I am moving out of the homeschool world this year, having accepted a job as a 4th grade teacher at a small, local Christian school.  I will no longer be able to maintain this site.  If you have found this site helpful or have ideas to make it even better, contact me, and we’ll talk about how you can take it over!  Otherwise, I’ll close it down this summer.

God bless you all,

Zoe Hansen

zshansen@ntelos.net

Dear CSG Current & Prospective Families,

Registration for Classical Support Group’s Grammar Level (K-6^th grade) 2011-2012 School Year is now open. (Please e-mail Lisa for registration and informational documents):

• CSG Registration Form*
• CSG Student & Parent Class Sign-Up Sheet*
• Risk & Release Waiver*
• Statement of Faith
• CSG PRELIMINARY Class Schedule (subject to class and time changes)
• CSG PRELIMINARY Calendar

CSG registration fee is $50 per child if postmarked by June 1. Registrations postmarked after June 1 are $100 per child. Registrations postmarked after July 1 are $150.

Additional tuition or supply fees may apply to certain classes. For example, the Institute for Excellence in Writing class will be taught by Denise Kelley, an IEW Accomplished Instructor and homeschooling Mom who has graduated all her children. Cost is $100 per student for the year. Also, Dorothy Scheel will be teaching art for the upper grammar students (9-12 year olds) this year. Cost is $75 per student.

As you are registering your children, please consider where you (the parent) would like to serve. The success of our co-op is dependent upon the parents giving generously of their time and talents in teaching the classes. Note your preferences for teaching/helping on the Student and Parent Sign-Up Sheet (attached above).

All documents (CSG Participation Application, CSG Student & Parent Sign-Up sheet, and CSG Risk & Release Waiver), along with your payment, can be mailed to me at:

Lisa Smith

2886 Greenway Ct.

Harrisonburg, VA  22802

Please let me know if you have any questions. We look forward to having you in CSG this fall!

Blessings,

Lisa Smith

Cell: 540-908-1740

E-mail: go.bucks@comcast.net

Thank God for all that you have; Trust God for all that you need.

Cornerstone Christian School has invited Brad Huddleston to present the Dark Side of Technology seminar for parents and grandparents (no children or teens please) on Friday, April 15, 2011 at 7:00 pm in the school gymnasium.  The meeting is open to the public and admission is free. A freewill offering will be received. Cornerstone Christian School is located on Route 11 north of Harrisonburg on Cornerstone Lane. 
http://www.bradhuddleston.com/2011/04/cornerstone-christian-school-hosting-special-meeting-for-parents-and-grandparents/

Here is an e-mail from Mary Ann Heerschap [via Cathy Brent] regarding a satellite Christian high school initiative starting in the Harrisonburg area.

“I will be having a meeting for a new hybrid school in Harrisonburg – Mon. 3/28 at 6:30 at the Massanutten Regional Library.  This is also a satellite school but meeting 2 days per week with an optional third day.  I realize this will not work for everyone, but the satellite school is accredited and has 28 years experience.  Their moral standards are rock solid.  Having all classes blocked on a few days instead of a random college schedule is appealing to many families.  One such hybrid school now has 3 campuses in the Atlanta area.”

For more information contact Mary Ann at mheer08@gmail.com

Note that the meeting is tonight.

I’m definitely hoping to see all of you at the Annual Used Curriculum Sale this Saturday at Covenant Presbyterian Church from 9-1.  Click on the Curriculum Sale to get all the info about how to sell stuff.  Otherwise, just show up with plenty of cash.

You’ll  still have plenty of time to take in the homeschool day at the New Market Battlefield (from 10am to 4pm).  There will be lots of hands-on learning activities for you and your kids.  This is an HEAV event, and registration is required.  Not sure if there is still room, but you can check out their website here.

Looking for a Classical Christian Co-op for your Middle & High School Students?

This fall Classical Support Group (CSG), a local homeschool cooperative serving grammar age students (pre K-6^th grade), is expanding to include Dialectic/Rhetoric (D/R) age students (7^th– 10^th grade or higher at families’ discretion) . CSG assists parents in equipping their children with a Biblical worldview and the classical “tools of learning.”

Curriculum Overview: (Links are provided so you can easily peruse the web sites to review these curricula.) All classes are a la carte and mostly parent-taught.

• Tapestry of Grace for the humanities, primarily history, literature and geography. Students cycle through world history every four years, with all ages (grammar, dialectic and rhetoric) studying the same timeline of history each week, each at their own learning level. We’ll be studying Year 3 (1800s) this fall. www.tapestryofgrace.com/index.php

• Apologia for science at all levels, including General Science, Physical Science & Biology (depending on student enrollment and teacher availability). www.apologia.com

• Institute for Excellence in Writing* taught by IEW Accomplished Instructor Denise Kelley. www.excellenceinwriting.com

• Art* taught by well-known art teacher Dorothy Scheel

• Logic and Foreign Language to be determined

Registration Fee is $50 per student for all levels. A supply fee may apply to certain classes.

Registration deadline for D/R students (7^th grade and up) is April 1.

After May 1, registration fee is $100. After June 1, fee is $150.

Registration deadline for Grammar students (pre K-6^th grade) is June 1.

After July 1, registration fee is $100. After August 1, fee is $150.

*IEW and Art classes are tuition-based.

Tuition for IEW is $100 per student for the year (all levels) Classes are 1- 1 ½ hours.

Tuition for art is $75 for upper level Grammar students. Tuition is $125 for D/R students.

Classes are 1 hour.

CSG seeks to support homeschooling families and provide weekly accountability as they fulfill their role in educating their children. For most classes parent teachers, using their God-given gifts and talents, teach students in a variety of challenging academic topics. Our goal is that the combination of a God-centered and classical education will be used to build in students a solid academic foundation within a distinctly Christian worldview.

CSG meets on Wednesdays at Covenant Presbyterian Church in Harrisonburg. For more information or to obtain registration materials, contact Lisa Smith at go.bucks@comcast.net or 540-908-1740, or Julie Smith at juliesmithteaches@gmail.com or 540-810-5415.

Click on the button above to find out how to get involved with our 3rd Annual Harrisonburg Used Curriculum Sale taking place next Saturday, March 26th at Covenant Presbyterian Church.  With already 30 vendors signed up to sell (and we can put YOUR name on that list too if you like), you’re very likely to find many of the bargains that you’ll need to continue on your homeschooling adventure.  Check it out!  And start gathering the items YOU’D like to sell!

From Redeemer’s Newsletter:

Join us as we travel back into history for a fun-filled day set in Ancient Times, where modern civilization was born. Come visit with great heroes of the past and enjoy door prizes, food, children’s activities, entertainment, face painting, story telling, educational displays and a host of games.

It is fun for the whole family.

You can also learn more about Redeemer Classical School’s unique K-8 classical Christian education while you are here.

FREE and open to the public.

Located just 5 minutes from the Kroger Plaza in Keezletown

HSDLA is hosting a one-day workshop at Patrick Henry College in Purcellville, VA on March 12 from 8:15 to 4:30 pm.   Teaching at Home: Basics and Beyond for Struggling Learners and Toddlers to Tweens is a two-track conference each with four general sessions, twelve workshops and Q&A sessions which feature Vicki Bentley, Faith Berens, Dianne Craft and Betty Statnick and others.  Topics include time management, identifying learning glitches, apprenticeship, multi-level teaching, burnout, organization, curriculum, auditory processing dysfunctions, ADD, ASD, and more!  This might be good if you’re suffering from the typical winter slump or are discouraged by the progress you’ve made this year with your children.  Find more information and register here!

 

FYI, In case you are interested, Six Flags Great America has a program
called “Read to Succeed” where you (as homeschoolers) can get a free
admission ticket for you (as teacher) and any of your kids in grades K-6 who
read six hours or more between now & the end of February. Just go to
http://readtosucceed.discoveryeducation.com/ and sign up but you have to
register by January 25 which is today!!. I’m not sure if that means you
have to do it today or if you still can do it tomorrow too.