Group June Activities and Info

Hello Everyone,

Hope everyone is enjoying their summer! Some info to share…

1. We are trying to plan our field trip outing to Lubbock’s Science Spectrum museum. The link to check out if you are deciding whether to go or not is: http://www.sciencespectrum.org/new/hoursprices.shtml

The dates to consider for input ASAP are Friday, June 18 or Tuesday, June 29. The museum opens at 10 am Texas time. They have lots to do and an Omni Theatre show. Please email me when you look at your calendars. If you would like to go, please let me know which date works best for your family. I would like to see what the majority wants to do by Wednesday June 16 so I can let everyone know. THANKS!

2. The used book sale is tomorrow, Monday, June 14 from 3:30-7:30 pm at the Advent Christian Church located at 2101 E 21^st Street. If you would like to sell any items to clear your bookshelves, please mark them with an “A” (for our Air Force homeschool group), your name (or initials) and your price. Jami McCreary also sells Usborne books if you are looking for some of these titles for your upcoming year. She also wanted me to pass along this announcement in hopes to get the word to spread in our community:

Clovis Breastfeeding Support Group

3rd Monday of each Month

from 6:00pm to 7:30pm

Located at Clovis 801 Community Center, on Lew Wallace Street in Clovis

Whether you have breastfeed for a day, a month or a year, plan to breastfeed some day, or want to support breastfeeding come out and join the Clovis Breastfeeding Support Group. Meet new people andparticipate in an open forum on breatfeeding and child rearing.

For more information contact: Jami at Clovis BSG at gmail dot com. Breastfeeding and well behaved children are always welcome

Other Info I’ve collected for this coming week on base: (as always let me know if you want to pass any info along to our group!)

Base Chapel:

Monday 14 June from 9-11am: Faith and Fitness - We will learn some Christian yoga as we turn our attention to Asia in our study. If you have a yoga/workout mat, please bring it to our class this week. The kids will have a separate workout with Christian music, as well.

Wednesday 16 June from 6-7:30pm: Our Wonder Full World adventure this week takes us to India! Share an Indian meal and learn about how the touch of Jesus can bring healing. Those who missed our jewelry session will be able to work on your charm bracelet or phone charm. Bring a friend! Kids program provided!

Saturday 19 June: Help decorate for Vacation Bible School. Contact Cindy at the Chapel (784-2507) for details on how YOU can be a part of a Journey into Egypt…We still need volunteers to make it great!! Help us reach children at Cannon with the message of hope and love from God's Word. VBS is 21-25 June and will be from 11am-2pm daily with lunch served.
Blessings to You!
From Cannon PWOC

For People Moving in that you know want a home like this: (from a fellow homeschooler)

For Sale by Owner - 3 Bed 2 Bath Country Home in Portales

Address: 752 South Roosevelt Rd. S½, Portales, NM 88130

Country living only 2 miles from town & ENMU. 3 Bedroom, 2 Bathroom on 4+acres of land (3.167 acres fenced for livestock). Large living area w/fireplace. Kitchen has a wrap around bar, gas stove, refrigerator & dishwasher are only 3 yrs old. Master bath has round garden tub, double sinks, separate shower. Mud room includes HE washer and dyer (only 3 yrs old) and utility sink. Two car attached garage with a 22x21 office/bonus room (great for home school family). Attic storage above garage. Nicely landscaped with porch/deck on front & back of home, immediate backyard is fenced for small children or pets & has a small tree fort. Horse shelter with tack room or hay storage.

Price: $165,000

Call Janine to set up an appointment for viewing

Cannon Library Events this week:

Summer Reading Program activities are Sand Art on Tuesday (3-4pm) and Storytelling on Thursday (3-4pm).

Every Child Ready to Read Workshop – 19 June 9am-4pm with a 1 hour lunch break. Call 784-2786 to register by 16 June. Workshop introduces parents and childcare providers to the six pre-reading skills that children must know before they can learn to read and explains how to develop them in children from birth to age five.

For Sale: backyard playset sandbox included 4 years old great shape $300 We are in the process of moving and would like to see this playset go to a good home! Thanks, Holly ( holly . renee at y mail dot com

Megan is doing a phenomenal job keeping up our blog site! Thank you!!! Check it out and pass it along to new homeschoolers that you know are moving into our area this summer to keep them informed and make them feel welcome to our community! www.cannonhomeschoolgroup.blogspot.com

Have a wonderful week!

Eva

Area Homeschool Used Curriculum Sale

Hi Ladies

Just wanted to give you a reminder that the used book and curriculum sale for our area is fast approaching. It will be held next week on Monday, June 14 from 3:30-7:30 pm at the Advent Christian Church located at 2101 E 21^st Street. If you would like to sell any items to clear your bookshelves, please mark them with an “A” (for our Air Force homeschool group), your name (or initials) and your price. You are welcome to drop off items to my house if you will not be attending/shopping. Doors open at 3 pm for set up that day if you’d like to drop off your own items. We do not need to man a table so you are welcome to just drop off items. We will have a representative for our group to collect what is left over and calculate the money made to distribute to the individuals that sold items. Please email me if you have any questions or email one of the organizer’s: LoriLynn at Lori Lynn B at gmail dot com.

Take care,

Eva

Free Breakfast & Lunch

Beginning Tuesday, June 1 USDA, Our Lady of Guadalupe & La Casa Health Center are providing free breakfast and lunch for all children age 18 and under. The purpose of this program is to provide nutritious meals to ALL school age kids regardless of circumstance. (all sites showing * indicate breakfast will be served, otherwise only lunch will be served)
Breakfast sites * 8-9 am Lunch sites 11-1 pm June 1st - July 30th (possibly Aug 7th) Monday - Friday

Clovis sites
1. 1st united Methodist church * 1501 N. Sycamore
2. 801 housing*

Lew Wallace & Norris
3. ABC Dev center* 921 N. Norris
4. Barbaranns Daycare* 108 W. 21st
5. Bella vista arts Academy* 2900 Cesar Chavez
6. cameoschool* 1500 Cameo St.
7. Clovis Community College* 417 Schepps Blvd
8. Dennis Chavez Park* 14th & Edwards
9. Doc Stewart Pavilion (Dennis Chavez Mannor) CAFB
10. Hawkins Preschool* 1605 Sheldon
11. Highland park Main & Mannana
12. James Bickley Elem* 500 W. 14th
13. La Casita School* 4th & Davis
14. Maria's Montessori Daycare* 3316 Lilac Rd
15. My School Daycare* 1120 Mitchell
16. Patrick Sandoval Park 200 Rencher St
17. Potter park Grand & Upsilon
18. Rierson Park* Hammett St.
19. Rise & Shine Early learning* 119 W. 14th
20. Sandia School* 2801 Lore St.
21. sunrise park 820 1/2 S. Prince St
22. Sunland park Grand St & Moreno
23. Toyland daycare* 1000 Gidding St
24. Youth Recreation Center* 705 Sycamore

Texico
25. Lions Park Texico, NM

Ft Sumner
26. Dallas Park Richard St, Ft Sumner, NM
27. St Anthony's Church*
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Portales Lunches ONLY
For more info call David Briseno (575) 769-5018
1. City Park (11:45 am -1pm) Abilene St & 9th St
2. Rotary Park (11:45 am - 1 pm) 18th St & Ave I
3. Lindsay Park (11:45 am - 1 pm) W. Ivy Ave & Ave M
4. Morrison Park (11:45 am - 1 pm) Elgin St & Brazos St
5. Buena Vida Park Railroad St & Abilene St
6. Cannon Meadows Place Pueblo Loop & Cannon Blvd
7. Portales Rec Center (11:15 am - 12:30 pm)
8. My Little Red Caboose (10:45 am - 11:45 am)
9. ENMU Kids College (10:45 am - 11:45 am)

Things to Do

Okay just a few items of info to share. Please email me anything that you think we could benefit from in our community.

USE THE BASE LIBRARY THIS SUMMER!!!

Remember to sign up for the fun summer reading program and all the activities! Book over to Bowling as well!

Every Child Ready to Read Workshop June 19, 2010 9am-4pm @ Cannon Library. By Dr. Mary Kallus, Associate Professor Reading Education, ENMU

Call Library at 784-2786 for more details and to register by 16 June

Go by and sign up as an active duty family to use their GREAT, FREE resources like:

Rosetta Stone Online Foreign Language

Tutoring program in lots of subjects for K-12

Online Resource Center

REMEMBERING OUR VETERANS...

Memorial Day is Monday and there will be events in both Portales and Clovis that day to commemorate the day and honor those who have given their lives in service to this country. If you live in Clovis, the American Legion would welcome your help in placing flags on graves at Clovis cemeteries starting at 7 a.m. Monday. Call 763-5392 if you want to know more. The Clovis VFW hosts a Memorial Day service at 10 a.m. at Lawn Haven Memorial Cemetery. In Portales, the United Daughters of the Confederacy and Sons of the Confederacy will host a service at 9 a.m. at the Portales Cemetery, and at 10:30 a.m. the American Legion will host its 64th celebration of Memorial Day, also at the Cemetery. These are all good events to remind us and our children about what Memorial Day really means.

FREE MUSEUM VISITS FOR MILITARY FAMILIES…Check this out this summer in your traveling!!!!!

More than 600 museums nationwide are offering free admission to military families all summer in a new partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts. The list includes some of the nation's premier art museums, including New York's Museum of Modern Art and the Art Institute of Chicago, as well as science centers, children's museums and other sites in all 50 states. The program, called Blue Star Museums, is being announced Monday in San Diego, where 14 museums will participate. The offer for active duty military personnel and their families runs from Memorial Day through Labor Day. For more information, visit National Endowment for the Arts: http://www.arts.gov/bluestarmuseums

LADIES FITNESS AND BASE CHAPEL STUDY

Faith and Fitness Monday Mornings from 9-11 am starting June 7. Each week we will do a fitness activity that is an introduction into the continent and country we will be studying that Wednesday.

There will be childcare and a coinciding kids program including fitness as well as some other topics. The activities for ladies will be Zumba, Jumparope, Christian Yoga, Walking, Ballroom Dancing, Step Aerobics and Weight Training.

Wonder Full World 8 week Study will be Wednesdays from 6-7:30 pm, beginning June 2. It starts with a culturally themed dinner and then an hour study of our world’s continents with a focus of a particular country each week. Kids are welcome and encouraged. They will eat dinner with us and then split off for their study of the same continent/country for the hour. The children’s learning portion will consist of Bible Lesson, Geography/Culture, Arts/Crafts and Music/Prayer.

Thank you for what you, your spouse and family do to serve faithfully and with sacrifice! Happy Memorial Day,

Eva

Notes from Mom's Night Out

Hi Ladies,

Those of us that attended the Mom’s Night Out Curriculum Review thought it would be nice to send out the notes of what we discussed. Attached are the handouts addressing different learning and teaching styles. We had a great discussion about utilizing curriculum and approaches that couple our teaching styles and our kids’ learning styles. Here are some thoughts/ideas that the ladies had that evening:

From Natasha:

• The website for highly distractable children and ditties is www.sizzlebop.com (writer of what looks like a neat book “The Big WHAT NOW Book of Learning Styles”)
• Also, the grammar & phonics website curriculum I was talking about is Bridge to Latin Road and Phonics Road which can be found at www.thelatinroad.com

From Jami:

• Homeschool Rundown (for a Kindergartner and a 3 year old)
• Workbox System - for organization and smoothly running school day. Great for my 3 year old. http://www.workboxsystem.com/ (Jami has the book you can borrow)
• Five in a Row - Literature based unit-study approach for early education based on outstanding children's literature covering Social Studies, Language, Art, Applied Math, and Science in a way that causes children to fall in love with learning. http://www.fiarhq.com/
• Math U See - http://www.mathusee.com
• Kumon, My book of Numbers - http://www.kumonbooks.com/
• Bob Books Series - phonics books. Found mine at Costco (cheaper and bigger box of books there) or find at http://www.bobbooks.com/
• New American Cursive Handwriting - Recommends starting cursive at a early age http://www.newamericancursive.com/
• Kumon, My First book of Tracing - http://www.kumonbooks.com/
• Kimon, My First book of Cutting - http://www.kumonbooks.com/
• Kids FitDeck - Kids FitDeck is on Amazon for $15 or an basic adult FitDeck is free at the HAWC.
• Favorite FREE Websites:
• http://www.homeschoolshare.com/ - Awesome website full of FIAR stuff, workbox suggestions, unit studies, literature studies, ect for all ages.
• http://www.filefolderfun.com/ - File folder games for early elementary ages
• http://www.colormountain.com/ - lots of coloring pages that you tweak to your needs
• http://www.currclick.com - as a free sections where you can find some awesome things
• http://www.guesthollow.com/ - free science curriculum based on a literature approach to science
• http://preschoolpalace.org - all sorts of free worksheets
• http://1plus1plus1equals1.com/index.html - all sorts of toddler packs to print
• http://www.notimeforflashcards.com - great alphabet crafts
• http://confessionsofahomeschooler.blogspot.com/ - awesome ideas for little ones
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• Off subject:
• http://gnowfglins.com/ (starting class this summer if anyone is interested)

From Michelle:

• The reminder that homeschooling is an extension of our motherhood not separate.
• Montessori projects for younger hands on fun/learning while teaching others. Setting up an area and kits to do so.
• Using curriculum as a framework and building from it with what your child likes to do to apply.

From Casey:

• The reminder to not feel like you have to use one curriculum for all your kids. Be flexible, be fun, be creative.
• The reminder to meet our kids where their needs are where we can.
• Remember that cooking something, watching the process of foundation being poured next door, writing a report on a History Channel documentary, and theatre rehearsing are all learning experiences in “curriculum” that count!
• Letting older kids pace themselves in their work, not being so structured in our day’s scheduling.
• Here’s a good website to review curriculum: http://www.thehomeschoolmagazine.com/Homeschool_Reviews/

Ladies Fitness and Bible Study for the Summer

I’ve talked with several of you about the upcoming summer plans at the Canon Community Chapel or am emailing you because I think you might be interested. Here it is in a summary.

Faith and Fitness Monday Mornings from 9-11 am starting June 7. Each week we will do a fitness activity that is an introduction into the continent and country we will be studying that Wednesday.

There will be childcare (baby to 3) and a coinciding kids program (4 and up) including fitness as well as some other topics. The activities for ladies will be Zumba, Jumparope, Christian Yoga, Walking, Ballroom Dancing, Step Aerobics and Weight Training.

Our Wonder Full World Study will be Wednesdays from 6-7:30 pm, beginning June 2. It starts with a themed dinner and then an hour study of our world’s continents with a focus of a particular country each week. Kids are welcome and encouraged. They will eat dinner with us and then split off for their study of the same continent/country for the hour. I will be helping facilitate the children’s learning portion with a Bible Lesson, Geography/Culture, Arts/Crafts and Music/Prayer.

Please pass along the info to other Moms or ladies that might be interested. If we have a good turn-out we are interested in keeping the fitness portion going with more ideas. In the fall the Chapel plans to offer a ladies Bible Study as well. Email me if you have any questions about the info above or want to help in anyway as we try to outreach to our base community!

Thanks,

Eva