I have a great event for the county. On May 12th from 3:00 to 5:30 there will be a bike rodeo in the community center parking lot. Lots of cool things and free food. There will even be trail riders who jump on rocks and over things. Even a blender bike that you pedal to make a smoothie. We the event planners through the Sawtooth Mountain Clinic would like to be sure that all of the community is aware of it. This gets me back to the reason we need volunteers for any event there is never enough. I was wondering if any of you would be interested in preparing fruit the day before in the afternoon or the morning of it would just be cutting and washing etc.
Thanks,
Christine
For more information on the Move It! program and the bike rodeo, and to register for the Move It! program, go to the Sawtooth Mountain Clininc website.
**See the events page for information on our next field trip.
Monday, April 25, 2011
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
More Law Enforcement Pics
Wednesday, April 13 at 1:30 P.M.
We were informed Monday that the Grand Portage pool is down for repairs. I attempted to switch to the Grand Marais pool, but there are swimming lessons for the next two weeks.
As an alternative, I would like to invite everyone to meet at the community center playground / skate park in Grand Marais at 1:30, weather permitting. We'll be bringing bikes and roller blades / skates.
Thank you, Amber, for sharing these pics.
We were informed Monday that the Grand Portage pool is down for repairs. I attempted to switch to the Grand Marais pool, but there are swimming lessons for the next two weeks.
As an alternative, I would like to invite everyone to meet at the community center playground / skate park in Grand Marais at 1:30, weather permitting. We'll be bringing bikes and roller blades / skates.
Thank you, Amber, for sharing these pics.
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
An Oompa-Loompa Song
I came across this and thought it was so fun! Enjoy!
“The most important thing we’ve learned,
So far as children are concerned,
Is never, NEVER, NEVER let
Them near your television set—
Or better still, just don’t install
The idiotic thing at all.
In almost every house we’ve been
We’ve watched them gaping at the screen.
They loll and slop and lounge about,
And stare until their eyes pop out.
(Last week in someone’s place we saw
A dozen eyeballs on the floor.)
They sit and stare and stare and sit
Until they’re hypnotised by it,
Until they’re absolutely drunk
With all that shocking ghastly junk.
Oh yes, we know it keeps them still,
They don’t climb out the window sill,
They never fight or kick or punch,
They leave you free to cook the lunch
And wash the dishes in the sink—
But did you ever stop to think,
To wonder just exactly what
This does to your beloved tot?
IT ROTS THE SENSES IN THE HEAD!
IT KILLS IMAGINATION DEAD!
IT CLOGS AND CLUTTERS UP THE MIND!
IT MAKES A CHILD SO DULL AND BLIND
HE CAN NO LONGER UNDERSTAND
A FANTASY, A FAIRYLAND!
HIS BRAIN BECOMES AS SOFT AS CHEESE!
HIS POWERS OF THINKING RUST AND FREEZE!
HE CANNOT THINK—HE ONLY SEES!
‘All right!’ you’ll cry. ‘All right!’ you’ll say,
‘But if we take the set away,
What shall we do to entertain
Our darling children? Please explain!’
We’ll answer this by asking you,
‘What used the darling ones to do?
‘How used they keep themselves contented
Before this monster was invented?’
We’ll say it very loud and slow;
THEY. . . USED. . . TO. . . READ! They’d READ and READ,
AND READ and READ, and then proceed
To READ some more. Great Scott! Gadzooks!
One half their lives was reading books!
The nursery shelves held books galore!
Books cluttered up the nursery floor!
And in the bedroom, by the bed,
More books were waiting to be read!...
...Oh, books, what books they used to know,
Those children living long ago!
So please, oh please, we beg, we pray,
Go throw your TV set away,
And in its place you can install
A lovely bookshelf on the wall.
Then fill the shelves with lots of books,
Ignoring all the dirty looks,
The screams and yells, the bites and kicks,
And children hitting you with sticks—
Fear not, because we promise you
That, in about a week or two
Of having nothing else to do,
They’ll now begin to feel the need
Of having something good to read.
And once they start—oh boy, oh boy!
You watch the slowly growing joy
That fills their hearts. They’ll grow so keen
They’ll wonder what they’d ever seen
In that ridiculous machine,
That nauseating, foul, unclean,
Repulsive television screen!
And later, each and every kid
Will love you more for what you did...”
—Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
“The most important thing we’ve learned,
So far as children are concerned,
Is never, NEVER, NEVER let
Them near your television set—
Or better still, just don’t install
The idiotic thing at all.
In almost every house we’ve been
We’ve watched them gaping at the screen.
They loll and slop and lounge about,
And stare until their eyes pop out.
(Last week in someone’s place we saw
A dozen eyeballs on the floor.)
They sit and stare and stare and sit
Until they’re hypnotised by it,
Until they’re absolutely drunk
With all that shocking ghastly junk.
Oh yes, we know it keeps them still,
They don’t climb out the window sill,
They never fight or kick or punch,
They leave you free to cook the lunch
And wash the dishes in the sink—
But did you ever stop to think,
To wonder just exactly what
This does to your beloved tot?
IT ROTS THE SENSES IN THE HEAD!
IT KILLS IMAGINATION DEAD!
IT CLOGS AND CLUTTERS UP THE MIND!
IT MAKES A CHILD SO DULL AND BLIND
HE CAN NO LONGER UNDERSTAND
A FANTASY, A FAIRYLAND!
HIS BRAIN BECOMES AS SOFT AS CHEESE!
HIS POWERS OF THINKING RUST AND FREEZE!
HE CANNOT THINK—HE ONLY SEES!
‘All right!’ you’ll cry. ‘All right!’ you’ll say,
‘But if we take the set away,
What shall we do to entertain
Our darling children? Please explain!’
We’ll answer this by asking you,
‘What used the darling ones to do?
‘How used they keep themselves contented
Before this monster was invented?’
We’ll say it very loud and slow;
THEY. . . USED. . . TO. . . READ! They’d READ and READ,
AND READ and READ, and then proceed
To READ some more. Great Scott! Gadzooks!
One half their lives was reading books!
The nursery shelves held books galore!
Books cluttered up the nursery floor!
And in the bedroom, by the bed,
More books were waiting to be read!...
...Oh, books, what books they used to know,
Those children living long ago!
So please, oh please, we beg, we pray,
Go throw your TV set away,
And in its place you can install
A lovely bookshelf on the wall.
Then fill the shelves with lots of books,
Ignoring all the dirty looks,
The screams and yells, the bites and kicks,
And children hitting you with sticks—
Fear not, because we promise you
That, in about a week or two
Of having nothing else to do,
They’ll now begin to feel the need
Of having something good to read.
And once they start—oh boy, oh boy!
You watch the slowly growing joy
That fills their hearts. They’ll grow so keen
They’ll wonder what they’d ever seen
In that ridiculous machine,
That nauseating, foul, unclean,
Repulsive television screen!
And later, each and every kid
Will love you more for what you did...”
—Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Monday, April 4, 2011
It's Getting To Be That Time of Year Again...
Just a reminder: It's time to be thinking about standardized testing again. If you have a home schooled child who was 7 - 16 at the beginning of the school year, you'll need to plan for testing. The Testing page might be of use to you as you learn about and plan for these tests. Please feel free to ask if you have any questions about this.
Law Enforcement Center
We had SUCH a cool field trip to the Cook County Law Enforcement Center! Some highlights for the kids were
-seeing how a Taser works
-seeing the jail cells
-the two way mirror
-finding out that the inmates get to eat food from Blue Water
-seeing how the police drive into the garage with the people they arrest and lock up their guns in the lockers before they bring the people into the jail
-finding out that there's a cell where kids 14 and up can be put if they break the law
-seeing that the jail cells don't have bars on them
Thank you, Christine, for sharing your pics with us!
-seeing how a Taser works
-seeing the jail cells
-the two way mirror
-finding out that the inmates get to eat food from Blue Water
-seeing how the police drive into the garage with the people they arrest and lock up their guns in the lockers before they bring the people into the jail
-finding out that there's a cell where kids 14 and up can be put if they break the law
-seeing that the jail cells don't have bars on them
Thank you, Christine, for sharing your pics with us!
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