Register Now for the 2011 TEACH Convention

http://teachct.org/2011convention.shtml
T.E.A.C.H. is excited to be offering the highly acclaimed Worldview Academy at
our 2011 Homeschool Convention on June 10th & 11th, featuring a teen* integrated
program with keynote speaker Bill Jack! * intended for ages 12-20 and parents

Why Worldview Academy?
In a culture buffeted by widely divergent philosophies, Worldview Academy stands
on the solid foundation of scripture, training students and adults to understand
their faith as a total worldview and enabling them to be able to give a reason
for the hope that they have. (1 Peter 3:15)

Bill is especially known for his ability to connect with teens and families and
is passionate about raising up youth who have a vision to reach their culture
with the gospel. We encourage families to attend sessions together.

Ideal for non- homeschooling church schools and youth groups too!

Additional Featured Workshops:
* Homeschooling Through High School and Transcript Preparation with Diane
Kummer

* Homeschooling with Special Needs -- Kathy Kuhl and Carol Barnier
* "Special Needs Panel Discussion" to address your unique questions
* Getting Started and Homeschooling 101
* "Veteran Mom's Panel" to encourage you on your journey
* "Parental Rights Amendment" - HSLDA Attorney Dewitt Black
* Graduate Recognition - free admission to the public -- Contact Cheryl Blough
at 860-683-2944 or bloughfamily@sbcglobal.net before May 20th if you have a
senior who would like to participate in graduation.
* Exhibit Hall -- offering the latest in curriculum and supplies.
* Free Curriculum Consultants available to guide you.
* Why Attend? Information and Inspiration are the primary reasons to attend
the homeschool convention. Our speakers come prepared to communicate, encourage,
and inspire parents in their commitment to the Lord, their families and to home
education. The information they impart is invaluable, and the personal contact
and fellowship is something you cannot obtain from a homeschool catalog or the
internet. Whether you are a veteran or just beginning, we invite you to come
and enjoy a time fellowship, be refreshed, inspired, and blessed by attending.

FRIDAY, JUNE 10
11:00 am Doors Open for Registration / Exhibit Hall Opens
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm Session 1
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm Session 2
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm Session 3
6:15 pm Exhibit Hall Closed
6:30 pm - 8:30 pm Graduate Recognition; Keynote Speaker Bill Jack
SATURDAY, JUNE 11
8:30 am Doors Open for Registration / Exhibit Hall Opens
9:00 am - 10:30 am Session 4
10:45 am - Noon General Session
Noon Lunch Break & Exhibit Hall
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm Session 5
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm Session 6
4:30 pm Exhibit Hall Closed / Convention Ends
* visit our website -- more detailed schedule coming soon.
We look forward to seeing you June 10th & 11th -- Pre-Registration Deadline June
3rd -- Don't Wait -- Register Today!

Free Bonus CD of useful resources worth $250+ to all attendees!

Thank you and may God richly bless your family! -- The T.E.A.C.H. Board
10 Moosehorn Rd, West Granby, CT 06090
860.938.6765 (phone) / 860.653.6263 (fax)
General Inquiries: teachct@teachct.org
Membership: teachct.membership@sbcglobal.net

FVHE Used Curriculum Fair (and tag sale)

Passing this along from Kris McCue......(she has a few tables left.  Let her know if you'd like to reserve a space for yourself.)

Mark Your Calendars!

     Tell a Friend!  ....  Bring a Friend!    

FVHE Used Curriculum Fair 

(and tag sale)

 Friday, May 13th, 2011

3:00-7:00 p.m.

(I will be there at 1:00 to set up tables, vendors can begin set up anytime after that)

Location:  Scout Hall Youth Center

28 Abbe Road, E. Windsor, CT

Who:  Open to all homeschoolers, in and out of FVHE Group

Fee:  $5 rental per 6’ table 

 ( there are 40   6' tables and 3   3’ tables available )

              

RSVP to me, Kris McCue, at fvhegroupis@hotmail.com

 Let me know how many tables you will need.

I will reply back with where you can send payment.

There is no admittance charge for lookers and shoppers.

This year I want to do something different.  As we have so many more tables and so much more space I will allow people to bring tag sale items as well, as long as they are child- or schooling-related.  If you have desk- or work-space items, art and craft supplies, kids clothes and toys and such, feel free to bring them along with your curriculum if you wish.  Last year a few of you had asked and I had to say no as the church was too small.  The scout hall we will use this year is quite roomy so we can add more items.

Children most welcome!  My kids have always loved used curriculum fairs, and always manage to find neat-stuff like science kits and models, leisure reading materials, games and more.

The sellers set their own prices.  Please make sure you label carefully or put up signs.  Any kind of educational materials are acceptable, from kits to books, everything from art to science and more.  Shoppers who are new to these kinds of fairs, you will find games, puzzles, toys, books, videos, study guides, text books, workbooks and other traditional curriculum materials.  There are usually many free items as well.

If you are done with your Sonlight, Oak Meadow, Saxon, Critical Thinking Press, Charlotte Mason, Montessori, A Beka to name a few, bring them along and turn them into cash.  

SHOPPERS:  Plan to bring cash.  With many items at tag-sale prices it doesn't make sense to write a check for a couple dollars.  Also, some vendors cannot take personal checks, so cash is best.

Please tell friends about this used curriculum fair.  The vendors go to so much effort packing up all those books and things and then hauling them to the fair.  

VENDORS: I will designate an area for “Free” materials.  You can leave any items that you are donating in this space, but make sure to take the unclaimed items home with you at the end of the evening. 

Also, vendors, I will get a menu from Henry’s Pizzeria, which is located a half a mile from the scout hall.  I am told they have good pizza, subs and salads. I will pass around a clipboard with the menu(s) and we can call in one group order.  You are also welcome to bring your own dinner if you'd like.  There is a kitchen with a refrigerator, oven/stove, and microwave that we can use.

Let me know if you can come early to help set up tables and chairs.  You will be responsible for putting away your own tables/chairs at the end of the fair.  You should plan to bring a dolly or hand-truck if you own one.  It makes getting all those boxes moved so much faster.  

Hope to see you at the Used Curriculum Fair!

Kris McCue

BIBLE READING MARATHON at State Capitol

BIBLE READING MARATHON

STATE CAPITOL BUILDING, North Steps

Monday, May 2, 11am-2pm for Homeschoolers

DECLARING GOD’S WORD OVER OUR

STATE SEAT OF GOVERNMENT

YOU ARE INVITED TO READ THE WORD OF GOD OVER CONNECTICUT!

Twenty-five teams will be reading the entire Bible from Genesis thru Revelation in 68-75 hours from Saturday, April 30 through Thursday, May 5 (the National Day of Prayer).  Each person will read approximately 3 chapters in succession (this is flexible depending on how many readers we have).  We have reserved the timeslot of Monday, May 2nd, from 11am to 2 pm for homeschoolers (all ages) and their familes to come to the State Capitol to proclaim the Word of God over our state. 

 

Please contact Kim Cashman 860-875-0799 or kcashman3@snet.net.

http://cthouseofprayer.com/WHYABIBLEREADINGMARATHON.aspx

Writing classes offered in the Manchester/South Windsor area

Writing classes offered in the Manchester/South Windsor area, grade 4 and up!

-Classes taught by Kate Brown, home school graduate and CT certified teacher-

 Writing Explorer A

6 Wednesdays, starting May 11- June 15, 3:15-4:45
(possible Friday class: 6 Fridays, starting May 13- June 17, 2:45-4:15)

Children are little researchers before they can even speak, continually searching for answers. In this class, they will be given the tools of organization to further satisfy this curiosity and learn to communicate their findings through writing. Students will be given a topic to research, locate information from various sources, take notes, and write paragraphs with topic and concluding sentences. These paragraphs will form five paragraph essays, which they will express through oral presentation to the class.

Writing Explorer B

6 Wednesdays, starting May 11- June 15, 1:30-3:00

Students will continue the process of organizing five-paragraph essays in a more defining way as they explore different types of essays such as comparison, cause and effect, example, process, and definition essays. Through practice, they will learn the steps necessary for gathering information, processing and organize it, as they use graphic organizers and outlines. Students will learn how edit their work, avoid plagiarism and finally, perform an oral presentation.

Writing Investigator

(Write a Research Paper!)

to be offered late Summer

Your child will review the writing tools previously learned in Writing Explorer A & B to become a literary detective, culminating what they’ve learned into a full-fledged research paper. They will narrow a topic, learn where to research for information, gather data, store, categorize, and analyze it and then learn to write with an organized flow by using well thought out transition sentences. Students will then share their acquired knowledge in an oral presentation to the class.

Book Report I

to be offered late Summer

Students will take the beneficial activity of reading and extend it further as they become closely acquainted with the characters, the setting, the plot, and the climax. Students will get a chance to delve more deeply into their imagination as they put these story elements together and learn to summarize and form opinions, both in written form and through an oral presentation of their choice.

A little about the teacher: Kate Brown is a home school graduate who began her teaching career teaching piano lessons throughout her high school years. She has earned her Bachelor’s Degree from Columbia International University receiving a double major in Elementary Education and Bible. She holds a teaching certification from the State of Connecticut for Grades K-6, and an Association of Christian Schools International certification for grades K-8. She has taught many grade levels in her three years teaching experience in the public school system. As an enthusiastic teacher, Kate is offering a series of expository writing classes to homeschoolers to begin preparing them for high school and college research papers!

--Class Details--

All classes are six weeks, 1 hour, 45 minutes per class

 Class fee: $75 per child (with 30% deposit at registration), $6 materials fee per child, per class

Contact by email: brownkate6@gmail.com or phone: (860) 268-1257

Please make checks payable to Kate Brown; send to 18 Wedgewood Drive, Manchester, CT 06042

Baseball on Wednesdays

 Anyone interested in playing a friendly game of

baseball on Wednesdays at Brookside Park? 

10:30 a.m. - 12 noon

Brookside Park Rt. 140, Ellington, Ct.

All ages including the parents are welcome! The next time we will meet is Wednesday April 27. You are welcome to join us every week or come whenever you can make it. Contact Ron Small roon48@yahoo.com if you are interested and so he can contact you if we have to cancel due to the weather.

Baseball is on for today!

It may be cloudy and a little damp out, but baseball is on for today!

Brookside Park, rte. 140  Ellington 10:30a.m.-12noon.

See you there!

Third Annual TEACH Used Curriculum Sale

COME ONE! COME ALL!!

Want cash for your used books?? 

Want next year's books for less???  

Third Annual TEACH Used Curriculum Sale

This Coming Saturday, April 23, 2011

10 am - 1 pm

Waterbury Christian Fellowship

1 Dube Lane Waterbury - Directions  

This promises to be our biggest sale ever with 68 registered sellers ~ twice as big as last year!! 

Bring your friends - homeschooling or otherwise - who like buying books at a discount -- there is sure to be something for everyone. Fun for kids too! 

You won't want to miss the bargains. Spread the word!

Thanks and God bless you ~ TEACH 

Contact info:
860-938-6765
www.teachct.org
teachct@teachct.org