Mount Vernon Homeschoolers Newsletter

Old Mount Vernon
Mount Vernon Homeschoolers


August 2003
Newsletter #35
Editor: Suzanne
Student editor: Kathy


Planning session

We will meet at Ft. Hunt Park on August 20, 2003 for the Calendar Day. Bring your ideas and we will chart our future for this year Of course, we have some favorite activities and the children have a say in what we do.

The children will have a playground and they can bring board games.If you want to bring a snack or drinks bring enough for your crew and we will have some to share. We may ask some older teens to monitor for us with a movie excursion to follow active duty. That way they learn to barter with us.

Come at 1:00 p.m. to the pavillon.

Directions here

If you bring your travel logs and stories, we will publish in September.

If you have read twenty-five books, let me know and we can make this the ice cream social.

Some Ideas

  • This year we will continue with 4-H.Twice a month meetings.
  • We will have a sports day with swimming, soccer, basketball and softball with older teens and mothers playing against the rowdy ones.Bowling, ice skating.
  • Mentor Mom program
  • Babysitting Co-Operative
  • Mother's Night out at a Book store on Route 1
  • Support group dinner meetings at Old Country Buffet once a month
  • Sherwood Library days to us reference materials for writing club once a month
  • Book discussion by groups (younger children, older children, teens and Moms)
  • Movie night
  • Teach at home afternoons, Each parent leads the group in a favorite subject or science theme, historical theme, dance theme,
  • Odyssey of the Mind
  • Nasa project
  • Art projects, craft projects, Pumpkin carving and the usual mayhem.
Do we want more or less?

A Plan

My vision is of a floating tour with mothers and fathers leading some of the children to explore interest in computers, aviation, science, math on a monthly schedule of at least four times this year. Some people have a dinner party that\features food or delights from various cultures to broaden our view and perception of our worlds. Let me know if we just want to be left alone to teach our own kids or if this meets anyone else's view.

Does anybody want to try any of these ideas.