Pics From Post Office

Thanks, Amber, for sharing your pics with us!

Great Expectations Science Fair

Great Expectations School is hosting a science fair. They have opened it up to all students enrolled at GES, Birch Grove Community School, or Oshki Ogimaag Charter School, and to home school students in Cook County.

The event is Thursday April 28, 2011 at 6:30pm - students kindergarten through 8th grade are invited to participate.

The Student Entry Application Form is to be returned by Friday April 1st, which is coming right up, but "might" be flexible? If you're interested, you can pick up the application at GES.

What an absolutely cool opportunity for our kids! Thanks so much, Amber, for letting us know about this!

Post Office Field Trip

We had a great visit to the post office! I thought I'd share the trip from my children's perspective. If anyone else wants to share pics of our outings, or any photos of special projects your working on, or just anything at all, please feel free to send them to me and I'll post them. I'm just itching to do a "featured family" post, so if you'd like to be the first featured family, please send me photos and captions or text to go with them and I'll create the post. Have a great weekend, everyone!

Our Ideas from the Meeting

I decided to quickly post all the ideas I wrote down from the meeting here, and I'll add some of them to the resources page as I get information on them.

- home school group swimming lessons
- home school group swimming at Grand Portage Community Center
- Whole Foods Co-op cooking class for kids
- Older kids do presentations for younger kids in the group
- presentation brought here by Great Lakes Aquarium
- "germ tent"
- Spanish classes
- Local field trip to post office, bank, hospital and lab, dentist, fire department, ambulance, police, border patrol, dairy, etc.
- WTIP spot, field trip, etc.
- Sven -n- Ole's make your own pizza
- home school group garden
- day hike/picnic
- day canoe trip/picnic
- local library passport program (free passes to museums, etc. in Duluth)
- Arrowhead bus for trip to Duluth
- UMD Planetarium
- Hartly Nature Center
- Children's Museum (curriculum tubs can be checked out)
- ECFE Resource Room (toys, activities to be checked out)
- Grand Portage National Monument
- Sawtooth Lumber woodworking classes for kids
- Texas Roadhouse restaurant reading program (read three books, get a free kid's meal)

If you can think of other things, please comment so people can see your ideas. If you are particularly interested in doing any of these activities, pleas let the rest of us know, and we'll see if someone can make it happen.

Homeschool Meeting Success!

What a great meeting! I'm so excited to have met each of you, and your wonderful kids. Thanks for coming and sharing all of your great ideas with the rest of us. We now have a pretty long list of field trips and other exciting possibilities to get us started. What a great bunch of people to spend the morning with!
Please remember to check the events page for information on next weeks field trip to the post office (when I post it) and any other opportunities that I become aware of. Please let me know if you find out about an event we might be interested in and I'll post it. Have a great weekend, everyone!

First Homeschool Meeting

Hello everyone,

We are so excited to invite you to our first homeschool meeting!

Date: March 17th, 2011

Time: 10:00 A.M.

Place: Evangelical Free Church basement

Who's invited: If you're homeschooling or interested in homeschooling in the future, yourselves (moms and dads) and your children are welcome to join us.

Agenda: We will serve a snack at 10:00, and introduce ourselves and our children. After that, the children can play while we discuss ideas and expectations, and bounce questions off of each other.

We look forward to seeing you there!