We're nearing the end of summer and the homesschool year drawing near. Today's post keeps that idea in mind, with a mash-up of fun, family activities happening this month, and the beginning of new classes, co-ops and sign ups. We hope your August is off to a great start and we'll be posting with more news, events, and classes soon!
SEACOAST AREA
Sandpipers Seacoast Children’s Chorus
Come Sing With
Us! Sandpipers Seacoast Children’s
Chorus is an auditioned treble chorus program for boys and girls, ages 7-15,
located in Portsmouth, NH. Founded in
1993 by Dianne Colby Dean, and now directed by Tamara Rozek, the program
exposes children to the finest choral music respresenting a variety of styles,
period, cultures, and languages.
Sandpipers is widely recognized int eh NH Seacoast Area for the quality
of its performances and the unique educational opportunity it provides. Our season includes concerts, community
events, and classes.
For more information please contact us
at (603) 436-4226 or visit www.sandpiperchorus.com
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Center for Wildlife Tours
Tuesday Aug 6, 2013 2:00pm-3:00pm Center for Wildlife 385 Mountain Road Cape Neddick ME (207) 361-1400 
Meet under our outdoor
educational pavilion and learn about the CFW's history and mission. Discover
new things about local New England wildlife by participating in an
informative presentation lead by our seasoned staff members. Get an up-close
and personal look at one of our educational ambassadors! Take part in a
guided tour of our educational raptor, mammal and turtle enclosures. Observe
a baby-bird feeding demonstration! Reservations
are required and space is limited to 12 people per tour, ages 5+. To make a
reservation please email! A five dollar donation is
suggested.
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Shakespeare in Prescott Park
Tuesday Aug 6, 2013
7:00pm
Prescott Park
Marcy Street
Portsmouth NH
(603) 436.2848
Marcy Street
Portsmouth NH
(603) 436.2848
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The award-winning
Shakespeare in Prescott Park returns for its third season with one of
Shakespeare's most popular plays "Romeo & Juliet." This romantic tragedy, written early in the
career of William Shakespeare, tells the tale of two young star-crossed
lovers whose deaths ultimately reconcile their feuding families. You won't
want to miss this benefit production for Prescott Park Arts Festival!
Directed by Dan Beaulieu Produced by Prescott
Park Arts Festival.
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There is a $5-$10 suggested
donation
Teddy Bear Clinic
Friday Aug 9, 2013
10:00am-12:00pm
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Children are invited
to bring their favorite stuffed animal friends to the annual Teddy Bear
Clinic at the Children's Museum of NH.
The clinic is set up like miniature hospital
and is designed to let kids take on the role of parents as they accompany
their stuffed animal through a health visit. Experiencing this process may
help children feel more confident and less scared during their next visit to
the doctor or hospital.
Volunteer health professionals affiliated with
Portsmouth Regional Hospital will be on hand with museum staff to register
each animal, issue plastic ID bracelets, perform check-ups, and share
information about healthy eating and exercise. There is also a surgical area
where volunteers can sew up minor tears, wrap bandages and apply band-aids
where needed. At the end of the appointment, each child and their animal will
receive a certificate of good health to take home.
A tea party for children and their furry
guests will follow the Teddy Bear Clinic from 12-12:30 pm inside the museum.
There will be fresh fruit from Fiddlehead Farms Marketplace, organic milk and
yogurt provided by Stonyfield, animal crackers, juice and water for all.
All Teddy Bear Clinic and Tea Party activities
are included with paid admission to the museum.
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Family-Friendly
Beethoven @ Dover Public Library
August 20th 6:30pm
Free Movies at Your Local Library
Rochester Public Library Wednesday Movie Night
All movies are free and open to the public. For more information please
call the library at 332-1428
call the library at 332-1428
August 7th at 6pm
Join us for this dramedy starring Tina Fey and Paul Rudd. A Princeton admissions officer who is up for a major promotion takes a professional risk after she meets a college-bound alternative school kid who just might be the son she gave up years ago in a secret adoption.
Join us for this dramedy starring Tina Fey and Paul Rudd. A Princeton admissions officer who is up for a major promotion takes a professional risk after she meets a college-bound alternative school kid who just might be the son she gave up years ago in a secret adoption.
The Company You KeepAugust 14th at 6pm
Join us for this intense drama with an all-star cast, including Robert Redford, Shia LaBeouf, and Susan Sarandon. Grant's world is turned upside down, when a brash young reporter Ben Shepard exposes his true identity as a former 1970s antiwar radical fugitive wanted for murder.
August 21st at 6pm
Join us for this fantastic film starring Harrison Ford and Chadwick Boseman. Jackie Robinson's story is told in this biopic from writer/director Brian Helgeland. Robinson paved a new road for minorities by being the first African-American to play in Major League Baseball since the racial barrier was put in place in the late 1800s.
August 28th at 6pm
Join us for the latest blockbuster starring Tom Cruise. A solitary drone repairman working on a war-ravaged planet Earth becomes humanity's last hope for survival in this ambitious sci-fi epic from Tron Legacy director Joseph Kosinski.
Dover Public Library Saturday Matinees
All movies are free and open to the public. For more information please call
the library at 516-6050
EpicSeptember 7 2pm
EPIC tells the story of an ongoing battle between the forces of good, who keep the natural world alive, and the forces of evil, who wish to destroy it. When a teenage girl finds herself magically transported into this secret universe, she teams up with an elite band of warriors and a crew of comical, larger-than-life figures, to save their world…and ours.
EPIC tells the story of an ongoing battle between the forces of good, who keep the natural world alive, and the forces of evil, who wish to destroy it. When a teenage girl finds herself magically transported into this secret universe, she teams up with an elite band of warriors and a crew of comical, larger-than-life figures, to save their world…and ours.
Teen Beach MovieSeptember 14 2pm
Teen Beach Movie centers around two teen surfers, Brady and Mackenzie, who are magically transported into a 1960s beach movie where they must try to blend in until they can find their way out. They soon discover that there is an intense rivalry between the local surfers and bikers. Things don't go according to plan when our modern-day duo accidently change the plot of the movie, and the two lead characters fall for them instead of each other! As everyone around them starts singing and dancing, and a fight between the bikers and surfers breaks out, Brady and Mack must attempt to get out of the movie and back to present day.
The Great Gatsby
September 21 2pm
The Great Gatsby follows Fitzgerald-like, would-be writer Nick Carraway as he leaves the Midwest and comes to New York City in the spring of 1922, an era of loosening morals, glittering jazz and bootleg kings. Chasing his own American Dream, Nick lands next door to a mysterious, party-giving millionaire, Jay Gatsby, and across the bay from his cousin Daisy and her philandering, blue-blooded husband Tom Buchanan. It is thus that Nick is drawn into the captivating world of the super rich, their illusions, loves and deceits. As Nick bears witness, within and without the world he inhabits, he pens a tale of impossible love, incorruptible dreams and high-octane tragedy, and holds a mirror to our own modern times and struggles.
Adventures in ZambeziaSeptember 28 2pm
When a spirited young falcon named Kai (Jeremy Suarez, TV's The Bernie Mac Show) learns of Zambezia, the fabulous city of birds, he leaves his remote country home against the wishes of his father (Jackson). But when his dad is captured by an evil lizard who plans to attack the city, Kai must learn the importance of teamwork if he's to rescue his father, save his new friends and help keep Zambezia lizard free. Samuel L. Jackson, Abigail Breslin, Jeff Goldblum and Leonard Nimoy give voice to this beautifully animated fun-filled adventure the whole family will enjoy!
SOUTHERN NH
Teen Independent Project
Ages 13+
Ages 13+
Research, collaborate, present!
1st and 3rd Fridays, beginning Friday September 6th, 11am-1:30pm at my home in Chester
(We will not
meet April 25th),
Please take the time to watch the following 15 minute
video to get acquainted with how this program originated and was applied in a
public school. We are going to be doing our own version.
Basic format: Starting at the second meeting, give a
presentation answering your Individual Question, discuss what your next
question will be, then use the rest of the meeting time to work together on the
Collective Endeavor.
Individual Question - It can be
anything you are interested in working on as long as it falls under the two
month period subject area. At home you work on answering it, then present the
answer to the rest of the group at the next meeting.
Here are the subject areas and time frame:
Sept/Oct – Natural Sciences
Nov/Dec – Literary Arts
Jan/Feb – Mathematical Arts
Mar/April – Social Sciences
May – No Individual Question, use the time to
finish up on your Collective Endeavor
Don't let the subject areas freak you out! I know
you all are wondering about the Mathematical Arts one. If we get to January and
I haven't gotten through to you on how to have fun with that one, the topic
area can be changed ;-)
Collective Endeavor – A unanimously
chosen group project. You will work on one project for the fall with a
presentation for parents on December 20th and you will work on another for the
Spring session with a presentation on May 23rd. Your first endeavor can be
anything the group can agree to work on and it must be unanimous. The second
endeavor must have a service oriented goal. During the course of the projects
you may need to get together at other times to work more on them. It will
depend on the project you choose. If this is the case, arrangements will be
made allowing for this according to what works with everyone's schedules.
I will be there to facilitate, make sure things
stay on track and offer any assistance I can regarding resources and
professional advisement, if needed, through my own contacts. If I don't know
someone who has expertise in the area they may need help in, I will do what I
can to help them find someone.
Individual Endeavor – You will each
work on anything you choose and work on it all year long on your own, sharing
your progress as you go along. The idea is to pick ANYTHING and develop your
passion in this area. You will also present the culmination of your efforts on
May23rd.
