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HEAV's Virginia
Homeschool Update
March 3, 2010
Above
the Fold
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THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK
Dinnertime Conversations
The evening meal can be a valuable training  time, yet
directing dinnertime conversations can sometimes be a challenge! Here's a
simple idea to try: Have each person at the table share a couple of
praises from the day. You may find it also helps you think of things to
be grateful for throughout the day! Some other ideas would be to pick a
topic from history to discuss...or have each person share something
interesting he heard or learned that day.
What does your family talk about around the
table? Share your dinnertime ideas as a comment on the blog.
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FEATURED
ARTICLES
Homeschooling on a Shoestring
One
mom shares lots of creative ways
to homeschool on a budget!
Black Students Make Up Nearly 10% of
the
Estimated Two-Million Students Homeschooled Nationwide
One
black
family shares why they homeschool.
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Member Benefit - FREE Classified Ad
($100 Value)
Did you
know HEAV members receive a free ad in the Virginia
Home Educator Magazine?
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 HELP WANTED
Convention Volunteers - Shop early
in the UCS!
Webinar Assistant
- We need someone
with good computer-troubleshooting skills to be the technical assistant
during
online webinars. Webinar assistant will also be responsible for
uploading the
finished webinar to the HEAV site. Time will vary based on webinars
scheduled,
but should average a few hours a week. Pay varies by length of webinar
and experience.
Contact Yvonne at support@heav.org
if
interested.
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UPCOMING HEAV
SUCCESS SEMINARS AND HOMESCHOOL DAY EVENTS
Home Educator Day at Monticello -
Charlottesville - March 10
Join
other homeschool families for the first Home Educator Day at Monticello,
the
home of Thomas Jefferson!
Testing and Evaluations
- Richmond - March 4 - This Thursday!
Homeschool Day at the Science Museum
- Richmond - March 16
View all upcoming Homeschool Days
and Success Seminars.
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CONVENTION
COUNTDOWN: ONLY
14 WEEKS TO GO!
Get Ready for the Used Curriculum Sale - Barcoding Coming Soon!
Get ready to sell your used books at this year's Used Curriculum Sale!
Last year, we had more than 47,000 items! Watch for a link to the online
barcoding site soon.
Reminder! GRAD Packets Available
Celebrate this milestone in the life of your student at the HEAV homeschool graduation ceremony! Ken
Ham from Answers in Genesis will give the commencement address.
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1)
Homeschool Items
View All Homeschool Items
1.1 Free Teens and Taxes Live
Webinar - Online -
March 4
1.2 Annual Tornado Drill -
Statewide - March 16
1.3 TOOL
Homeschool Parent Meeting - Fredericksburg - March 16
1.4 Homeschool Workshop Series and
Dissection Labs -
Charlottesville - Register by March 22 - Group Options Available
1.5 GiftsNVA: Preparing
Special-Needs Children for Employment - Reston - March
22
1.6
Homeschooling and Highly Distractible People
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2) General Interest
Items
View All General Interest Items
2.1
Christian Summer Camp Staff Needed - Williamsburg - Apply Now
2.2 Colonial Spring Break Camp -
Chester - Register by March 17
2.3 QuickStart Tennis Workshop -
Charlottesville - Register by March 31
2.4 Parent Warning: Do You Know
About
Buzz?
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3) Cool Sites for Homeschoolers
View All Cool Sites for Homeschoolers
3.1 Free Lenten Tree and Activities
Book
3.2 The Lost Art of Darning Socks: A
Photo Tutorial
3.3 Vintage Picture Book: The Children's Object Book
3.4 Music: Classics for Kids Free
Podcasts
3.5 The Writing Site Is Closing
3.6
History: Making Sense of Evidence -
Using Primary Sources
3.7 Free
Reading Assessment Tools
3.8 Free
Downloads: Selected College Textbooks - Mostly Math and Science
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4)
Parting Thought - Advice from an Old Farmer
Life is simpler when you plow around the stump.
Words that soak into your ears are whispered...not
yelled.
Don't corner something you know is meaner than you.
It don't take a very big person to carry a grudge.
Every path has a few puddles.
The best sermons are lived, not preached.
Most of the stuff people worry about ain't never
gonna happen anyway.
Don't judge folks by their relatives.
Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.
Live a good, honorable life. Then when you get older
and think back, you'll enjoy it a second time.
If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to
do is stop diggin'.
The biggest troublemaker you'll probably ever have
to deal with watches you from the mirror every mornin'.
Good judgment comes from experience, and a lotta
that comes from bad judgment.
- Author Unknown
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5)
Worth Repeating
"A new public mind is to be created.
How? Only by
creating tens of millions of new individual minds and welding them into a
new
social mind...
"Through the schools of the
world we shall disseminate a new conception of government--one that will
embrace all of the collective activities of men; one that will postulate
the
need for scientific control and operation of economic activities in the
interest of all people."
- Harold
Rugg, (1886-1960), in The Great
Technology, 1933. Rugg, president
of the American Educational Research Association and author of 14 social
studies
textbooks, was a longtime professor of education at Teachers College
(Columbia
University) and one of the best-known educators as the era of
progressive
education dawned in the United States.
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6) Verse of the Week
The counsel of the LORD stands
forever, the plans of his heart from generation to generation.
- Psalm 33:11
(KJV)
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7)
Homeschool Laugh of the Week
Taken from
The Official Book of Homeschooling Cartoons (www.familymanweb.com). Reprinted
with permission.
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MAKE HEAV POSSIBLE!
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you!
Thank you for your support!
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is
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statement is available from the Office of Consumer Affairs.
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