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HEAV's Virginia Homeschool Update

November 12, 2008

Above the Fold
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High School and College Resources High School and College Resources -
Discounts for HEAV Members!

College in the Bag - Everything you need to develop college-level study skills and begin earning college credit from home! HEAV members save $40.

CollegePlus! - An academic coaching service that provides students with personalized coaching that will help them earn an accredited bachelor's degree from home! HEAV members save $120 on enrollment.

TranscriptPro - "America's Premier Transcript Software." This user-friendly program walks parents through every detail of the data entry process. You can compile professional high school transcripts for up to eight children in a family. HEAV members get 10% off and free shipping.

Transcript Boot Camp on DVD - A special four-hour training seminar that teaches you everything you need to know about diplomas, accreditation, graduation, academic history, grades, Carnegie units, textbook equivalency, time logs, class rank, grade point averages, weighted grades, extracurricular activities, test scores, portfolios, and resumes. The best time to hear this information is when your oldest child turns 11. HEAV members get 10% off and free shipping.

Regent University Tuition - Home School Legal Defense Association lists Regent as a "Tier 1" homeschool-friendly school. HEAV members get a 25% discount on tuition.

Members, use the instructions in your Member Letter for details on how to access any of the above discounts. Not a member? Join today!

Learn more about these and other member benefits!

How the Church Can Strengthen Families for the 21st Century How the Church Can Strengthen Families for the 21st Century
A Conference December 5-6. Many say the Christian faith is dying in America. How will churches respond? What will churches do to strengthen the family? How do we connect church and family? This conference answers these questions. www.ncficnc.com or www.scottbrownonline.com Sponsor: Vision Forum Ministries. December 5-6, Wake Forest, North Carolina.

http://www.scottbrownonline.com/ ScottBrownOnline/5_About_The_Event.html

Let your child be challenged with an awesome academic opportunity! Let your child be challenged with an awesome academic opportunity!
Highly motivating Saturday enrichment classes for grades K-5 offered at University of Virginia, in Orange, Virginia, and at our new location for 2009, Warrenton, Virginia. Classes run January 17 - February 14 for five consecutive Saturdays. Applications are now available. Application deadline is November 14, 2008. Call or access our website for additional information. 434-924-3182

http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/sep

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Support Homeschooling While You Shop! Shopping Online?
Here are four simple ways to let your shopping dollars support the work of HEAV--all at no extra cost to you!

  1. Search the web using Good Search. You can even download a Good Search toolbar to make searching easy!
  2. When shopping at a major retailer online, start by visiting Benevolink, Box Tops for Education Marketplace, or GoodShop.com. All these sites allow a percentage of purchases at hundreds of online stores to go to HEAV while you pay the same price as you normally would! Consider bookmarking these links for easy use! Note: You will need to select HEAV or the Home Educators Association of Virginia before you begin shopping for a percent of your purchases to go towards HEAV. You may also need to create an account with the site. Find instructions here.
  3. Check out our Great Deals for Virginia Homeschoolers page for current affiliate specials.
  4. Take a look at the homeschool companies who have agreed to give HEAV a portion of purchases made from this page.

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Homeschool Appreciation Day Homeschool Appreciation Day Report - View the Photos!
During Homeschool Appreciation Day at the Virginia Air & Space Center (October 23), a special event co-sponsored by HEAV, homeschoolers participated in dozens of hands-on air-and-space exhibits. Students could pilot a space shuttle, become an air-traffic controller, fly an airplane, handle controls from dozens of historic aircraft, and climb aboard a WWII bomber--some of the bravest even maneuvered and handled the controls of a fighter jet! Exhibits included a premiere interactive aviation gallery spanning 100 years of flight, space-flight artifacts and rockets, the Apollo 12 Command Module that went to the moon, and a meteorite from Mars!

View pictures from this exciting HEAV co-sponsored Homeschool Day here!

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New Homeschool Success Seminars Scheduled!
New Homeschool Success Seminars are scheduled for early 2009--take a look, make your reservations, and mark your calendars!

Schedule a Homeschool Success Seminar in Your Area!
If you would like to schedule a Homeschool Success Seminar in your area, contact the HEAV office at 804-278-9200, or e-mail Yvonne Bunn at support@heav.org. Our goal is to help you succeed by providing the right information and best resources available!

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Support Homeschooling in Virginia - Book Holiday Travel with HEAV! Book Holiday Travel with HEAV!
Next time you're in need of airplane tickets or a rental car, or will be booking hotel rooms in advance, visit HEAV's page on www.edutravel.org. The rates are highly competitive with other super-saver travel sites, and by purchasing your tickets through EduTravel, you're benefiting HEAV with 40% of the travel commissions!

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Website Reminder
Remember to check the websites of your favorite museums, historic sites, or cultural groups for updates, or subscribe to their newsletters. Space limitations keep us from publicizing all of the events that may interest your family!

If you need ideas on field trips, check past Virginia Homeschool Updates to find events or sites we have listed in the past. You may also want to consult the Virginia field trip information we have on our website.

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Save the Date for Six Flags Home School Day - Additional Info
The date for the next Six Flags Home School Day has changed; the new date is May 15, 2009.

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Corrections
Important - Jefferson Thanksgiving - November 22 Only!
The Jefferson Thanksgiving Festival (see last week's item here) has been scaled back this year and will be limited to Saturday, November 22, 2008, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., on the pedestrian mall of downtown Charlottesville, VA. Many activities will be free but a children's activity area may charge $5 admission. We are uncertain whether the website has current information and therefore suggest you check with organizers at support@jeffersonthanksgiving.org or 434-978-4466. We regret the confusion and any inconvenience.

Reformation Day
Reformation Day is on October 31; All Saints Day, celebrating the Christians who have gone before us as encouragement and examples, is on November 1. We gave the incorrect date for Reformation Day last week and wish to correct the error.

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1) Homeschool Items
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1.1 College Planning Help Session - Culpeper - RSVP by November 13
1.2 The Nutcracker Ballet - Bridgewater - December 5-7
1.3 Unusual Social Studies Course - Centreville - Register by December 31
1.4 Children's Heritage Library - Williamsburg - Ongoing
1.5 Article - The Old Socialization Issue: A Christian Perspective

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2) General Interest Items
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2.1 77 Days of Prayer for Our Next President - Now Until Inauguration Day
2.2 Worm Workshop - Alexandria - November 15
2.3 Free Military Appreciation Dinner - Nationwide - November 18
2.4 Ports of Hampton Roads Exhibit - Virginia Beach - November 18-January 18
2.5 Free Quarter Horse Show - Herndon - November 21-23
2.6 There Is a God Bumper Sticker Contest - Ends December 3
2.7 Court End Christmas - Richmond - December 14
2.8 Photography in Virginia Exhibit - Richmond - Ends May 3, 2009
2.9 Free Covenant Life Conference with R.C. Sproul, Jr. - Hampton - November 14-16

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3) Cool Sites for Homeschoolers
View All Cool Sites
3.1 Thanksgiving Poetry Page
3.2 Samples from Creation Illustrated
3.3 Apologetics - New Stand to Reason Website
3.4 Rainy Day Village
3.5 Multi-Subject: Learn and Donate Rice - Free!
3.6 Practically Edible - The World's Biggest Internet Food Encyclopedia

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4) Parting Thought - Gobbledygook
This passage has won the Bad Writing Contest sponsored by Philosophy and Literature, a journal published by Johns Hopkins University Press. It begins:

Indeed dialectical critical realism may be seen under the aspect of Foucauldian strategic reversal---of the unholy trinity of Parmenidean/Platonic/Aristotelean provenance; of the Cartesian-Lockean-Humean-Kantian paradigm, of foundationalisms (in practice, fideistic foundationalisms) and irrationalisms (in practice, capricious exercises of will-to-power or some other ideologically and/or psychosomatically buried source) new and old alike; of the primordial failing of western philosophy, ontological monovalence, and its close ally, the epistemic fallacy within its ontic dual; of the analytic....

The sentence contains 55 more words, but is harder to follow after this point.

Roy Bhaskar in Plato etc: The Problems of Philosophy and their Resolution.

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5) Worth Repeating
"I don't think the Lord wants any pompous proclamation of thanks on one Thursday in November as much as He wants a little humble service from us every day in the year."
- Burton Hills

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6) Verse of the Week
Sing unto the Lord, O ye saints of his, and give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness. - Psalms 30:4 (KJV)

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7) Homeschool Laugh of the Week - 20 Great Reasons You Homeschool
Homeschool Laugh of the Week

REASON #6
"You Can Sleep in on Rainy Days..."

Written and illustrated by Jim Erskine. Reprinted with permission. Jim Erskine also manages www.HomeschoolFreebieOfTheDay.com, where you can find a new free homeschool resource every weekday.

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Note: We compile information for publication at least two weeks prior to send-out date, so please submit items as early as possible (preferably one month in advance). HEAV reserves the right to accept or reject any material submitted.

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Disclaimer
The Virginia Homeschool Update is produced by Kathleen Dillie (copy editor), Chris (editor), Anna Dykhoff (graphic designer), Katherine Loop (manager), and Anne Miller (director of publications & marketing).

HEAV does not necessarily endorse the above-mentioned resources, nor guarantee the accuracy of information found on any external resource we may mention. If you find anything wrong on our website, please let us know so we can correct it.

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