| The New Hampshire Homeschooling Coalition News October 2018 Volume XXX Number 2 🤪 Joke of the month Why is it so windy inside a sports arena? All those fans. 🤪 Strawbery Banke Museum, Portsmouth Weekly Homeschool Classes, “Growing Up Between the Wars: 1915-1945” Mondays, Oct 1, 15, 22, 29 & Nov. 5 $15 per child ($10 for Members) Explore what life was like for your great-grandparents or maybe your great-great-grandparents! Participants will be introduced to a new topic each week, learning about the historical context of events like the Great Depression and World War II then engage in hands-on activities to further the discussion and provide a touchstone for remembering information. Activities will include cooking a Depression-Era dish, taking a ride in a Model-A Ford, working in a 1940s Victory Garden, learning to paint like Picasso, staring in a silent film and lending your voice to a radio show. Strawbery Banke Homeschool Day, “Winter is Coming” Thursday, October 4, $8 per child. From food preservation techniques to heating technology, learn how Puddle Dockers prepared for the cold winter months! Visit with roleplayers, crafts people, demonstrators and historic house interpreters to discover hands-on activities that teach about winter preparation over three centuries. Add an Open Hearth Cooking Workshop to round out the day! For more information & registration, please go to https://strawberybankemuseum.wordpress.com/homeschool-programs/ FALL FESTIVAL & CHILDREN’S BOOK FESTIVAL Handmade New England Saturday, October 6, 2018 10:00 am–5:00 pm For more information: http://www.strawberybanke.org/events/NH-fall-festival.cfm Old Sturbridge Village Home School Day October 11, 2018 October 11, 2018 Join us to focus on crafts and projects inspired by Washington Irving’s famous tale, “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.” From pumpkin receipts to working with the cider press, these activities will educate as well as celebrate the autumnal season. Cost is $10 per child for full-day admission to Old Sturbridge Village. One adult per child ages 5 and above is admitted at the discounted rate of $15. Additional adults pay the full price rate. For an additional $5-$15 per activity, your young scholars can try their hands at workshops focused on fall and literary themes. Hands-on workshop activities include: Hearth Cooking: Cooking with Pumpkin, Make a Corn Husk Doll, Harvesting for Winter, Make a Notebook, Make a Decorative Floorcloth, Make a Six-Board Chest, and more! Space is limited and registration is required. https://www.osv.org/event/home-school-october-2018/ Home School Classic Movie Morning and Luncheon in Concord The Red River Theatre, Concord Wednesday, October 24 The first movie is ET. The cost is $7 per person, with an optional small popcorn and soft drink package for $3. Arrival time 10 AM (to check in and get snacks and visit), showing begins at 10:30 and ends at 12:30. Olive Garden luncheon (5 minutes away) at 1:00 for lunch or a snack or just a cup of coffee to visit with other home schoolers. All home schoolers are welcome and may invite any friends or family that they would like; the more the merrier! But please sign up right away!!!—we need the sign ups to rent the theater and reserve the space; otherwise, the event is cancelled by the theatre and the organizer will lose her deposit. To sign up, contact cherylsark@gmail.com (Cheryl Gibbons), and share answers to the following questions: How many will be attending? How many will want the popcorn package? How many will be joining us for our Luncheon at Olive Garden? *Signing up for any event means you agree to pay for that event, even if you do not attend. Programs at New Hampshire Institute of Art ARTLAB Afterschool for teens Dare to step out of your creative comfort zone! ARTLAB Afterschool is here to challenge your artistic practice. Come explore your creative side with other local teens, experiment with a wide range of art materials, and experience creating independent and collaborative 2D and 3D projects under the mentorship of NHIA faculty and local artists. Join us and let’s create! Join sessions either onTuesdays or Thurdays. Friday Night CoLAB (short for collaboration) CoLAB is a safe space for creativity, ideas, experimentation, and materials to collide. Together young artists will spend their Friday night developing a shared vision and creating original collaborative art pieces. Emphasis will be placed on the creative process, communication, collaboration and (of course) fun! CoLAB is perfect for young artists of all levels to be artistically challenged and meet other local teens. Join us for dinner and let’s create! Meets one Friday every month from 4:00pm to 8:00pm during the school year at NH Institute of Art in Manchester. Includes instruction, dinner, and all supplies. Learn more and sign up at nhia.edu/youtharts 12th Old Ways Days, October 20 & 21 Dave and Anne Emerson’s Old Ways Traditions 418 Shaker Road, Canterbury, NH Old Ways Days features hands on traditional craft demonstrations, operating antique machinery and engines, fun live music, and good food. New this year we’ll have more demos, operating machinery run by vintage gas and steam engines, including unusual, unique machines from two of the largest collections in the state. You’ll love Entangled Strings– a six piece band known for memorable versions of Americana and popular favorites. And besides the usual hots and hams and our must have chili there’ll be homemade soup and squash rolls. Demos include blacksmithing, saw milling, broom making, spoon carving, braided rugs, wood turning, and more. Come meet our friendly alpacas. Tools for Kids will have blacksmithing for kids and adults, woodturning and multiple hand tools to try. Badger’s drift, Americana originals, play midday Saturday and in the afternoon, traditional Bluegrass by Newfound Grass. Sunday we’ve got Ryan Thompson and son Brennish, as good as Celtic gets, and we wind up with the exciting Entangled Strings. Old Ways Traditions is located on land of the 1785 Hamm Farm. Well maintained trails provide access to / and enjoyment of fields surrounded by a fascinating variety of stonewalls, woodlands, and a lively brook. The site has a combined antique shop and museum as well as a working wood shop producing Shaker and contemporary accessories. Amoskeag Fishways Learning and Visitors Center 4 Fletcher Street Manchester, NH Saturday Nature Seekers presents Turkey Vultures October 6, 13, 20 and 27 11am – 12pm Do you and your kids wish for opportunities to learn about nature but have trouble finding the time? Stop by our center most Saturdays at 11am for “short and sweet” mini-programs and fun nature-based activities. Discover something new every month! Donation of $5 per family encouraged No registration required Edison’s Workshop Friday, October 12 10am – 11:30am Turn back the clock and explore Thomas Edison’s workshop. Students learn the basics of electricity and electricity use, then conduct their own experiment in building a light bulb. Cost: $5 per student (ages 9 and up) Registration with payment required Call 626-FISH www.AmoskeagFishways.org Caribou Mathematics website First contest on October 17-18 A website which provides practice and enrichment material as well as online mathematics contests. Suitable for those who excel in mathematics as well as for elementary, middle, and high school students of all levels. Contests are provided in English, French and Persian and contain questions from a wide range of difficulty levels. For more information: cariboutests.com Fiddle, Mandolin, and Guitar Lessons Lee, NH Brennish Thomson, is offering fiddle, mandolin, and guitar lessons from beginning to advanced level to homeschool kids. He was homeschooled himself and is now 22. He has won fiddling awards and has toured from California to China and taught music along with his father. He gives lessons at our home in Lee, NH. For more information – www.Crogamusic.com/brennishthomson Contact information: brennishthomson@gmail.com, 603-312-0534 Portsmouth Symphony partners with Carnegie Hall’s Link Up Program Portsmouth Symphony presents Carnegie Hall’s Link Up Program The Orchestra Sings! this season in their partnership school day orchestra concert co-sponsored by the PSO and The Music Hall. This is a very special opportunity for students in grades 3-5 to learn our repertoire on recorder, violin, or just singing, and perform WITH the PSO on May 7th at either our 10 am or 12:30 pm concert. A free professional development workshop will be provided to teachers to learn how to incorporate this curriculum into their lesson plans. Only $6 per attendee. For more information: https://www.themusichall.org/events/the-orchestra-sings-with-the-portsmouth-symphony-orchestra/ Splash Clark University, 950 Main St., Worcester, MA November 4 Clark University’s Educational Studies Program (ESP) runs Splash, a full day of over 100 classes taught by Clark students to over 400 local students in grades 5-12. We believe that by giving students the opportunity and freedom to take classes outside of the traditional K-12 curriculum, they will become more curious, motivated, and engaged learners as they kindle new and old passions. Splash classes include introductions to advanced academic topics, hands on experiments, discussions of current issues, and visual and performing arts lessons. To see the full course catalog and register for classes, check the link below. Splash is open to all students in grades 5-12 Registration begins Monday, October 8th Cost: Free! Lunch is included. https://clarkuesp.learningu.org/learn/Splash/index.html Staying Connected to your Teen at TLC Family Resource Center 109 Pleasant St. Claremont, NH Staying Connected to your Teen is designed for parents and caregivers of kids ages 11-17 who are looking for guidance and support. This 10-hour program is divided into five 2-hour classes, starting Tuesday, September 25 from 6:00 – 8:00 pm at TLC Family Resource Center. With dedicated time and a safe space, parents and caregivers of preteens and teens explore their relationship with their child, learn about some of the factors that impact that relationship, and develop concrete skills to build and/or maintain positive bonds throughout the often-difficult years of adolescence. Tuesdays, 6:00 – 8:00 pm September 25, October 2, 9, 16, and 23 For more information call Julie Yerkes, Parent Coordinator at 978-226-3322 or visit www.nhteeninstitute.org For more homeschooling information, classes, and events go to https://nhhomeschooling.org/ NHHC Newsletter Staff Paula-Marie Passen, Editor, 7 Douglas Drive, Amherst, NH 03031 603-465-8295, pmlp65@gmail.com Portions of NHHC publications may be reprinted for information purposes provided that credit is given to the New Hampshire Homeschooling Coalition. Contributors retain full rights to their writing, and their permission should be obtained before reprinting. If you’d like to receive the NHHC News, please join the NHHC. It’s free! Just sign up at https://www.nhhomeschooling.org/join-us. To unsubscribe, please email membership@nhhomeschooling.org. |
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