ll have a cozy but interesting and busy week!

Pre- School Part Day, Full Day:

This week , we will continue investigating balls by taking a look at different types of balls. Children will have the opportunity to play games such as baseball, basketball, and soccer. We will also play matching and memory games focusing on types of balls and will compare balls based on size, color, and shape.

Calvert Preschool:

This week will be learning about Baseball!! We will be wearing our favorite Baseball team shirts on Friday as well as bringing in objects, that start with the letters of the week. Our letters are E, B, and I. Our shape is diamond, and our color is red. Children will be creating baseballs out of foam and making bats, baseball gloves and baseball fields. We will be mixing up some wonderful ingredients to make Gak and play dough! Great things are happening here in Calvert!

School Age:

School Age is continuing on with the theme of “Going Green!!” We are celebrating the month of noodles, by making noodle necklaces, bracelets, noodle paintings and noodle rainbows. We will be ending the month of March with a Dr. Seuss Feast! We had such a wonderful month, in

honoring Dr. Seuss and celebrating his books. We had a tremendous time with reading his books, mak-ing poems and starting and ending our Reading Across America Challenge! Great Job School Age!

Theme : Green color Another week studying the color green, this week we will research the Cycle of Frogs . We will research the types of species there are, and why there eyes and noses are on the tops of their heads. Art Activity: 3D Frogs sitting on lily pads, Literacy: We will be reading the book “Growing Frogs”, children will write their own stories using the frog as the main character in the story. Friday , children will bring special toy from home to share with the class .

Harada

This week we are continuing the study of Buildings. We

will be working with various materials to help children learn the specific details of buildings. The children will learn what a model is and will create a model of our

neighborhood.

Our Mighty Minutes curriculum for the building study, will allow the children to use materials

for 3D art and use three dimensional shapes, to create buildings. The children will have an opportunity to share the

characteristics of their building with the class. In addition, share what they like best about their building and what

materials they used to make it.

Finally, literacy this week will include

reading the book “Building A House”

the children will have an opportunity to talk about the book

and recall their favorite parts of the story by drawing pictures.

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Merrill

Jurupa

Toddlers - First Five Toddlers, Ms. Emily

During the week of March 23rd to April 3rd we will be working on the theme of tie dye. Some of the activities that we will be doing include tie dyeing shirts and eggs, experimenting with food coloring and milk, creating colorful tissue paper art collages, and writing on coffee filters with markers and using spray bottles to see the colors bleed. Preschool - We will be exploring things related to buildings this week. We will be talking about things we know about buildings and what we want to find out? We will also be reading stories on buildings, using a computer and books, creating art pictures with shapes, building towers, and making huge play homes for our dramatic play center. Fine motor skills children are going to lace green pasta and green pool noodles. Creative art children will be given a different variety of green objects. They I'll hen chose their desired objects for their artwork.

Manipulative children will lace their own clover. They will also marble paint using spring colors. We will be making rainbows and shimmery shamrock bubbles, Music and movement we will be singing leprechaun stew. School Age – First day of spring the children will be planting sunflowers. Children will be continue art projects of rainbows and spring concepts. Children will be playing games in small groups such as dominoes, checkers etc..

Welcome to Our Y

NEW EMPLOYEES

Carla McSwain 02-03-2015: Main Y

Nayeli Garcia 02-16-2015: Merrill

Margaret Faleafine 02-18-2015: Main Y

Rebekah Foltz 03-02-2015: Jurupa Valley

Yesenia Beltran 03-02-2015: Merrill

Rebecca Spiegel 03-16-2015: Administration

Let us all welcome our newest staff to the

Corona Norco Family YMCA

Youth & Government

YMCA Birthday Corner

Tina Fletcher-Lyons March 4: Jurupa Valley

Anthony Ortiz– March 12: Main Y

Marissa Avalos– March 14: Main Y

Georgina Hanna– March 10: Main Y

Christopher Williams– March 18: Main Y

Carla McSwain– March 24: Main Y

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P A G E 6

Youth & Government March 21, 2015 Y Community Service:100 Mile Club Ultramarathon: Help with set up & clean up.

March 27, 2015 Y Community Service: Miss Representation Event: Help with set up & clean up.

We had a great year and look forward to starting up again in August!

If you would like to speak with the Y & G delegates or assist them with their research, please

contact Lorena Gomez at (951) 736-9622 or gomez@ymcacornor.org

City Council Meeting - March 18th

Year End Celebration - March 20th

Adventure Guides March 24th: Base Camp at 7pm at the Main Y

April 12th: Easter Party 2:00pm-5:00pm at Wildrose Ranch Community Park

April 14th: Board Meeting at the Main Y

April 28: Base Camp at 7pm at the Main Y

If you are interested in this program, contact Lorena Gomez at (951) 736-1415 or gomez@ymcacornor.org

Circle of Peace Glimmering Lights Legends of the Trail

Communication Corner

This week we received a donation of a Pallet of Foam Tiles for our Child Care Facilities from Promotions Fulfillment.

On Saturday, April 25th this organization, JustServe Helping Hands/The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and their volunteers will be at the City Park, Jurupa, and Main Y sites to assist in clearing out and organizing the storage containers/areas. Key staff will be at each site to assist and to inventory everything in each container/area. The main contacts from justserve are Shandra Carlsen for the Corona area and Curt Seymore for the Jurupa group. This group has a day every April that they have volunteers serve different agencies/projects in their area.

Additionally, we were funded a grant from The Home Depot Foundation to renovate our Soccer Arena at the Main Y campus. This project will be done by the Home De-pot Team at the end of April.

We are proud supporters of buying local! Every week we get a delivery from the Griffith Family Farms of oranges so that we ensure our students are eating fresh fruit daily.

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Soccer

We have been having a great season so far. We started March 3rd and will finish April 2nd.

Cardio Fitness

Looking to get fit and a group to join? Come join our Cardio Fitness classes!

Mondays at 11am. Only $5 per class Call the Main Y to schedule: (951) 736-9622

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Music Lessons Private music lessons taught by professional musicians/instructors with performance and teaching experience. 1/2 Hour Lessons $20 Members $25 Non Members.

Call the Main Y to schedule: (951) 736-9622

Flag Football

Coming up! Register now to join the fun! Season will start April 21st!

Call the Main Y to schedule: (951) 736-9622

Zumba

Come join the fun in our Zumba classes! Only $3 per class. Only one hour long!

Mon, Tues, Wed & Fri at 10am. Mon & Wed at 6pm. Call the Main Y to schedule: (951) 736-9622

Core Workout with Pilates & yoga

Come join the fun in our Zumba classes! Only $3 per class. Only one hour long!

Mon, Tues, Wed & Fri at 10am. Mon & Wed at 6pm. Call the Main Y to schedule: (951) 736-9622

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CORONA-NORCO

FAMILY YMCA

1331 River Road

Corona, CA 92880

If you have questions or suggestions about this newsletter,

please email Rebecca Spiegel at spiegel@ycornor.org.

Phone: 951-736-1415

Fax: 951-736-6759

Website: ymcacornor.org

Karate

Location: YMCA Main Office:1331 River Road, Corona, CA 92880 Cost: Y-Members $35.00/mo Non-Members $45.00/mo Classes available for Adults and Children age 5 & up! Call the Main Y to schedule: (951) 736-9622

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