Celebrate Laurens and Feed the Hungry is booking local talent from the Upstate to perform at the Celebrate Laurens and Feed the Hungry event to raise funds to provide Thanksgiving grocery bags to needy families in Laurens on Saturday, September 14, 2013 from 2:00pm-8:00pm. This opportunity is open to sing groups, bands, choirs and soloists either singing or playing an instrument. Half hour time slots are available as are performance slots for individual pieces.
Questions/Signup/Contact: Jon Orcutt (864) 350-3444 jonorcutt@backroads.net
Geography Bee is Back! Sign your child up today!
Ø The National Geography Bee, run by the National Geographic Society, will begin this fall with local Bees around the country. These are open to all 4th - 8th grade students.
Ø In Greenville County, home schooled students will participate in our local Bee at the Pelham Road library.
Ø A basic study guide is available upon request. The guide describes Bee procedures and includes preparation tips and resources.
Sign up begins immediately and continues through October 15. Two practice sessions will be held before the actual event which takes place on November 21st.
The fee per student is $5.00 and is due by the date of the first practice. The fee helps to offset the $120.00 fee required to register our local Bee.
Homeschool PE at the YMCA
The Caine Halter YMCA on Cleveland Street has a Home School P.E program. They offer a gym and swim format. For the gym aspect, their goals are to be physically active, learn the basics of sports/games, stress the importance of cooperation and teamwork. With the swim portion, they will teach beginners learn to swim. For the more advanced swimmers, they would focus on stroke improvement.
The P.E. group will meet on Tuesdays. Gym will be from 1-2pm and swim from 2-3pm. For rates and a list of which sports will be covered each session, contact the Jamie Johnson at 864-679-9622.
Boxadoo
Jason and Joanna Herndon, homeschool parents of four have created a homeschool management tool called Boxadoo that they would like to share with the homeschool community. Boxadoo is an online tool that allows you to create a portfolio, record grades, upload photos, videos and manage events.
They are currently working on sign-ups for our BETA that will take place in the next few weeks. They are excited to sign up homeschool families and allow them to check out the features and hear feedback during this initial BETA testing. You can find them at http://www.boxadoo.com/ or on Facebook at facebook.com/boxadoo. On their website, they will be collecting email addresses for those interested in participating in the BETA.
Grand Opening!
Reedy River Book Company, formerly “Brooks with Books” has a new store in Taylors, SC. They are a seller of vintage books: classics, collectible and many books that are great for home educators because of the excellent writing styles, moral values and good, clean entertainment. To celebrate their new store they are having a huge Grand Opening Sale on Saturday, September 14th. They will open at 8:00 am and finish up around 3:00 pm, rain or shine! There will be lots of fun activities for the kids, as well as food and drinks. Everyone who visits on that day will receive 20% off any purchase, but homeschool families will get an extra 10% off—30% total!
Please plan to join them for some great book deals. You can find them on Facebook at Reedy River Book Company.
Art and Essay Contest
The South Carolina Foundation puts together a yearly Art and Essay contest for the Middle and High School students throughout the State. This year’s theme will be “Connecting Cultures in the Digital Age: How does Social Media Change the Future of our World?”
First-third place winners in each category win a trip to Turkey in the summer of June 2014 as well as a cash prize or iPad for first place winners. Please remember that the airfare is not included in this prize.
All essays and artwork will be due Dec 20th.
Art and Essay Awards Ceremony will take place Feb 22nd in the USC Law Auditorium in Columbia, students will be notified that they placed, but cannot be told where they placed.
Contact Christina Bell with any questions if you are in the Upstate (West of Columbia) at 864-991-8089 and if you are in the LowCountry area (Columbia to Charleston Areas) please contact Paula at the Columbia office 803-386-4377, her email is pludwig@scdialogue.org You can find more information on their website www.scdialogue.org/contest.
0 comments:
Post a Comment