Leadership Positions
Children's Media
Parent Education
West Seattle Gems
200

This position is responsible for creating agendas and leading the business portion of class meetings.

What is the Class Chair?

200

This television program about a family of pups appeals to adults as much as children, and sometimes the stories lead to a few tears.

What is Bluey?

200

This metaphor explains that behavior is only the part we can see, while much more is going on underneath.

What is the iceberg?

200

This longtime Junction institution has been serving homemade ice cream and deli fare to West Seattle for generations, dating back to 1932.

What is Husky Deli?

400

Reimbursements, financial records, and keeping an eye on the class or site's money fall to this leadership position.

What is the Treasurer?

400

Debuting in 2001, this music franchise has spent more than two decades releasing new versions of pop hits performed by a rotating cast of young singers.

What is Kidz Bop?

400

In co-op, this is sometimes jokingly called the "S-word". Adults are encouraged to talk about taking turns instead.

What is sharing?

400

This neighborhood park at 48th and Alaska is especially beloved by young children for the community tradition of shared ride-on toys.

What is Ercolini Park?

600

This position organizes the adults-only socials in December and May.

What is the Community Builder?

600

Tommy Pickles, Chuckie Finster, Angelica Pickles, and twins Phil and Lil were characters on this Nickelodeon series.

What is Rugrats?

600

This parenting style combines warmth and responsiveness with clear expectations and limits; don't confuse it with the similarly named authoritarian style.

What is authoritative parenting?

600

This 68-acre West Seattle park lets visitors hike, stay overnight in rustic cabins, and practice rock climbing at Schurman Rock.

What is Camp Long?

800

Emergency preparedness, evacuation readiness, and helping make sure safety procedures are in place fall to this leadership position.

What is the Safety Coordinator?

800

On Bear in the Big Blue House, Bear ended many episodes by talking with this character, who appeared in the night sky.

Who is Luna?

800

In the hand model of the brain used in parent education, the amygdala is represented by this part of the hand.

What is the thumb?

800

This West Seattle park preserves a pocket of old-growth forest and takes its name from the family that helped preserve the land in the early 1900s.

What is Schmitz Preserve Park?

1000

This position serves as a class's voice in a council whose work includes community outreach, equity, scholarships, and recommendations about preschool policy.

What is the PAC Representative?

1000

When Steve left Blue's Clues, his younger brother took over as host. This was his name.

Who is Joe?

1000

Positive Discipline teaches that underneath a child's behavior is a need for these two things. Psychology Today says both are fundamental human motivations as basic as hunger. 

What are belonging and significance?

1000

This is the name of the giant wooden troll in Lincoln Park, depicted playing a flute to call to the orcas.

Who is Bruun Idun?