Saturday, September 24, 2016

[HUBNEWSLETTER] Homeschool HUB News Update--September 23

 

Homeschool HUB News Update--September 23

Homeschool HUB phone: 269-240-6094
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Editor: Andrea Bikfalvy
 
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GENERAL INTEREST

G1) Brain Warmer Upper
G2) Almost at 100!
G3) Help Train A Computer to Recognize Birds
G4) Huge Online Natural History Museum
G5) Free Webinar Series for Creative Arts
G6) Math Contest, Games, and Free Practice


G1) Brain Warmer Upper

What yes or no question can never honestly be answered, "Yes?"

Answer to the last puzzle:
a map


G2) Almost at 100!

The Homeschool HUB facebook page is almost at 100 likes.  97 at time of publication.  Quotes and articles that aren't shared in this newsletter are posted there from time to time, so PLEASE consider checking it out and giving us a like.  Right now there's an article on making an igloo out of milk jugs and recently articles on children learning to read, a video on a movable paper fish craft, and more.

www.facebook.com/HomeschoolHub


G3) Help Train A Computer to Recognize Birds

Improve Merlin Vision: Help us train a computer to recognize birds! Just draw a box around each bird shown in the photos.

https://merlinvision.macaulaylibrary.org/ml-mediaannotation-editor/about


G4) Huge Online Natural History Museum

See the World's Best Natural History Collections on Google's New Arts & Culture Institute

A new online experience from Google, the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, and more than 1,000 other partner institutions is opening the doors to spectacular collections of natural history, all available in one place. Each collection is presented as an interactive, dynamic, and immersive experience, allowing visitors to discover nature's diversity and fragility in an unprecedented way at no cost.

his new online exhibition is available on g.co/naturalhistory and includes Our Feathered Planet, featuring the Cornell Lab's large-scale mural by artist Jane Kim. The mural's 3,000 square feet depict the diversity and evolution of birds. Each bird represents an existing bird family and is shown in its home range on a world map in life-sized detail.

"To bring this mural to life for online visitors from all over the world, we had to combine more than 750 photographs into a single image," explains Mya Thompson at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. "Our Feathered Planet, gives viewers a guided tour of the mural and offers an insider's look at the artistic process. You'll get close enough to see the brush strokes and learn a lot about the birds at the same time."

The Google Cultural Institute online collection uses state-of-the-art technology to give a new virtual life to extinct animals and tell fascinating stories about our planet's evolution over billions of years. Viewers come face-to-face with Jurassic giants in 360-degree videos, giving a better sense of how these animals lived, and what it might have felt like to be in their presence.

Panoramic Street View imagery gives people a backstage pass to wander virtually around iconic venues such as London's Natural History Museum, the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin or the American Museum of Natural History. Visitors may also browse more than 100 fascinating stories related to dinosaurs and the world's most known fossils, in addition to learning about birds, plants, insects, and minerals on g.co/naturalhistory.

For this exhibition, natural history institutions from 15 countries created over a hundred interactive stories, sharing a total of 300,000 photos, videos, and other documents online in collaboration with Google. The latest innovations in tech help bring the magic of these legendary venues to life, and give everyone a chance to reconnect with our evolution story and our planet environment in all its richness.

The new online exhibition opens today at g.co/naturalhistory and is open for all online, for free on the web and through the new Google Arts & Culture mobile app on iOS and Android. You can watch all the 360-degree videos on YouTube.            


G5) Free Webinar Series for Creative Arts

The Lamplighter Guild is pleased to announce the 2017 Creative Conversations webinar series with masters in the creative arts!

The Lamplighter Guild for Creative Disciplines is a renaissance of creative excellence that inspires one to know God intimately and proclaim Him passionately through artistic pursuits. The Guild is open to students age 13-99.

September 13th, John Fornof joined Mark Hamby, president of Lamplighter Ministries, on a live broadcast to discuss creative writing, radio theatre, and the 2017 Guild. John, who formerly worked with Focus on the Family and Adventures in Oddysey, is currently the producer of Lamplighter Theatre and one of our long-standing Guild masters. He was one of the original movers and shakers behind the launch of Lamplighter Theatre in 2009.

Don't miss this engaging conversation between two men committed to raising up a dynamic group of artists who know God intimately and proclaim Him passionately. We will be hosting regular broadcasts for the next several months, featuring masters such as composer Jurgen Beck, culinary chef Ira Krizo, sound designer Rob Jorgensen, and photographer Kim Winey.

View a video recording of the live broadcast at http://www.lamplighterguild.com/copy-of-2016-webinars


G6) Math Contest, Games, and Free Practice

This might be a good resource for math. The site offers a series of six math contests during the year for grades 3-12.  Entering the contests are free for 3rd-4th grade, and the first contest in October is free for all grades.  Older students can pay a fee to participate in all the contests and be eligible for prizes.  The games and past contests are free for all.

https://cariboutests.com



MICHIANA EVENTS AND OPPORTUNITIES

1) Ghost Night at the Mansion
2) Bethel College presents: "Shadowlands"
3) Career, College & Exploration Fair


1) Ghost Night at the Mansion

Funeral biscuits and black-draped mirrors. Fortune-tellers and a witches' band. For one night a year, the Governor Warner Mansion is "haunted."

Ghost Night at the Mansion, to be held Saturday, October 15 from 7-9:30 p.m., offers a Halloween spooktacular that's a twist on the traditional house of horrors. There won't be any fake blood or chainsaws. Instead, it's a chance to encounter the ghostly, macabre scene of a Victorian funeral.

Turn-of-the-century traditions and superstitions about death will be the focus of the event, held at the historic house museum that was once home to Fred Warner, Michigan's governor from 1905-1911. Heavily-veiled tour guides, dressed in black for deepest mourning, will reenact members of the Warner family, returned from the great beyond to share memories of Fred Warner's life…and death.

Hear Fred Warner describe his own funeral as solemn hymns waft from the grand piano. Learn why mirrors were draped in black fabric after a death, and find out the gristly history behind the seemingly innocent custom of handing out souvenir funeral cookies. There's a reason for the old saying that truth is stranger than fiction.

In addition to the tours, admission also includes a host of outdoor Halloween activities. Visit the Warner "graves" and the haunted classic cars, with their cobwebs, glowing lights, and skeleton drivers. See the classic movie "Young Frankenstein," and gather around the firepits for s'mores. Have a psychic reading on the porch (nominal fee), then follow the trail of tiki torches to the gazebo for cider and donuts.

As a special feature, the Michigan Ghost Watchers will give several presentations throughout the evening, complete with photos and audio clips from their investigations at the Warner Mansion. See what paranormal activity they've discovered at the Home of Farmington History!

Ghost Night is recommended for ages 8 and up. Tickets may be purchased at the door for $12/person or in advance for $10/person at Farmington City Hall, located at 23600 Liberty Street, or by calling (248) 474-5500 ext. 2225.

The Governor Warner Mansion is located at 33805 Grand River Avenue, two blocks west of Farmington Road. For more information, visit facebook.com/governor.mansion.

 
2) Bethel College presents: "Shadowlands"

The Bethel College Theatre Department will perform "Shadowlands," presented by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc. Performances are Thursday, Sept. 29 and Friday, Sept. 30 at 7:30 p.m., and Saturday, Oct. 1 at 1 p.m. in the Everest-Rohrer Chapel/Fine Arts Center – Auditorium. Tickets are on sale now.

This West End and Broadway hit is the love story of C.S. Lewis - Oxford don and author of "The Chronicles of Narnia" and "The Screwtape Letters" - and American poet Joy Davidman. Jack Lewis is smug in his convictions about God and His plan for the world until Joy and her young son enter his life and the bewildered theoretician of love in the abstract finally confronts its direct presence.

Purchase tickets online at BethelCollege.edu/Tickets or call the ticket office at 574.807.7080, Monday-Friday, 1-5 p.m. The cost is $10 for adults, students and seniors.


3) Career, College & Exploration Fair

Tuesday, October 11, 2016, 11:00am—12:00pm
at Van Buren Technology Center
250 South Street, Lawrence, MI 49064

Approximately 50 post-secondary opportunity representatives will be in attendance at this event.
We invite you to share in this experience.

Please RSVP to Staci Bodtke, 269.539.5328 or sbodtke@vbisd.org



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LINKS TO SHARE:

Free letters and phonics website
https://iknowmyabcs.com

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CLASSIFIEDS


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Checks should be made out to:  Michigan Gateway Community Foundation AND "Homeschool HUB Endowment Fund" written in the Memo line of the check.

Address and Contact Info:
Michigan Gateway Community Foundation
111 Days Avenue
Buchanan, Michigan   49107
Phone: 269.695.3521
Fax: 269.695.4250
email: info@mgcf.org

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Amazon Smile--0.5% of what you buy will get donated to the Homeschool HUB when youshop through Amazon Smile.


The Homeschool HUB is collecting used textbooks.  Contact Andrea homeschoolhub@yahoo.com or 269-240-6094

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 many products.

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 member or bring them to any functions that we have.  Thank-you!

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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.

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