Update! New plans for end of the year BBQ!

Hi Everyone:

SO...this is THE PLAN which after talking to a few of you seems to be to the mom and kids advantage.

We are planning to meet at Kelly's Bathtub on the 29th at 10am - 12 noon for the Bugology field trip, soooo... we are going to have our End of theYear/summer's here BBQ at Kelly's from 12- 3:00.

Unfortunately some father's will not be able to make it and that's most unfortunate :o( . We'll have to get together sometime and honor their vital part in home education. May God Bless them!!

 

I have asked for donations from IGA, Safeway and Walmart. I will confirm on Monday what to bring but

I think we can buy the following with donations:

drinks

cups

plates

cutlery

hotdogs/hamburgers

buns

 

We may have a scavenger hunt and prizes which will be from the donations. Please be prepared to bring salads and side dishes. I'm thinking of a big cake for the event.

Also, you may want to bring swimsuits, towels, sun lotion (pray for good weather) and whatever else you can. We'll see you there.

Those who have older kids/teenagers I would like to hear from you and what we could do for them to make this meaningful.

Also, any suggestions for prizes or goody bags. We are somewhat limited $100.00 to work with or should we have craft stuff. I know that Juanita and Stephanie are taking care of Certificates and games.

 

Please let us know if you are definately coming.We want to see as many of you as we can.

 

Natalie for all us Hinton Home Educators

 

Restocking the trout ponds

I put together a little movie with some of the pictures i took...
Thanks to Randy and Carla for putting this together!  What a fun day :)

Last minute fun at Kelly's Bathtub this afternoon!

If anyone didn't see Carla's email to our yahoogroup link - she wrote:

Hello everyone,
This is short notice but if anyone wants to come out to watch fish stocking happening at the Jarvis fish pond and Jarvis creek it is happening tomorrow. Meet at the Visitor's Center at Kelley's Bathtub at 12:30pm. I'll be there with the kids. Randy might need help carrying buckets of fish and dumping them into their new homes. Running shoes are probably fine for footwear. 
~Carla


I'm going out!  I've got some loose ends to get tied out and we're planning to be there at 12:30!  Hope to see some of you there, too!


 - stephanie

Options available - limited time opportunity to get your .02 in!

 Juanita and I met with Holly LaRochelle today at the rec centre - she had a lot of neat ideas re: programming for homeschool families who are available to take advantage of the relatively empty building during the day...

Two ideas stuck out to us as really good ones -
1. a "gym and swim" day - once a week - where kids 6-12 or so could meet, learn a sport (wallyball? floor hockey? lacrosse?) and then go swimming... Right now the pricing she's thinking of would be 70$ for 8 weeks (once a week) but we could look at other pricing structures or drop in type pricing with a minimum of people attending, which could possibly be much more reasonable.

 2. an arts/crafts day - again, we could do this once a week if we wanted - and they would have different teachers teach to their specialities...
These two sounded like the most interesting to the women who were at the meeting at my house a few weeks ago :)

But there were definitely many other ideas, including drama, geocaching, sports camps (ie. hockey skills etc) -
We also asked her about gymnastics here in Hinton, and she explained that there is a bare minimum funding of 5000$ that would need to be invested even for just basic beginner tumbling - and beyond that, it's looking like a lot of expense - i.e. to find a building for a standalone gym, or find a place like a school that has storage space (in which case there would be set up and take down constantly)..

In my opinion, we are better off joining the Hinton Gymnastics? group  on Facebook which already has 88 members -

Holly has worked with homeschooling families before and understands the different dynamics that come into play with sibling groups as opposed to same age groups, and is eager to help us find programming that fits our interests - you can contact her at the rec centre, or you can post here and i'll invite her to join us :)

 Any thoughts? I'll post more later after i go through my notes, if there are things i left out... Juanita, feel free to fill in the blanks! Oh - registration for any programs would be due the last week of August - so she is hoping to get this figured out sooner rather than later so we can start off our school year with a bang! Swimming lessons are also something that could be arranged right now, so if that's something most of you would like, let's let Holly know right away!

Field Trip!

Well, i've gone ahead and booked a field trip for us at Kelley's Bathtub.

When? Tuesday June 29th

Where? Kelley's Bathtub

Who? Any homeschoolers, moms, children

What? cost - 2$ per child

Why? BUGOLOGY!

We're going to learn about bugs - dress for the weather, with good shoes for walking, a jacket, a hat if you want - We'll stay for a picnic afterwards, so bring lunch along and bring water as the water there is not drinkable...

Please RSVP to Stephanie if you want to be included - i've given them a tentative number :) but if it's way off i will call to let them know so that they have enough materials for all the children.