4-H Club
Board games and wooden egg decoration. The Game of Life is the winning
choice. Pokemon Monopoly was second. And, DragonFly is third.
The children made this game up and they love to have the time to play
it. Magic was fourth choice. We didn't want to end 4-H club Board
Games. So, we played all day. Thanks for snacks, V's and the
bread was the winner Lisa L. It was a fun day.
We are going to make Ukrainian eggs for Eater with wax and repeated
dyeing of colors. Please get information on egg dye procedures.
Need to do some research on how to do the eggs, do you want to blow
the eggs out or use wooden eggs?
The V's have some wonderful ideas and
will help us to paint and decorate some fantastic eggs. Unfortunately,
because they might not be able to make it to 4-H on the 2nd Tuesday
and we may played Board games while we talked about preparation of some
tools with knives, toothpicks and electrical tape or use some exacto
knifes to create tools for this project. I have some beeswax ready to
go.
Board games for all. Monopoly, Magic tournament,
Boggle, Math Smart and checkers. Chess club for us next year? Or, Friday
Magic games for a while? Alden has us all playing cards. Some
of you have Yu Gi Oh and Pokemon.
Hollin Hall had wooden eggs this week and you
could pick those up. We can paint with watercolors, use tissue paper
or decorate on the second Tuesday. Bring hard boiled eggs, or blown
eggs, some onion skin, beets, tea bags and pens or markers and we will set
up different tables with activities. Moms can help. Come with enthusiasm.
Link to Ukrainian Egg sites:
LearnPysanky.com - How to Make
Ukrainian Easter Eggs (Pysanky)
Ukrainian Eggs by Ginny
Grist Mill Park Play Group
On Wednesday at 1 Missed the first Wednesday
because we had to fix the oven so we can cook again. See you all
on the second Wednesday. Would anyone like to play a basketball game
( older teens against the mothers). If that sounds lame, forgive me.
It is
your park day and you should be in charge. Some of the Moms might
like to play, too.
We brown bagged lunch one day. It was cold, but we could
meet for a fun day if anyone calls to go over to the playground.
Home School Day for Six Flags
Six Flags end of School
Days Party.
Insert info about Six Flags. Homeschool Day at Six Flags has
a deadline to respond if we want to go May 8 is the day to call and make
reservation.
If we go as a group let me know and for every ten tickets we
get a free chaperon ticket. The day of the trip is May 22, 2003
Directions to Six Flags here
Landscape Design project at the home
We are going to try to grow grass and checked out books from
Sherwood Library to read all about landscape. We are interested
in how to make a flower bed and stop erosion of the hillside where we
reside in lovely Mt. Vernon. And, possibly some pens for ducks
and chickens.
Remember to grow one pumpkin or melon apiece this year for 4-H
vegetable challenge.
New lawn crew at my house, the boys have priced the mower,
the weed zapper and the equipment to start a lawn mowing project.
It's their business, and they could work for the dough
if any of the Dad's get overworked.
We did study up on tree trimming and go attack some tree
limbs with energy.
Mt. Vernon Sports Club
Sports Information
Contacted Mt. Vernon Sports Club to ask about group sports for us.
They have several plans and we can discuss a swim day, a basketball
afternoon or starting a sports day. We could have an active Sports Day next
year at least one day a week.
Oleg won a bronze medal in a race. He came in third in his age division.
This was his second race. It was a 10K. We are proud of his
medal and excited that he loves to run. He would like to participate
in a 1 K and hopes to be the winner. There are some good runs coming
up. April 27 is the G.W. Parkway run.
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Shakespeare in the Park. 
Did you all like Shakespeare in the Park?
We started reading King Lear and had a
great time at Ft. Hunt Park at the Pavilion Stage. It was a
bit chilly. The sun was shining enough to warm us.
This month, we could finish King Lear
and vote on our next play. Some people want Hamlet. K wants
Oedipus Rex. And, some want star-crossed young love with Romeo and
Juliet.
We recorded King Lear and hope to have video
of the whole show. Have a nice resin skull as our prop for Hamlet.
Let us know what date would work best. Choose a Friday and
we can return to reading Shakespeare together.
Science Fair coming May 20
We changed the date from April 29th. Minerals,
rocks. time to get those projects in mind. You can make a display and
give a talk, or make an interactive exhibit and show your project, or
build a kit and give a demonstration. We like to see your work
and a process for the science exhibit.We usually have a longer meeting
so each person has time to show their science project and share knowledge.
Teens are you ready to present your projects and
show others how the science fair is done? We have lots of fun looking
and learning from each person. And, we have had fun
with physics and Newtonian Fluids.
In the past, we have had some really fine work done with What Floats?
What doesn't?from our younger V. And, everybody loved trying out
her experiments. We had a wonderful robot from N and several fine
polymer experiments from V1. You can use a kit or build a solar unit
or prepare a short-wave radio. Radio shack has some kits and
my crowd wants to make some stuff. One V has made a flashlight.
Wire up and surprise us on this date with your project. Let
me know if you need more time and we can move this forward to May.
Posters are welcome.
Come on over to my house and we will have a
Science Fair. Lisa N will be able to join us on that date. She has
some papers to work on and we are so pleased that she will be completing
school. As home schooling Mothers, we share her joy in a job
well done. Gosh, it is difficult to go back to college and have a
goal like hers. She's in the winners circle.
Idea for an Academy for Next Year
Academy (similar to the co-operative idea ). We could get the older kids
together two days a week for teaching them
- Math,
- English
- American Literature.
- Writing and publishing,
- public speaking
And whatever during the next year. We could ask Paul to teach them
to put a computer together and somebody could do dissection, not me,
or Odyssey of the Mind or Build a robot out of junk, art, teen dance,
Board game afternoon, science challenges in chemistry or biology. There
are so many subjects that we usually let the older teens study.
We could agree as parents to provide a learning experience and
invite others to join us Rent the church or turn a room in my house
into the school rooms or go from house to house and give some joint
lessons.
We used to have the cooperative learning center
when Carol was with us and that was an exciting idea. It would provide
some incentive for in depth work with the children in art, math and
language.
They get it anyway in 4-H club meetings.
The year goes by so fast and we could add another
day. Let me know. We always like to talk about ideas
to keep the kids involved. We can review the idea when we get together to
plan activities.
We meet several times a month and this
would add some time away but we could also share our resources and provide
some extra to the teens.
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