Homeschool HUB Weekly News--Feb. 6 Homeschool HUB phone: 269-240-6094 email: homeschoolhub@yahoo.com website: www.hshub.org Editor: Annette Ernsperger The information below is offered to you as a service. Please research and decide for yourself the value to your family. The Homeschool HUB does not endorse any programs or services other than those offered by the Homeschool HUB. Send information to be added to the update no later than the Thursday before the week you want it to appear: homeschoolhub@yahoo.com ON THE CALENDAR: Feb. 8 and 11--Open swimming for homeschoolers at Niles YMCA, 2-4 pm, $2 Feb. 12--Homeschool bowling, Strikes and Spares, 1-3, $5 Feb. 11 and 12--Bethel play "Jane Eyre", see below Details for the following events are on the calendar at: www.calendar.yahoo.com/homeschoolhub HERE'S THE BUZZ: 1) Science Alive program in South Bend 2) Upcoming homeschool conferences 3) Upcoming performances 4) Six Flags reading program 5) Tubing/cross country skiing 6) Kimball Camp YMCA 7) Piano lessons 8) Bethel College offerings And LAST BUT NOT LEAST: classified ads and links of interest at the end of your weekly news. See also the Letting it Ride section at the end. 1) Still a couple of hours left! The 18th annual Science Alive program at South Bend's main library is going on until 4:00 p.m. today. There are special presentations, activities and hands-on exhibits. Go here for more info: http://sjcpl.lib.in.us/ 2) The Midwest Homeschool Conference in Cincinnati is April 8-10. They are offering discounts and bonus gifts for attendees. Find out more here: --AND-- You are invited to Indiana Homeschool Support's Homeschool Conference When: March 13th, 2010 9:00am-5:00pm Where: INHSS 68080 Division St, New Paris, IN 46553 Entry Fee: $1.00 per individual--under 10 free Max per family $5.00 Thank You, Melissa Taylor, Administrator Indiana Homeschool Support 68080 Division St. New Paris, IN 46553 (574) 831-3770 www.inhss.net 3) For the following events, contact Diane Day 269-445-1900 or 269-370-4589 or joharding_20@yahoo.com. Mendel Center presents The Underground Railroad; The Story of Harriet Tubman, Friday, February 5. Ticket prices are $10 & $15 for PUBLIC admission. They are offering a matinee performance for area schools on that day at 10 am. These seats are only $3 each. Call or email to reserve your seats 2 weeks prior to the event. Bethel College presents the musical "Jane Eyre" Feb. 11 and 12, at 7:30 p.m. and Feb. 13 at 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $15 for adults and $13 for students and seniors. I also have seats reserved for this play. Bethel College offers a field trip performance on Thursday, February 11 at 9:30 am. These tickets are $5 for students and teachers are free. Call or email to reserve your seats 2 weeks prior to the event. 4) The Six Flags reading program is for elementary students (gades K-6). You need to log 6 hours of reading by February 24th. List the teacher, who will also get a ticket. If you have two children, list mom as teacher for one, and dad as teacher for the other and submit 2 separate forms (only one ticket allowed per teacher). Send the form, with a stamped, self-addressed envelope, to the Homeschool HUB: P.O. Box 286, Niles, MI 49120 attn: Peggy Schindler. We should receive it no later than March 1st. Please don't forget the SASE -- we need it to send you your 6 Flags tickets when they come. Admission tickets will be valid at participating Six Flags theme parks from June 14 to August 8, 2010. For more info, contact: Peggy Schindler at 269-695-2686. Note: The reading log you need to fill out and return to Peggy is in PDF form as an attachment to this newsletter. 5) Homeschool tubing/cross country ski day is coming up at Five Pines--Friday, Febuary 19th, 10am-2pm. The cost is $6 for tubing or $9 for tubing AND cross country skiing. 6) Greetings from Kimball Camp YMCA! Kimball Camp, located in Hillsdale County , Michigan , has been offering educational programming for area schools for over 20 years. We would like to make those same classes and programs available for our local home school groups as well. During the Winter, Spring, and Fall, Kimball Camp offers a variety of Outdoor Education programs for children in 4th-8th grade. Instructors can lead your students through our 30 acre nature preserve and teach forest studies, animal ecology, and other subjects. Or take a canoe trip with our certified instructors to Mud Lake and learn about pond and lake ecology. Our Adventure Education program includes a 20 station teambuilding course, 11 element High Ropes Challenge Course, survival skills, and an orienteering/compass course. Looking for Physical Education programs? Kimball Camp's trained instructors can lead your students in the lifelong outdoor sports of Archery, Riflery, Canoeing, Climbing, Orienteering, and Cross-Country Skiing. The LIFE Home School group out of Lenawee County was very pleased with the 4-day experience that Kimball Camp was able to put together for them. Staff is available to meet with your association and help plan the perfect experience geared to your needs. For more information on these and other programs, please call 517-283-2168, or visit us on the web at kimballcamp.com. 7) Anthony Beer is accepting new students of all ages in the South Bend, Mishawaka, Granger and Niles area. His studio offers a wide range of opportunites for students to excel with his/her skills at the piano. The Studio exposes each student to many different styles of music, ranging from classical, jazz, religious and contemporary music. This enhances their musical knowledge in theory, music history and their musicianship and performance skills. His goal as a teacher is to nurture each student and to help them explore the beauty and love of music. He encourages all students to support the arts in their community. He is conservatory trained as a classical pianist and teacher and has studied at Goshen College, IUSB and the Eastman School of Music in Rochester NY. Contact: 574-292-2038 or email apbeer@yahoo.com 8) The Bethel College Collegians and Voices of Triumph will present "Zeitgeist!" at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, March 12, 2010, in the Everest-Rohrer Chapel/Fine Arts Center Auditorium. "Zeitgeist!" is an evening of fun combining music, dance and theatre in a slapstick, "whodunit?" murder mystery. General seating tickets are available through the Bethel College box office at $5 for adults and $3 for students. Call 574.807.7080. Don't miss this entertaining night of comedy and surprise! --AND-- The Bethel School of Arts and Sciences presents The Mexican Film Festival during spring semester. Three classic films of Mexican cinema will be screened for free at 7 p.m. in the Miller/Moore Academic Center, room 342. All films are in Spanish with English subtitles. Feb. 10 "Enamorada" Set during the Mexican revolution, the story concerns the rocky relationship between the high-born Beatriz (María Felix) and revolutionary General Reyes (Pedro Armendariz). Forsworn to kill and/or humiliate any aristocrats in his path, Reyes cannot bring himself to harm Beatriz, whose hatred for the general slowly but surely turns to love. Mar. 24 "El Rebelde" When his father is murdered, a young rebel (Jorge Negrete) vows revenge against society. Intending to get even with the wealthy rancher responsible for his father's death, Negrete poses as the music teacher to the rancher's pretty daughter Maria Elena Marques. Falling in love with the girl, our hero decides to mend his ways, but is still obliged to kidnap the heroine before her father will consent to their marriage. Apr. 21 "El Santo En El Museo De Cera" El Santo, the masked Mexican wrestler, investigates a series of kidnappings. He discovers that the mysterious Doctor Caroll is using the victims as part of his experiments to develop an army of monsters. Will El Santo's wrestling prevail in the end? For more information, contact Scott Devries at 574.257.2544 or visit www.BethelCollege.edu/mexicanfilmfestival. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ CLASSIFIEDS Have something for sale, free or trade? Advertise here! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ LAST BUT NOT LEAST--LINKS OF INTEREST (links do not imply endorsement): Hangman and word search games for every subject: http://www.wordduck.com Free math lessons and video textbooks: http://www.mathtv.com Do you have any favorite websites? Send them to us and we'll share them! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ LETTING IT RIDE: February is just around the corner and the start of our winter play season. Here are some dates that are coming up. February 5, 10 a.m.: Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad at Mendel Center. Seats are $3 each. I have seats reserved for this performance and need to have all money in hand before I CONFIRM the seats on or near January 10. I will be out of town until the 15th of January. If you send a check or payment through paypal or would like to pay some other way, call me. 269-445-1900 before December 30 or 269-370-4589 after December 30. Let's have a good turnout for this performance. January 15, 16, 23, 24: Home School Performing Arts presents, "The Music Man". Their auditorium is located in Kalamazoo. I have attended many of their performances and feel that they are the best around, easily compared with Bethel College plays. I believe their tickets are $7 each. This troupe consists of home schoolers from all over Southwestern Michigan including the orchestra! Find out more at www.hpami.org On Feb. 11, 12* & 13, at 7:30 p.m. and Feb. 13, at 2:00 p.m.: the Bethel College theater department will present "Jane Eyre" the musical (book by John Caird, music and lyrics by Paul Gordon). Based on the classic novel by Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre is a haunting retelling of the Charlotte Bronte classic about an orphan girl who grows up to become the governess of Thornfield Hall. There she meets and falls in love with the enigmatic Edward Rochester, an earl with a dark secret. Filled with soaring melodies, Jane Eyre is a sweeping love story, breathtaking in its scope and beauty. Seats will be reserved for this play also. Right now, I believe that it will be Thursday, February 11, at 9:30 AM. Just a note - I have had some pay me for the whole season that includes both Mendel Center plays and Bethel Plays. If you are interested in doing that, call me. Diane Day _______________________ The Homeschool HUB is continuing to collect Campbell Soup labels, Campbell's Chunky Soup labels, Campbell's Healthy Request labels, Campbell's Select harvest, Franco-American, Pepperidge Farm, Spaghettios, Swanson, V-8 Beverages, V-8 Fusion, Prego Italian Sauces and Campbell's Food Service. Give your labels to any board member or bring them to our homeschool functions. --AND-- We are still accepting Boxtops for education labels. You can find these on: Betty Crocker goods Gold Medal Flour Nestle products Cherrios Cascadian Farm products Chex Cocoa Puffs Cookie Crisp Country Cornflakes Fiber One products Golden Grahams Honey Nut Clusters Lucky Charms Oatmeal Crisps TotalTrix Wheaties Green Giant vegetables Pillsbury Toaster Strudel Totino Pizza olls Hamburger Helper meals Old El Paso Suddenly Salad Yoplait Fruit Flavored shapes Ziploc Kleenex Scott Kotex Poise Depend Hefty Nature Valley Cottonelle Huggies Goodnites Pull Ups Avery School supplies Go to Boxtops for Education.org for more info, and then SAVE SAVE SAVE those labels. Each one nets 10 cents and every 10 cents adds up. You can give them to any HUB board director or bring them to any of our functions that we will be having. Thank-you! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ DISCLAIMERS: While the Homeschool HUB believes that these events or opportunities may be of value to home educators, announcements do not constitute an endorsement by the Homeschool HUB, or its Board of Directors. It is the responsibility of individual parents to determine the appropriateness of any event or opportunity for their children. Participation in any event is voluntary and the participant assumes complete responsibility and liability for themselves, their family, anyone accompanying them, and their personal property. |
Saturday, February 6, 2010
HUB news update
