YMCA Swim Team Opportunity

The YMCA swim team is inviting anyone who is interested to check out the team.  They are swimming on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays from 4-6 pm.  New swimmers are encouraged to come on as many of those days as they can. (our family just does part practice on Wed and full practice on Fri)  Because of a fundraiser the team did, there are NO FEES through the end of March--you need only be a Y member. (Reg. fees will resume in April)  So this is a great, no-risk chance for anyone who might be interested in swimming on the team this summer.  There really is no minimum age, but kids must be able to get from one end of the pool to another without hanging on to the side or touching bottom and be willing to follow instructions. 

 

I'm happy to answer any questions, so folks can email me.  Thank you for your help!

Peace,

Anna

Field Trip Ideas

I finally was able to get my computer turned on and get to my list of ideas! Praise Jesus!

Anyway, here's the list I had come up with:

Greenbush Observatory - Greenbush, KS
PSU Planetarium - Pittsburg, KS
PSU Nature Reach - Pittsburg, KS
Greenbush Rainforest - Greenbush, KS
Big Brutus - West Mineral, KS
Cosmosphere - Hutchison, KS
Little House on the Prairie - Wayside, KS
Crawford County Museum - Girard, KS
Crawford County Historical Museum - Pittsburg, KS
Reptile World - Joplin, MO

I have more detailed information on each of these if we decide we are interested. Please check out the links I've provided if you want to know more about each place.

If you were not at the meeting, please do not feel overwhelmed by these last two posts! They are just ideas and discussion starters for spring field trips. We aren't trying to do them all now.

Don't forget to post your thoughts on these ideas or the ones in the previous post in the comments section!

Moms' Meeting Summary

We had a great time tonight.  It was fun to get caught up.  Two friends are expecting babies in May only 10 days apart.  And we met a new friend tonight!  I'll send out a couple of prayer requests via email.

The next Moms' Meeting will be Monday, February 21st @ the Mall Deli @ 6:00pm.


New opportunity for the CHEA Teens:  We will be implementing a Teen Night on the 1st Thursday of each month.  The teens will get together to play games from 6:30-9:00pm.  The host teen(s) will provide plates, cups, silverware, and drinks.  The visiting teens will bring snacks to share.

I will post the locations for each get together for the next few months in the left sidebar, so that it will remain easy to find.


KANSAS DAY on January 29th!!!  Kansas will be 150 years old.  There will be some activities at the Fort in Ft. Scott that day.  Rondi will be looking into details to pass along.


Many good ideas were brought up for possible Field Trips:

Wilderness Trails in various locations.
Joplin Audubon Center
Springdale Jones Center - ice skating and various other fun activities
Diamond - George Washington Carver homeschool day in the Spring
Prairie State Park
Roller Skating
Bowling
Greenbush activities (ropes' course, other educational sessions like movie making)
Hollister Gun Range

***Please contact Naamah if you have an interest in a particular field trip.  You can work with her to make it happen.  She will need plenty of help with whatever options are chosen.


Another suggestion was the youth get together at the Pittsburg Public Library on Wednesday afternoons from 4:00-6:00pm.  Apparently they have a chessboard on the floor of a room and play life-size chess.  FUN!

As always, there is always the option of initiating a get together for shooting hoops at the Y or a park date.  A suggestion for a Chess Tournament was thrown out for the guys and a possible Tea Party or something else fun for the girls.

Lots of fun ideas!  If you want to see one or more of them happen and you are willing to help, please contact Lezlie or Naamah.


Robin gave us the scoop about getting great deals from a couple of sites:
http://www.groupon.com
http://nomorerack.com
Ask her if you have questions.

First Moms' Meeting 2011

Friends,

To make it nice and easy on everyone, we are going to have our 1st meeting at the coffee shop in Ron's IGA.

We will meet next Monday evening, Jan. 17th at 7pm.

      We can discuss the best night for us to meet at that meeting.  If you cannot be there, you may vote via email.

Please bring your calendars.

Please bring any activities/ideas you want to make happen for the semester.

I have one idea so far I would like to implement for the teens.

I would like to see more activity in the group, but it takes all of us to make that happen.

Lezlie

Teen Game Night

After calling as many teen parents as I could, 

I decided our teen game night will be:

Next Thursday night, November 11th from 6:30-9:00pm.

2208 California Street


We have a pool table, a mongo chess set, and lots of games.

Bring snacks to share.

Homeschool Teens ages 13 and up welcome!

October Share Night

Our Share Night will be on

Thursday, October 28th

from 6:30-8:00pm

at Trinity Baptist Church

at the corner of Elm & Washington

Bring finger foods to snack on

along with whatever your student(s)

want to share with their friends.

A special treat for this night will be Rodney Woods' 

arrangement with the Gideons' to come and share

with our group briefly and hand out 

New Testaments to the children.  

 

Remember:  

Your student(s) bring 1 or 2 things they have worked on this year that they are proud of.  It doesn't have to be anything fancy.  Just something they want to share with others, in any subject or extracurricular area.  The items will be laid out on tables and the parents and other children can go around to see what everyone is doing.  

For a 15-20 minute time period, the children will stand by their item/project so they can be available to answer questions that people have about their projects.  (This is not a public speaking time in front of everyone.  Just answering questions from one or two people as they pass by.)  

Parents make encouraging written comments on a paper for at least 2 of the projects, if not more.  Then the children will have some written comments to take home to encourage them.

The data is in Friends!

Our Share night will be...

(May I hear a drum roll please?)

Thursday, October 28th

from 6:30-8:00pm

Location & Details T.B.A.