We have lots of wonderful opportunities to begin the school year!
The New
Hampshire Homeschooling Coalition News
September 2018
Volume XXX Number 1
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Joke of the month
I had a dream last night that I went to school in my pajamas. I woke up this morning, afraid the dream was real. Then I remembered, “Oh wait, I’m homeschooled.”
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Homeschool Programs at Orchard School and Community Center
Teacher lead, nature programming, team building games, music, movement and art. Three trimesters. First trimester begins September 10th!
For more information visit:
Contact Andrea Alderman at andrea@theorchardschool.org or 603-835-2495
Beaver Brook Association, Hollis
Homeschool S.T.E.M. session, Maple Hill Farm, 117 Ridge Rd, Hollis
Tuesdays September 11 – November 13, 1-4pm. Let’s investigate science using inquiry, experiments and the outdoors! We’ll build hot air balloons, catch and study the life cycle of frogs, and launch raw eggs into space on water rockets. Have you ever wondered why beavers, squirrels and porcupines have the same profile? Let’s check out Beaver Brook’s skull collection to discover why! In this new class, specifically designed for homeschooled children of middle school age, we’ll investigate thermal energy, nutrient cycling, decomposition, comparative anatomy, food webs, Newton’s Laws…All while exploring Beaver Brook’s many trails! For students entering grades 6-9. Bring a snack and a water bottle in a backpack. Dress in layers and wear sturdy shoes or boots.$315 members/$350 for 10 weeks. 10% off for siblings. ($75 for a family membership for the year)
Elementary Homeschool NH
Animals & Habitats, Maple Hill Farm,
117 Ridge Rd, Hollis Wednesdays
September 12 – November 14, 10am – 1:30pm. Have you ever wondered how wild
animals survive outdoors? What does a raccoon eat (besides your garbage)? Where
do fish go when the pond is covered in ice? Why can moose live in NH but not
caribou? Let’s examine some of the plants, animals and even the native people
that have made their home here in NH and ponder how they survive. We’ll catch
frogs in the pond, insects in the forest, and snakes in the field. We’ll study
skeletons and animal mounts, and learn how an animal’s body and behavior are
adapted to NH’s climate and landscape.
For students in grades 1-6. Bring a lunch, snack and a water bottle
in a backpack. Dress in layers and wear sturdy shoes or boots. $315
members/$350 for 10 weeks. 10% off for siblings. ($31.50 a week for members)
($75 for a family membership for the year)
For more information contact <cpbarr@bbanaturecenter.org>
NH Germanic Association, Classes are held at The Currier Art Center, 180 Pearl St., Manchester
Fall Classes & Open House
The NHGA will be hosting an Open House on Wednesday, 12
September 2018 from 6:30-8:00pm. This is a great opportunity to meet with
teachers and students and get a chance to talk about the different class
offerings. Books that will be used in the classes will be available to look
through and if you have any questions about which class to take, then this is a
great time to speak with the teachers about class placement.
Light refreshments will be served during the
open house and you may also register for classes at this time. The open house
will be held in The Gallery Classroom at The Currier Art Center, 180 Pearl St.
in Manchester.
German for Children I:
Course Schedule: Class starts September 17th and runs 15-weeks every Monday.
Class Meeting Time: Monday 4:00-5:00PM.
Description: Using a multi-sensory approach of games, songs, crafts, art and stories, students are immersed in German for an hour of language learning and fun. Class is open to children between the ages of 5-8 with little or no knowledge of the language.
Price: $205
German for Children II:
Course Schedule: Class starts September 17th and runs 15-weeks every Monday.
Class Meeting Time: Monday 5:00-6:00PM.
Description: This class is intended for children, ages 7-12, that are already reading and writing in their native language. Students will be immersed in German language and culture. We will be using a German workbook in class, This class will have cover similar themes as the younger class but be more in depth.
Price: $205
German for Teens / Tweens:
Course Schedule: Class starts
September 17th and runs 15-weeks every Monday.
Ages: 12+
Class Meeting Time: Mondays, 7:00-8:30PM.
Description: This class is intended for teens that are interested in learning more about German and the German speaking countries from the perspective of a teen. Class will be suited for absolute beginners, focusing on current trends and language. Students learn basic structures and vocabulary of elementary German. They practice speaking, listening, reading, and writing and learn to communicate in simple everyday situations.
Minimum: Class will run if we receive 7 student enrollments.
Price: $275
For more information about how to enroll in a class, visit our website at www.nhgermanschool.com
or send us an email: nhgermanschool@gmail.com
Celebration at Kimball Jenkins School of Art featuring the Mansion Build in Minecraft! Sept. 15th 11-4 @ Kimball Jenkins, 266 N. Main, Concord
Free art classes, history, costumes, cake, and the unveiling of an epic & architecturally accurate Kimball Jenkins mansion designed and built in Minecraft by NH homeschoolers! Conceived as a kind of cross-cultural exercise, the Mansion Build gives kids a new appreciation for High Victorian architecture and grand/parents a new appreciation for the infinite possibilities of Minecraft. Rollercoasters and other games surround the Minecraft mansion for fun and perspective.
Activities will run all day, so bring a picnic and stay a while. Sample Kimball Jenkins art classes – Printmaking with renowned artist Mike Howat, Intuitive Drawing with Pat Wild, Painting Made Simple with summer arts camp director Lee Johnson, Summer Arts Camp sampler (instructor tbd). There will also be a Three-Dimensional Embroidery Demo with the fabulous Bob Dorr.
And you can go from the virtual mansion tour to the real mansion tour, donning costumes for photo ops and learning about the history of Kimball Jenkins and the Concord Historic District. What more could you want?!
More at www.kimballjenkins.com/events/
Theatre Workshops for Your Homeschoolers, 2 Two Engaging Options and Opportunities
Theater Workshops organized specifically for your homeschool group or at the Amato Performing Arts Center at the Souhegan Valley Boys and Girls Club in Milford
THEATER SCENE WORKSHOPS Students will explore basic performance and technical theatrical studies with the goal of preparing, staging and presenting a showcase of scenes. The scenes will be selected from various plays and musicals.
ACTOR’S TOOLS Through a fast-paced curriculum of drama activities, students learn how to use body, voice and imagination to create characters and scenes inspired by a story selected by the class.
READERS’ THEATER Be engaged in a dramatic presentation of a written work in a script form, making comprehension and interpretation of the text meaningful and fun! Readers read from a “script” with parts/roles selected among the readers. Minimal memorization, costumes, and staging. Presentations can be done in any setting. The focus is on reading the text with expressive voices, facial and physical gestures creating engaging characters who jump off the page.
Multi-Week Classes for Half-Day or 90 minutes per session; once or twice a week. Minimum of six students needed for a class. Open to students in grades 2-12, divided into age & skill-appropriate groups. For example: ages 5-7; ages 8-10; ages 11-13; high schoolers. Musical work will require an accompanist. This can be homeschool student or parent who loves playing the piano, show tunes and accompanying lively singers.
For more information contact Esther R. Kosofsky, Freelance Theater Director, ekosofsky@comcast.net or 603-493-0059.
Young Women’s Circle, ages 10-14, Taught by Cindy Perry, M.Ed.
Young women need tremendous support and self-affirmation heading into their teen years in our complex and ever-changing world. Young Women’s Circle will provide a safe haven to explore what it means to become a woman in our culture, to be strong and resilient, and to speak and be heard. We will use text about women’s survival stories, cultural studies, Native American traditions, and personal creativity as means of expression and discovery of who we are and how we choose our paths. Curriculum will be based in what the group would like to learn, personal interests, and the arts, all integrated with learning about our natural surroundings and our special place here in VT. Session I: Tuesdays, 9-3:00, Sept. 18 – Nov. 20, 2018, $700/10-week session
For more information: https://www.ravenswoodindependentschool.org/north-programs.html
Children’s Stage Adventures, Tamworth
Would you like to be part of our homeschool play! Play week is Nov. 12-17. Rehearsals are at Camp Sentinel and the play will be at the KA Brett School in Tamworth on Saturday, Nov.17. Don’t miss out on this great opportunity to practice public speaking! Everyone has a part or a role. Ages 5+. We still need 24 kids! Cost is $58/child.
For more information contact Angela Kantz at angela@kantz.com
Fledgling homeschool group in Lancaster, NH, The Lancaster Homeschoolers
We are a group of families that meet twice a month for recreation. Information can be found on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/groups/1788187137893480/
Contact Heather LeFoll, heatherlefoll@gmail.com 802-676-2684 or
Mandy Rancourt, mandylsrancourt@gmail.com 603-991-9614
The Journey Teen Group
Enrollment is free and currently open for ages 13 – 19. We have members from both NH and MA and meet on a border town – Townsend, MA. We meet the 1st and 3rd Tuesdays year round, with field trips on the 4th Tuesdays and additional meetups, when possible! We are a secular group and recognize families homeschool for many reasons.
For more information email Melanie at townsendbrooklinehomeschool@gmail.com
Destination Imagination in Londonderry
Students must complete a project and bring it on Try-DI Night to be eligible to join a team. Londonderry students Try-DI is Thursday, September 27, 6pm to 7pm in the Matthew Thornton cafeteria.
Do you like to create new things? Build or design? Paint or draw? Act or improvise? Write or compose? Do you look at things differently than others around you? Enjoy working with others? Looking for something cool?
Destination ImagiNation (or DI for short), provides a unique opportunity for kids to use their creativity and work together to solve a challenge. Become part of a team and make the commitment through at least March, when the Regional Tournament is held. This also requires parent volunteers so please be prepared to help in some capacity if your child is interested in joining.
E-mail with
any questions and for a copy of the projects at: info@londonderrydi.org
For more information on this program, please visit www.londonderrydi.org, or https://www.facebook.com/LondonderryDI/
Competitive Jump Rope Team
Try-outs September 10 at 6:30pm, Matthew Thornton Elementary School in Londonderry, cafe in the back of the school.
L-Town Turners is a competitive jump rope team now in its second year. Jumpers from any area are welcome as long as they turn 7 years old by December 1, 2018. Londonderry residents can join the Londonderry Middle School jump rope club.
For more info, contact Christina Baez, Head Coach, L-Town Turners, ltownturners@gmail.com or https://www.facebook.com/Ltownturners/
Fain Music Studio
Free Trial Classes start September 4!
Music Together ® classes for kids from birth to age 7, and group and private piano classes for students 3.5 and up. The goal is to share the love of making music and to develop musical abilities to the fullest potential through fun and interactive curriculum.
Twenty years of experience! Check out my website www.Fainmusicstudio.com for all the classes and times I offer this Fall. Homeschooling hours available for private piano classes, and a discount might be provided (contact me for details). If you’re interested in a group piano class, please let me know! I need just 3 families to start a group.
Contact Olga at olga@fainmusicstudio.com or 603-888-0783
Couture
Eclectic, 167 Main Street in Kingston NH
Children’s Paint classes
3:30 – 4:30 Session 1: 4 Wednesdays in September, Session. 2: 4 Fridays in September
$60 / session materials & snack included
Check us out online @ CoutureEclectic.bigcartel.com
Weekly sign ups also available ($15/class)
Ballet for Homeschoolers in Wolfeboro and in Dover
Ballet for Homeschoolers in Wolfeboro and Dover Northeastern Ballet Theatre has ballet classes specifically geared towards homeschoolers. We offer them at a special rate of $10/class and there is a class at each of our studios. The Dover studio (in The McConnell Center, 61 Locust St., Suite 239) class meets Tuesdays from 10:00am – 11:00am and the Wolfeboro studio (26 Glendon St.) class meets on Thursdays from 11:00am – noon. Parents are welcome to bring their child to try a class for free and we have open enrollment, meaning they can sign up anytime throughout the year. Classes for this fall begin September 4. If anyone would like more information they may email Nancy Langfeld at info@northeasternballet.org, or call our director, Edra Toth, at (603) 834-8834. She will be teaching both classes.
Northeastern Ballet Theatre, New Hampshire’s premier ballet company and training school, is the artistic vision and passion of its founder, Edra Toth. This former prima ballerina for Boston Ballet Company has built a life teaching children and adults the joy of dance. Northeastern Ballet Theatre offers students the opportunity for a rich, life-long experience through serious training in a professional dance atmosphere. Ballet is our business, our only business. http://www.northeasternballet.org/
Get Involved in Contra Dancing!
Are you interested in introducing your child/children to
a new activity? One that combines exercise, music, and socializing and is
intergenerational and family friendly? Contradance is the answer.
It is a group activity done to lively music, all with the opportunity to
meet new people and chat with old friends. It is helpful to know the concepts
of line and circle, up and down, right and left and across. However not
all experienced dancers do! A caller will teach the moves and dance
sequence. Then the band strikes up the music; the caller calls and the
dancers dance. Lots of fun.
Check out the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts website www.nh.gov/folklife to
find a dance near you. (Note from Stef Marsh—quite a few homeschoolers attend
the contra dance in Wolfeboro on the fourth Saturday of each month) Each dance
has its own flavor, but all are generally the same, yet all different.
There are numerous sites on the web that show contra dancing. There
are even some instructional videos. Most will show dances with adults,
but children are very welcome too.
For more information write to Alice Morris at weareampm@gsinet.net with
a subject of Homeschooling Activity.
The O’Halloran Irish Folk Dancers, Irish Step Dancing Lessons, Pelham
A non-competitive dance school. Currently accepting registrations for boys and girls, ages 5-99. We perform at non-profit and local events throughout the year. Lessons are Fridays, 5:30-7pm.
Contact Madeline Corcoran at madelineh@comcast.net
Or 978-453-1195
Paul Dykstra with Great Bay Philharmonic
Saturday, October 20, 8:00pm
International Pianist, Paul Dykstra, will perform the magnificent Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1 in B flat minor with the Great Bay Philharmonic Orchestra, a professional Symphony Orchestra comprised of some of the finest musicians in New England. Sixty years ago, pianist Van Cliburn captured the imagination of both the American and Russian people—and the whole world—with his winning performance of this famous concerto. Under the direction of David Upham, the program will also feature popular orchestral works, Rossini’s The Barber of Seville Overture and Bizet’s Symphony in C Major.
Purchase tickets directly at https://www.themusichall.org/events/great-bay-philharmonic-orchestra/
Enter the word ‘CONCERTO’, where it asks for a promotional code, and receive a 15% discount on tickets purchased! Please take advantage of this if you plan to come.
For more information go to https://nhhomeschooling.org/
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