November Newletter

Hello Everyone,
I hope this finds you and your families well and looking forward to Thanksgiving. With the holiday season is upon us, I just want to say thanks to all of you for the blessings that you bring to my life. I enjoy teaching your children and I am so thankful each of them! Please take the time to read this newsletter carefully as it contains important information for the coming weeks. If you did not receive this newsletter via email, please let me know asap so I can update your contact info. Also, as previously posted, I will no longer be printing out my newsletters. You will receive it via email and I will post it here so you can refer back to it anytime.

Food Drive: I am so happy about the response I have gotten regarding the Dancing for Christmas Dinner Food Drive! I am thrilled to announce that there will be 15 dance studios/gyms helping me collect canned goods to donate. I will be posting a finalized list of all the locations that you can bring your donations to. Thanks for the support!

Advertisements: With the holidays just around the corner, I would like to extend an invitation to anyone who would like to advertise in the Dec newsletter. (Dec newsletters will be emailed by 12/05/08) Whether it be items to purchase, dining & shopping suggestions, or a regular business advertisement - anything that will help to make the holidays go a little more smoothly or help you get your business name out around the valley! Please email me your advertisement along with contact info NO LATER THAN 12/01/08. I have over 200 students across the valley, so this is a great way to let people know about your business so please take advantage of this great opportunity to reach future costumers!!!

Christmas Recitals: If your dancer is one of my classes at USA Youth Fitness or AZ Desert Dance your Christmas recital will be held on Sat. Dec 20th at the Queen Creek Performing Art Center. Tickets are now on sale. If your dancer is in one of my classes at Jeanne’s School of Dance in Chandler, Mesa, or Queen Creek or Higher Ground Dance studio then you will not have a Christmas recital. Instead you will have an in class performance. (See below)

Holiday In-Class Performances: Your dancer is now learning a Christmas dance to perform for you in class at our Holiday Party! Visitors including parents, siblings, extended family and friends are invited to attend your dancer’s class the last week of classes before the holiday break. Please be on the look-out for emails and notes about what your dancer will be wearing and other important details. Treats to share at the end of class are welcome. Please remember that everything needs to be individually wrapped and I will provide bags for each dancer. If your dancer has any food allergies, let me know asap so I notify the other parents of your class. Look for the exact date and time for your dancer in the Dec Newsletter.

Tap Ties: I have just finished stocking up my Tap Ties shop!!! These elastic ties are hand crafted and come in 2 Collections: Pretty, Pretty Princess and Sunshine -N- Summertime. Each collection has several styles that are sure to please any dancer! Photos as well as selection descriptions are available on my dance blog at http://www.misswhitneysdancers.blogspot.com/ Tap Ties are a perfect Christmas gift for all dancers who want to show off their style in class and for mom's who don't want to deal with the hassle of untied shoes. To purchase, see Miss Whitney before or after class or place your order by emailing me at wmajeman@live.com. (Tap Ties $2 per pair)

Practice Cds: Will be available for purchase through the rest of the semester and will now also include your dancer’s Christmas Song!!! Place your order via email and get your cd at your next class, so see me before or after class to pre order. Practice Cds $4


Dance Blog: I will posting all of important things that you need to know for your dancer here, so please sign up as a “Follower” of my blog to get email updates whenever something new is posted!! Check it out regularly for pictures, newsletters, and other important info in the weeks to come.

Christmas Skirts: If your dancer is in my Mon Ballet or Wed/ Thurs Combo classes at Higher Ground we are ordering a red skirt for your dancer. You will need to pay $5 cash to either me or Jheri ASAP. Your dancer will wear this for our in class performance and then get to keep it. Thanks!

Thanks so much for all that you all do to help make my job easy! Please send me anything that you would like to add to this and I can put it on my dance community circle email list asap. If there’s anything else I can do for you, let me know!

Happy Dancing!
Miss Whitney
wmajeman@live.com

Novemember Birthdays

I would like to wish a very HAPPY BIRTHDAY to all my Novemember bday girls!!! IF you see these girls in your class, please wish them a happy birthday and give them a big hug!
Abigail Bond
Victoria Ball
Meagan Swain
Jessica Gregory
Cydney Maxson

I hope you all have a wonderful birthday!!!!! -Miss Whitney

Food Drive: Please Donate!!!

The older I get, the less receiving at Christmas becomes important to me. I have decided to stop "sitting on the bench" and do something good this year. I have been pondering about what I could possibly do that would make a difference for someone in a big way. With extremely limited funds and time its been hard to find something that would do the trick. With a little inspiration from an article in the paper the other day, I have decided to do a "Dancing for Christmas Dinner Food Drive." I'm setting a goal to gather at least 500 cans of food to donate to a food bank before Christmas. Along with this I will be organizing a "Dance-athon" with money pledges and donations to donate to a local Christmas Wish Foundation. If you have any canned goods or money that you would like to donate to this cause (even just 1 can and a couple bucks will make a huge difference) please contact me at wmajeman@live.com or simply bring your donation to me before or after class anytime! I will be sending out an email to everyone I know, but that is still not very many people...so please forward the message to as many people as you can! Although I am lucky enough to work at several places, I will be doing this on my own, so please do not take donations to any of the businesses I work at unless you are certain I'm there to take it. Thanks!!!!

E- Letters

I just wanted to make everyone aware that in an effort to "Go Green" I will no longer be printing out our monthly newsletter. Instead, you will receive it via email only. I will also post it here so you can refer back to it whenever needed. If you do not currently have an email address or do not have regular access to a computer, please let me know and I will go ahead and print a copy out for you. If you have any questions about this, please email me or see me after class.

Also, with the holidays just around the corner, I would like to extend an invitation to anyone who would like to advertise in the Dec newsletter. (Dec newsletters will be emailed by 12/05/08) Whether it be items to purchase, dining & shopping suggestions, or a regular business advertisement - anything that will help to make the holidays go a little more smoothly or help you get your business name out around the valley! Please email me your advertisement along with contact info. DUE NO LATER THAN 12/01/08. Thanks!!!!

Tap Ties in Action!

Just a few pictures of my students with their Tap Ties on!!!! They love 'em!

Jeanne's Queen Creek Tumbling

This is my tumbling class in the QC. L-R:Hannah, Meagan, Kristen, and Kaley. They are sisters and Hannah is their cousin, so they know everything about each other. This can make class pretty funny somethimes...as you can see. The class doesn't really have a set level, so we are able to focus on the things that they want to learn which is fun. Hannah likes to let me the story of her life. Meagan is always getting picked on by her big sisters. And of couse, they crack each other up and annoy the heck out of each other!!! They are the sweetest girls though, and I love teaching them!!!!!!!

Tap Ties: Sunshine & Sumertime

Sunshine & Summetime Collection:
This collection features flowers, various colored flip flops (not pictured), and 3 different styles of lady bugs (not pictured). I do not have any flip flops or lady bugs in stock, but I am more than happy to take pre-orders on these styles at wmajeman@live.com.





Yellow Center Flower: available in purple, red, and shown in pink













Large Smile Flower: availbe in orange, yellow, and shown in pink

Small Smile Flower: availble in lime green and shown in purple

Tap Ties: Pretty Pretty Princess Collection

Pink Dress

Castles

Tiaras

White Diamond

Pink Diamond

Pretty Pretty Princess Collection

Miss Whitney's Tap Ties

To purchase, see me before/after class or by email at wmajeman@live.com

Pre-orders can be placed at anytime via email and your Tap Ties will be ready by the next class

Kaydence's Fish Friend

This is my Combo 2 class at Jeanne's in Chandler. L-R Kaydence, Isabella, Hayley, and Makayla. They are so halarious. I have them at 9am on Saturdays, so I'm usually really tired when I get to class. But it only takes about 10 seconds before one of them has said something to totally crack me up and start my day off with a smile. So the reason for this post is #1 because Hayley was gone on Halloween and I wanted to get a picture of her on my blog. #2 Kaydence's little fish friend. She has faithfully brought this little guy to class everyweek since she has been in my class. She comes in, puts her bag against the wall, and gets him out to watch. Now, most girls have baby dolls, Polly Pockets, Littlest Pet Shop animals, and every type of jewelry ever invented in their bags when they get to class without their mom's knowing that they just can't wait to show me and tell me all about. Not Kaydence. I'm not sure, but I think he is from a 25 cent machine because he, "Sleeps in his BUBBLE until I wake him up... and sometimes we play 'rolly ball' in his BUBBLE too!" says Kaydence. But what is so special and totally roll-on-the-ground-laughing funny about Kaydence's "Little Fish Friend" as she calls him is that he is acutally a dolphin. Maybe its "only a mother could love" kinda funny to me, but I just had to get a picture of our whole class including Mr. Fish.

Jeanne's Chandler

These are my Combo Classes at Jeanne's Chandler location. The first is my Combo 2 class. They are 3-4 that have completed Beg. Combo. They do Tap, Ballet, Tumbling, and a little Jazz. They are excellent tappers and love to be helpers. L-R: Makayla, Isabella, and Kaydence. The next are my Beg Combo girls. They are all new to dance and learning very quickly. They do Tap, Ballet, and Tumbling... and very very loud singing whenever possible! L-R: Bella, Kyla, Ellery, Kenna, Ivy, Brandi, and Madison. We are missing a few, but hopefully I will get a good class shot around Christmas.

Jeanne's Queen Creek

These are my Cloggers from Jeanne's Queen Creek location. They are AMAZING dancers. This is a new class at the studio and they are learning so quickly. I am so proud of them and can't wait to see how much they accomplish this year. L-R/ B-F: Jessica, Meagan, Natalie, Franchesca, Taylor, and Emma.

Jeanne's Thurs Combo

This is my Beg. Combo class on Thurs. at Jeanne's Mesa location. L-R: Halle, Abby, and Mandi. Halle was very excited to match me as a witch and her little sister Mandi said, "Oh well Halle, at least my name matches Miss Whitney's mom!" I was cracking up when she said that!!! Abby was a fairy princess but "without my princess cown"... crown :) This class is small (we are missing Valerie in this pic) but they are halarious so we get along great!!!

Higher Ground Thurs

These are my Thursday morning Combo girls at Higher Ground Dance Studio. They are all pretty little so they were totally tuckered out by the end of the class- that's why they are sitting. As you can see, I had to bribe them with some Halloween treats to get them to sit still. Sorry that I didn't get a better picture... they are so so so cute when they all smile, so if anyone has a better picture please email it to me!!! L-R: Ella, Bristol, Cambree, Iris, Hannah, and Shalise. This is a very girly class, so I was not suprised to see so many fairies and princesses.... and Iris was a monkey even though her mom tried to convince her to be a princess! lol. Still SOOO cute.

Finishing Up Halloween Week

I know that many of you are still waiting to see pictures of your little ones. I just saved them all to my computer and looked through them... they are sooooo cute! But I have not slept since Friday night due to way too much fun at the DLG Halloween Sleepover (more to come) so I am going to bed and I PROMISE to finish posting all the darling pictures from this whole week and also my Tap Ties Collection pictures as soon as I get a chance. Here's what's to come: Higher Ground Thurs, Jeanne's Queen Creek & Chandler, and the DLG Halloween Sleepover. Thanks to everyone who brought treats to share this week!!!! If you have any pictures that you'd like see here, please email them to me asap.

On another note, I am finishing up my November newsletter and birthday cards. I noticed that I only have 1 Nov. bday so far! I can think of at least 3 of my students whose bdays are in Nov so if you still have not gotten your "Parent Contact" & "All About Me Sheets" turned in, please do so ASAP. If your dancer's bday is in Nov and you don't have your original copies, please take a second to email me your dancer's name, class, and birthday so I can include her in the newsletter and make her bday card. I would hate for your dancer to feel left out!!!

As Always, thanks for making my job easy and for supporting your dancers!!!!
Happy Dancing!!!