Join us for the July Meeting

Janille-30 minutes:Preparedness
you don't want to miss the handouts!)
Janille is Springville's second in command on the
Community Emergency Response Team!  She knows her stuff!

Angie Fisher-5 minute:Presentation on Welcome Baby & Playgroups

Ingrid-15 minute:Power of Positive Parenting

Danielle-2 minutes on new MAP (Mothers Achievement Program)

Kathleen-5 minutes: White Ribbon Week Report

Karmel-1 minute: Value of the month:
Honesty (www.valuesparenting.com)

Service: Stuffing patient dolls for Primary Children's Hospital

Come at 7:00 for a pre-meeting social.
We will start promptly at 7:30 and end right at 8:30!
Provo Library: Bullock Room

All new visitors who RSVP will receive
Orientation Binders at the meeting!
RSVP to Karmel.larson@gmail.com

June Chapter Meeting

What a great meeting!  We stuffed and sewed over 45 footballs for orphans to be distributed through LDS Humanitarian services as well as preparing some ABC Book Pages.  Ingrid led a great discussion on parenting with a focus on making our expectations clear.  Karmel led a discussion on “Filling the Holes in our Wholeness”.  We brainstormed some great ideas of what direction to take with our chapter in the future.  We also discussed white ribbon and the new Mothers Achievement Program.  Welcome to our newest attendees!  So glad you were able to join us. 

Mark your calendars for our next chapter meeting on July 10th!

Honoring Motherhood 2008

Thanks to all who participated in our 1st annual event to Honor Motherhood. Remember to submit any official nominations for Mother and Young Mother of the Year if you haven’t yet done so. To read Annelle Doxey’s remarks on-line, click here.

Mark your calendar for May 9th 2009 for our next Honoring Motherhood event.

Honoring Motherhood, May 10th- Hurry….just a few tickets left: Call 427-9293!

	American Mothers, Inc. Of Utah Valley Presents: “Honoring Motherhood… The Women Who Have Inspired Me” AMI:Official Sponsor of Mother’s Day! Mother of the Year Requirements Mother of the Year Nomination Packet Young Mother of the Year Requirements Young Mother of the Year Nomination Packet AMI National PLEDGE American Mothers, Inc. is the official, national sponsor of Mother’s Day. To celebrate and honor mothers everywhere, the Utah Valley Chapter of AMI is hosting a mini conference to honor and celebrate motherhood! We are also seeking nominations for Utah Mother of the Year and Young Mother of the Year for 2009. For mother’s day this year… honor a friend, neighbor or relative, by inviting them to accompany you to this AMI event as your honored guest. You can choose to officially nominate them as a candidate for Utah Mother or Young Mother of the Year as well. From this event, the Utah Valley Chapter of AMI will select two women to officially nominate to the state as nominees for 2009 Utah Mother and Young Mother of the Year. Join us on May 10, 2007 from 9:30-11:30 at the Provo Library for an uplifting event to “Celebrate and Nominate”! Utah Mother of the Year 2008-Claudia Eliason Recently returned from representing Utah Mothers at the 2008 National American Mothers Convention, Claudia will share with us her ideas on mothering. As our key note speaker, Claudia will address our theme of “Honoring Motherhood”, and share what she has learned from women who have inspired her as a mother. Click here to read Claudia’s on-line mothering moment for April. Utah Young Mother of the Year-Ingrid Sorensen The most FUN mom you will ever meet! Ingrid will share inspiring moments of motherhood that will lift and remind us of the joys of being mom. With number 8 on the way… she has a few tips and tricks to share as well as thoughts on women who have been her source of strength as a mother. AMI Utah State President 2008-Annelle Doxey Meet our state president and hear her exciting report on how American Mothers are strenthening families nationally and in Utah. Click here to read her recent article on “Honoring Motherhood” that explains why we select and honor a Mother and Young Mother of the Year Representative each year. AMI makes good moms GREAT! Be prepared to “Honor” your invited guest! Anyone who has invited a mother to attend with her will be given the opportunity to “honor” this individual by sharing with everyone reasons why she inspires you! What has she taught you about Motherhood that would benefit all moms to hear? This opportunity to “Celebrate & Nominate” would be a great Mother’s Day gift for a daughter, mother, grandmother, sister, neighbor or best friend! A nomination is not required to attend and enjoy the event. RSVP for your 2 or 3 tickets and enjoy an uplifting morning of renewal and remembering the joys of being blessed to have the title “Mom”. Sincerely, Karmel Larson President American Mothers, Inc. of Utah Valley *The AMI of Utah Valley Chapter will select one Mother of the Year and one Young Mother of the Year candidate to nominate to serve in 2009. In addition, anyone can nominate a mother of their choice by contacting our local chapter. UTAH AMI UTAH VALLEY AMI NATIONAL AMI
$5 To reserve your ticket and a ticket for your invited guest(s) whom you would like to honor and/or nominate… simply print and clip this coupon. Then RSVP to 427-9293. You will be given payment instructions and a receipt code for the back of your ticket to secure your seat(s). Seating is very limited. Tickets will be available by RSVP ONLY!

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Notes From March 2008 Chapter Meeting-Mothers As Teachers

Thanks Danielle for typing these up!  Soooo helpful to be reminded of good ideas!-Karmel

Hi everyone.  Here are some notes from our discussion last night. We had 4 new mothers come, which is always exciting. Welcome friends! (Karmel, will you put these notes on the AMI blog?)

Parenting Discussion- Ingrid reviewed Dr. Latham’s Principles of Positive Parenting, which she will post on our site.  Great discussion and great examples as always, Ingrid. Thanks!

Role of Mothers as Teachers:

Danielle- 

1) Look for opportunities in every day situations to teach children.  Examples: In the car, play word games or “I spy” games;At the store help your child sort groceries into heavy, light, small, big in the cart or help her count items as you put them in the cart; On a walk- stop to look at the new flowers coming up. Talk about the names of the flowers and what colors they are; around the dinner table. play word games “I”m going on a rocket ship and I’m going to take a bird, a butterfly and an airplane with me.” (guess the rule- things that fly)

2) Help children love learning. The relationship is the most important.  Don’t force your child to read if he doesn’t want to. Instead, snuggle up together and read to him to help him rediscover his love for reading.

Some of my favorite books for ideas of simple learning activities:

The Preschooler’s Busy Book (and Toddler’s Busy Book)- Trish Kuffner

The Read Aloud Handbook- Jim Trelease

99 Ways to Get Kids to Love Reading- May Leonhardt

123 Math- Pre-Math activities for working with young children- Jean Warren

And many more!

Karmel-

Connect learning with traditions and things that you already do. This is what she does with her family:

Breakfast- They read scriptures and work on memorizing

Lunch- Famous person- They discuss a famous person (right now it’s Martin Luther King) as well as the value for the month ( Respect this month)

Dinner- Current events. They bring the newspaper to the table. Since her children are little, they use some pictures from the newspaper as a chance to talk about what is happening in the news.

By her table, she has three frames:

1- Art- A picture of a painting or artwork that she likes

2- Gospel Art Kit- A picture about a scripture story that they can talk about

3- Famous person- They put up a picture of the famous person they are studying that week

She changes these pictures when they are done talking about them (how often if that, Karmel?)

She also has a binder of fun things to do in Utah county that her family pulls out to plan family events they want to do. She got most of the brochures from the Utah Valley Visitor’s Center in Provo.

Favorite books:

Book of Virtues- William J. Bennett

Encyclopedia of Music -didn’t catch the author

Rachelle-

Check out www.starfall.com for great reading games for children

Favorite books-

Dangerous Book for Boys- Hal Igguiden (full of fun things like how to build a tree house or how to play marbles). (A different author just published “The Daring Book for Girls”)

Teach your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons- Siegried Englemann, Phyllis Haddox and Ealiane Bruner

Feel free to add any ideas that you have or anything I may have missed if you were at our meeting last night. Great discussion, as usual!