Survey Concerning the Use of Web Search Sites and Social Media Sites for Evaluating Scholarship Applicants

Think that what you post on Facebook or on a blog is only seen by your friends? Think again.


http://www.finaid.org/educators/20120224scholarshipscreeningsurvey.pdf

Crystal Lake Park District Classes

All classes are held at the Crystal Lake Park District's "Veterans Acres Park" Rotary Building, located off of Walkup Rd., just north of Terra Cotta (Rt 176). Classes are 6 weeks long and begin next week: so the dates are from 03/1/2012 to 04/13/2012.  Unless otherwise specified, classes are on Thursdays

Please visit:  http://tinyurl.com/6mdw9cq  to register for these and for many other classes and for full course descriptions.  

Math and Science Club:  Thursdays from 2:15 - 3:15, ages to 8-11 at the CLPD's Rotary Building at Veteran's Acres Park

Math & Science Club: Multiplication and Division. Each week we will explore a math or science topic with a hands-on game or activity designed to help students explore a wide variety of topics in a fun way while improving vocabulary and memorization skills.  Math topics will include beginning multiplication, and division concepts, charts and graphs, geometry, and beginning algebraic concepts.  Science topics will include a wide variety of life and earth science topics including the diversity of life, basic genetics, biomes, the food  web, rocks and minerals, volcanoes, earthquakes, oceanography, and the Universe.  There will be weekly hand outs offering suggestions of activities, books to read, documentaries to watch, or games to play at home provided.

 

High School Science Offering: 

Environmental Chemistry Lab Part II: Fridays from 2:15 - 4:15, ages 14-18 at the CLPD's Rotary Building at Veteran's Acres Park

This course continues covering high school level Chemistry laboratory exercises and related discussions that will cover nutritional testing, distillations, solubility curves, and more - with an emphasis on biological and environmental testing when the weather permits. Students are expected to have had prior Chemistry laboratory experience and have already covered basic titrations and chromatography, possibly by having taken Environmental Chemistry I with Ms. Wentz in the fall. Students should be currently studying High School level Chemistry and be prepared to do some reading between classes.  Additional Lab fee of $10.

Classes in Crystal Lake start next week!

Crystal Lake Park District Homeschool Enrichment Classes

All classes are held at the Crystal Lake Park District's "Veterans Acres Park" Rotary Building, located off of Walkup Rd., just north of Terra Cotta (Rt 176).  Classes are 6 weeks long and begin next week: so the dates are from 01/12/2012 to 02/16/2012.    Unless otherwise specified, classes are on Thursdays 

Please visit:  http://tinyurl.com/6mdw9cq  to register and for full course descriptions.  

Class ID:	4442-4
Description:	Pen and Mouse Club - Home School
Times:	10:00am to 11:00am
Age:	8-16 years
Resident Fee:	$ 51.00
Non-Res Fee:	$ 58.00

Class ID:	4442-8
Description:	Home School Art
Times:	11:45am to 12:45pm
Age:	3-7 years
Resident Fee:	$ 27.00
Non-Res Fee:	$ 34.00

Class ID:	4442-5
Description:	Home School Enrichment Karate
Times:	12:00pm to 1:00pm
Age:	8-16 years
Resident Fee:	$ 50.00
Non-Res Fee:	$ 57.00

Class ID:	4442-1
Description:	Home School Enrichment Karate

Dates:

01/12/2012 to 02/16/2012

Times:	1:00pm to 2:00pm
Age:	3-8 years
Resident Fee:	$ 50.00
Non-Res Fee:	$ 57.00

Class ID:	4442-9
Description:	Home School Cooking
Times:	1:00pm to 2:00pm
Age:	7-10 years
Resident Fee:	$ 43.00
Non-Res Fee:	$ 49.00

Class ID:	4442-2
Description:	H.S. - Doorstop to Engineering
Dates:	01/13/2012 to 02/17/2012
Days:	FRIDAY
Times:	2:00pm to 2:45pm
Age:	5-7 years
Resident Fee:	$ 101.00
Non-Res Fee:	$ 116.00

Class ID:	4442-3
Description:	Home School Math and Science Club with Kathy Wentz (Multiplication and Division level)

Dates:	01/12/2012 to 02/16/2012
Times:	2:15pm to 3:15pm
Age:	7-11 years
Resident Fee:	$ 55.00
Non-Res Fee:	$ 63.00

Class ID:	4442-6
Description:	High School. - Genetics Lab with Kathy Wentz
Dates:	01/13/2012 to 02/17/2012
Days:	FRIDAYS
Times:	2:45pm to 4:45pm  *this is the correct time  The online catalog is not listing the correct times again!
Age:	14-99 years
Resident Fee:	$ 100.00
Non-Res Fee:	$ 115.00

ixl.com is on sale!

One of my favorite math practice sites is on sale!

ixl.com isn't a game and doesn't have cute critters running around or aliens to shoot.  It is a no nonsense math practice site.  You can check it out for free (and get up to 20 problems a day for free year-round).  Better yet,  subscribe for a wonderfully low price and get certificates of accomplishment for students and regular status reports for mom and dad!

https://www.homeschoolbuyersco-op.org/index.php?option=com_hsbc_epp_order&Itemid=1029&c=1

There's an App for That

Looking for some awesome new apps?
Check out the wonderful Apps for Homeschooling web site!

http://appsforhomeschooling.com/free-on-sale-homeschooling-apps/

Enhanced Education

What is enhanced education, other than a current buzzword in edu-speak?  It is a push to try to get classroom teachers to read to their students more, to play more math games and to allow their students more time to read materials that interest them.  Does this sound familiar to anyone?

Curriculum Freebies in the HRC!

The Friends of the Johnsburg Public Library book sale is over.  There was a lot of wonderful homeschool curriculum left over though, so I placed some of it in the two 'freebie' boxes in the Homeschool Resource Center.  Be sure to check it out the next time you drop in!

Kids Maps | Best Kids Apps

Kids Maps | Best Kids Apps

Fun and educational apps abound! Wondering how to use them in your homeschooling? Join us on Monday! (see below)

The Internet and Beyond: Homeschooling for the 21st Century

What are you doing next Monday?

Join me Oct. 10th at 7pm at the Des Plaines Public Library for:

The Internet and Beyond: Homeschooling for the 21st Century


Children learn amazingly well from the world around them. Learn about how movies, audio books, classic literature, magazines, computer resources and cell phone apps, field trips and, yes, even TV shows, to create a custom curriculum. Tips on how to teach a child with learning differences, how to find the right resources for your family, and where to find resources inexpensively are included.  


Please register at:
http://calendar.dppl.org/evanced/lib/eventsignup.asp?ID=14059&rts=&disptype=&ret=eventcalendar.asp&pointer=&returnToSearch=&SignupType=&num=0&ad=&dt=mo&mo=10/1/2011&df=calendar&EventType=ALL&Lib=&AgeGroup=ALL&LangType=0&WindowMode=&noheader=&lad=&pub=1&nopub=&page=&pgdisp=

Classics on a budget

(copied from an article)

If you are homeschooling on a budget, here are 25 literature classics
from the 1800s that you can download saving the expense of purchasing
them or worrying about library due dates. Over 9,000 pages of work from
authors such as Lousia May Alcott, Herman Melville, Charles Dickens,
Mark Twain, Washington Irving, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Rudyard Kipling,
and Robert Louis Stevenson.

Preview each classic now
<http://www.examiner.com/homeschooling-in-denver/preview-the-downloadabl\
e-literature-selections-picture> !

The collection of downloads includes stories like Little Women, Oliver
Twist, Jungle Book, the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Treasure
Island, Moby Dick and the Great Expectations. Click here to go to the
download page
<http://www.christianhomeschoolhub.spruz.com/available-downloads.htm> .
(Each will be under the category: Literature from the 1800's)

Once you've previewed the classics
<http://www.examiner.com/homeschooling-in-denver/preview-the-downloadabl\
e-literature-selections-picture> and you've downloaded each title that
you want to incorporate into your lesson plans, you can go to A-to-Z
Titles <http://classiclit.about.com/od/atoztitles2/AtoZ_Titles.htm> to
find lesson plans, quotes and links for additional learning about the
individual authors and more.