Meeting Reminder

Just a reminder. Our next afternoon meeting is approaching fast.

Next Friday 12th June at 1.30pm, at Claire Latta's house.

Please bring a plate for afternoon tea!

Home School Expo Podcast

This came through on Hefnet and I thought some of you might be interested.

Cindy Rushton of Mom-to-Mom Radio is running a huge homeschooling Expo online (over 6000 "attending" at times. She runs the talks through Blog Talk Radio and they are on Friday and Sat at 3am(!!) and 7am.

The talks are freely available if you listen in live.

Optionally, you can buy a ticket to the whole EXPO (US$39.95)then you will have indefinite membership and you can access and download all the talks as well as hundreds of dollars of samples, freebies, other audios etc.


All you have to doto get to Blog talk radio and listen is click here:
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/Ultimate-Homeschool-Expo


To find out more check out the Expo site:
http://ultimatehomeschoolexpo.com/UHSE2009.html


The talks to come are:

Fri 3am: *Doing the Impossible One Day at a Time* with Felice Gerwitz

7am: *Listening Beyond the Words: Communicating with Your Teen* with Lorrie Flem

Sat 3am: *Making Time for What Really Matters* with Janice Campbell

7am: *Homeschooling:Preference or Conviction?* with Israel Wayne

Second Fire Station Trip

The first trip to the Fire station (on the 5th June) is completely full.

A second trip has been organised for Friday 12th of June at 10.30am
This is also filling up fast. There are still a few places available.
If you want a place on this trip contact Selina-Jane.

For those who a wanted Fire Wise materials Selina-Jane will have them at both tours.

See you then

Lucky Book Club

Tania now has Scholastic Book Club fliers:

ABC for preschoolers/early readers

Lucky for lower primary/ beginner readers

Star for less confident readers, easy story lines

Arrow for upper primary

Pick up from Tania as soon as possible or phone her after 12pm (it is possible that she could drop them to the Firestation trip on Friday).

Orders and payment must be back to Tania by the Friday 12th June.

Upcoming Meetings

Our next afternoon meeting, on Friday 12th June at 1.30pm, will be held at Claire Latta's house.
Please bring a plate for afternoon tea!


Our next evening meeting will be held on Friday 26th June at 7.30pm at Stacey Wilson's place.
Please bring a plate for supper!


We look forward to seeing you all there.

Meeting Hosts

Last Friday's afternoon social was a great success, with as many as 10 families descending upon the People's house! It was wonderful to see so many faces. Great food, discussion and fun was had by all.

The next afternoon meeting is scheduled to be on the afternoon of Friday 12th of June from 1.30pm.

This was to hosted by the Peoples again, but due to providence the family will be out of town, so we need a new host for this afternoon. If you would be happy to host this social meeting please let Ruth or Yolanda know, asap.


Our next night meeting will be on the 26th June from 7.30pm.

We need a host!

If you would like to host an evening meeting please email us at: dunedin dot che at gmail dot com, or phone Yolanda or Ruth.

Fire Station Visit

The Fire Station trip has been booked.

We will be visiting the central fire station (on Cumberland street) Friday 5 June at 10.30 am.

The tour will consist of a chance to look over, and climb over the fire truck/s (this will dependant on which trucks are available for us to look at on the morning). We will be shown all over the fire station, including in control rooms and such like. They will go over what firemen do all day, get dressed up in full rig to show the kids, and allow the kids to try on some of the uniform also. We will also be shown the equipment they use, such as axes, hoses and fire sensing camera's....so there is a huge variety.

They will divide us up into two groups....ages 0-7, and then 8 upwards, so that things can be more easily geared for each age group.

The tour will take 45 - 60 minutes. There is parking inside the fire station ( through the large gates on Leith Street) for us to use....they have asked for us to limit our cars to about 10, so they still have room to do all the work they need to. This being the case, it might we wise for some of us to car pool. (Please organise your own carpool.)

Numbers on the tour are limited to 35 (including parents), so if people could contact Selina-Jane to book your place. Her email address is: lyonness at clear dot net dot nz