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Field Trip Resource Assistant Needed
Do you enjoy hands-on learning opportunities that enhance your children's education? If so, you may be just the person to assist HEAV in scheduling museum open houses and field trip opportunities for homeschoolers all across the state! If you'd like more information about volunteering a few hours each month from your home to assist with field trips, please contact Yvonne Bunn at support@heav.org for more information.
 
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BECOME A MEMBER OF HEAV!
Save money. Support HEAV. Get great benefits.
 
Your membership helps us continue ministering to homeschoolers across the state, plus gives you special benefits! Besides saving on HEAV resources and events, your membership will help you save on HSLDA Membership, CollegePlus! Enrollment, and more! Memberships start at $35 a year--check out all the benefits of being an HEAV member and join today! 
 
Lifetime Memberships - Free Convention for Life!
HEAV lifetime members not only receive all the great benefits of our basic membership, but as Lifetime Members, you and your family* get free entry into the annual HEAV convention every year. Your family will save up to $185 on convention registration and membership renewal in just one year! Find out about Lifetime Memberships and the easy payment plan online or by calling the HEAV office at 804-278-9200!

*Lifetime Membership convention benefits include adults, teens, and young adults. Children's Program is not included.
 
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2009 Convention MP3
Simple. Relevant. Lasting.
 
This year's convention MP3 includes more than 80 workshops!
 
· Get relevant encouragement and help for every stage of life--from preschool to high school to college and beyond.
· Gain insight into parenting your teen through the teen years and beyond.
· Learn hands-on strategies for helping your struggling learner.
· Find out how to begin homeschooling.
· Learn how to successfully start a business and turn your home into a profit center.
 
Learn more and order your MP3 today! MP3s/CDs of individual workshops are also available.

Already have the MP3? Make the most of it by downloading the Convention MP3 Guide and speaker handouts!

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1) Homeschool Items
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1.1 Gunston Hall Activities - Mason Neck - Summer and 2009-2010 School Year
1.2 GUESS Science Fair - Hampton - November 9 (Limited Registration)
1.3 Register for Take a Veteran to School Day 2009
1.4 Homeschool Arts Initiative - Suffolk - Best Price by July 31
1.5 Registration: Mariners' Museum Fall Dollar Days - Newport News - Begins August 1
1.6 New Home Educators Meetings - Roanoke - August 3 and 17
1.7 Tell Me A Story - Isle of Wight - Begins August 11
1.8 Homeschool Classes - Gainesville - Register by September 2
1.9 Newsletter Resource - Organize to Prepare for Homeschooling

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2) General Interest Items
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2.1 Casemate Museum and Revolutionary War Medicine Field Trip - Fort Monroe - July 27
2.2 Virginia Aviation Museum - Richmond - Ongoing
2.3 National Book Festival - Washington, D.C. - September 26
2.4 Free Sample Digital Edition: Answers Magazine - Ends September 30
2.5 Article - How to Reach Youth and Keep Them in Church

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3) Cool Sites for Homeschoolers
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3.1 Christians You Should Know - Audio Series
3.2 Teachers Pay Teachers Book Sales
3.3 Happy Birthday, Beatrix Potter - July 28
3.4 Citizens Rule Book
3.6 Simple Eye Exercises Online
3.7 Teachwithgames.com
3.8 Free Samples: Poetry, Greek, Latin, and Bible

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4) Parting Thought - Up
There is a two-letter word that perhaps has more meanings than any other two-letter word, and that word is "UP."

It's easy to understand UP, meaning toward the sky or at the top of the list, but when we awaken in the morning, why do we wake UP?

At a meeting, why does a topic come UP? Why do we speak UP and why are the officers UP for election and why is it UP to the secretary to write UP a report?

We call UP our friends and we use it to brighten UP a room, polish UP the silver, warm UP the leftovers, and clean UP the kitchen. We lock UP the house and some guys fix UP the old car.

At other times the little word has really special meaning.

People stir UP trouble, line UP for tickets, work UP an appetite, and think UP excuses.

To be dressed is one thing but to be dressed UP is special.

And this UP is confusing: A drain must be opened UP because it is stopped UP.

We open UP a store in the morning, but we close it UP at night. We seem to be pretty mixed UP about UP!

To be knowledgeable about the proper uses of UP, look the word UP in the dictionary. In a desk-sized dictionary, it takes UP almost one quarter of the page and can add UP to about 30 definitions.

If you are UP to it, you might try building UP a list of the many ways UP is used. It will take UP a lot of your time, but if you don't give UP, you may wind UP with a hundred or more.

When it threatens to rain, we say it is clouding UP. When the sun comes out, we say it is clearing UP. When it rains, it wets UP the earth. When it doesn't rain for a while,
things dry UP.

One could go on and on, but I'll wrap it UP, for now my time is UP!
 
- Author Unknown
(This is a slightly modified version.)
 
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5) Worth Repeating
"To educate a person in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society."  
- Theodore Roosevelt
 
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6) Verse of the Week
Grace [be] to you and peace from God the Father, and [from] our Lord Jesus Christ, Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father:
- Galatians 1:3-4 (KJV)                          
 
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7) Homeschool Laugh of the Week